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WASHINGTON-Every time a paging or cellular phone signal is sent over the airwaves what happens with the transactional information-the subscriber's name, address, billing information and eventual usage patterns-collected by the carrier?Truth is, the customer typically doesn't know. One thing is for sure, companies are...

WASHINGTON-Expanded spectrum auction authority and other telecommunications legislation are about to get caught up in a high-stakes budget battle between the Clinton administration and the GOP-led Congress that might not get settled until Christmas.The House and Senate late last month passed sweeping bills to...

DCR Communications Inc. and Westinghouse Electric Corp. reached an agreement in principle for a multimillion-dollar investment commitment by Westinghouse in the new personal communications services company. Westinghouse's communications systems division will become DCR's primary network systems integrator and provide technical services to support the...

OCTOBER9-11 Technology Forecasting for the Telecommunications Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Stouffer Hotel, Austin, Texas. For information call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.10-12 CES Mexico '95, by the Consumer Electronics Group of the Electronic Industries Association. Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City. For information...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-AT&T Corp. and two prominent Brazilian groups are forming a joint venture to pursue wireless telecommunications opportunities in Brazil. The Bradesco financial institution and the Organizacoes Globo communications company together will hold 60 percent of the venture. AT&T will hold 40...

HONG KONG-Two Chinese paging operators have chosen Motorola Inc. to provide a paging network using the Illinois-based company's high-speed FLEX paging protocol.Chinese paging provider Beijing First Star has selected FLEX for its nationwide paging network. When fully installed at the end of the year,...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Embarc Communication Services division and CNBC have formed a 10-year, multimillion dollar alliance in which the companies will develop and market wireless financial news and information services via CNBC's 24-hour cable TV network.The news services will be transmitted over Motorola...

In the nation's capital, where I work, it's not uncommon to be approached on the sidewalk by strangers handing out leaflets. Typically, these are advertisements for coupons for local restaurants, delis and shops. I know this because I never refuse to accept one of...

WASHINGTON-All the turmoil, chaos and confusion of merging two major trade associations and sponsoring a huge industry conference in a year's time might drive one to write one of those heart-felt country and western songs that Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen likes...

I hereby nominate NBC President Robert Wright official spokesman of the cellular telephone industry. That's right, the same Bob Wright who warned lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee last week the equivalent of `The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!'"If you auction off...

Tonawanda, N.Y.-based Sinclabs, a division of Sinclair Technologies, announced its Excelsior antenna line, which consists of low band, 1/4 wave, 220 MHz, wideband UHF/VHF, cellular trunking, no ground plane and true 2dB wide band antennas. The Excelsior SVB1482 antenna is a wideband mobile antenna...

WASHINGTON-Congress' desire to raise $14 billion over the next seven years from expanded spectrum auctions has turned into a fierce debate about whether that goal can be attained without auctioning digital TV broadcast channels.The controversy has major economic and a competitive implications for the...

Federal regulators late last week approved final rules for the 900 MHz specialized mobile radio service auction on Nov. 28.The Federal Communications Commission said 1,020 licenses, or 20 1-channel blocks in 51 major trading areas, will be sold in a simultaneous multiple round auction.The...

WASHINGTON-A campaign that officially kicks off this week to fight the planned giveaway of digital TV channels to broadcasters is partially funded by the cellular telephone industry, which fears any such giveaway will mean increased fees for cellular operators.Specifically, the cellular industry is worried...

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Differential Corrections Inc. will provide digital data services to the North Dakota Department of Transportation using Radio Broadcast Data System technology.DCI provides global positioning system differential correction service over a network of FM radio stations. Users can receive real-time, dynamic GPS position fixes...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's effort to promote narrowband technologies in congested private wireless bands below 800 MHz by adopting flexible channeling schemes and market-driven incentives is running into early problems.The FCC, which in June adopted the so-called "refarming" decision, this month put a freeze...

RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. has introduced Skycell Satellite Dispatch Service, a digital point-to-multipoint broadcast system that can operate throughout North America, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 200 miles of coastal waters.Skycell Satellite Dispatch Service and its subscriber equipment will...

WASHINGTON-Congress is studying different approaches to spectrum reform in light of the $14 billion that lawmakers and the Clinton administration hope to extract from the airwaves during the next seven years.The Federal Communications Commission has raised $9 billion to date from selling licenses for...

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. said it will offer paging services to Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems under a strategic alliance.Under terms of the contract, Southwestern Bell Mobile first will offer numeric paging service in major Texas markets via PageMart's direct broadcast transmission network.PageMart said it plans to...

Reports are circulating that some within the Republican Party are organizing to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission, citing there is no longer a need for a government organization to regulate spectrum and communications services. I hope those who agree with them will take the...

As the telecommunications industry continues to blur lines that traditionally have separated different trade segments, competitive access providers are poised to be active players. But CAPs already are distinguishing themselves through a variety of niche-market, wireless endeavors.Denver-based IntelCom Group Inc. offers teleport and competitive...

WASHINGTON-The big budget battle of 1995 now unfolding in Congress will shape wireless telecommunications policy in a fierce debate expected to test the resolve of the new Republican majority and the resiliency of the sputtering Clinton presidency.Budget politics will touch almost everything in sight,...

Punctuating the onset of narrowband personal communications services, Motorola Inc.'s new InFLEXion messaging protocol is among a family of protocols the company expects to become the new paging standard.Distinguished by its voice and two-way data capabilities, speed, capacity and frequency reuse, InFLEXion reportedly is...

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Skydata Inc. will deliver satellite data broadcast equipment to EuroCall's paging network in the Republic of Hungary, Skydata announced.The paging network, which uses Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s ERMES paging system, will include as many as 100 remote paging transmitters. A Skydata satellite paging receiver...