Mobile News – RCR Wireless News

ATLANTA-Eric Ensor has resigned as president of BellSouth Mobility DCS, BellSouth Corp.’s Global System for Mobile communications operation, effective Oct. 31. Ensor will become president and chief operating officer of …

ORLANDO, Fla.-To paraphrase a Bell Atlantic commercial, “wild things are happening” in dispatch radio, according to speakers at the recent PCS ’98 show. Just outside the spotlight, which is focused …

An article in the Oct. 5 issue of RCR should have indicated Sprint PCS expects to raise $604 million with its initial public offering. Also, due to incorrect information supplied …

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry, while failing to get the digital wiretap grandfather date statutorily changed, appears to have been successful in getting written assurances included in the end-of-the-year spending bill that …

Gerard J. Waldron, a communications attorney and former Democratic counsel to the House telecommunications subcommittee, is being prominently mentioned as the leading candidate to succeed John Nakahata as chief of …

WASHINGTON-Intek License Acquisition Corp. apparently could be the big winner in the continuing auction of licenses for the 220 MHz. At the end of round 67, Intek was the top …

WASHINGTON-Last week’s annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ended with a blueprint-but not a bold solution-for containing a worsening global financial crisis that is taking a …

WASHINGTON-With the scheduled adjournment of the 105th Congress last Friday, the wireless industry will be able to point to few visible victories. Indeed, industry can point to just two victories-one …

WASHINGTON-She didn’t ask for the job. She didn’t even really know about the job before she got it. But here she is and she is going to do her best …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in a case that could determine the scope of local telecom competition for years to come and possibly influence wireless policy …

WASHINGTON-Cellular operators last week overwhelmingly opposed a revised consumer-group proposal to route 911 analog calls to the cellular carrier most likely to complete the call, but it remains unclear whether …

SpectraLink Corp., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that provides wireless telephone systems for the workplace, introduced its Link 3000 Wireless Telephone System. The company’s systems, which can attach to existing private …

WASHINGTON-The Boeing Co. was fined $10 million as part of an agreement with the State Department covering improper information transfers to Russian and Ukraine partners in a venture to launch …

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. said it added 17,039 net new wireless subscribers during the third quarter, compared with 10,760 new subscribers during the same quarter last year. The company said …

WASHINGTON-James Sasser, a former Tennessee senator hired by developer Franklin Haney to work on the Portals deal before becoming U.S. ambassador to China, denied trying to lobby government officials illegally …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said the Justice Department has made initial queries regarding Nextel Communications Inc.’s request to lift a 1994 antitrust consent decree so the nation’s largest …

Microsoft Corp. introduced its third-generation software platform for handheld personal computer products, called the Windows CE Handheld PC Professional Edition, or H/PC Pro. The platform, based on Windows CE 2.11, …

Officials at MobileMedia Corp. said they will not postpone the Oct. 14 bankruptcy court hearing to review its disclosure statement, setting in motion the legal process necessary to complete its …

MCLEAN, Va.-Less than one year after assuming the posts of president and chief executive officer of LCC International Inc., Geoffrey S. Carroll resigned from those positions, to be temporarily replaced …

WASHINGTON-GTE Network Services announced it is adopting an anti-cramming policy that it defines as the toughest in the industry. Cramming is the practice of adding unauthorized charges to customers’ telephone …

WASHINGTON(AP)-Federal antitrust regulators want information about Cisco Systems Inc. meetings with two other high-tech companies as they investigate whether Cisco illegally tried to divide the lucrative market for Internet hardware. …

In comments that may reflect competitive positions in today’s mobile phone market, mobile phone and mobile satellite service industries told the Federal Communications Commission more spectrum will be needed for …

Fledgling software company 3D Cellular offers products designed to provide a more efficient method for wireless carriers with Autoplex wireless systems from Lucent Technologies Inc. to manage database information and …

CHICAGO-USN Communications Inc. launched cellular services in Midwest markets, where the competitive local exchange carrier already offers local and long-distance services. Small and medium-sized businesses in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Unwired Planet Inc. released its UP.Link Platform Version 3.1 with Wireless Markup Language support at PCS ’98. The platform, which includes the UP.Link Server and UP.Browser, now can deliver …