Monthly Archives: February, 1997
BELLSOUTH TO OFFER COMMON STOCK DIRECTLY TO WOULD-BE BUYERS
NEW YORK-Potential investors in BellSouth Corp. may soon be able to buy its common stock directly from the company under a new plan the...
CALLING RESELLERS
The March 17 issue of RCR will feature the Top 20 Cellular Resellers. If you would like your company included in our survey, please...
2.3 GHZ AUCTION PLAN SCALED BACK BY FCC
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, bowing to congressional and wireless industry pressure, scaled back a budget-driven proposal to raise $3 billion this year from the...
MOTOROLA DEBUTS MICROCELL STATION
CANNES, France-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group introduced what it claims is the smallest and lightest digital microcellular base transceiver station at the GSM World...
FIRMS JOIN TOGETHER FOR CANADIAN MSS
SAN FRANCISCO-Canadian Satellite Communications Inc., AirTouch Satellite Services and Loral Space & Communications formed a joint venture to provide fixed and mobile wireless services...
GLOBUS SET TO TEST PRODUCT SAR LEVELS
KELOWNA, British Columbia-Globus Cellular & User Protection Ltd. said it will investigate the specific absorption rate levels of cellular phone and antenna products available...
BRITISH TELECOM’S DEBT DOWNGRADED BY MOODY’S
NEW YORK-Global telecommunications deregulation may be auspicious, but on behalf of bondholders, Moody's Investors Service Inc. remains suspicious.A day before negotiators at the World...
MOTOROLA SHIPPING 68175 FLEX CHIP
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector said it is volume shipping its 68175 FLEX chip paging protocol IC worldwide.The FLEX chip IC processes...
GTE LAUNCHES PCS IN CINCINNATI MTA
CINCINNATI-GTE Wireless launched its personal communications services network in the Cincinnati major trading area, which covers greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The network uses...
VIEWPOINT
The laws of physics cannot be persuaded by politics, pricing or PR. And some economic principles are equally unyielding.Hence, economics and engineering considerations are...
GLOBALSTAR’S NEW SENIOR NOTES WILL FUND ITS WORLD NETWORK
NEW YORK-Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. plans additional financing to help build and launch 56 low-earth-orbit satellites for digital wireless voice and data service covering most...
MOTOROLA EXPANDS GSM PLANT IN CORK
CORK, Ireland-Motorola Inc.'s GSM Products Division will hire 300 software engineers at its Global System for Mobile communications facility in Cork, Ireland. The expansion...
MOTOROLA CONTRACTS TO EXPAND ETISALAT
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Group will expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in the United Arab Emirates for Etisalat.The...
AUCTION HOPEFULS GET POINTERS AND WARNINGS AT FCC SEMINAR
WASHINGTON-Just as Dustin Hoffman was told to consider plastics as a way to fortune in the movie "The Graduate," attendees at the Federal Communications...
FRANCE TELECOM INTROS PREPAID SIM
PARIS-Next month, France Telecom Mobiles announced it will launch a prepaid cellular Subscriber Identity Module service called Mobicarte.Mobicarte kits can be purchased for about...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Aerial Communications Inc. will use Metrica Inc.'s network performance management technology to control large amounts of data generated by its six-region network. Aerial is...
LUCENT TO DELIVER NEW CDMA OVERLAY
JARKARTA, Indonesia-Lucent Technologies Inc. has signed a supply contract with PT Komunikasi Selular Indonesia. The agreement is valued at $105 million and is Lucent's...
U.S. ROBOTICS IN LAWSUIT OVER MODEM STANDARD
Motorola Inc. has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Robotics Inc. in a Boston federal court, alleging infringement of patents pertaining to advanced, high-speed data...
VANGUARD POSTS PROFIT, A FIRST FOR THE COMPANY
Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. reported the first profitable year in the company's 11-year history last week, although the victory was accompanied by a fourth-quarter...
CALENDAR
FEBRUARY23-25 Mobile Insights '97, by Mobile Insights Inc. The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Calif. (800) 640-6497.24 The Wireless Buildout-Pacific Northwest, by RCR Publications Inc. and...
CERTAIN ARGUMENTS PERSUASIVE IN CHANGING SITING PERCEPTIONS
This is the fourth installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup...
TIA SPONSORING CHINA MEETING
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association is sponsoring the first China-America Telecommunications Conference April 20-24 in Dalian, China. The U.S. Department of Commerce is co-sponsoring...
CLINTON CONTINUES COFFEE, CALLS FOR CAMPAIGN FIXES
WASHINGTON-While calling for campaign finance reform amid Justice Department and congressional investigations of Democratic fund-raising irregularities, President Clinton unapologetically mingled with high-rolling contributors at...
SUPERFILTERS WILL SHRINK BASE STATION SIZES 30%
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. introduced its SuperFilter family of receiver filter subsystems.The SuperFilter offers advantages over conventional filter technologies in the areas of...