Monthly Archives: June, 1997
NORTEL WINS MTS’ CDMA CONTRACT
WINNIPEG, Manitoba-MTS Mobility, a wireless service provider in Manitoba, Canada, signed a four-year supply agreement with Northern Telecom Ltd. for Interim Standard 95 Code...
FIRM GIVES AWAY PAGERS TO GET USERS
Power Page L.L.C., an emerging paging carrier and reseller in Los Angeles, is not only giving away free pagers to acquire new customers, but...
POLSKA WINS SOLID S&P CREDIT MARKS
LONDON-Standard & Poor's Inc. assigned a double `B' long-term corporate credit rating to Polish cellular operator Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa. The ratings firm said it...
INTERCEL CHANGES NAME TO POWERTEL
WEST POINT, Ga.-Intercel Inc. said effective July 1 it will change its corporate name to Powertel Inc., the name used for its personal communications...
U.S. CELLULAR DEBT RATING RAISED
NEW YORK-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. said June 25 it had raised the ratings on debt securities issued by U.S. Cellular Corp. while...
MOTOROLA EXPANDS TELEPAR’S NETWORK
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group signed a contract to expand a cellular network in Brazil operated by Telecomunicacoes de Parana S.A.The agreement,...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. won a contract to provide propagation analysis equipment to Qualcomm Inc. for international distribution of personal communications services and cellular...
MOTOROLA SUPPLIES WMS TO TAIWAN
DALLAS-Motorola Inc. won a contract from First International Telecom, a nationwide paging operator in Taiwan, to provide its Wireless Messaging System paging network infrastructure....
USCI REPORTS SOLID QVC PAGING SALES
NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Ameritel Communications Inc., said it successfully sold its paging services over the QVC television program in the first...
BRIGHTPOINT AND TELLABS LEAD VENDORS IN TOTAL INVESTMENT RETURN
Editor's note: On the previous page are five charts ranking major telecommunications vendors according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenues from 1995 to...
WORLDTECH USES GTE TSI BUREAU
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said World Technology Corp., Irvine, Calif., will be the first service provider to offer personal number services to consumers...
ERICSSON, WUHAN FORM CHINA GROUP
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Wuhan Research Institute established a joint venture company in China to develop, manufacture and market synchronous digital hierarchy transport network...
TELESYSTEM ISSUE TO FINANCE OVERSEAS WIRELESS VENTURES
NEW YORK-Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Montreal, was expected to place privately last week a 10-year note issue of about $150 million to help finance...
TWO-YEAR TOTAL RETURN
RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN1 Brightpoint Inc. 259.88%2 Tellabs Inc. 169.96%3 Specialty Teleconstructors...
NOKIA SUPPORTS ONE DATA PROTOCOL
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it supports a proposed consolidation of wireless data technologies into a license-free and platform-independent protocol.The purpose of the Wireless Application...
NOKIA TOP VENDOR OR CHINA UNICOM
HELSINKI, Finland-China Unicom Shanghai Branch designated Nokia Telecommunications the main base station subsystem supplier for the third phase of its Global System for Mobile...
OMNIPOINT, D&E FORM PA. VENTURE
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. and D&E Communications said they intend to form an operating partnership in the central Pennsylvania region.Together the companies will...
VIEWPOINT
The PCS companies now proposing that the Federal Communications Commission change the rules to allow them to stay in business are proposing options that...
WIRELESS LIKELY TO BENEFIT IN HONG KONG FROM CHINA MFN STATUS
WASHINGTON-With last week's House vote supporting presidential renewal of most-favored-nation trading status for China, the focus shifts to Hong Kong-and its huge wireless-driven telecom...
REVENUE GROWTH LEADERS
1996 1995Rank/Company Name % Change Revenues (000) Revenues (000)1 DSP Communications Inc....
MCCAIN SAYS AUCTIONS CANNOT OFFER GUARANTEED DOLLAR AMOUNT
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined the wireless industry in fighting back White House and congressional budgeteer efforts to add spectrum fees...
PRICE, DISTRIBUTION KEY TO PCS GROWTH
NEWTON, Mass.-Personal communications services providers must prevail in the consumer market in order to be successful, said a report issued by Business Research Group.PCS...
WORLD BRIEFS
Startel, a wireless network operator in Chile, launched digital service on its network using Interim Standard 136 Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service technology provided...
ARGENTINA TAKES PCS TENDER TO U.S. IN HOPES OF RAISING MONEY
Roberto Catalan, president of Argentina's communications commission, known as CNC (Comision Nacional de Comunicaciones), recently completed a United States road show designed to attract...