Monthly Archives: March, 1998
NEWS BRIEFS
Cellnet, a United Kingdom-based cellular operator, selected Brite technology to deliver its traffic information services to its subscribers. Cellnet's Traffic Line provides in-car traffic...
METROCALL EXECS MAKE CONTACT NATIONWIDE
A few years ago, United Airlines aired a commercial that featured a company's chief executive officer admonishing his sales force for relying too much...
DESPITE ANTICIPATED INITIAL PROBLEMS, ULS WILL STREAMLINE FCC PROCESSES
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will be gearing up soon for cutover to a universal electronic licensing system that will consolidate 11 systems and databases into...
U S WEST COMM. DEBT DOWNGRADED
NEW YORK-U S West Communications Inc.'s long-term debt ratings were downgraded from Aa3 to A2 by Moody's Investors Service Inc. for several reasons.Moody's said...
AMSC TO SERVE DART TRANSIT AND J.B. HUNT TRANSPORT
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced two new customers for its Multi-Mode Mobile Messaging Service-Dart Transit Co. and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.AMSC's messaging...
LIGHTBRIDGE OPENS ASIA-PACIFIC OFFICE
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced the opening of a lead office for the Asia-Pacific region in the Philippines.Lightbridge said Curtiss Waters will be responsible for...
WIRELESS CAN GET BRAND STRATEGIES FORM OTHER INDUSTRIES
What does wireless have in common with toothpaste? Maybe not much now, but perhaps the toothpaste industry has learned a marketing secret that wireless...
AMERITECH STRUCTURES NEW ZEALAND OFFERING
NEW YORK-Ameritech Corp., which said in December it would sell its 24.95 percent stake in Telecom Corp. of New Zealand, announced the structure for...
IRIDIUM IS 75-PERCENT DEPLOYED
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Iridium L.L.C. has 75 percent of its planned satellite constellation deployed after it successfully launched two more satellites into orbit, bringing the total...
VIEWPOINT: THE PRODIGAL LICENSEE
Last Sunday at church the main reading was the parable of the Prodigal Son. You remember the one, about the wealthy farmer with two...
WORLD WIRELESS TO SUPPLY CIRQUE
SALT LAKE CITY-World Wireless Communications Inc. said it received initial orders from Cirque Corp. to manufacture a variety of Cirque GlidePoint touchpad products.The orders...
HOUSE PASSES SATELLITE REFORM
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee last week passed a pro-competitive international satellite reform bill that lawmakers predict will save American consumers billions of dollars.The bill,...
TRA DEFENDS STUDY ON RESALE BLOCKAGE
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week defended its study that claims a "resale blockage" exists in broadband personal communications service and specialized mobile radio...
TMI TO LAUNCH PACKET DATA NETWORK
TORONTO-TMI Communications announced it launched a new mobile packet data network available in all 50 states and in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean using...
QUALCOMM’S IS-634 TO BE READY IN 2Q
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.'s cdmaOne Interim Standard-634 wireless network solution is scheduled to be available beginning in the second quarter of 1998.The system features Qualcomm's...
AMID UNCERTAINTIES, FIRMS EAGER TO BID ON AUSTRALIA LICENSE
Nine companies are set to bid in the Australian personal communications services spectrum auction April 14, amid uncertainties surrounding the auction process and an...
STRATEGY ANALYTICS’ OUTLOOK ON PAGING CONSERVATIVE
Strategy Analytics, a research firm based in Delafield, Wis., gave perhaps the most conservative forecast of the paging industry to date during a teleconference...
D.C. NOTES: DELIVERING THE WIRELESS MESSAGE
The wireless industry, having been defeated on Capitol Hill and Bunker Hill by environmentalists, organized labor and soccer moms, has turned to John Q....
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Conxus Communications Inc. announced it will extend its Pocketalk voice paging service rollout to Los Angeles and Chicago. Conxus first launched the service in...
BELL ATLANTIC PREPARES FOR ONE-STOP DATA SHOP
NEW YORK-Aspiring to reorganize its data services capabilities, Bell Atlantic Corp. announced the formation of the Bell Atlantic Data Solutions Group and named Joseph...
U.S. CELLULAR TO USE NORTEL’S TDMA
DALLAS-United States Cellular Corp. selected Northern Telecom Inc. to build new Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access networks in its markets,...
LMDS TO BE PATCHWORK OF SERVICES
WASHINGTON-No one was more surprised at the eventual outcome of the most recent Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction as was Thomas Jones, president of...
JUSTICE CALLS WIRETAP DEFICIENT
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department on Friday asked the Federal Communications Commission to declare the telecom industry's digital wiretap standard deficient and to approve on an...
WORLD BRIEFS
SwedenOrtel Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Avitec AB, announced its MirrorCell family of products are being used in the Arlanda AB International Airport...
WIRELESS MANUFACTURERS COMMIT TO JAVA
Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and...
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