Monthly Archives: May, 1998
COMSTREAM OPENS SINGAPORE OFFICE
SAN DIEGO-ComStream opened an office in Singapore to serve as the regional sales headquarters for its Satellite Products Division.Singapore's central Asia-Pacific location, a strong...
NEWS BRIEFS
Personal communications services provider PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. signed a roaming agreement with GTE Wireless that will expand its PrimeTravel coverage area to 45...
WIRELESS CARRIERS CAN USE CPNI, BUT NOT TO WIN BACK EX-CUSTOMERS
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said wireless carriers could indeed use customer information to market mobile handsets and so-called information services to customers...
WIRELESS SAFETY
Many wireless carriers last week participated in Wireless Safety Week by encouraging subscribers to help out in emergency situations and use their wireless phones...
METROCALL DIRECT VIEW FOR OFF-THE-BELT
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced Direct View, a paging service aimed at off-the-belt paging applications.With Direct View, subscribers can equip an LED display sign with...
AFRICA’S WIRELESS SUBSCRIBERS NEARLY EQUAL TO FIXED
Mobile communications is a key factor shaping the growth of the global communications industry, according to a report from BT World Communications.Nearly 150 million...
SMARTLINK TO TEAM UP WITH KING
APEX, N.C.-SmartLink Development L.P. said it signed a letter of intent with King Communications International Ltd., which would combine the businesses of the two...
NEITHER SIDE CHANGES STANCE ON CALEA
WASHINGTON-Comments filed last week at the Federal Communications Commission prove no one in the debate over digital wiretap has changed their tune as to...
AAA SEEKS QUASI PUBLIC-SAFETY STATUS
WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America said last week it should be given "quasi public-safety" status by the Federal Communications Commission. This status would allow...
TELCO SYSTEMS OFFERS HDSL FOR BACKHAUL
Telco Systems Inc., Norwood, Mass., is scheduled to announce Tuesday it has integrated High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line technology from PairGain Technologies Inc., Tustin, Calif.,...
BILLS TO BALANCE LAW ENFORCEMENT NEEDS AND PRIVACY
WASHINGTON-As the battle over digital wiretap rages on, the FBI is engaged in another battle to gain access to data files that have been...
SPRINT TAKES STEPS TO LET CABLE PARTNERS LEAVE
Sprint Corp. is expected to announce this week a plan that would restructure its ownership in Sprint Spectrum L.P. and allow its cable partners...
VIEWPOINT: FOR THE BIRDS
This one's for the birds, but I hope you will take it seriously and do the right thing.The solutions seem so simple as to...
MICROSHIELD BUSINESS BOOMS
A manufacturer of mobile phone shield devices said business has been booming following the release of a Swedish study that linked mobile phone use...
TELECOM, INTERNET FUEL VENTURE-CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
NEW YORK-First-quarter venture capital investments in wireless and other telecommunications totaled $396 million, nearly double that of the same period in 1997 and triple...
LUCENT ENHANCEMENT TESTS SIGNAL STRENGTH
OTTAWA, Canada-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has developed a way to predict wireless signal strengths inside buildings and in downtown areas that the company...
COMMQUEST WINS SOS CHIPSET ORDER
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. won a multimillion-dollar contract to design and supply chipsets for SOS Wireless Communications Inc.'s emergency 3-button phone, after it completed...
UNIDEN LICENSES CDMA FROM QUALCOMM
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced that it entered into a royalty-bearing license agreement with Uniden Multimedia Corp. that allows Uniden to manufacture and sell subscriber...
POWELL: FCC SHOULD CONSIDER LIBERATING REGULATIONS
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is "quickly approaching the chicken-and-egg question" with respect to how the agency should respond to explosive competition in the wireless...
MOTOROLA BACKS TELEDESIC WITH EQUITY STAKE
Teledesic L.L.C. and Motorola Inc. last week announced they will become partners in the development and deployment of Teledesic's global broadband "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications...
SPRINT LAUNCHES DATA/FAX SERVICE
BETHESDA, Md.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. has launched data/fax service on its personal communications services network in its Washington, D.C./Baltimore market.Sprint PCS customers now can send...
BELLCORE ADDS TO NETWORK MONITORING SOLUTIONS
Building on its Element Activation suite of software products introduced last month, Bellcore has created new software product families to provide network monitoring and...
GOV’T LIKELY TO SUPPORT SEVERAL STANDARDS
WASHINGTON-Top government officials, setting the stage for a showdown with Europe, said the United States likely will support multiple third-generation wireless proposals to the...
CTIA ASKS FCC TO LEAD ON CPP
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association filed comments at the Federal Communications Commission requesting a national calling party pays plan be implemented.Some sort of national...
SKY FALLS ON PAGER SERVICE
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening...