Monthly Archives: June, 1998
MOTOROLA CIG GARNERS CHINA CONTRACTS
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded several contracts in China to provide Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure.They include a $21...
TELEBRAS, IRIDIUM TO ENTER DEAL
BRAZIL-Local news reports state Telebras, Brazil's state-controlled telecom carrier, is expected to sign a deal with Iridium L.L.C. that would allow the Brazilian carrier's...
NATION BRIEFS
AirTouch Cellular customers in Wyoming now can receive Caller ID service. Users of narrowband Advance Mobile Phone Service phones with Caller ID capability can...
EC ISSUES GUIDELINES TO LIMIT RF EXPOSURE
WASHINGTON-As House Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) negotiate funding federal cancer research with revenue from E911 legislation, a...
WIRELESS DATA INDUSTRY CONTINUES EVOLUTION
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Armed with nearly 300 attendees at its show, a new way to count the number of wireless data subscribers and strong...
FCC LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS GO NOWHERE
WASHINGTON-With time left for the 105th Congress quickly dwindling away, the Federal Communications Commission has not seen any action on any of its suggested...
ERICSSON ANNOUNCES CONTRACTS
ECUADORSTOCKHOLM, Sweden - L.M. Ericsson was awarded a five-year frame agreement valued at more than $250 million by BellSouth Ecuador to upgrade its Advanced...
LIGHTBRIDGE OPENS U.K. SUBSIDIARY
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. said it opened its London-based United Kingdom subsidiary, Lightbridge Technologies Ltd., as a foundation for the company's growing investment in the...
HRIBAR LEAVES AMERITECH FOR INTERNET COMPANY
DENVER-The top man of Ameritech Corp.'s cellular and paging services unit is leaving the company to become president and chief operating officer of Verio...
MOVE TO DROP W-CDMA FROM U.S. PROPOSAL TO ITU FAILS
WASHINGTON-The State Department, amid a flurry of high-level lobbying and an unsuccessful last-minute move to withdraw U.S. support for the European-based mobile phone technology...
CDG CONFERENCE NEWS REPORT
CDMA Development GroupSINGAPORE-The CDMA Development Group said cdmaOne networks today serve more than 12 million subscribers worldwide, putting the technology on track to reach...
EVOLVING SYSTEMS SUBJECT OF SHAREHOLDER LAWSUIT
DENVER-Shareholders of Evolving Systems Inc. filed a federal lawsuit against the Englewood, Colo.-based company saying it misrepresented its financial position in filings related to...
CORRECTIONS
In the March 25 issue of RCR, an article on Metrocall Inc.'s Direct View product incorrectly stated the required devices to use the service....
STAR DATA SERVICE APPROVED IN CALIF.
SPOKANE, Wash.-Star Data Service, a joint venture between Itron Inc. and UK Data Collection Services Ltd., was approved as a meter data management agent...
GTE, SIERRA ANNOUNCE CDPD SOLUTION
VANCOUVER, B.C.-GTE Wireless and Sierra Wireless Corp. announced their combined circuit switched cellular digital packet data solution now is commercially available, the first end...
PEOPLE BRIEFS
CTIA FOUNDATIONThe Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Foundation for Wireless Telecommunications announced Stan Hamm, group president of mobile systems for BellSouth Personal Communications, is the...
FCC SETS SOME GROUND RULES FOR LMS AUCTION
WASHINGTON-Imagine for a moment that you own a local package delivery business. Wouldn't it be great to be able to pinpoint the exact location...
CROWN CASTLE FILES FOR IPO
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. recently filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the initial public offering of $300 million of...
GSM LICENSES AWARDED IN AUSTRIA
Telekom Control, the new regulatory body for telecommunications in Austria recently granted 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications licenses to three operators there,...
PORTALS MOVE DELAYED
WASHINGTON-House and Senate appropriations panels last week refused to earmark funds to relocate the Federal Communications Commission to the Portals, actions FCC Chairman Bill...
CALEA EXTENSION UNCERTAIN DESPITE HOUSE WIN
WASHINGTON-A much ballyhooed victory by the telecommunications industry to get the dates for compliance with the digital wiretap act extended is less certain as...
IMTA CREATES TELECOM OUTREACH PROGRAM
WASHINGTON-The International Mobile Telecommunications Association created the Council of Ministries Information Service, an outreach program for telecommunications regulators around the world who want to...
DISCORD IS COMMON NOTE IN HARMONIZATION EFFORT
SINGAPORE-The International Telecommunication Union has some difficult work ahead of it to harmonize the various third-generation proposals standards bodies around the world will submit...
NETTECH DEBUTS SMART IP TO DELIVER DATA
VANCOUVER-Nettech Systems introduced a communications solution called Smart IP that enables Internet and intranet applications to run over wireless networks without the challenges associated...
UTILITIES CONTINUE TO TEST WIRELESS WATERS
U.S. utility companies could become significant players in the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years if they can figure out the right strategy to...
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