Monthly Archives: November, 1998
BELL ATLANTIC TO ADOPT WIRELESS-UNIT STRATEGY IN ITS OTHER BUSINESSES
NEW YORK-The wireless telecommunications business may account for a minority of Bell Atlantic Corp.'s revenues, but its entrepreneurial example has influenced profoundly the incumbent...
MITSUBISHI CENTRALIZES N. A. OPERATIONS
DULUTH, Ga.-Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced it is expanding its operation to offer a broader range of services to its customers and to increase...
RESELLERS DETAIL THEIR SIDE OF PORTABILITY DEBATE
WASHINGTON-The association representing wireless resellers last week submitted a detailed report to the Federal Communications Commission to support their claims wireless carriers can implement...
ERICSSON FORMS ENTERPRISE UNIT, UNVEILS NEW PRODUCTS
L.M. Ericsson disclosed its corporate vision for the future last week, a large part of which involved a new strategy for enterprise customers that...
CISCO COMPLETES SUMMA FOUR ACQUISITION
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems Inc. completed its acquisition of Summa Four Inc. The companies this summer agreed to the acquisition.Summa Four's open standards-based programmable...
FCC, CELPAGE SET TO ARGUE OVER UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission tomorrow will argue its rules for universal-service financing are legal, while its opponent, Celpage Inc., a paging company from Puerto...
MOODY’S RATES ORBITAL NOTES B2
Moody's Investors Service Inc. said it assigned a B2 rating to Orbital Sciences Corp.'s $100 million of 5-percent subordinated notes, due 2002.The company said...
MCI STARTS VENTURE-CAPITAL FUND
NEW YORK-MCI WorldCom, Jackson, Miss., announced Nov. 20 it has formed the MCI WorldCom Fund, a venture-capital fund to invest in companies "that can...
COMPANIES EYE BARGAIN ASIAN TELECOM INVESTMENTS
Telecom companies from around the world are dashing to the Asia Pacific region as they begin to find willing sellers that need cash to...
BENEFON LICENSES TEGIC’S T9 TEXT INPUT
SEATTLE-Tegic Communications announced Nov. 24 that Finland-based Benefon has licensed its T9 text input product."T9 enables users to enter text as they would on...
MOST CEOS SURVEYED THINK THEY WILL BE INVOLVED IN MERGERS
NEW YORK-A recent poll of 53 corporate chief executives found more than half predicting they will take part in a substantial acquisition within two...
VIEWPOINT: FULL CIRCLE
"Consumers of third-generation wireless technology will be better served by marketplace competition than by a single government-mandated standard, according to a new economic white...
LIVINGSTON MAY HELP SECURE CALEA DATE CHANGE
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry may have an easier time convincing Congress the grandfather date in the digital wiretap act should be changed now that Rep....
DESPITE SHAKE-UP, BRAZIL AUCTIONS STILL ON
The Brazilian government still plans to license three wireline and one long-distance telephone service license by Jan. 15, despite the resignation of Communications Minister...
AT&T TESTS WIRELESS FOR SECOND LINE
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is testing a new pricing plan in Texas aimed at the consumer considering a second phone line in the home.The...
CLEARNET TO REFINANCE DEBT
TORONTO-Clearnet Inc., Toronto, announced it has entered into an underwriting agreement with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for $350 million in senior secured...
BELLSOUTH OFFERS TWO-IN-ONE SERVICE
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS said it is offering a two-in-one service that allows customers to answer their wireless calls using either their personal communications services...
AOL HOPES PERSONALJAVA WILL EXTEND SERVICE REACH
The Internet landscape was altered dra-matically last week when America Online Inc. announced it will acquire Netscape Communications Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued...
NATION BRIEFS
ADC Telecommunications Inc. completed its acquisition of Teledata Communications Ltd. for $15.75 per share, or about $200 million in cash.Omnipoint Communications Inc. launched commercial...
MARKETING IS NEXT HURDLE FOR MSS OPERATORS
With the Nov. 1 commercial activation of Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite-based global mobile phone network, the mobile satellite services industry proved it is technologically possible...
CANTEL SELECTS AMDOCS FOR BILLING
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. announced Amdocs Ltd. will implement a new converged customer-care and billing system.The solution is based on Ensemble, Amdocs' convergent customer-care and...
BELLSOUTH PLANS STOCK REPURCHASE, STOCK TO SPLIT
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced plans to repurchase up to $3 billion worth of its common shares in 1999.The company's board of directors also increased its...
ONE-RATE PLANS LEAD TO HIGHER LOCAL PRICING, SURVEY SAYS
Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C.'s third-quarter survey of U.S. mobile phone pricing indicates pricing overall has increased as carriers move from offering local calling plans to...
E911 IMPLEMENTATION NEEDS RESUSCITATION
WASHINGTON-While consumer advocates and wireless lobbyists tie up the Federal Communications Commission in heated debate over 911 strongest-signal and text-telephone compatibility issues, Rome is...
HOUSE RANCOR COULD DISRUPT WIRELESS TELECOM AGENDA
WASHINGTON-Any good will House Speaker-designate Bob Livingston (R-La.) hopes to bring to the 106th Congress could evaporate quickly if a deal is not struck...