Monthly Archives: December, 1998
RCR’S TOP 20 WIRELESS NEWS EVENTS OF 1998
At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were...
PEOPLE
PCIAThe Personal Communications Industry Association appointed Brent Weingardt vice president of government relations. Weingardt previously was regulatory counsel for Iridium LLC where he gave...
1999 OUTLOOK: CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT MAY MEAN WIRELESS CHANGES
WASHINGTON-With a panoply of prickly issues tied to major telecom policies of local competition, disability access, spectrum management and digital wiretap compliance, the future...
PRODUCTS
M/A-ComM/A-COM, a division of AMP Inc., announced a new family of DC-2 GHz GaAs Field Effect Transistor Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuit digital attenuators with...
MOTOROLA TO MANAGE ANTENNA PROPERTIES FOR REALTY COMPANY
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it signed a multiyear contract with United States Realty & Investment Co., New York, to provide antenna-site management for some...
PAGENET READIES FOR NETWORK LAUNCH
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it is in the final stages of field testing its advanced messaging network and plans to launch commercial service in...
PAGEMART STARTS TWO-WAY SERVICE
After months of aggressive buildout-beginning in late June with the Texas launch-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its two-way, ReFLEX 25-based narrowband personal communications services network...
ORAL ARGUMENT ON RF POSTPONED
WASHINGTON-Oral argument in the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission's 1996 radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines has been postponed until February or March.The case, Cellular...
CONVERGYS TO BILL FOR PALM VII
The Palm VII personal digital assistant, announced this month by 3Com Corp. and Palm Computing Inc., continues to generate news and speculation, even though...
LUCENT INTEGRATES WLS PRODUCTS
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. will integrate SignalSoft Corp.'s suite of wireless location services with its Wireless Intelligent Network platform to broaden the range...
MOTOROLA TO OFFER ENETWORK PRODUCTS
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-In an agreement with IBM's software group, Motorola Worldwide Data Solutions Division said it now will be able to offer IBM's eNetwork Emulator...
WIRELESS CARRIERS CONTINUE INTERCONNECTION FIGHT
NEW YORK-Echoing Rodney Dangerfield's complaint, wireless carriers continue to say, "I don't get no respect" as they fight skirmishes over local exchange carrier interconnection...
HESSE HITS HOME RUN WITH ONE-RATE PLAN
SEATTLE-Go to any trade show where mobile phone operators congregate, and you will hear grumbling about how AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate...
GRANGER EMPLOYEES KILLED IN CHECHYNA
Three Granger Telecom employees and an independent contractor have been killed in Chechnya, a breakaway republic of Russia located north of Georgia.Granger Telecom employees...
PAGENET SIGNS INTERCONNECTION DEALS WITH BELL ATLANTIC
WASHINGTON-Paging Network Inc. was expected last week to complete the last of 13 interconnection agreements with Bell Atlantic Corp."We are pleased that PageNet and...
FURCHTGOTT-ROTH QUESTIONS MERGER REVIEW
WASHINGTON-The most conservative member of the Federal Communications Commission last week said the current microscopic review of telecommunications mergers is unfair given the lack...
D.C. NOTES: DIGITAL IMPEACHMENT
As a call to arms goes out to prepare for cyberterrorism, we now know at least a few ways vital U.S. infrastructure can be...
MOTOROLA CLOSES PLANT
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group plans to shut down its plant in McHenry, Ill., that housed analog base station equipment manufacturing functions.Sue...
OLIVETTI STARTS TENDER OFFER
NEW YORK-Olivetti S.p.A. and Mannesmann AG commenced a tender offer of $65.75 per share for all of the outstanding shares of Cellular Communications International...
TELECOM PRODUCTS SHIELDED FROM TARIFFS
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration progressed in getting more telecommunications and information technology products shielded from tariffs, but last week acknowledged problems persist in convincing China...
SOUTHEAST ASIA WIRELESS USERS TO DOUBLE BY 2003
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The number of cellular and personal communications services subscribers in Southeast Asia will grow from more than 8.5 million this year to more...
ITA WARNS AGAINST USING NEXTEL REQUEST TO MAKE POLICY
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association warned the Federal Communications Commission not to use a pending proceeding involving Nextel Communications Inc. to make a de facto...
NOKIA ACQUIRES VIENNA SYSTEMS
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vienna Systems, a privately held Internet Protocol telephony company of Kanata, Ontario, for about $90...
CELLULAR ONE CELEBRATES 15 YEARS
DALLAS-Cellular One celebrated its 15th anniversary Dec. 16. On the same day in 1983, Cellular One initiated wireless service in Washington, D.C."Before cellular technology,...
ANADIGICS JOINS BLUETOOTH
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. has joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Anadigics manufacturers gallium arsenide integrated circuits for high-volume communications applications, such as mobile phones.
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