Monthly Archives: October, 1999
SPRINT PCS EXPECTS DATA TO DRIVE PCS DEMAND
The wireless industry is waiting to see how many customers are attracted to Sprint PCS Group's wireless Internet services, but they will have to...
CELLSTAR TO SELL GLOBALSTAR PHONES IN SOUTH AMERICA
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. and Telecommunications par Satellite Mobiles SAS signed an agreement under which CellStar will distribute Globalstar terminals in most of TE.S.A.M.'s South...
D. TELEKOM ANNEXES SHARE OF MEDIAONE EUROPE ASSETS
FRANKFURT, Germany-Deutsche Telekom AG announced it is buying a majority stake in MediaOne Group Inc.'s cellular phone assets in Central Europe and Russia for...
ARCH CUTS DEBT THROUGH STOCK ISSUES
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the process of issuing stock and warrants in exchange for debt securities, reducing its total debt...
FCC ASSIGNS 75 MEGAHERTZ FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week allocated 75 megahertz of spectrum for smart highway technologies, such as automated toll booths, monitoring traffic jams, travelers'...
CORRECTION
In the Oct. 18 issue of RCR, RCR's Top 20 list of personal communications services operators excluded two markets Omnipoint Communications Inc. has launched....
WAP PROPONENTS FACE INTEROPERABILITY CHALLENGES AS STANDARD EVOLVES
The Wireless Application Protocol had the biggest coming-out party of its 20-month life span during Telecom '99 in Geneva, with more than 100 carriers,...
CROWN, METRICOM SIGN SITE LEASE AGREEMENT
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced Metricom Inc. signed a 10-year master license agreement for up to 500 wireless data sites on Crown Castle's domestic...
BELLSOUTH RESTRUCTURES IN EFFORT TO BUNDLE SERVICES
BellSouth Corp. last week announced plans to restructure the company to better position itself to provide bundled services.The move comes just weeks after BellSouth...
WORLD BRIEFS
United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc announced it licensed PocketScience Inc.'s PocketMail mobile e-mail service via a revenue sharing agreement that allows BT's Internet and Multimedia...
TELENOR OFFERING INMARSAT SERVICE
OSLO, Norway-Telenor Satellite Services AS launched Inmarsat M4 service, a new global area network for multimedia applications that will improve the data transfer capabilities...
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED IN TOWER INDUSTRY AWARDS
Following is a summary of the finalists for the tower industry Excellence in Business Awards sponsored by RCR and Shorecliff Communications Inc. Winners will...
TELECORP PCS FILES FOR IPO
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its shares of class...
VIEWPOINT: CREDIBLE SOURCES
ABC's 20/20 segment, which was supposed to make me change the way I use my cell phone, instead made me more suspicious about TV...
AMSC LOSS GROWS, REVENUES SLIP
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. reported a third-quarter net loss of $66 million, or $1.45 per share, compared with a loss of $39.4 million,...
THINAIRAPPS.COM OFFERS WIRELESS ACCESS TO CORPORATE DATABASE
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-ThinAirApps.com introduced its ThinAir Secure Server application that, when installed inside a private corporate network, allows employees to access corporate database information...
CORSAIR CREDITS PREPAY PRODUCT FOR REVENUE INCREASE
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter of $17.1 million, an increase from the $12 million in revenues reported for...
AETHER IPO PRICED HIGHER THAN EXPECTED
NEW YORK-Aether Systems Inc., a middleware provider based in Owings Mills, Md., sold an initial public offering Oct. 20 of 6 million shares, a...
D.C. NOTES: SLOUCHING TOWARD TEAMWORK
In two different venues, two totally different approaches to antenna siting were on display in the nation's capital last week. In the power corridors...
PAGEMART CHANGES DIRECTION, NAME
In an attempt to position paging devices and services as Internet appliances, as opposed to telephone appliances, PageMart Wireless Inc. said it will change...
FRANCE TELECOM ENTERS GERMAN MARKET WITH E-PLUS BUY
NEW YORK-France Telecom last week proceeded toward its goal of becoming a pan-European provider of seamless mobile, wireline and Internet communications through an agreement...
IUSACELL, BELL ATLANTIC DISCUSS FURTHER DEALS IN MEXICO
Nuevo Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. seems to be making moves to establish a nationwide wireless presence in Mexico.Bell Atlantic Global Wireless Inc. confirmed...
FCC BANKRUPTCY LANGUAGE STRIPPED FROM SPENDING BILL
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) were thwarted last week in their attempts to attach language to the FCC spending bill...
PHONE.COM TO OFFER EFAX SERVICE
MENLO PARK, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. will integrate fax-to-e-mail services in its MyPhone mobile portal offering through a deal with eFax.com, said eFax. As a result...
ABC PROGRAM DOESN’T TUMBLE WIRELESS MARKET
WASHINGTON-In some respects, the Main Event was a non-event.Wireless stocks did not go into free fall. Major dailies did not go wild with follow-up...