Yearly Archives: 1996

NOKIA HITS 2Q FINANCIAL GOALS, BUT PROFITS STILL BELOW ’95 LEVELS

NEW YORK-Aided by strong growth in its mobile phones and telecommunications business groups, Nokia Corp. reported strong second-quarter net sales Aug. 8 of nearly...

D.C. NOTES

Ah...August in Washington. Congress is on hiatus. Agencies have ratcheted down. Tourists are dwindling. Humidity on certain days is below 99 percent. John Tesh...

PRIVATE RADIO COUNTS ON CORPORA TIONS TO TACKLE AUCTION ACTION

Some of the nation's most powerful industries said they have been "too quiet, too long" about the U.S. government's auction hunger, and have formed...

INMARSAT TO OPEN REGIONAL OFFICES

LONDON-The International Mobile Satellite Organization Council agreed to open regional offices to represent Latin America, South and East Asia and Africa."Inmarsat opened its first...

SKYWIRE PROVIDES FEDEX WITH SMART DROP BOXES

ATLANTA-Skywire Corp. and Federal Express Corp. have signed a multiyear agreement to provide FedEx with thousands of SmartBoxes.The SmartBox continually monitors the status of...

FORMER ONE-2-ONE EXECUTIVE HIRED AS SPRINT SPECTRUM CEO

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. has named Andrew Sukawaty chief executive officer.Sukawaty is known for his work helping launch a personal communications services network...

RCR TOP 20 MOBILE SATELLITE CARRIERS

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of mobile satellite carriers based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts....

MOTOROLA TO DELIVER 1800 MHZ NETWORK TO UKRAINE CARRIER

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s European Cellular Infrastructure Division is set to complete the first digital cellular network in the Ukraine for Bancomsvyaz, the local...

COMPANIES EXPAND TO SERVE MAR KET'S BILLING REQUIREMENTS

Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion...

TWO 38 GHZ PROVIDERS PULL STOCK ISSUES: ART PULLS IPO BECAUSE OF FALLING STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service, announced Aug. 1 it had pulled a planned initial public...

HAUTANEN NAMED PHILIPS PRESIDENT

LE MANS, France-Philips Electronics North America Corp. has appointed Osmo Hautanen president of Philips Consumer Communications Co., a seven-month-old Le Mans, France-based subsidiary of...

PRICELLULAR SLIMS NEW STOCK OFFERING

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. last week scaled down a planned secondary Class A common stock offering to 2.5 million shares, from the 3.6 million shares...

ALCATEL TO INSTALL CROSS CONNECTS IN PRIMECO BUILDOUT

RICHARDSON, Texas-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has chosen Alcatel Telecom to install SX digital cross connect systems in PrimeCo's personal communications services switching stations in...

PRONET TRIES TO PULL TOGETHER AMID FINANCIAL DOWNTURN, LAWSUIT

ProNet Inc. of Plano, Texas, released bleak second-quarter financial results, said its proposed merger with Teletouch Communications Inc. was mutually terminated and is fighting...

AT DEADLINE BINGAMAN RESIGNS ANTITRUST POSITION

Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the...

FCC ADOPTS STRICT HYBRID RADIOFRE QUENCY EXPOSURE GUIDELINES

WASHINGTON-With less than a ringing endorsement from two commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted hybrid radiofrequency exposure guidelines that may violate a...

SAPURA TO EXPAND MALAYSIA NETWORK

ESPOO, Finland- Sapura Digital Sdn. Bhd. and Nokia Telecommunications signed a long-term agreement for the expansion of Sapura's nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia,...

WESTERN WIRELESS FIRES UP IN N.M.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area.The company's service is...

DIGITAL SERVICE WON’T STAMP OUT ANALOG SMR NEEDS

For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is...

TAIWAN OPENS TO WIRELESS TRADE

Taiwan opens to wireless tradeWASHINGTON-The Clinton administration said Taiwan has agreed to open its wireless market as part of an overall effort to liberalize...

TELETECH PLANS 4 MILLION SHARE IPO

NEW YORK-TeleTech, a Denver-based customer care service provider, planned to go public last week with 4 million shares of common stock priced from $14.50...

COMPETITION KEEN FOR FINANCE OPTIONS

NEW YORK-High-technology companies have benefited in recent years from the robust market for initial public stock offerings, which in turn encourages venture capital investments....

VIEWPOINT

CTIA President Tom Wheeler called it the biggest issue facing the wireless industry in 1996. Last Thursday, he simply said, "Hooray."The Federal Communications Commission...

TWO 38 GHZ PROVIDERS PULL STOCK ISSUES: WINSTAR COMMUNICATIONS HALTS ADD-ON STOCK OFFER, DEBT ISSUE

NEW YORK-Citing poor market conditions, WinStar Communications Inc. announced July 30 it was halting an add-on stock offering of 4 million shares and a...

ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION INCLUDING WIRETAP PROVISION PASSED

WASHINGTON-Starting the week united but ending it divided, President Clinton and a bipartisan congressional group struggled to agree on an anti-terrorism bill to give...
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