Monthly Archives: March, 1997
GLOBALSTAR RECEIVES CANADIAN APPROVAL
Globalstar Canada was granted approval by Industry Canada to provide mobile wireless services throughout Canada using the Globalstar satellite-based telecommunications system. It is the...
SIEMENS AND WESTERN ENTER HANDSET CONTRACT
Siemens Wireless Terminals, a unit of Siemens Business Communication Systems Inc., will supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Western Wireless Corp. Siemens...
INTERCEL POSTPONES OFFER DUE TO VOLATILE MARKET
WEST POINT, Ga.-InterCel Inc. said it will let the bond market settle down before it offers a new issue of $300 million of Senior...
MICROCELL WILL ACTIVATE QUEBEC NETWORK IN APRIL
QUEBEC CITY-Microcell Telecommunications Inc. will activate its personal communications services network April 3 in Quebec City, which initially will provide service in 23 municipalities...
FCC ACCEPTS 27 WCS AUCTION APPS; SOFTWARE FIRMS MISSING?
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission accepted 27 applications for participation in its Wireless Communications Services auction of 128 licenses, scheduled to begin April 15; 16...
AVAILABILITY OF MULTIPLE STANDARDS CAUSE SMART CARD DIFFICULTIES
NEW YORK-"Right now we are on the cusp of major breakthroughs in the inter-operability of different applications on smart cards for ," Mark Ferdinands,...
AERIAL LAUNCHES IN OHIO
Aerial Communications Inc. launched its first U.S. personal communications services network in Columbus, Ohio.The company's Global System for Mobile communications service is available through...
BIG THREE STANDARDS EACH COMPRISE PROMINENT U.S. FOOTPRINT: PACS PLAYS TO SMALLER PCS CROWD
If you look at maps of the United States that depict the 1900 MHz coverage for the nation's three primary digital standards, it appears...
PREFERRED INTROS CALLER-PAYS PAGING
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. introduced its Priceless Page caller-pays paging service in Chicago. The program allows Preferred's customers to offer a paging service with no...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Architel Systems Corp. will provide its Automatic Service Activation Program to L.M. Ericsson for use in Ericsson's service activation product to allow service providers...
METAWAVE SIGNS ON FOR COX INSTALLATION
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp.'s Network Services Group will provide installation services to Cox California PCS Inc., according to an agreement Metawave values at $500,000.Metawave...
AT DEADLINE: MOTOROLA FILES FOR DISMISSAL
Motorola Inc. said it has filed a motion in federal district court for the Southern District of California seeking a dismissal of an action...
VIEWPOINT
Logic.So the Federal Communications Commission is willing to modify the C-block payment plan to allow license holders to make one annual payment rather than...
ARE POLICYMAKERS BLIND TO WTR’S SLIDE?
If one were to ask Congress for a written transcript of the Feb. 2, 1993, Capitol Hill briefing on alleged health risks from portable...
MIC RESTRUCTURES FIRM TO BOOST SHARE VALUE
LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said it plans to restructure its operations in an effort to maximize shareholder value.The company will spin off its Asian...
MICOM PRINCIPAL GUILTY OF SELLING FRAUDULENT LICENSING SERVICES
WASHINGTON-A U.S. district court judge in New York ruled March 12 that Joseph Viggiano, a principal of telemarketing concern Micom Corp., was guilty of...
CONGRESS AIMS TO TIGHTEN LAWS ON WIRELESS PRIVACY AND SECURITY
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), reacting to continuing thefts on the information superhighway, is expected this spring to sponsor comprehensive legislation that...
LOW PENETRATION MAKES RUSSIA FERTILE WIRELESS GROUND
NEW YORK-With just 0.04 mobile telephones per 100 people today, Russia is fertile ground for an expanding wireless industry, said Alexander Nyago, general director...
REPORT FORECASTS 500M SUBS BY '02
WASHINGTON-The worldwide market for cellular and personal communications services will reach more than 500 million subscribers by 2002, predicted The Strategis Group in its...
AUSTRIA REPORTS TENDER ISSUED FOR NEW DIGITAL WIRELESS LICENSE
Austria's Ministry for Science and Transport announced a tender for a Digital Cellular System 1800 personal communications network license, according to the U.S. Embassy...
CALIFORNIA RESELLER ISSUES SENIOR NOTES FOR GROWTH
NEW YORK-Prime Matrix Wireless Communications, a California-based cellular reseller, plans to sell publicly an $80 million issue of senior notes due 2004.Prime Matrix, headquartered...
FOREIGN TELECOM PROJECTS ARE COMPLEX UNDERTAKING
NEW YORK-Telecommunications projects overseas, while exceedingly complex, follow the simple tenets of an old adage: Education is what you get when you follow the rules;...
NOKIA DIRECTORS DECLARE DIVIDEND
HELSINKI, Finland-At its annual general meeting, Nokia Corp.'s board of directors declared a 70 cents per share dividend for 1996. The dividend will be...
LUCENT PROVIDING CHIPS TO MOTOROLA
BERKELY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced it will provide semiconductor chips for several Motorola Inc. two-way messaging units, in development.The chip's marked...
LARGEST JAPANESE CDMA CONTRACT GOES TO MOTOROLA
Motorola Inc. has won what it calls the largest cellular infrastructure contract in the world to date.The company's Cellular Infrastructure Group announced Japanese carriers...