Yearly Archives: 1997

LUCENT BUILDING BRAZILIAN FACILITY

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. next month will begin construction on a cellular equipment manufacturing plant and global provisioning center in Brazil. The company...

PREPAID CARD SALES MAY ERODE MARGINS

LONDON-Prepaid card sales may fuel mobile phone growth, but they also will erode already declining margins, according to a new report by CIT Research...

INTEK WILL EQUIP TIME WARNER FLEET

TORRANCE, Calif.-Intek Diversified Corp.'s subsidiary Roamer One signed an agreement to provide voice communication and computer aided dispatch to Time Warner Inc. for its...

FGI WIRELESS TO REDUCE INTEREST IN VIMPEL-COM

NEW YORK-Through an add-on offering of American Depository Shares, FGI Wireless Ltd., an Illinois corporation, is looking to reduce substantially its ownership in Vimpel-Communications,...

ONE-OF-A-KIND COMPANY ENJOYS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS DAWN

Metrica says it holds the sole championship title in its corner of the global telecom industry, network performance management. The United States is especially...

METROCALL’S FIRST QUARTER RESULTS DISPUTE BROADBAND PCS THREAT

NEW YORK-Metrocall Inc. announced an escalation in paging users in two markets where broadband personal communications services have been launched, discrediting the theory that...

PACS MAY BE POPULAR CHOICE AMONG WCS AUCTION WINNERS

DENVER-Winners of the recently completed Wireless Communications Services auction may be likely to choose Personal Access Communications Systems as their technology of choice, said...

ALLTEL ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO NAME SPORTS FACILITIES

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. has acquired the naming rights to two sports facilities, the renovated Gatorbowl stadium in Jacksonville, Fla., and a new Civic...

INDUSTRY FEELS FBI IS USING CALEA TO EXPAND EAVESDROPPING

WASHINGTON-Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom accused Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler of making false and misleading statements to Congress about the agency's...

COMCAST PREMIERES ONE-NUMBER SERVICE

WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. introduced its Direct Link one-number service, which integrates voice, fax, messaging and "find me" capabilities into a customer's cellular...

AT DEADLINE: RACAL IS LICENSED FOR APCO DEVICE

Motorola Inc. has agreed to license to Racal Communications Inc. the digital technology for APCO Project 25 public safety products.Rockville, Md.-based Racal is the...

SHARP RECEIVES CDMA LICENSE

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. granted a worldwide, royalty-bearing license to Sharp Corp. to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access subscriber products.Sharp is the 16th...

STOCKS CLAMOR FOR WALL STREET FAVOR WITH CONSERVATIVE APPROACH

Belt-tightening, steady growth of one-way services and advances in two-way and voice paging are winning the paging sector renewed interest on Wall Street."I think...

TELULAR TO BECOME LAVA’S SUBSIDIARY

TORONTO-Telular Canada Inc. agreed to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Lava Systems Inc., which together will operate as an integrated information management company.According...

MORE CONSOLIDATION YET TO COME IN SHRINKING PAGING INDUSTRY?

NEW YORK-When it comes to further consolidation in paging, the industry in the United States has taken a deep breath and is waiting to...

NEW TELECOM ERA NOW TAKING SHAPE

WASHINGTON-Overarching economic, trade and political policies evolving in the United States and abroad are likely to eclipse telecommunications policy as the key drivers of...

AIRTOUCH SELECTS AUTHENTIX SOLUTION

TUCSON, Ariz.-AirTouch Cellular selected Authentix Network Inc.'s Roamer Verification Reinstatement system for roaming fraud prevention in 17 states.The agreement follows a successful implementation last...

TELULAR TO BECOME LAVA'S SUBSIDIARY

TORONTO-Telular Canada Inc. agreed to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Lava Systems Inc., which together will operate as an integrated information management company.According...

CELLCOM BUYS BETAS FOR CLEARSITE TEST

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Cellcom, which operates a cellular network in Wisconsin and Iowa, will purchase four beta units of Conductus Inc.'s ClearSite receiver subsystem following a...

CODED JOINS RACOM FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

CARLSBAD, Calif.-Coded Communications Corp. and Racom Corp. partnered to provide wireless data access to Iowa public safety fleets, which allows them to access various...

COMCAST CELLULAR TO SELL $900M SENIOR NOTE ISSUE

NEW YORK-Comcast Cellular Holdings Inc., a newly formed holding company, plans to sell privately $900 million in senior unsecured notes that will be used...

CORRECTION

Frontier Cellular should have been included on RCR's Top 20 Cellular Carriers list. The company had 233,199 subscribers for year-end 1996. Also, Comcast Cellular...

DOBSON ACQUIRES HORIZON’S ASSETS

DENVER-An affiliate of Dobson Communications Corp. acquired cellular assets from Horizon Cellular Telephone Co. of Hagerstown L.P. and Cumberland Cellular Partnership. Included in the...

ERICSSON REPORTS SALES INCREASE

STOCKHOLM, Sweden- L.M. Ericsson's first quarter financial results produced net sales of $4 billion, a 36 percent increase from $2.9 billion during the same...

ERICSSON TO TRANSFER RDS TO CETRONIC AB

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Radio Messaging AB agreed to transfer all production and marketing rights for Ericsson's RDS products to Cetronic AB.RDS is a subcarrier technology...
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