Yearly Archives: 1997

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Ericsson Inc. announced it supplied equipment and services to Airadigm Communications Inc. for its Einstein personal communications services network in Appleton, Wis. The network...

D.C. NOTES

The cellular industry joined Ellen and the Clinton administration last week, volunteering to come out as a consumer advocate.That's right, CTIA joined the fight...

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...

FCC URGED TO REJECT SBC'S APPLICATION

WASHINGTON-The paging industry urged the Federal Communications Commission last week to reject SBC Communications Inc.'s application to enter the long distance market, citing failure...

VIEWPOINT

Do you think President Clinton and Congress are rethinking spectrum lease fees this week?The government's auction dream has ended. (Or turned into a nightmare,...

WORLD BRIEFS

NEC Corp. won contracts for two transmission projects in Costa Rica in conjunction with Intituto Costarricense de Electricidad. One project calls for NEC to...

AMSC LOSS IS LESS THAN LAST YEAR’S

RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. said its net loss for the quarter ended March 31 was smaller than last year's first quarter net loss.The...

FTC URGES FCC TO ADOPT STRINGENT APPLICATION-MILL DISCLOSURE

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission has suggested a series of front-end consumer-education electives be taken by the Federal Communications Commission that could protect potential investors...

GILBERT ACQUIRES TWO NEW VENTURES

READING, Pa.-Gilbert Associates said it acquired the stock of TEC Cellular Inc., a Melbourne, Fla.-based software and engineering services provider.Gilbert also announced it signed...

CORRECTION

A photo on the front page of RCR's April 21 issue incorrectly identified the president of Intraplex Corp. He is Bill Rollins.Due to incorrect...

COMSAT LAWSUIT ALLEGES CEO VIOLATED POLICIES

BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. filed a lawsuit against its former chief executive officer, Bruce Crockett, alleging a conspiracy linking him with Herbert Denton, Providence Capital...

EARNINGS DIGEST

Core performance helps Bell Atlantic with PrimeCo costsPHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Corp.'s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Raymond Smith, said during the first quarter the company...

ERICSSON WILL USE MARIMBA CASTANET

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. said it will use Marimba Inc.'s Castanet technology to deliver and manage software and content on its Internet and intranet-related products....

REPUBLICANS TAKING SOME NTIA GRANT PROGRAMS INTO QUESTION

WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration came under fire last week by congressional Republicans who charged that some agency functions are redundant and attacked...

CELLULAR REPORT INDICATES TOWER CONSTRUCTION IS UP

WHEATON, Md.-Cell site construction during 1996 increased 50 percent from 4,743 sites in 1995 to 7,392 last year, according to Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd.'s...

MEXICO TO HOLD AUCTION FOR WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP

Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transportation has designated spectrum in the 3.4 GHz to 3.7 GHz band for wireless local loop services, to be...

MOBILEMEDIA’S GREATEST REMAINING ASSETS ARE NPCS LICENSES

Could or would anyone buy MobileMedia Corp? If not, what will happen to this bankrupt company, which is the second largest paging carrier in...

NATURAL MICROSYSTEMS LICENSES TECHNOLOGY FOR VOICE COMPRESSION

NATICK, Mass.-Natural Microsystems Corp. licensed Voxware Inc.'s MetaVoice voice compression technology, which is designed to reproduce high quality speech while requiring low communications bandwidth...

RCR TOP 20 CELLULAR CARRIERS

Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Company rankings are based on the total number of...
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