Yearly Archives: 1997

P-COM TO SUPPLY RADIOS TO TELCEL

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. signed an agreement to supply digital microwave radios to Telcel, a subsidiary of Telefonos de Mexico.The equipment will be used to...

PAGING NETWORK REPORTS NET LOSS

DALLAS- Paging Network Inc. reported a first quarter net loss of $39.9 million, or 39 cents per share, compared with a $12.1 million net...

PANAMSAT ISSUING PROXY FOR MERGER

GREENWICH, Conn.-PanAmSat Corp. said it will issue to its shareholders a proxy statement detailing the planned merger of PanAmSat and the Galaxy satellite services...

QUALCOMM BUYS OMNITRACS DEALER

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. acquired a 49 percent equity interest in Corporacion Nacional de Radiodeterminacion, a Mexican company that has been the exclusive operator and...

WCS AUCTION ENDS IN WHIMPER

WASHINGTON-The sale of 128 Wireless Communications Services licenses ended early Friday morning after a total of 29 rounds. The final four rounds contained no...

RSA LOTTERY APPLICANTS PETITION COURT TO FORCE FCC COMPLIANCE

WASHINGTON-A 44-member group with rural cellular applications pending at the Federal Communications Commission petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...

SK TELECOM SELLS NOTES TO FINANCE CDMA NETWORK

NEW YORK-SK Telecom Co. Ltd., South Korea's primary cellular and paging carrier, sold $230 million in Yankee notes April 24, partly to finance its...

SPACECOM, EMS TEAM FOR HYPERNET SYSTEM

TULSA, Okla.-Enhanced Messaging Systems and SpaceCom Systems teamed up to provide an integrated satellite link and transmission control system for the paging industry. The...

COURT DECISION ALLOWS STATES TO CONSIDER RATE DISCRIMINATION

States' rights advocates are claiming victory for an appeals court decision that overturned a preliminary injunction set by a lower court that barred a...

CALENDAR

APRIL27-30 Rural Cellular Association's Fifth Annual Convention and Exhibition, by the Rural Cellular Association. The Luxor, Las Vegas. (800) 722-1872.28-29 New Wireless Spectrum Opportunities,...

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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