Yearly Archives: 1997

4 LEO CARRIERS TO GARNER 80 PERCENT OF BUSINESS

Several low-earth-orbit satellite systems will have initial launches this year, marking the beginning of services that a Washington, D.C., consulting firm says "will fill...

DESPITE NET LOSS, METROCALL GROWS TO FIFTH LARGEST PAGING CARRIER

Along with reports of a $17 million net loss and 85 percent increase in revenues for the fourth quarter, Metrocall Inc. became the fifth...

MERRILL LYNCH TO HANDLE MILLICOM

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said Merrill Lynch & Company is a market maker for the company's stock. Merrill Lynch will be responsible for...

COURT ORDER OKS MOBILEMEDIA PLAN

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-The Delaware bankruptcy court issued a final order approving MobileMedia Corp.'s $200 million debtor-in-possession financing agreement with Chase Manhattan Bank of New...

MOTOROLA ENTERS ALCATEL AGREEMENT

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group signed an agreement with Alcatel Telecom that allows the companies to distribute each other's telecommunications equipment including...

CLARIFICATION

The wooden tower pole placed in Loveland, Colo., which was referred to in the laminated wood tower story on page 22 of the Feb....

MOTOROLA DOUBLES GATEWAY CAPACITY

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. announced that its Wireless Message Gateway paging terminal now handles nearly 200 FLEX pages per second.The company said the Wireless...

NATION BRIEFS

Western Wireless Corp. added 51,500 wireless subscribers during the fourth quarter, for a total of 359,700 subscribers. Of the more than 51,000 new subscribers,...

FCC PUTS NEXTWAVE’S FOREIGN OWNERSHIP NEAR 40%

WASHINGTON-The formal memorandum opinion and order regarding the award of NextWave Personal Communications Inc.'s long-awaited personal communications services licenses creates more questions than answers...

NORTEL INTRODUCES NEW TRANSCEIVERS

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. has introduced two models of its S2000 family of micro base transceiver stations.The models, introduced at the GSM World Congress in...

D.C. NOTES

The separate statement by embattled FCC Commissioner Rachelle Chong on the 2.3 GHz (auction it till it hertz) ruling last week helps explain why...

PEOPLE

Telephone and Data Systems Inc. elected George W. Off to its board of directors. He replaces Robert J. Collins who retired Jan. 7. Off...

PRODUCTS

Ora Electronics Inc. announced its Signal Plus antenna performance kit, which the company said is designed to improve the performance of portable cellular telephones....

QUALCOMM WILL ISSUE CONVERTIBLE STOCK TO FINANCE EXPANSION

NEW YORK-Qualcomm Financial Trust I, wholly owned by Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, plans to sell a $450 million issue of convertible preferred stock due...

QUALCOMM OFFERS PRIVATE PLACEMENT

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. finalized terms of its proposed placement of 5.75 percent Trust convertible preferred securities. The offering has been increased from $450 million...

FCC OET REQUESTS QUALCOMM INPUT

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology has requested comments from Qualcomm Inc. as to what action the OET should recommend to...

COMMISSION WILL CREATE STANDARD STREAMLINED AUCTION RULES

WASHINGTON-Future auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission will be run by a standard laundry list of rules instead of a new set of...

SMR COMPANIES SIGN AGREEMENT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-SMR Advisory Group signed a reciprocal roaming agreement with Incom Communications Inc. Both companies will market each other's services and provide support...

SPECTRUM STAKEHOLDERS SPEAK OUT ON TELECOM AUCTION POLICY

WASHINGTON-Formulating future spectrum policy not only is a hot topic for those who must handle the regulatory and legislative aspects of parceling out channels,...

MOTOROLA CAN SELL SPORTS SCORE PAGER

NEW YORK-The injunction preventing Motorola Inc. from selling pagers that display NBA sports scores was overturned this month by a New York appeals court.The...

SUPERFILTERS WILL SHRINK BASE STATION SIZES 30%

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. introduced its SuperFilter family of receiver filter subsystems.The SuperFilter offers advantages over conventional filter technologies in the areas of...

ASIAN CELLULAR FIRMS SIGN FIRST TDMA ROAMING PACT

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.-Chief executives of Mobikom of Malaysia and Pacific Link Communication Ltd. of Hong Kong last Wednesday signed the first Time Division...

SMRS HINDERED BY FCC’S 2-YEAR FREEZE

What is the real motivation behind the reluctance of the Federal Communications Commission to make a decision about what to do with the specialized...

PEOPLE

Aerial Communications Inc. appointed John Foster and Thomas Wilson Jr. to its board of directors. Foster and Wilson both will serve on Aerial's audit...

CALENDAR

FEBRUARY19 Auctions '97, by the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Communications Business Opportunities and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call...
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