Monthly Archives: December, 1998
BRITE TO ASSIST PREPAY BUSINESS FOR U S WEST
ORLANDO, Fla.-Brite Voice Systems announced it entered into a two-year contract with U S West Wireless to supply BriteDebit prepaid calling for U S...
GRANGER EMPLOYEES KILLED IN CHECHYNA
Three Granger Telecom employees and an independent contractor have been killed in Chechnya, a breakaway republic of Russia located north of Georgia.Granger Telecom employees...
ORAL ARGUMENT ON RF POSTPONED
WASHINGTON-Oral argument in the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission's 1996 radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines has been postponed until February or March.The case, Cellular...
FURCHTGOTT-ROTH QUESTIONS MERGER REVIEW
WASHINGTON-The most conservative member of the Federal Communications Commission last week said the current microscopic review of telecommunications mergers is unfair given the lack...
TSR INSTALLS IN-TOUCH SYSTEM IN 17 MARKETS
MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. and TSR Wireless announced the In-Touch II system has been successfully installed in 17 markets for TSR Wireless. The...
AMERICAN TOWER TO BUILD TRITON PCSDEVELOPMENT SITES
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. and Triton PCS announced they entered into a contract in which American Tower will build 115 build-to-suit tower-development sites in North...
WIRELESS MISSES OUT ON TIIAP GRANTS
WASHINGTON-Those wishing to bring to market new and updated technologies, including access to the Information Superhighway, should look at the wireless industry to provide...
SKYTEL TWO-WAY OFFERS TEXT-TO-SPEECH CAPABILITY
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced its two-way messaging subscribers can send text messages from their pagers to any telephone in the country, using text-to-speech...
ORBCOMM GLOBAL WINS EUROPEAN REGULATORY APPROVALS
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said the European Regulatory Commission issued two rulings positively affecting the company's effort to bring mobile satellite-based data services to...
DOORS OPENED BY INTERNET ALSO INVITE SECURITY HURDLES
NEW YORK-The boundaries between internal and external computer networks are disappearing due to the warp-speed incursion of the Internet, raising security concerns within enterprises...
SAMSUNG LICENSES FLEX FOR PAGERS AND MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. announced it licensed its FLEX protocol decoder chipset to Korean equipment manufacturer Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The agreement is expected to...
TRITON CHOOSES SYSTEMS/LINK FRAUD PROGRAM
MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. said it selected Systems/Link Corp. to provide its RoamEx fraud control platform and FraudTec2000 system to help Triton PCS combat...
GOAMERICA OFFERS BUNDLE OF AUTOMATED SALES TOOLS
BOSTON-Wireless Internet service provider GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will provide an end-to-end sales force automation outsource solution that bundles hardware and software products...
MOTOROLA PHONES TO USE PREPAID SOFTWARE FROM TOPP
MIAMI-Topp Telecom announced it signed a licensing agreement with Motorola Inc. to incorporate Topp Telecom's prepaid software into select Motorola phones, including the StarTac...
GAO REPORTS POSTAL TOWER PROGRAM `ON HOLD’
WASHINGTON-A Government Accounting Office report says the U.S. Postal Service has "put on hold" plans to expand an antenna-siting program, which could have significant...
TELECOM WIRELESS GAINS FUNDING
ATLANTA-Telecom Wireless Solutions Inc. announced it obtained $17 million in financing for strategic acquisitions, new ventures and product development initiatives.As a part of this...
FCC EXPANDS ULS TO CELLULAR
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau will begin immediately using the Universal Licensing System for all licensing activity in the cellular radiophone service.Use...
18 FIRMS BAND TO BOOST WIRELESS DATA MARKET
Sierra Wireless said it has brought together 17 other companies in an alliance formed to work together to offer more complete solutions so the...
VIEWPOINT: HANDSET WARS
Research companies predicting wireless handset market share have ruffled a few industry feathers.Qualcomm last week issued a statement disputing Dataquest research that had Qualcomm's...
SIEMENS’ AGREEMENT IS GIANT STEP ABROAD FOR UNWIRED PLANET
Unwired Planet Inc. announced it reached an agreement with Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group of Munich, Germany, to integrate its Wireless Access Protocol...
CONGRESS IGNORES SPECTRUM FEE OPTIONS
WASHINGTON-Congress declined to act on two spectrum fee approaches crafted by the Congressional Budget Office that likely would have drawn opposition from commercial wireless...
D.C. NOTES: EDUCATING TOM
By the time Jan. 19 rolls around, newest Wireless Telecom Bureau Chief Tom Sugrue will be in for an education that goes far beyond...
ITALY COULD LICENSE FOURTH COMPETITOR
ROME-News reports from Italy said the country's communications minister, Salvatore Cardinale, will request the appointment of a government committee to select a fourth mobile...
CAI BUYS HEARTLAND INTEREST IN COMPANY
DALLAS-CAI Wireless Systems Inc., Heartland Wireless Communications Inc. and CS Wireless Systems Inc. announced a master agreement under which CAI acquired Heartland's approximate 36-percent...
TRITON PCS CHOOSES LIGHTBRIDGE
MALVERN, Penn.-Triton PCS Inc. selected Lightbridge Inc. to provide integrated solutions for customer activation, retail management and fraud prevention.Triton PCS is building and will...
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