Yearly Archives: 1998

BRIGHTPOINT DROPS TRADING DIVISION

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it plans to eliminate its trading division during the fourth quarter in an effort to emphasize relationships with wireless equipment manufacturers...

ORAL ARGUMENTS SET FOR RF GUIDELINES

WASHINGTON-After months of delay, oral arguments are set for the week of Nov. 30 on legal challenges to radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines adopted by...

ALLEN TELECOM AND LCC TO SWAP BUSINESS UNITS

BEACHWOOD, Ohio-Allen Telecom Inc. and LCC International Inc. announced they formed an agreement in which LCC will swap its test and measurement equipment and...

PEOPLE

BELLSOUTHBellSouth Corp. appointed Nancy Humphries vice president of investor relations. For the past seven years, Humphries served as executive director of investor relations for...

CHANGING TIMES MAY FORCE FCC TO RELAX SPECTRUM CAP

WASHINGTON-A confluence of factors are converging that may force the Federal Communications Commission to relax the commercial wireless 45 megahertz spectrum cap, an antitrust...

3G WILL INCLUDE A STANDARD `PRETTY CLOSE’ TO GSM

WASHINGTON-Pekka Tarjanne, outgoing secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, predicted last week a family of third-generation wireless standards will emerge by year's end...

CELLSTAR NET INCOME SLIDES

NEW YORK-CellStar Corp., Carrollton, Texas, announced a significant slide in net income for the third quarter ended Aug. 31, to $2.4 million from $16.2...

BATTLE FOR HIGH-END WIRELESS USERS BEGIN

Let the battle for the high-end mobile phone users begin.Sprint Spectrum L.P. late last week introduced three new all-inclusive national pricing plans that eliminate...

FCC ELIMINATES INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS ON GWCS

WASHINGTON-On the same day that the House Commerce Committee was voting to delay the auction of licenses for the general wireless communication service (GWCS),...

ARCH COMPLETES SECOND SEGMENT ON SALE OF SITE MANAGEMENT UNIT

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the second phase in selling its site management business to OmniAmerica Inc.The three-part transaction is valued...

TIME FOR FCC TO GET OFF DIME IN AIRPORT COMMUNICATIONS SAFETY

To the Editor: Back in June of 1992 my company, LMR Systems Inc., asked the Federal Communications Commission's permission to build private land mobile radio...

SEC CHAIR CALLS FOR CHANGES IN QUARTERLY REPORTS

NEW YORK-Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt accused Corporate America of "manipulation" and "illusion" when accounting for certain costs."In the zeal to satisfy...

NETTECH BEGINS DEVELOPER SUPPORT

PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. launched the Nettech Developer Program, a support program for mobile application developers.The program offers developer partners-such as systems integrators, corporate...

CHINA GOV’T MAY BLOCK FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN TELECOM

NEW YORK-Concerns are mounting that recent deliberations by federal government leaders in China could lead to a lock-out of foreign investors from its telecommunications...

PCS Carriers

BT TO ACQUIRE STAKE IN LG

British Telecommunications plc announced plans to acquire a 23.49 percent stake in South Korean mobile operator LG Telecom.The company said it will spend about...

INTELLIVOICE PREMIERES EASYDIAL VOICE DIALING

ATLANTA-Intellivoice Communications Inc. announced its EasyDial voice-activated dialing technology will be available to wireless carriers on a service bureau basis through an arrangement with...

LDI TO MERGE WITH NETNET

NEW YORK-Long Distance International Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., announced Oct. 1 a merger with Stockholm-based NETnet International S.A. that will add 90,000 business customers...

UNWIRED PLANET DEMONSTRATES UP.LINK

ORLANDO, Fla.-Unwired Planet Inc. released its UP.Link Platform Version 3.1 with Wireless Markup Language support at PCS '98.The platform, which includes the UP.Link Server...

METROCALL SHAREHOLDERS OK ACQUISITION

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced its shareholders have approved the company's acquisition of AT&T Wireless Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division and set the stage for a...

ORANGE LAUNCHES VALUE PROMISE

LONDON-Orange plc said it will offer the equivalent of any competitor's digital package on its network under a new program called the Orange Value...

D.C. NOTES: 3G GONE BANANAS

For months now, my buddy Mike Houghton and the North American GSM Alliance have been scratching their heads trying to figure out how Qualcomm,...

PRODUCTS

SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset....

SPRINT PCS EXTENDS BRITE VOICE CONTRACT

ORLANDO, Fla.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. contracted Brite Voice Systems to expand its prepaid calling capacity to support the personal communications services carrier's expansion into new...

POWERTEL BEGINS OFFERING PCS IN NASHVILLE

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Powertel Inc. announced it launched personal communications services in Nashville, Tenn.The Nashville market, covering more than 1.2 million people, includes Brentwood, Bellevue, Cool...
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