Yearly Archives: 1998

LUCENT SAYS FUTURE IS BRIGHT, PARTICULARLY FOR THE COMPANY

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Executives of Lucent Technologies Inc. say they expect the company to continue growing faster than the expanding telecommunications market and expect to...

NEW GLENAYRE PLATFORM AIMS TO MAKE CARRIERS MORE MONEY

ORLANDO, Fla.-In an effort to move from a provider of mere product to that of end-to-end solutions, Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced at PCS '98...

MEXICO PCS CARRIERS SCAMBLE TO MAKE PAYMENTS

ORLANDO-Economic problems elsewhere in the world have hit home in Mexico's new personal communications services market. Two of the PCS license winners there-Midicel and...

GSM, TDMA ALLIANCES TEAM

ORLANDO, Fla.-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium last week said they will join forces to collaborate on next-generation...

MOTOROLA CIG TO USE EXCEL SWITCHING PLATFORM

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase and deploy Excel Switching Corp.'s EXS infrastructure and switching platform as a network interface unit...

FCC PORTALS HEARINGS NEXT WEEK

WASHINGTON-A House Commerce investigations panel plans hearings beginning next week to question James Sasser, U.S. ambassador to China, former Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed...

FCC GIVES GUIDANCE ON INSTALLMENT PAYMENT CHANGES

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in its role as banker, is providing guidance on the newly established rules for installment payments for spectrum licenses. The...

CALENDAR

September 28 - October 2The Division of Executive & Management Development at Southern Methodist University. Cox School of Business on the SMU campus, Dallas....

INDUSTRY URGES CALEA GRANDFA THER DATE EXTENSION

WASHINGTON-Despite action by the Federal Communications Commission earlier this month to extend the compliance date on the digital wiretap act, the debate over its...

QUALCOMM TO TRIAL PDQ PHONE

ORLANDO, Fla.-Qualcomm Inc. announced plans to begin market trials of its pdQ smart phone, which integrates 3Com's Palm Computing platform with its Interim Standard-95...

STRAIGHT FROM THE SOURCE: THE CONSUMER

As an industry, we are all too aware of the fundamental changes in our business. The days of high average revenue per minute of...

WORLD BRIEFS

CANADARogers Cantel Inc. said its prepaid offering will be sold by Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix under a new retail agreement between the companies. "Cantel AT&T...

WINS COULD BE NEW PLATFORM FOR COMPETITION

Wireless intelligent network deployments remain slow in the United States as mobile phone carriers have focused on building out digital networks and spending money...

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION UNSTABLE AMONG MANY CARRIERS

Competition is changing the customer satisfaction landscape in wireless markets, according to J.D. Power and Associates' 1998 U.S. Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study.Carriers who previously...

SAMSUNG, TECORE REPORT PARTNERSHIP

ORLANDO, Fla.-Samsung Telecommunications America and Tecore announced they will partner to offer Code Division Multiple Access equipment to small personal communications services markets."No one...

UWCC RECONSIDERS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CHOICE

ORLANDO, Fla.-Carriers in the Asia-Pacific are beginning to re-evaluate their choice of digital technology, opening a new door for Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...

WLL MARKET FORECAST TO GROW 50 PERCENT ANNUALLY THROUGH 2002

WASHINGTON-Factors such as new wireless local loop licensing, reduced equipment costs and increasing acceptance of wireless as an alternative to wireline communications will contribute...

INDUSTRY BEGINS TO LOBBY TO PROVE WIRELESS COMPETES WITH WIRELINE

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is at a "watershed point," and is now beginning to compete in earnest with wireline telephony, said Tom Wheeler, president of...

MCCAIN INTRODUCES LEGISLATION CONNECTING E911 FEES TO TOWERS

WASHINGTON-If you listen to the wireless communications industry, strongest signal procedures will not be necessary once legislation to underwrite wireless E911 upgrades with fees...

PRODUCTS

HEWLETT PACKARDA complete test solution for installing and maintaining radio-frequency infrastructure systems for Cellular Digital Packet Data and mobile data base station equipment was...

FCC MAY FURTHER EXTEND WIRELESS NUMBER PORTABILITY

WASHINGTON-The postponement of arguments in a federal appeals court on the wireless number portability issue seems to bode well for the industry because it...

PRICE DENIES PURSUING MERGER WITH VANGUARD

Price Communications Corp.'s president Robert Price said his company is not pursuing a merger agreement with Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. despite recent reports that...

MOTOROLA OFFERS PLAIN PAPER FAX

ORLANDO, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group has implemented an end-to-end plain paper fax solution for Code Division Multiple Access-based fixed wireless networks, which has...

RAM MOBILE TO EQUIP LONCO OF U.K.

UNITED KINGDOM-Ram Mobile Data U.K. announced it was awarded a three-year contract to provide all nationwide field service communications in the United Kingdom for...

QUALCOMM OFFERS OPEN SYSTEM SWITCH FOR IS-95 NETWORKS

ORLANDO, Fla.-Qualcomm last week at PCS '98 announced it now is offering its cdmaOne Interim Standard-95 network with an open system radio-switch interface, meaning...
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