Yearly Archives: 1998

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...

PREDICTIVE CHURN MODELS CAN IMPROVE RETENTION EFFORTS

The wireless industry currently uses many different customer-retention strategies and retention campaigns, including win-back teams, welcome calls, competitive rate plans and loyalty programs. However,...

WHEN YOU WANT AN ANTENNA SITE, COOPERATION IS KEY

WASHINGTON-It is becoming quite obvious that the key word on antenna-siting disputes is cooperation. In two situations last week, cooperation led to successful results...

QUALCOMM OPENS MIAMI OFFICE

MIAMI-Qualcomm Inc. announced it opened an office in Miami to manage its Latin American sales operations."The resources invested in the new Miami office are...

CELLULAR WHOLESALERS, DIRECT POWER PLUS TEAM

SKOKIE, Ill.-Cellular Wholesalers Inc. said it partnered with wireless accessories manufacturer Direct Power Plus to sell and market batteries and cigarette lighter adaptors under...

TELECOM POWER TO LAUNCH CELLULAR IN NEW DELHI, MUMBAI

BANGALORE, India-State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) last year announced its plans to give private cellular operators in New Delhi and Mumbai a run...

MITSUBISHI OFFERS GSM PHONE

DULUTH, Ga.-Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. introduced its first entry-level phone for the Global System for Mobile communications marketplace, the G75.The G75 weighs 7.9 ounces,...

DATALINK TO DELIVER CONTENT LEG OF WIRELESS MESSAGING

DataLink Systems Corp.-a company providing real-time turnkey information services-introduced two new information services this week, expanding its portfolio of personalized Web-based content.Sports2Go, offered in...

MILLICOM TO SELL MORE RITABELL INTERESTS

LONDON-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said the sale of its 48-percent interest in Ritabell of Estonia to an affiliate company, NetCom Systems A.B., for $55...

MILLICOM DEBT DOWNGRADED AMID CURRENCY CRISES

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. lowered its speculative grade ratings Sept. 10 on $1.2 billion in outstanding Millicom International Cellular S.A. debt by one...

SILVERLAKE INKS RESALE DEAL FOR ARCH, OFFERS WEB PRODUCT

ORLANDO, Fla.-Silverlake Communications Inc., a wireless messaging software provider, announced it has entered a reseller agreement with Arch Communications Group Inc.Under terms of the...

SMARTLINK TO SUPPLY CUMULOUS’ WEST COAST CORRIDOR

APEX, N.C.-Cumulous Communications, based in Fresno, Calif., selected SmartLink Development L.P. to supply and install a new SMRLink trunking and networking system that will...

TIA’S NEW CHAIRMAN HEADS COMPANY WITH DIFFERING VIEWS ON CALEA

WASHINGTON-The newly installed chairman of the Telecommunications Industry Association also is the head of a company with a product and a position on implementing...

MOTOROLA FUNDS MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH

EVANSTON, Ill.-A $600,000 grant from Motorola Inc. will fund research in wireless multimedia devices and protocols design in a new Northwestern-Motorola Center for Telecommunications...

TELXON TO EQUIP BEST BUY

AKRON, Ohio-Best Buy awarded Telxon Corp. a contract valued at about $4 million to install mobile computers, portable printers and spread-spectrum wireless networks in...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGY COULD MEAN PHONES THAT GO MONTH WITHOUT RECHARGING

Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group said its new system-on-a-chip process could result in wireless phones that operate for a month without needing recharging.The company...

CONTEMPORARY OPERATORS CAN LEARN LESSON FROM OLD PARADIGMS

Seventy years ago, the mobile radio industry was born when the Detroit Police Department installed the first one-way radios in their squad cars. Today...

OHIO CONTROLLING BOARD OKS RADIO NETWORK UPGRADE BY TRW

COLUMBUS, Ohio-The Ohio Controlling Board approved $24.8 million in state fund spending and a contract with TRW Inc. to design the first phase of...

SUPERCONDUCTOR GETS LETTER OF INTENT

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced it received a letter of intent from a top 10 cellular carrier for a supply agreement of up...

CONGRESS COULD STEP IN TO GUIDE C-BLOCK

WASHINGTON-The remaining C-block licensees are being pushed into bankruptcy because the Federal Communications Commission has chosen to re-auction the returned licenses before the resolution...

LXE OFFERS ENHANCEMENTS FOR WIRELESS DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS

NORCROSS, Ga.-LXE Inc., a subsidiary of Electromagnetic Sciences Inc., introduced several product enhancements for its wireless data collection systems.The new products include additions to...

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCES FAST DSP

NEW YORK-Gearing up for next-generation wireless, Texas Instruments has developed a digital signal processor that is able to execute 2,000 millions of instructions per...

TSR WIRELESS TO RESELL OMNIPOINT PCS SERVICE

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. entered into an agreement with Omnipoint Communications Inc. to sell personal communications services in all Omnipoint markets in which...

SPORTSTICKER RENEWS LICENSE FOR NFL UPDATES

JERSEY CITY, N.J.-Sports-Ticker announced it renewed its license with the National Football League, allowing it to deliver in-progress game updates to its new organization...

SPRINT PCS OFFERS QUALCOMM PHONE

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS added Qualcomm Inc.'s QCP-1920 Code Division Multiple Access phone to its product lineup. The single-branded personal communications services phone comes...
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