Yearly Archives: 1998

CELLULAR USERS TO DOUBLE IN A DECADE

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.-During the next decade, worldwide cellular phone users are expected to more than double to 715 million from this year's subscription numbers...

CAPITALIZED COMPANIES HOLD ADVANTAGE AS STOCKS DROP

U.S. stock markets, like most markets around the world, last week experienced a roller-coaster ride that left many companies with no choice but to...

PENTAGON MAY WANT 3G SPECTRUM FOR PROTECTION

WASHINGTON-About a year after the Clinton administration created a special panel in 1996 to assess potential threats to telecom networks and other critical infrastructure,...

Mobile Data Carriers

ARCH MODIFIED MERGER AGREEMENT

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will make certain modifications to its merger agreement with MobileMedia Corp. in response to recent capital market...

DOJ APPROVES ALCATEL, DSC

PARIS, and DALLAS-Alcatel and DSC Communications Corp. announced the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has favorably completed its review of the...

POWERWAVE TO BUY HP’S RF AMPLIFIER BUSINESS

IRVINE, Calif.-Powerwave Technologies Inc. will acquire Hewlett-Packard Co.'s radio-frequency power amplifier business and its manufacturing facility located in Folsom, Calif., for about $59 million,...

NUMEREX 3Q LOSSES UP

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-NumereX Corp., which owns a controlling interest in Cellemetry L.L.C., announced a third-quarter net loss of $808,000, or 7 cents per share,...

NEWS BRIEFS

AirNet Communications Corp. announced it has received a $17 million contract to supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Message Express...

TELIGENT ENTERS U.S. REALTEL AGREEMENT

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. entered into a master building access agreement with U.S. RealTel Inc., a telecommunications site landlord, to provide communications services to 51...

NAM LAUNCHES Y2K SITE

NEW YORK-The National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C., has launched a new Web site designed to provide Year 2000 product and service information for...

BELL MOBILITY TO ROLL OUT WILDFIRE

Wildfire Communications Inc. announced Bell Mobility of Canada will become the first telecom service provider to offer the Network Wildfire personal assistant service commercially.The...

ANOTHER TELECOM HEADACHE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT: PORTABILITY

WASHINGTON-Imagine for a moment law enforcement is able to convince the Federal Communications Commission to approve all the items it is asking for to...

ERICSSON ENTERS TELCEL CONTRACT

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a $300 million frame agreement with Telcel to expand the wireless operator's 800 MHz network and create a dual-band/dual-mode system...

TRANSCRYPT’S STOCK HITS BULLETIN BOARD

LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc.'s stock began trading on the OTC Bulletin Board late last month, after it was delisted from the Nasdaq National Market...

VENTURE-CAPITAL FINANCING STRONG FOR WIRELESS

NEW YORK-Venture-backed investments in the second quarter reached an all-time high of $3.7 billion, breaking the prior record of $3.3 billion set in the...

VLSI WARNS ABOUT RESULTS

SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. last week said its third-quarter revenue and earnings per share will be lower than analyst estimates.The company expects revenues...

TSR TO RESELL POCKETALK

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will resell Conxus Communications Inc.'s Pocketalk voice paging service in the New York metropolitan area.Pocketalk uses an...

WIRELESS FIRMS WILL WEATHER WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL STORM

While the short-term forecast for wireless operators in financially troubled parts of the world could be turbulent, carriers remain optimistic the wireless industry will...

NEW MOTOROLA CHIP EXPANDS PAGING CAPABILITY

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. introduced a new chip last week designed to bring paging capability to personal digital assistants and other devices not traditionally used...

SKYTEL EXPECTS POSITIVE FOURTH Q

NEW YORK-SkyTel Communications Inc. said declining investments per subscriber and strong cash flow has put it in position to show positive net income figures...

WTB GRANTS STAY OF WIRELESS NUMBER PORTABILITY REQUIREMENTS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau last week issued an order granting the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's request for a nine-month stay of...

SENATE RESOLUTION ON 3G SIGNIFICANTLY WATERED DOWN

WASHINGTON-A powerful Senate resolution that was to promote third-generation wireless harmonization was thoroughly diluted by U.S. backers of European-based mobile phone technology last week,...

OMNIPOINT OFFERS BUNDLED PLANS

Succumbing to marketplace pricing pressures, Omnipoint Communications Inc. began offering bundled-minute pricing plans and new prepaid packages last week."This is the first major pricing...

QUALCOMM GETS WLL CONTRACT IN INDIA

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it was awarded a contract valued at up to $45 million from Shyam Telelink Ltd. to supply a turnkey cdmaOne...
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