Yearly Archives: 1998

GLOBAL MOBILITY CREATES PROFESSIONAL SERVICES UNIT

Global Mobility Systems Inc., a provider of software for enhanced services, has created a professional services group to help mobile phone operators with their...

PHILIPS-LUCENT VENTURE CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE

The head of Philips Consumer Communications quit last week amidst the company's announcement it doesn't expect to break even this year.PCC President and Chief...

NEWS BRIEFS

Conxus Communications Inc. will begin offering its Pocketalk portable answering machine service in the Boston metropolitan area beginning Sept. 7. The launch of Boston...

BELLSOUTH TACKLES TWO-WAY MARKET

BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. marks its re-entry into the paging market this week with the commercial debut of its two-way Interactive Paging Service.The service...

LUCENT INTRODUCES TECHNOLOGY FOR DSPS

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced flash-memory technology that can be used in digital signal processors operating at up to 80 million instructions...

CALENDAR

WIRELESS SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION AND PORTABLE BY DESIGNAugust 31 - September 3Penton Media. Boston World TradeCenter, Boston. (201) 393-6259.Wireless Product DevelopmentSeptember 1-3AiC Worldwide Inc....

SPRINT AND SAMSUNG DONATE $500,000 FOR CANCER FOUNDATION

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America and Sprint PCS announced they have joined in a partnership to promote breast cancer awareness.The joint effort consists of an extensive...

CLOSE-UP ON THE CHICAGO MARKET

In Chicago, where the mobile phone penetration rate is one of the highest among the nation's most populous markets, cellular carriers Ameritech Cellular Services...

BOSCH WORLD PHONE OFFERED VIA QUINTEX

DALLAS-Bosch Telecom Group Inc. said its Bosch World 718 mobile phone is available throughout North America from Quintex Communications Corp.The phone provides seamless access...

NATION BRIEFS

U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment during the first half of the year rose by 13.1 percent compared with last year, to more than...

TELLABS, CIENA RENEGOTIATE MERGER

Tellabs Inc. and Ciena Corp. revised the exchange ratio of their proposed stock-for-stock merger from an equal exchange to a ratio of 0.8 shares...

PREFERRED TO EQUIP CHAINS WITH PREPAID PAGING SERVICE

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc.'s Network Services Division signed agreements with Goldblatt's and the Farmer Jack's food-store chains to provide calling-party-pays paging services for their respective...

JAPANESE NEWSPAPER REPORTS AIRTOUCH IN JOINT VENTURE

A Japanese newspaper reported that AirTouch Communications Inc., Japan Telecom Co. and Nissan Motor Co. plan to form a joint venture next month to...

CELLEMETRY ENTERS AGREEMENTS

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Cellemetry L.L.C., which is a joint venture of NumereX Corp. and BellSouth Corp., signed agreements with two new carriers and completed the...

BAM TO CHALLENGE AT&T’S ONE-RATE PLAN

Bell Atlantic Mobile is expected to announce next month rate plans competitive with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate plan-a move that could...

PCIA EMBRACES LMDS CONTINGENT

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week announced it is creating a new membership council to represent local multipoint distribution services operators.PCIA said it...

IOWA WIRELESS CHOOSES ORGA GSM SMART CARDS

PAOLI, Pa.-Orga Card Systems Inc. was chosen by Iowa Wireless Services L.P. to be the exclusive provider of Global System for Mobile communications smart...

PRODUCTS

ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONSADC Telecommunications Inc. released its Soneplex management access point for Simple Network Management Protocol that allows carriers to convert the 1970s vintage TBOS...

WIRELESS INDUSTRY CAN EXPECT RUSSIAN CRISIS TO MIRROR ASIA

Mounting financial and political unrest in Russia last week escalated into a full-blown ruble disaster, drawing the country into the throes of a currency...

ROCKWELL INTRODUCES CDMA CHIPSET

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-Rockwell Semiconductor Systems last week introduced its first chipset using Code Division Multiple Access technology.The chipset is an integrated radio-frequency subsystem for...

SIEMENS MEDICAL TO SELL DATA CRITICAL SYSTEMS

REDMOND, Wash.-Siemens Medical Systems' Electromedical Systems Division will market Data Critical Corp.'s MobileView and StatView Wireless Telemedicine systems as part of a joint sales-agent...

ERICSSON WILL BEND ON 3G IPR

L.M. Ericsson head Sven-Christer Nilsson told the Japanese press late last week his company will continue negotiations with Qualcomm Inc. and said it is...

SECURFONE SIGNS MOU, REPRICES PREPAID PACKAGE

SAN DIEGO-SecurFone America Inc. completed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic alliance and distribution agreement with Microwave Designs International Inc., a privately held...

WOLFETECH AND SATCON COMMUNICATIONS TO DISTRIBUTE EACH OTHER’S SERVICES

CLAREMONT, Calif.-WolfeTech Corp. and SatCon Communications Europa Ltd. formed a strategic alliance to deliver WolfeTech's PocketGenie software to the European cellular market and to...

BROADBAND SATELLITE APPS TO GROW IN NEW MILLENNIUM

While satellite news of late primarily has focused on voice and data services, broadband satellite communications services are expected to play an increasingly important...
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