Yearly Archives: 1998

INSURANCE WEB SITE RATES HOW CELL PHONE USE AFFECTS DRIVING

NEW YORK-To get a better idea of the impact of cellular phone use while driving, tap the World Wide Web, but please don't do...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Arch Communications Group Inc. lowered its cash interest expenses by $4.55 million a year following a series of interest rate swaps in connection with...

CALENDAR

August 17-18Alexander Resources. Marriott Courtyard Crystal City, Washington, D.C. (800) 948-8225 or (972) 818-8225.Wireless NumberPortability ForumAugust 18Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Westin City Center Hotel,...

CORRECTION

In the Aug. 10 issue of RCR, the chart "Wireless Carrier Net Income 1993-1997" on page 18 incorrectly listed the source. The source is...

NATION BRIEFS

Metrocall Inc. is conducting technical and market trials of Omni-Voice Technologies Inc.'s digital voice paging technology, according to OmniVoice. The OmniVoice platform allows compressed...

PEOPLE

PAGEMARTPageMart Wireless Inc. promoted two executives, Wayne Stargardt and Donna Regenbaum. Stargardt was named vice president of the company's fastest-growing business unit, the Carrier...

PRODUCTS

CELWAVECelwave introduced a new antenna and amplifier. The Celwave Optimizer, a log periodic dipole antenna, has continuous adjustment of electrical downtilt with the turn...

DSP DEBUTS NEW TDMA CHIPSET

CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. introduced its third-generation Time Division Multiple Access baseband processor chipsets.According to DSP, the D5203 chipsets are compliant with Interim Standard-136A...

E.F. JOHNSON CELEBRATES 75TH

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Transcrypt International's E.F. Johnson products division celebrated its 75th year of manufacturing radio equipment at a reception for its customers at the National...

WIRELESS WEIGHS IN WITH PRIORITIES TO REDUCE BACKLOG

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry has been asked to help the Federal Communications Commission reduce a three-inch thick backlog of work yet to be completed by...

FRAUD RING FINDS OMNIPOINT

NEW YORK-Due to orchestrated criminal activity involving illegally obtained subscriber identity module cards, Omnipoint Corp. discounted nearly $10 million-all overseas roaming revenues-its Omnipoint Communications...

HIGHWAYMASTER RESULTS DISMAL, COMPANY TO STUDY OPERATIONS

HighwayMaster Communications Inc. stock fell 50 percent to $1 the day after its board of directors and management expressed disappointment at the company's operating...

HUGHES TO OFFER AIREACH TO WINSTAR

GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. said it will provide its second-generation, point-to-multipoint AIReach Broadband equipment to WinStar Communications Inc. for its broadband fixed wireless...

TDMA ROYALTIES PROPEL REVENUES AT INTERDIGITAL

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its results for the second quarter were the strongest quarterly results in its 16-year history as a...

GROUP STARTS PROGRAM FOR SMALL COMPANIES SEEKING INVESTOR COVERAGE

NEW YORK-Two California-based wireless industry companies, Boatracs Inc. and Ora Electronics, have joined several dozen other small-cap public corporations enrolled in the new "Seal...

PAGENET PREMIERES TWO-WAY MESSAGING

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced a two-way messaging service it said will allow customers to receive and create e-mails and pages from one device.The company...

PAGEMART GIVES AWAY AIRTIME IN 7-ELEVEN PROMOTION

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will give up to two months of free airtime to customers who buy one-way numeric pagers in August at...

AIRTOUCH/GTE INTERCONNECT PACT EXAMPLE TO LECS

WASHINGTON-An agreement between GTE Corp. and AirTouch Paging, signed earlier this month, is a good example of how the telecommunications industry can work with...

PAYNE PUSHES ITEMIZED BILLING

WASHINGTON-Saying he was responding to constituent complaints about non-itemized billing, Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) recently introduced legislation requiring all commercial mobile radio service providers...

TRA URGES NO DELAY ON NUMBER PORTABILITY

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission it should not delay the rollout of wireless number portability despite the industry's...

POWERTEL PICKS LIGHTBRIDGE’S FRAUDBUSTER

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Powertel Inc. said it will use Lightbridge Inc.'s FraudBuster service to detect and prevent technical and subscription fraud.FraudBuster is a UNIX-based software product...

PRICE STOCK TO SPLIT

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp.'s board of directors authorized a common stock split in the form of a 100-percent dividend payable Aug. 31 to shareholders...

RELTEC TO BUY POSITRON

CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement to purchase all the outstanding shares of Positron Fiber Systems Corp. for about $200 million, the...

PAGEMART TO ROAM IN COLOMBIA

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. and Colombian paging provider Espectracom signed a roaming agreement to extend PageMart's South American reach to Colombia, said PageMart. Roaming service...

STATE DEPT. SUSPENDS SEALAUNCH WORK

The U.S. State Department suspended work July 27 on an international project aimed at launching communications satellite-carrying rockets from a floating launch pad near...
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