Yearly Archives: 1998

CONSOLIDATION DRIVES STOCK PRICES UP

Second-tier wireless companies are hot properties, helping to push wireless stock prices past the Standard &Poor's index.Centennial Cellular Corp. earlier this month became the...

TELEGLOBE AND STRATOS REACH AGREEMENT

NEW YORK-Teleglobe Inc., Montreal, has been on the move in a big way lately.The company announced July 6 it has so far provided 100...

PAGEMART SHIPS SYNAPSE FOR MESSAGING ON PALMPILOT

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it began shipping the Synapse Pager Card, which allows wireless messaging on 3com Corp.'s PalmPilot Organizer.The card-developed by PageMart, 3Com...

TECNOMEN TO DELIVER MESSAGING SYSTEM

MALAYSIA-Tecnomen Malaysia announced it signed a contract to deliver a multimessaging system for an 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network owned by...

3G STANDARDIZATION PROCESS MOVES ON TO ITU

Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month...

DIGITAL PHONE BUSINESS IS TOUGH TERRAIN

As the digital revolution begins to move at a substantial pace, mobile phone manufacturers have some tough decisions to make.The demand for digital handsets...

HOUSTON GOES WITH ITRON FOR AUTOMATIC METER READING

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron Inc. was selected by the city of Houston to provide an automatic meter-reading system for the city. Itron said it is the...

WORLD BRIEFS

AustraliaThe Australian Communications Authority said it prepared a recommendation to the Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts, for a nationwide reallocation...

IN TOUCH TO EQUIP N.M. ATHLETIC ASSN.

LOS ANGELES-In Touch Paging USA announced it signed an agreement with the New Mexico State Athletic Association for paging services and distribution.Under terms of...

JACOBS TELLS HIS SIDE OF 3G STORY

Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Inc., fought a David and Goliath battle during the 1980s to get Code Division Multiple Access technology accepted by...

D.C. NOTES: HOBSONS’S CHOICE

With only a month before oral arguments, challengers to the FCC's new RF exposure standard managed to avoid imploding last week. Just barely.It all...

CONEXONE TO RESELL LIGHTBRIDGE TELESTO

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced that Southern California wireless reseller ConexOne Wireless Communications selected its Telesto suite of integrated customer acquisition and retention solution."Our subscriber...

TSR WIRELESS OPENS CALIF. OFFICE

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced the grand opening of its latest retail in northern California in Roseville, marking the sixth such retail presence...

TSR LAUNCHES SUMMER CAMPAIGN

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. launched a print ad campaign called Summer Necessities.The campaign targets retail customers of the more than 200 TSR Wireless...

TTC WINS NEXTEL CONTRACT

NEW YORK-TTC, based in Germantown, Md., signed a $3.1 million contract to supply the National Network Operations Center of Nextel Communications Inc. in McLean,...

CONGRESS CONCERNED ABOUT IMPACT OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE

WASHINGTON-As Congress comes back to Washington after the July 4 recess, members again are poised to lean on the Federal Communications Commission on the...

VANGUARD CLOSES ON SALE OF S.C. SYSTEM TO TRITON

GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it has completed the sale of its Myrtle Beach, S.C., property to Triton PCS for about $160 million...

VIEWPOINT: WIRELESS NOT APPRECIATED IN DALLAS

I was once told that Dallas has such a great highway system because during the oil bust in the mid '80s, business people ruled...

EC APPROVES MCI, WORLDCOM MERGER

WASHINGTON-The European Commission last week gave conditional approval to the proposed merger between MCI Communications Corp. and WorldCom Inc.The approval is subject to the...

OMNIPOINT ANNOUNCES ROAMING IN ESTONIA, TAIWAN

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. began commercial roaming with Estonian Mobile Telephone Co. of Estonia and Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd. of Taiwan.The agreements...

PEOPLE

Phoenix Wireless GroupPhoenix Wireless Group announced several new appointments. Christopher Bear was named director of engineering. He joins the company from AccessLine Technologies Inc.,...

POWERTEL OFFERS $50 PHONES

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. has launched a summer-long promotion offering four digital handsets for $50 each. The company is waiving its $30 activation fee...

PRICE REPORTS SUBSCRIBER INCREASES

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. said it added 20,429 new cellular subscribers during the second quarter, compared with 12,607 new subscribers during the second quarter...

PRODUCTS

QualcommQualcomm Inc. announced its shipment of samples for its fifth-generation chipset, including the MSM3000 single-chip Mobile Station Modem and the IFT3000 and IFR3000 fully...

RELTEC FORMS BRAZILIAN VENTURE

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Reltec Corp. said it established a joint venture with Splice do Brazil Telecommunicacoes e Eletronica S.A. to capitalize on opportunities provided by the...
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