Yearly Archives: 1998

BOSCH AND CISCO DEVELOP BROADBAND WIRELESS SERVICES

ATLANTA-Bosch Telecom Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. announced plans to develop and market broadband wireless networking solutions designed to help service providers offer integrated...

AIRTOUCH LEADS PROFIT GROWTH

NEW YORK-In a "three-peat" of its 1995 and 1996 performance, AT&T Corp. again took first place in revenues and net income among carriers last...

WIRELESS CEOS PICK FUTURE PLAYERS AND SERVICES

NEW YORK-After receiving "Big Daddy" T-shirts from BT Alex. Brown Inc. telecommunications analyst Jeffrey L. Hines June 10, top executives of four of the...

ALLIANCES CHANGE DSP LANDSCAPE

Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the...

RAM-PAGE LAUNCHES PREPAID

ASHLAND, Ky.-RAM-Page, a division of RAM Technologies, announced it has launched Pre-Paid Paging, a new service aimed at customers who require occasional paging service...

CANTEL LAUNCHES AT&T PAGE PARTNER

TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. launched its AT&T Page Partner + service, a package that allows a wireless phone and up to five pagers to be...

SCC REPORTS E911 DEPLOYMENT

BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications announced the first two-state wireless Phase 1 E911 deployment is up and routing E911 calls to public-safety agencies in Washington County,...

SIGMAONE PRESENTS E911 PROTOTYPE SYSTEM

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.-SigmaOne Communications Corp. held the first prototype demonstration of its E911 system for locating and tracking wireless calls, said the company.Results showed...

FCC REJECTS SKYTEL APPEAL

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected an appeal by SkyTel Communications Corp.-formerly Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.-that argued the paging carrier deserved its narrowband personal communications...

SMALL BUSINESSES SURVEYED ON COMMUNICATIONS NEEDS

ATLANTA-A survey of 500 small business owners, released at SuperComm '98, demonstrated a "tremendous potential for sales in the coming years."The survey, conducted by...

SMARTALK ACQUIRES WORLDWIDE DIRECT

COLUMBUS, Ohio-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. acquired Worldwide Direct, a direct-to-consumer prepaid cellular phone distributor, in a stock-for-stock transaction that provides it with terminal-based prepaid capability.Combined...

SMITH MICRO UPGRADES HOTPAGE SOFTWARE

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc. said it released its version 3.0 HotPage software, which provides message management and transmission to alphanumeric and numeric...

CONN. ATTORNEY GENERAL PUTS WRENCH IN SBC PLANS

A request by Connecticut's attorney general and state utility regulators that a combined SBC Communications Inc./Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. reduce its local telephone...

SPAIN TO AWARD 3RD LICENSE

MADRID-Spain's incumbent mobile phone operators Telefonica and Airtel could have some competition soon, as the country prepares to award a third license this month.Involved...

SPRINT PCS INKS FRANCHISE PACTS WITH FIVE CARRIERS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sprint Spectrum L.P. formed affiliation agreements that will bring Sprint PCS personal communications services to key cities in Georgia, Missouri,...

LHS COMPLETES INFOCELLULAR BUY

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. said it completed its acquisition of Marlborough, Mass.-based InfoCellular Inc.The acquisition provides LHS with a point-of-sale software solution, which expands its...

IRELAND’S ESAT PLANS SECONDARY STOCK OFFERING

NEW YORK-Esat Telephone Group plc, Dublin, plans a secondary offering of 6 million American Depository Shares that Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, will...

IRIDIUM SIGNS DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTS

WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. announced it has signed distribution agreements with 209 regional wireless service providers and roaming partners across the globe.The distribution agreements bring Iridium...

WIND TAKES THIRD ITALY LICENSE AFTER LENGTHY TENDER

The Italian government named the Wind consortium the winning bidder for the country's third mobile phone license, bringing to a close a tender process...

ALLEN & CO. INVESTS IN KSI

ANNANDALE, Va.-KSI Inc. announced it received an investment from Allen & Co. Inc. to help fund further development of the location technology used in...

ORGANIZED CRIME DOUBLE-DIPS WITH SUBSCRIPTION FRAUD

NEW YORK-Wireless telephony providers are hemorrhaging revenues from organized activity by criminals drawn to the low risk and easy money of subscription fraud.Thieves are...

GOVERNMENT SPEARHEADS LMDS STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT

Boulder, Colo., is set to become a test bed for recently licensed Local Multipoint Distribution Services systems under the direction of the National Wireless...

STET HELLAS GOES PUBLIC

NEW YORK-Stet Hellas Telecommunications S.A., a Greece-based wireless carrier owned 20 percent by Bell Atlantic Corp., went public June 3 through an equity offering...

HARRIS DEMOS WORK FORCE TOOL

ATLANTA-Harris Corp. said it will demonstrate its new Access Device 2000 at Supercomm this week in Atlanta. The work force wireless/ wireline tool combines...

HERMAN DENIES WRONGDOING

WASHINGTON-Labor Secretary Alexis Herman last week again denied allegations of influence peddling and related campaign-finance violations that are being investigated by an independent counsel.Herman...
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