Yearly Archives: 1998

CLINTON RENEWS MFN TRADE STATUS FOR CHINA

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week renewed favorable trade status for China, while under fire from Republicans and Democrats over allegations linking illegal Democratic campaign contributions...

MICROWAVE POWER DEVICES REPORTS QUALCOMM CONTRACT

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced it completed a development and supply agreement with Qualcomm Inc., and now plans to develop and manufacture highly...

VIEWPOINT: GETTING THE BOOT

As RCR reported last week, the General Services Administration is giving the Federal Communications Commission the boot. Time to move out of the downtown...

COMMQUEST OFFERS ETSI-COMPLIANT GSM SOLUTION

ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies said it has available a fully type-approved GSM solution for wireless handset manufacturers that meets the handset design requirements set by...

COMPUTER SCIENCES TO USE PAGENET MESSAGING

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it signed a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. to be that company's primary wireless messaging service provider.El Segundo, Calif.-based CSC,...

CTIA PRESENTS HONORS, NAMES BOARD

WASHINGTON-CTIA last week at its fourth annual Cellular Telephone Industry Association Foundation Achievement Awards Dinner paid tribute to Dennis F. Strigl, Newt Gingrich and...

WIRELESS UNITS CAN BE BARGAINING CHIPS FOR UNIONS IN LIGHT OF MERGER MANIA

WASHINGTON-Telecom mergers, traditionally seen as threatening by organized labor, have become major platforms for unions and civil-rights groups to push their agendas and try...

INDUSTRY HEAVYWEIGHTS MOTOROLA, LUCENT TEAM ON DSP

Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have formed an alliance to jointly develop next-generation digital signal processing technology, a move that is expected to...

ERICSSON ACQUIRES REMAINING GE SHARES

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. acquired the remaining interest in GE Mobile Communications, a joint venture of Ericsson and General Electric Co.The companies formed the joint...

FCC WANTS EEO RULES RECONSIDERED

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has petitioned a federal appeals court here to reconsider a three-judge panel's decision in April to eliminate equal employment opportunity...

CTIA SUBMITS EMERGENCY WEATHER ALERT STANDARD

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week went on the offensive to put in place a technical standard that will allow carriers to alert...

FCC TO RULE ON PCIA PETITION

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled today to rule on a Personal Communications Industry Association petition to forbear from enforcing mandatory wireless resale rules.The...

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...

INTERDIGITAL INKS LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH TOSHIBA

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced InterDigital Technology Corp. entered into a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Toshiba...

INDUSTRY, CONSUMER GROUPS OPPOSE FCC SUBSIDIES INCREASE PLAN

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission plan to increase subsidies to connect schools, libraries and rural health care providers to the Internet has come under fierce...

VIEWPOINT: PR DILEMMAS

The messaging industry (as it likes to be called) has an interesting public-relations dilemma on its hands.When the Galaxy 4 satellite lost contact with...

220 AUCTION RESET FOR SEPTEMBER

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled the auction of licenses for the 220-222 MHz service band for Sept. 15. The announcement follows the release...

NTIA’S IRVING BACKS PRIORITY ACCESS PROGRAM

WASHINGTON-The federal government is "poised and waiting to begin a pilot program" of cellular priority access for emergency personnel, the Clinton administration's senior telecom...

S&P LOWERS ALLTEL RATING, UPS 360° RATING

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered its long-term investment grade ratings on the outstanding debt of Alltel Corp. and Alltel Georgia Communications Corp. from...

AFFORDABLE OFFERS INTERNET MESSAGING TO SUBSCRIBERS

ISLANDIA, N.Y.-Affordable Message Center Inc. introduced its Internet Messaging service, which it said allows paging carriers and resellers to add Internet paging for any...

ART POSTPONES PRIVATE PLACEMENT TRY

NEW YORK-Due to unfavorable market conditions, Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. said May 28 it postponed indefinitely its attempt to place privately a $125 million,...
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