February 1999

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Including a one-time charge of $3.1 million for the acquisition of Crown Satellite, California Microwave Inc. reported a net loss of $4.5 million, or 30 cents per share, for its fiscal 1999 second quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with …

VIENNA, Austria-Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector will provide Global System for Mobile communications equipment to expand Mobilkom’s “A1” GSM network in Austria. Plans call for the program to be finished in 2001. Motorola will supply equipment at 1800 MHz to …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-In an effort to enter the growing market of speech products in communications networks, Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a new unit called Lucent Speech Solutions, which introduced two speech communication products, the Lucent Personal Assistant and the Lucent …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission received comments supporting its definitions of “small business” and “very small business” in rules for the location and monitoring service and wireless communications service spectrum auctions. Comments on the definitions were necessary under the Small Business …

Telecom companies plan to spend more, on average, than any other industry on Year 2000 compliance projects, but they also have spent the smallest percentage of their Y2K budget to date than other industries have, according to Triaxsys Research L.L.C., …

NEW YORK-Nearly 40 electronics manufacturers have joined forces with Sun Microsystems Inc. to develop new devices that run Jini programming language, some of which could come to market by late this year. Jini, pronounced “genie,” is an enhancement of Sun’s …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. and InterVoice Inc. jointly introduced the first interactive voice response solution to “push” alphanumeric caller information to agent phone displays without the aid and expense of computer telephone integration. The solution is …

Despite a five-week service launch delay and continued handset production problems, Iridium L.L.C. finished the fourth quarter with results that beat analysts expectations. The quarter, ended Dec. 31, marked the long-awaited launch of the company’s 66 low-earth orbit satellite global …

Paging Network Inc. announced it is offering the Iridium World Page Service commercially in the United States as the country’s exclusive paging carrier offering Iridium service. The paging portion of Iridium’s 66 low-earth-orbit satellite system was activated in November, after …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will host two-day sessions prior to Wireless ’99 in New Orleans to address small market operations, wireless data and Y2K. The “Market Operations Forum: Solutions for Networking Our Communities” targets wireless professionals in smaller markets. …