Yearly Archives: 1999

BAM ANNOUNCES SHARE-A-MINUTE

PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Mobile introduced Share-A-Minute, a new digital service plan that allows wireless phone users to activate up to three separate lines and share...

COURT GRANTS STAY OF CALEA LAWSUIT

WASHINGTON-A federal court granted a stay request from the telecommunications industry for a 60-day hold of a lawsuit against the federal government over the...

ERICSSON CLARIFIES 3G POSITION

L.M. Ericsson said it supports the third-generation TDMA proposal and a group of 3G CDMA technologies that accommodates three different modes and various chip...

AT&T TO BUY HONOLULU CELLULAR

AT&T Corp. plans to purchase Honolulu Cellular Telephone Co. from BellSouth Corp., another move in AT&T's plan to expand its nationwide coverage.The two companies...

IPERIA PLATFORM ALLOWS BLENDED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Building on the convergence of voice and data networks, Wakefield, Mass.-based IPeria Inc. has developed an enhanced services platform designed to blend voice, fax,...

MOTOROLA CONFIRMS DEFENSE CONTRACT FOR IRIDIUM PHONES

Motorola Inc.'s Worldwide Information Network Services group confirmed the Defense Information Systems Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense awarded it a three-year contract...

LETTERS

Striking nervesDear Editor: I have been in the two-way radio communications business for over 35 years. Regardless of my field, one thing I have noticed...

MOBILEMEDIA’S FATE NOW UP TO COURTS, CREDITORS

More than two years after it first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, MobileMedia Communications Inc. now has two reorganization plans before it to...

D.C. NOTES: IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY.

Tell that to CTIA, which claims the FCC overcharged its members for regulatory fees to the tune of $8 million.Tell that to comm site...

U.S. MARKET STRONG, BUT DEPRESSED WORLD ECONOMIES STILL MEAN RISK

NEW YORK-Despite the current slowdown in Asian, Latin American and Russian markets, the United States has taken a commanding lead in industries most important...

FEDERAL JUDGES HEAR RF EMISSIONS DEBATE

NEW YORK-A panel of three federal judges heard arguments April 5 in an appeal of Federal Communications Commission siting and safety requirements for the...

MOTOROLA SUGGESTS SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT BOARD

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission was given some advice on FCC reform last week as Michael Kennedy of Motorola Inc. suggested the FCC create a...

VIEWPOINT: WHAT’S THE WORLD COMING TO?

I remember one, maybe two years ago when a merger story would pop up on the radar screen for the week and it is...

WORLD BRIEFS

JapanConductus Inc. announced it shipped a 16-pole ClearSite wireless subsystem to a major Japanese cellular operator for performance testing. The system will be used...

DENSO LICENSES ISOTEL SOFTWARE FOR CDMA HANDSETS

CALGARY, Canada-Denso Corp. has licensed Isotel Corp.'s software for use in Denso's Code Division Multiple Access handset products, which will be marketed in Japan,...

OMNIPOINT REPORTS FINANCING DEALS

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-On March 31, Omnipoint Corp. received $100 million from Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. and $25 million from Nortel Networks after...

TOSHIBA BUYS INTO AUDIOVOX

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Toshiba Corp. purchased newly issued shares of Audiovox Communications Corp. common stock for $5 million, giving Toshiba 5 percent of the shares outstanding,...

TSR MAKES BID FOR MOBILEMEDIA

In a surprising move, TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced April 1 it submitted a competing bid to acquire MobileMedia Communications Inc., challenging Arch Communications Group...

PAGING CARRIERS MUST REVIEW ULS DATA

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it expects paging carriers to periodically review information in the Universal Licensing System to ensure it is correct.However, paging...

UNWIRED PLANET TO GO PUBLIC

Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in...

VANGUARD REVENUE UP SLIGHTLY

GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. reported revenues for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 of $102.3 million compared with revenues of $98.7 million for...

VIEWPOINT: ESSENTIAL SERVICE

My mom is flying into Denver today to see her 3-year-old granddaughter, (and the rest of us, too, I suppose.)Luckily, there is a direct...

PAGENET TO CARRY C-SPAN

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced an exclusive agreement under which C-SPAN will provide public affairs information to PageNet subscribers, including breaking coverage of House of...

INTEK LM TECHNOLOGY MEETS ETSI NARROWBAND REQUIREMENT

NEW YORK-The European Telecommunications Standard Institute's approval and publication of a new Europe-wide narrowband specification has given the licensing of Intek Global Corp.'s proprietary...

HUGHES’ INDIA WLL SYSTEM UPDATED

GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems announced Hughes Ispat Ltd. of India completed an in-service cutover of its wireless local loop network from an NEC NEAX61E...
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