Yearly Archives: 1999

PUBLIC SAFETY ARGUES AGAINST E911 EXTENSION

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's decision late last year to entertain waiver extensions of the October 2001 date for automatic location identification rollout has mushroomed...

SARAIDE.COM ENTERS WIRELESS KNOWLEDGE SPACE

While wireless data applications made a big splash at Wireless '99 last week in New Orleans, a new company quietly slipped into the pool...

TMTOUCH DEPLOYS LIGHTBRIDGE PRODUCT

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced TMTouch, the digital cellular network service and product of Telekom Cellular Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, deployed Lightbridge's FraudBuster to detect...

UWCC DEMONSTRATES INTEROPERABILITY

NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, which represents the interests of Time Division Multiple Access technology proponents, demonstrated interoperability between 850 MHz and 1900...

GTE CREATES WIN-4 VIRTUAL NETWORK

NEW ORLEANS-Imagine you are in a horrible accident on a dark road, late at night. Your airbag deploys but you are unconscious, alone, so...

JUDGE PLANS TO RULE ON POCKET LICENSES NEXT WEEK

BALTIMORE-At press time Friday, Judge E. Stephen Derby told parties in the Pocket Communications Inc. bankruptcy case he would make a decision in the...

UWCC AND GSM AIM FOR INTEROPERABILITY

NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology,...

WATKINS-JOHNSON REVENUES DOWN

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co.'s unaudited results for 1998 showed revenue of $212.2 million, down from $291.3 million reported in revenue for 1997. The company...

ROGERS POSTS GAINS

ROGERS, Conn.-Rogers Corp. reported 1998 sales of $216.6 million, an increase of 14 percent over 1997 sales of $189.7 million. The company's net income...

COMMNET CELLULAR SHOWS GROWTH

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-CommNet Cellular Inc. reported results for the three months ended Dec. 31, 1998. The company added 36,865 subscribers during the period, 19,622 from...

BELLSOUTH WIRELESS USERS MOST SATISFIED, STUDY SAYS

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-A study conducted by Solomon-Wolff Associates showed AT&T Corp. has the highest level of satisfaction among the three largest long-distance companies.The study...

SUGRUE: IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

WASHINGTON-Compliments and lavish words gushed from the moment word leaked out late last year that Thomas Sugrue would become the newest in a succession...

TELEMATICS EXPECTED TO SEE BOLD GROWTH AS PRICES FALL

Telematics services are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, with at least five automotive original equipment manufacturers and several after-market vendors offering telematics...

VIEWPOINT: THE TRIALS OF TODDLERHOOD

"Certainly 1996 is not that long ago chronologically, but for technology, it was a lifetime ago. When Congress put that final stamp with that...

WAVE SYSTEMS’ E-COMMERCE SYSTEM TARGETS TELECOM CARRIERS

NEW YORK-Wave Systems Corp., San Jose, Calif., may possess some important answers to questions wireless carriers have about reducing customer-service costs, promoting prepaid calling...

WHEELER: TIRED OF SEEING WIRELESS POLICY MADE IN FOOTNOTES

WASHINGTON-Thomas Wheeler, the president and chief executive of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, does not want to enter the 'holy war' between local and...

FOUR MORE CARRIERS TRY THEIR HANDS AT ONE-RATE PLANS

Roaming charges and long-distance fees increasingly are becoming a thing of the past as one-rate plans like the one AT&T Wireless Services Inc. offers...

ALCATEL AND MOTOROLA TO BUILD JOINT PRODUCT

PARIS-Alcatel and Motorola Inc. announced a global agreement to work together to develop, market and deliver integrated Code Division Multiple Access network infrastructure to...

BRAZIL DELAYS AUCTION OF REMAINING MIRROR LICENSES

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulatory agency, announced the auctions for the remaining two mirror licenses would be delayed from March 11 to April...

PRESIDENT’S EXPORT COUNCIL SAYS BACK AWAY FROM 3G CONVERGED STANDARD

WASHINGTON-The President's Export Council, confronting the Clinton administration on third-generation wireless policy, urged the White House against endorsing convergence of wideband mobile phone technologies...

FINNISH ISP IS TEST CASE IN 3G TRADE ARGUMENT

A Finnish Internet service provider will test the European Commission's claim it has not shut competing mobile phone technologies out of Europe.Clari Net Oy,...

INTEL ENTERS DSP MARKET

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. announced a joint development agreement to design a digital signal processor core architecture to process video,...

ITU MEMBERS SAY OK TO 3G TECHNICAL WORK

The CDMA Development Group and Qualcomm Inc. are in the minority in asking the International Telecommunication Union to stop work on third-generation technology development...

IBS GETS TELECORP PCS CONTRACT

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. awarded a statement processing services contract to International Billing Services, according to the billing company. Under the terms...

HOW NIMBLE CARRIERS ARE BUILDING TELEDENSITY IN EMERGING MARKETS

The domestic telecom market is abuzz with mergers, acquisitions and mega-deals. The industry is consolidating again, not so long after AT&T Corp. was broken...
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