1999

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 customers worldwide. The companies also have …

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 23. The two licenses, for the …

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 being evaluated by the International Telecommunication …

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, wholly owned by Finnish ISP …

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, image, voice and data in emerging …

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 because of the intellectual-property-right standstill between …

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 of the agreement, IBS also will …

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 up into Baby Bells; cellular and …

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced Frontier Cellular, a wireless services provider in upstate New York, will use Lightbridge’s Churn Prophet and Channel Wizard solutions to reduce customer churn and improve channel …

As if the wireless industry didn’t have enough to worry about with local zoning boards, citizen activists, organized labor, environmentalists, Civil War buffs and the National Park Service, now it …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it signed a multiyear contract with JP Realty Inc. in Salt Lake City to manage the radio-frequency communications equipment facilities located on JP Realty’s property. Increasingly, …

SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. said it has begun production shipping its integrated fifth-generation Code Division Multiple Access chipset and system software for use in cdmaOne handsets. The chipset and …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. announced it entered into an agreement to acquire Butterfly VLSI Ltd. for approximately $50 million. Butterfly, with sites in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Santa Clara, Calif., develops …

WASHINGTON-FCC Commissioner Michael Powell has entered the forbearance fray with a strongly worded statement about the burden-of-proof test the Federal Communications Commission uses to determine whether certain rules should be …

Zetron Zetron Inc. launched the Model Z907 PCS Fault Finder, which provides fast notification of power amplifier and antenna problems at personal communications services sites. The PCS Fault Finder monitors …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported its net income for the first quarter of fiscal 1999 was $49 million, or 65 cents per share, compared with $37 million, or 50 cents per …

NEW YORK-The law firm of Abbey, Gardy & Squitieri L.L.P. announced a class-action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Research In Motion Ltd. has licensed Diversinet Corp.’s security technology for the RIM Inter@ctive Pager, Diversinet announced. Under terms of the agreement, Diversinet will supply digital certificate authentication …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to re-visit its rooftop access rules. The rules adopted in November to implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996 …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-TIBCO Software Inc. introduced a new information integration and e-business service for Internet companies, corporate Web sites and wireless telecom carriers, called TIBCO.net. The service allows users to …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Several leading voice messaging companies in North America have formed the TeleMessaging Industry Association, aimed at better educating the public about the benefits of voice mail and messaging services, …

STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. announced it signed a contract with German operator Deutsche Telekom MobilNet to implement General Packet Radio Service into T-Mobil’s Global System for Mobile communications network. The technology will …

MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network affiliate, announced it has begun providing commercial wireless service to customers in six markets in the Southeast. The company is …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. and Tritel Communications Inc. announced they signed a $300 million agreement for Ericsson to supply Time Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment for Tritel’s personal communications services markets …

SAN CARLOS, Calif.-The United Illuminating Co. Inc. and CellNet Data Systems Inc. announced a memorandum of understanding to provide network meter-reading services to 312,000 customers in UI’s 17-town service territory. …