1999

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile this week will introduce Share-A-Minute pricing that offers families and small businesses the option to share monthly access and home airtime minutes while combining free local calling within a group. The customer pays one flat-rate monthly …

NEW YORK-Triton PCS Holdings Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, and US Unwired Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate, were more successful than they anticipated in their capital raising efforts. Triton, based in Malvern, Pa., had hoped to raise $125 …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved a new District of Columbia appropriations conference report, which includes a provision to foster antenna siting in Rock Creek Park and on other federal lands in the nation’s capital. At RCR press …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission proposing to offer up to 3.3 million additional shares of its common stock. Of the total, 1 million will be sold by the company, with the …

BERLIN-IBM’s Lotus Development Corp. launched a unified messaging initiative aimed to extend the Lotus Domino platform to wireless devices, so users may access Domino-based e-mail, voice and fax messages from a variety of devices. To achieve this goal, Lotus said …

Motorola Inc.’s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+ portfolio for wireless systems. The processor incorporates a DSP core and an M-Core microcontroller. It supports …

LHS LHS Group Inc. said its net earnings during the third quarter rose to $11.7 million, up from $7.3 million a year earlier. Earnings per share increased to 20 cents, an eight-cent rise from the third quarter of 1998. “Our …

LONDON-Orange, the United Kingdom’s third-largest mobile operator, announced it is offering a new prepaid package, called Just Talk, that makes clear all conditions and charges upfront and offers existing prepaid subscribers the option of switching to a contract tariff, while …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. reported a net loss of $994,000, or six cents per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, compared with a loss of $4.6 million, or 29 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. …

BellSouth Corp. last week announced plans to restructure the company to better position itself to provide bundled services. The move comes just weeks after BellSouth failed in a bid to acquire Sprint Corp., which agreed instead to merge with MCI …

Nuevo Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. seems to be making moves to establish a nationwide wireless presence in Mexico. Bell Atlantic Global Wireless Inc. confirmed it is in discussions regarding a combination or alliance that would involve Iusacell, in which …

The wireless industry is waiting to see how many customers are attracted to Sprint PCS Group’s wireless Internet services, but they will have to wait at least another quarter. Sprint PCS, which launched nationwide wireless Web service in late September, …

NEW YORK-France Telecom last week proceeded toward its goal of becoming a pan-European provider of seamless mobile, wireline and Internet communications through an agreement to acquire controlling interest in E-Plus, Germany’s third-largest wireless carrier. After the E-Plus acquisition, France Telecom …

WASHINGTON-In some respects, the Main Event was a non-event. Wireless stocks did not go into free fall. Major dailies did not go wild with follow-up stories on ABC’s “20/20” broadcast on mobile-phone health concerns last Wednesday evening. Congress did not …

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. will integrate fax-to-e-mail services in its MyPhone mobile portal offering through a deal with eFax.com, said eFax. As a result of the deal, phone users will be able to access fax services directly from their phones.

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. and Telecommunications par Satellite Mobiles SAS signed an agreement under which CellStar will distribute Globalstar terminals in most of TE.S.A.M.’s South American territories, said the companies. CellStar also said it will provide valued-added services such as acquisition, …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter of $17.1 million, an increase from the $12 million in revenues reported for third-quarter 1998. The company had net earnings of $2.9 million, or 16 cents per share, compared …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) were thwarted last week in their attempts to attach language to the FCC spending bill that would allow the government to take back licenses from bankrupt operators. The conference committee charged …

OSLO, Norway-Telenor Satellite Services AS launched Inmarsat M4 service, a new global area network for multimedia applications that will improve the data transfer capabilities and the mobility of remote communication, said the company. The Inmarsat M4 will allow users to …

NEW YORK-Aether Systems Inc., a middleware provider based in Owings Mills, Md., sold an initial public offering Oct. 20 of 6 million shares, a 23-percent equity stake, priced at $16 each, $1 above its expected maximum range. The following day, …

In the Oct. 18 issue of RCR, RCR’s Top 20 list of personal communications services operators excluded two markets Omnipoint Communications Inc. has launched. Michigan and Indiana should have been included on the list.

FRANKFURT, Germany-Deutsche Telekom AG announced it is buying a majority stake in MediaOne Group Inc.’s cellular phone assets in Central Europe and Russia for $2 billion. Under the agreement, Deutsche Telekom will double its stake in Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp.zo.o, …

NEW YORK-During a quarter in which Bell Atlantic Corp. announced plans to create the largest U.S. wireless carrier via an agreement with Vodafone AirTouch plc, the company also posted favorable financial results. “This was a watershed quarter for Bell Atlantic,” …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the process of issuing stock and warrants in exchange for debt securities, reducing its total debt by $25 million in the process. The company issued a total of 3.1 million shares of …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced Metricom Inc. signed a 10-year master license agreement for up to 500 wireless data sites on Crown Castle’s domestic communications towers. Metricom is expected to collocate Wired Access Points in order to launch its 128-kilobit-per-second …