Yearly Archives: 1999

COURT RULING PUTS CPNI UP IN AIR

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has thrown out recently changed rules on how telecommunications carriers use information about their customers.The court issued the ruling as...

D.C. NOTES: A FOND FAREWELL

Soon my constant companion will leave me-no I don't mean my husband or my adorable bulldog-rather I mean my Sprint Spectrum phone.I (along with...

REAL ESTATE COMMUNITY WEIGHS IN AGAINST MANDATORY ACCESS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to start struggling with the definition of competition as it reviews comments submitted in its competitive...

GTE SELLS WIRELINE PROPERTIES TO PURCHASE WIRELESS SYSTEMS

IRVING, Texas-GTE Corp. continued to prepare financially to buy Ameritech Corp.'s wireless properties by selling off 126,410 wireline access lines to Telephone USA of...

HARRIS UNIT CHANGES NAME

PALM BAY, Fla.-Harris Corp.'s former semiconductor unit launched its new name and corporate identity.The company's new name is Intersil Corp.The company appointed Gregory L....

HIGHWAYMASTER PROFITABLE IN 2Q

DALLAS-HighwayMaster Communications Inc. reported a second-quarter net income of $200,000, or 1 cent per share, compared with a net loss of $14.1 million, or...

IRIDIUM OFFERS INVESTORS EQUITY AS REPAYMENT

According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report filed last week, the recently bankrupt Iridium L.L.C. said it proposed offering bondholders and other...

LCC REVENUES DROP 26 PERCENT

NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., McLean, Va., attributed its 26-percent decline in second-quarter revenues to an "early quarter ramp-down" in its current radio-frequency engineering and...

LUCENT ROUNDS OUT PORTFOLIO WITH EXCEL BUY

Lucent Technologies Inc. last week pulled off what could be seen as a major coup with the announcement that it plans to acquire Excel...

CELPAGE TO EXTEND PAGEMART NETWORK TO PUERTO RICO

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it has signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement with Puerto Rican paging carrier Celpage to extend PageMart's Advanced Messaging network...

NUMBERING PLAN ADMINISTRATOR CHANGES NAME

WASHINGTON-Warburg, Pincus & Co. will rename its CIS Acquisition Corp. business and is restructuring its ownership details in a bid to win approval from...

MEXICAN CARRIER TO USE OMNIVOICE PLATFORM FOR VOICE

The next round in the fight to popularize voice paging has begun, this time in Latin America, as Mexican paging operator RadioFlash became the...

CI WIRELESS TO TAKE OVER ORTEL WIRELESS ASSETS

CI Wireless Inc., a supplier of wireless signal distribution products for wireless carriers, last week acquired Ortel Corp.'s domestic wireless assets, including certain technology...

CUSTOMERS TO DEMAND CONVERGED FIXED AND MOBILE SERVICES

Telecommunications operators could benefit from embracing fixed mobile convergence, according to a new report released by Ovum, an independent research and consulting company.The convergence...

MORE PAGING CARRIERS ACTIVATE CONTENT SERVICES

The paging industry made further progress toward implementing content services last week, as both Motorola Inc. and Arch Communications Group Inc. introduced products and...

AUSTRIAN CARRIER SELECTS P-COM EQUIPMENT

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. received a $2 million purchase order from Tele.ring Telecom GmbH, an Austrian fixed access company known as 1012 privat.P-Com will provide...

PREFERRED NETWORKS NET LOSS IMPROVES

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. released second-quarter results with a net loss of $2.3 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with a net loss of...

ISP OFFERS BLACKBERRY E-MAIL

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced Internet service provider RCN Corp. has become the first ISP to offer its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution to...

VENEZUELA CARRIER TOUTS RIM SOLUTION

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said it will supply Venezuela-based carrier Telcel Cellular with its Inter@ctive 950e pager, the Spanish language version of the...

MEDIAONE TO USE SCC SERVICE

BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. said it signed a contract to maintain enhanced 911 data for Colorado-based MediaOne Group Inc. in markets where MediaOne launches...

SIERRA SHIPS AIRCARD 300

VANCOUVER-Sierra Wireless said it has begun shipping the Windows version of the AirCard 300, a Type II wireless PC Card modem for devices supporting...

EVERYTHING WIRELESS OPENS NEW WEB SITE

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Everything Wireless, a division of Roxy.com, launched its new Web site from which the company will sell various wireless phones, accessories and pagers.

TELECORP LOSS TOTALS $23.4M

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $17.1 million. TeleCorp's net loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and...

BRAZIL’S TELESP LAUNCHES NEW PREPAID OFFERING

SAO PAULO-Brazilian cellular operator Telesp Cellular S.A., operating in the state and city of Sao Paulo, announced today it launched a new prepaid product,...

NEXTEL CALLS PRIVATE WIRELESS A SUBSIDY

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is charging that private wireless receives a subsidy because it does not pay for its licenses. The enhanced specialized mobile radio...
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