Yearly Archives: 1999

JAPAN 3G DEVELOPMENT MEETS INTERFERENCE WITH PHS

Japan, pushing to be the first in the world to deploy third-generation mobile phone systems, is facing a potential deployment delay as the Ministry...

SBC IN ILLINOIS SELECTS ERICSSON’S JAMBALA

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson said it will deploy its Jambala open application platform over SBC Wireless' Time Division Multiple Access wireless networks in Chicago and Springfield,...

CORRECTION

In the July 19 issue of RCR, the story on Arch Communication Group Inc.'s introduction of prepaid paging products in 7-eleven stores should have...

HOW DO WE EDUCATE CUSTOMERS ABOUT PACEMAKER USE?

To the Editor,Use of mobile phones is strictly prohibited in hospitals, planes and other specific areas because they may interfere with the normal functioning...

DSP TECHNOLOGY FIRM MORPHICS GETS $13.5 MILLION IN FINANCING

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Morphics Technology Inc., a privately held company that designs and sells software-programmable/hardware-configurable semiconductor products for the wireless industry, raised $13.5 million in its...

MOTOROLA TO SELL NEXTEL SHARES

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it plans to sell 2.8 million shares of Nextel Communications Inc. common stock during the third quarter in order to...

AGENCIES WEIGH IN ON DOD SUPREMACY BILLS

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration stepped up its campaign to kill provisions in defense bills giving the Pentagon priority access to shared spectrum and to the...

QUALCOMM TRIES TO TAKE CDMA PERMIT FROM MOTOROLA

Apparently irritated over a dispute that has lasted more than two years, Qualcomm Inc. is suing Motorola Inc., asking the court to terminate Code...

AMERICAN WIRELESS OPENS MIAMI OFFICE

CAMPBELL, Calif.-American Wireless has opened an office in Miami to serve its expansion into Latin America. Gilbert Valdesuso, formerly with CellStar Corp., was named...

AMERITECH SUBS GROWTH, EARNINGS UP

CHICAGO-Ameritech Corp. reported 8-percent subscriber growth during the second quarter to reach a total of 3.7 million customers.The company's second-quarter earnings grew 20.9 percent...

AMSC, CAI, CSTAR FORM TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE

NEW ORLEANS-At the CA World conference, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced a technology development partnership with Computer Associates International Inc. and cStar Technologies Inc.The...

CROWN CASTLE-U.K. INCREASES CREDIT

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp.'s U.K. subsidiary, Castle Transmission International Ltd., increased its revolving senior credit facility to $236 million.The bank syndicate led by Credit...

D.C. BRIEFS

President Clinton last week signed legislation giving wireless and other high-tech firms limited protection against lawsuits for year-2000 computer problems. The issue threatened to...

ONE2ONE MAY HAVE SUITOR IN D.TELEKOM

FRANKFURT, Germany-Deutsche Telekom AG is rumored to have entered an $11.75 billion bid to acquire British mobile phone company One2One, according to a Reuters...

POSITIVE TO MARKET DATALINK.NET’S IS

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net announced a strategic partnership in which paging reseller Positive Communications will market Datalink.net's information services suite to its 320,000 subscribers.The partnership...

WIRELESS WINS NUMBER PORTABILITY CHARGES DISPUTE

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week applauded a new Federal Communications Commission's ruling that Ameritech Corp.'s imposition of local number portability end-user charges...

CARRIERS RAISE EQUITY STAKES IN TELECOM ARGENTINA

Telecom Italia and France Telecom have agreed to increase their stakes from 32.5 percent each to 50 percent each in Nortel Inversora, the holding...

TELCORDIA NABS TELKOM CONTRACT

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Telcordia Technologies Inc. signed what it said is its biggest international agreement to date with South Africa's incumbent telecommunications carrier Telkom.Telcordia will...

DIGITAL PHONE SALES BOOST TI’S EARNINGS

DALLAS-Texas Instruments, Dallas, announced July 20 earnings per share of 92 cents for the second quarter, a dramatic 163-percent increase from the year-ago quarter....

TELPHIA RAISES $2.2M IN CAPITAL

NEW YORK-Telphia Inc., a San Francisco-based collector and marketer of wireless network and marketing data, said July 19 it raised $2.2 million in private...

QUARTER IS GOOD TO WIRELESS VENDORS

Two weeks after the ouster of L.M. Ericsson's President and Chief Executive Officer Sven-Christer Nilsson, the company revealed in its second quarter earnings report...

VIEWPOINT: THE CASE AGAINST COMPETITION

Yet another study has been done on the merits of reselling wireless service. This one, conducted by Professor John Mayor of the Georgetown University...

RURAL CARRIERS ATTRACTIVE AFTER VODAFONE’S COMMNET BUY

The industry has seen AT&T Wireless Services Inc. pick up smaller cellular carriers in order to fill in gaps and avoid paying high roaming...

DIVERSINET JOINS WAP FORUM

TORONTO-Diversinet Corp. has joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum, a move expected to bring added encryption security standards to the wireless data transmission technology.Diversinet...

ERICSSON LAUNCHES DATA TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson Inc. said it launched its Wireless Applications Validation Environment Laboratory technology initiative at the company's U.S. headquarters in Richardson, Texas.The initial project...
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