NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Corp. assigned a speculative grade rating of B- to a new, $500 million debt issue that Nextel Communications Inc. sold in a private placement. Nextel will …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s board of directors elected new officers for fiscal-year 2000 at its first meeting June 8. The new officers for the board include Chairman Stan Sigman, …
Throwing its hat into the packet network ring, Motorola Inc. announced a 10-year, $1 billion nonexclusive strategic technology agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc., which Motorola said will allow it to …
MINNEAPOLIS-U S West Wireless and SCC Communications Corp. announced the first deployment of Phase 1 wireless enhanced 911 for U S West Advanced PCS customers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. …
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it entered into a purchase agreement to acquire approximately 75 communication sites in central and southern Illinois from Illinois PCS, a Sprint PCS affiliate. The 75 …
ARLINGTON, Va.-According to statistics compiled by the Telecommunications Industry Association, U.S. exports of telecommunications equipment for first quarter 1998 totaled nearly $5.3 billion, and the greatest increases were in paging …
NEW YORK-At least some shareholders are unhappy about last week’s announcement that Securicor plc, which owns 40 percent of Cellnet, a United Kingdom cellular carrier, plans to acquire Intek Global …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS said it signed a three-year contract with Nortel Networks valued at least $520 million for cdmaOne equipment and services for Phase III of Sprint PCS’ nationwide …
It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for …
ATLANTA-Amidst the buzz surrounding the emerging broadband market and related wireless access technologies last week at SuperComm ’99, Harris Corp., an established supplier of microwave radio systems, made its move …
SourceOne Wireless Inc.’s bankruptcy status may herald the end of the market for calling party pays paging, coming as no surprise to industry analysts, who believe the idea was doomed …
Amdocs Ltd., a St. Louis-based provider of billing and related systems to telecommunications carriers, on June 7 sold 20 million shares of its common stock, priced at $22.44 each, in …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International’s board of directors named Ted Miller chairman. Miller also is the company’s chief executive officer. He succeeds Carl Ferenbach as chairman. Ferenbach was named lead director, said …
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. and Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. entered into an agreement under which WinStar will provide communications capabilities, including local and long-distance telephone, high-speed data and Internet …
WASHINGTON-State regulators are concerned the Federal Communications Commission this week will adopt an item suggesting calling party pays is a commercial mobile radio service exempt from state regulation. There is …
Paging resellers Your Phone Company Inc. of Portland, Ore., and Page Club USA of Seattle last week won a lawsuit against the Oregon branch of Paging Network Inc. and were …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc.’s contract with Comunicacion Celular S.A., a cellular operator in the eastern region of Colombia, has been upgraded to provide full nationwide deployment of PhonePrint 5.0, …
China Unicom, which received the go-ahead from the Chinese government earlier this year to deploy cdmaOne technology, will gain control of four experimental Code Division Multiple Access networks operated by …
LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired said Chat Pak vending machines at select Lake Charles, Westlake and Sulphur, La., Conoco/Sporty’s locations now are dispensing its prepaid cellular cards. The vending machines dispense …
CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc. appointed company co-founder and President Michael Fattouche as its chief executive officer. Fattouche first served as president from November 1996 until June 1997, at which time he …
