RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. won a $750 million contract to supply equipment to 14 BellSouth Cellular Corp. markets, including Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Ericsson will provide base stations, …
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. announced its sixth-generation Personal Digital Cellular chipsets are featured in Kyocera Corp.’s Digital Minimo 533G handset. Available from IDO Corp. in Japan, the Digital Minimo 533G …
CULVER CITY, Calif.-Digitcom Services Inc. announced it has developed a new routing hub that will allow any paging carrier in the world to link services with any other, on any …
DAPHNE, Ala.-Communitronics of America Inc. announced it has completed integrating Data Paging Inc. into the company, following its acquisition in December. Communitronics is a paging and specialized mobile radio operator …
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced it plans to work with Korea Telecom Freetel to develop a standards-based Internet and corporate service platform based on Microsoft products, such as Windows NT, Commercial …
BETHESDA, Md.-Mobeo Inc. announced it signed a software license agreement with Comstar Inc., under which Comstar may market the mobeo 1.0 interactive stock quote service. Comstar said it will sell …
SWINDON, U.K.-Motorola Inc. said it achieved the world’s first voice call over Global System for Mobile communications connected Internet Protocol technology. Motorola gave the demonstration at a conference in London, …
MONTREAL-Microcell Telecommunications Inc. said it closed a debt transaction that raised about $150 million from the issue of 12-percent senior discount notes due 2009 at 55.73 percent amount at maturity …
More than a year after receiving a favorable ruling from a Dallas bankruptcy judge, General Wireless Inc. still is crafting its business plan and searching for financing. The company, which …
MIAMI-MasTec Inc. announced it filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering 2 million shares of common stock for use for future North American operations.
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. officially adopted Marconi Communications’ corporate name, logo, signage and letterhead, said Marconi, establishing a North American operator for the United Kingdom-based company. In March, General Electric Co. plc …
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group introduced a subscriber line interface circuit chip that operates on 3.3 volts of power, thereby reducing power consumption by about 35 percent compared with …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net announced the release of InfoXtra II, a new wireless information service that delivers news, financial updates, lifestyle information and other information services to pagers, digital mobile phones …
Liberty Media Group’s announcement last week that it plans to acquire The Associated Group Inc. would give Liberty, the Tele-Communications Inc. offshoot traditionally focused on video programming, a foothold in …
FRANKFURT, Germany-LHS Group Inc. announced licensing agreements with Retevision Movil S.A., Barcelona, Spain, and Telecom Personal Argentina. Retevision Movil selected LHS and joint venture Norsistemas/Endesa/Telesoft in Madrid to deliver a …
PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Corp. said it exercised its right to increase its ownership interest in Omnitel Pronto Italia to 23.1 percent. Bell Atlantic, which was an original partner in Omnitel, held …
NEW YORK-AirGate PCS Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate headquartered in Atlanta, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public through an initial public offering of $100 million …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it expects to surpass the current estimates by the financial community for earnings per share in fiscal 1999. The current estimate is 25 …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. and Dialogic Corp. announced they entered into an agreement under which Intel will acquire Dialogic for $44 per share in an all-cash transfer offer valued at …
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. said it achieved 70-percent capacity improvements for Code Division Multiple Access systems during testing on a densely populated urban commercial site in the United States. …
