LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it closed a $13.5 million secured financing transaction with GATX Capital Corp. Per the agreement, GATX Capital has the option of making available an …
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson is testing a wireless financial information and transaction service with Dagens Industri AB, a leading business daily publication in Sweden. The test involves about 40 selected Internet brokerage …
CellNet Data Systems Inc., a fixed-wireless information services provider, signed an agreement with utility.com, which calls for CellNet to provide network meter reading services to utility.com’s future residential, commercial and …
HANNOVER, Germany-From the CeBIT ’99 show in Germany, L.M. Ericsson made several announcements. Ericsson unveiled the R380 dual-band mobile phone with built-in personal digital assistant functionality including address book, calendar, …
HANNOVER, Germany-Orange plc made several announcements from CeBIT ’99, the European trade show. Orange signed an agreement with Nokia Corp. to begin a major trial of its Wireless Application Protocol …
HANNOVER, Germany-Motorola Inc. introduced a portfolio of digital wireless devices at the CeBIT exhibition and promised to offer Internet-browsing capability on its entire line of digital mobile phones by 2000. …
HANNOVER, Germany-Iridium L.L.C. announced at the CeBIT show it entered into a joint marketing agreement with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. Under the agreement, the two companies will promote …
NEW YORK- Triton Cellular Partners L.P., Malverne, Pa., completed the acquisition of Blue Mountain Cellular Telephone, which offers wireless telecommunications in south-central and eastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. Triton did …
3Com Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to develop co-branded home networking products that initially will include traditional ethernet and home-phone-line networking kits, with radio-frequency and power-line kits to …
A new pricing study released by Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. indicates U.S. mobile phone carriers battled it out for high-end wireless customers in 1998. Prices did not fall as …
CHICAGO-Personal communications services operator Aerial Communications Inc. announced its board of directors approved a tax settlement agreement with Telephone and Data Systems Inc. TDS owns 82.3 percent of Aerial. The …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has opened a wideband Code Division Multiple Access demonstration center in Stockholm, Sweden, where operators and others can experience third-generation services in a high bandwidth …
Resistance to unsightly towers has prompted many wireless carriers to site their antennas on existing structures such as buildings and water towers to reduce the visual impact of their equipment. …
Polson on target regarding public’s RF perception Thank you for Peter Polson’s excellent article “Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation,” Feb. 8 in RCR. I agree that there …
WASHINGTON-The cellular industry apparently knew what it was doing when it waited for Reed Hundt to retire as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission before asking that the spectrum cap …
WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.), reacting to persistent complaints that federal law inadequately addresses the impact of antenna proliferation on property values, aesthetics and health, plan to …
NEW YORK-L-3 Communications signed an agreement to acquire Aydin Corp., under which L-3 Communications will purchase all of the outstanding common stock of Aydin for $13.50 per share in cash. …
DENVER-Telecom Italia Spa has received permission from its board of directors to merge with its mobile phone operator subsidiary, Telecom Italia Mobile, as a defensive measure against a hostile takeover …
NEW YORK-A subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which holds a minority stake in both Orange plc and Western Wireless Corp., plans to issue $547 million in Euro-denominated bonds …
