WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. announced an agreement to buy the Network Monitoring and Mobile Test Systems business of Necsy Network Control Systems S.p.A., based in Padova, Italy, for an undisclosed amount. …
NASHUA, N.H.-Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co., announced it entered into a long-term agreement with WirelessNorth to supply its PCS-Over-Cable distributed antenna system to support the deployment of a wireless network …
ATLANTA-Premiere Technologies Inc. said it began selling its suite of Orchestrate Web-enabled communications products, priced at a flat rate, to individual consumers and business customers in Atlanta. Orchestrate is a …
NEW ORLEANS-PulsePoint Communications and Leap Wireless International Inc. announced they agreed to make PulsePoint the primary voice-mail and unified messaging solution provider for Leap’s new networks. To do so, Leap …
NEW ORLEANS-Novatel Wireless Inc. and Casio Inc. announced they have formed a technology alliance to develop wireless solutions for Casio’s Windows CE-based handheld computing products. The two companies have not …
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. announced an expansion plan that included establishing a Professional Services consulting division to help software developers deploy wireless data solutions and opening three regional sales offices …
TOKYO-Standard & Poor’s Corp. said it downgraded the investment grade corporate ratings of nine Japanese industrial companies. The ratings of NEC Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. both were lowered a …
NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access chip that uses technology with origins in the airline industry to make it easier to understand cellular phone …
NEW ORLEANS-William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, told a receptive Wireless ’99 General Session crowd on Tuesday he believes calling party pays will lead to wireless competing with …
NEW ORLEANS-International Telecommunication Union members did not reach any consensus in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, on harmonizing the various radio transmission technology proposals received by the ITU for third-generation technology. The …
NEW ORLEANS-Calling wireless the poster child for competitive telecommunications, Tom Wheeler, head of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, said today’s wireless industry will serve as a model for competitive telecommunications …
WASHINGTON-Geotek Communications Inc., in conflict over competing bids for its 900 MHz dispatch radio licenses, may be ready to end weeks of delay and speculation by announcing a buyer at …
NEW YORK-Globalstar L.L.P. announced it successfully launched four additional low-earth-orbit satellites, bringing to 12 its total satellites in orbit. The four satellites were launched simultaneously from a Soyuz-Ikar rocket from …
NEW ORLEANS-For an agency whose job it is to regulate an industry, last week at CTIA’s Wireless ’99 three of the five people sitting on the Federal Communications Commission seemed …
STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. said it signed a $30 million contract with CTE Telecom Personal in El Salvador to construct a Time Division Multiple Access 1900 MHz wireless network. The initial phase …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Dun & Bradstreet Corp. announced Feb. 8 an agreement with German software maker SAP AG to provide enterprise resource planning software, which unites into one accessible system the …
HOUSTON-Eagle Wireless International Inc. reported sales for the year ended Aug. 31, 1998, and first quarter of fiscal 1999 ended Nov. 30, of $4.8 million and $931,000, respectively. Both were …
NEW ORLEANS-Sprint PCS and Denso Wireless announced plans to continue their joint development partnership and the release of the new SIM-100 subscriber information manager. The Sprint PCS Touchpoint phone was …
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced plans to sell part of its investment in Topp Telecom Inc. to Telefonos de Mexico SA and other Topp shareholders for about $7 million. Separately, Topp …
Credit-card processing firm Paymentech Inc. announced it has been chosen to process the automatic payment programs for recurring billing by Paging Network Inc., Western Wireless Corp. and AccessLine Inc. The …
