CHICAGO-Ameritech Corp. announced annual net income grew by 7.6 percent to around $2.3 billion, and revenues increased 7.2 percent to about $16 billion for its fiscal year ended Dec. 31, …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it launched a network function called PrePaid Calling Service for wireless networks that use Advanced Mobile Phone Service and digital-AMPS standards. Ericsson’s new service allows for …
The World Trade Organization will meet again today in Geneva in hopes of reaching a compromise on a new date to put the basic telecom services agreement into effect. WTO …
SmartLink Development L.P. and Transcrypt International Inc., which recently acquired E.F. Johnson Co., reached an agreement allowing SmartLink to implement Transcrypt’s enhanced LTR-Net protocol into its SMRLink multi-protocol trunking and …
WASHINGTON-Greg Simon, telecom lobbyist and former domestic policy adviser to Vice President Gore, last week denied any wrongdoing regarding his 1996 meeting-undertaken at the request of then-White House aide Alexis …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-With the launch of digital service in Kansas City, Southwestern Bell said it now offers Time Division Multiple Access service in all of its major markets. The company’s …
Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced in the fourth quarter and its …
WASHINGTON-To say there is rancor in the ranks of C-block personal communications services licensees regarding the structure and timing of possible financial restructuring plans is akin to saying Maine residents …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Interim Standard-707 packet data, circuit-switched data and digital fax capabilities are now available on its Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment. The company said it offers …
QuickWord, a new product introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show by Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group, is designed to keep families safe and in touch and encourage the use of …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry again has told the Federal Communications Commission that mandatory automatic roaming agreements between commercial mobile radio services carriers are unnecessary at this time, due to cooperation between …
Clarence Friend, a wireless industry veteran, founded Newport Beach, Calif.-based Cellular Development Systems L.P. to provide real-time call rating and billing services to the rental car industry. Now, about four …
NEW CANAAN, Conn.-Century Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $43.6 million during the fiscal 1998 second quarter ended Nov. 30, 1997, despite a 20.4-percent increase in revenue from $159 …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service assigned a speculative grade rating of B1 to a $130 million bank credit facility that Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp. obtained to finance operating losses and …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two agreements for mobile network expansions, valued at more than $44 million, with Central Japan Digital Phone Co. Ltd. The agreements include expansion of both the …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-California Microwave Inc.’s net income for the fiscal 1998 second quarter ended Dec. 31, after giving effect to the cost of about 7 cents per share to settle a …
Philips Consumer Communications announced Osmo Hautanen, president of the Americas region, will leave the company March 15. Michael Lang, vice president of marketing for the Americas, immediately will assume operational …
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Bellcore announced that BellSouth Cellular Corp. has become the first wireless service provider to license its NetPilot system, which automates local number portability translations and configuration management for the …
TORONTO-Northern Telecom Ltd. completed the purchase of Broadband Networks Inc. for $414.6 million, a large portion of which consists of research and development operations, Nortel said. Nortel funded the acquisition …
NHancement Technologies Inc. announced that its Voice Plus subsidiary installed and launched a voice processing system in Wichita, Kan., for VoiceStream Wireless, the personal communications services division of Western Wireless …
