RICHMOND, England-ADC Metrica and L.M. Ericsson signed an agreement for Ericsson to use Metrica’s performance management technology, Network Performance Reporting, in its telecom management solutions for fixed and mobile network …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service announced Dec. 22 it had lowered the speculative grade ratings to Ba2 from Ba1 on about $400 million in outstanding debt issued by Total Access Communication …
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif., developer of the Java software programming language, has filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $1 billion in …
OTTAWA-Northern Telecom Singapore Pte. Ltd., the Philippines Communications Satellite Corp. and its subsidiary, CALL Telecoms, have signed a memorandum of understanding to roll out an international gateway facility, local exchange …
Centennial Communications Corp. announced that Michael N. Simkin was appointed president of the company, after Jeff E. Rhodes, the company’s previous president and founder, resigned his position to pursue other …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. has completed its 1997 launch phase, bringing Sprint personal communications services to 134 metropolitan markets across the country. The company also announced the markets where …
IRVINE, Calif.-Southern California personal communications services consumers now can review Sprint PCS price plans, coverage maps, handset prices and features, and make purchases on the World Wide Web. Sprint PCS …
BOULDER, Colo.-SpectraLink Corp. now provides a digital interface between its enhanced Pocket Communications System and Siemens Business Communications Systems Inc.’s digital telephone switches, announced SpectraLink. Digital integration lets Siemens’ in-building …
CALABASAS, Calif.-Iridium North America named Skysite Communications Corp., a subsidiary of U.S. Digital Communications, its North American distributor for the new Iridium satellite-based global wireless communications network. Skysite will offer …
Editor’s Note: In a year where the largest stories of the wireless industry were about personal communications services carriers besieged with financial and other problems, one PCS company, Omnipoint Communications …
A Nov. 24 article in RCR that profiled Cactus Integration Group incorrectly stated the company’s relationship with Lucent Technologies Inc. and erroneously characterized Lucent’s wireless services strategy. Lucent’s agreement with …
LONDON-Racal Telecom announced it has signed an agreement with U.K.-based Vodafone Distribution Ltd. to provide the corporate market with an integrated package of mobile and managed fixed voice and data …
NEW YORK-Wireless prepaid services will provide $1 billion in revenues to American carriers this year, double that amount next year and quadruple the figure by 2001, according to projections cited …
NEW YORK-Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago, announced Dec. 23 a definitive agreement to merge its Minneapolis-based American Paging Inc. subsidiary with TSR Paging Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., to create …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it will offer a software product that allows users to send text messages from their personal computer to cellular and personal communications …
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. and Cincinnati Bell Inc. announced a definitive agreement for Matrixx Marketing Inc., the teleservices unit of Cincinnati Bell, to acquire AT&T Solutions Customer Care for about $625 …
Sprint PCS of Southern California donated $30,000 to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation for its annual Toys for Tots holiday charity campaign. In addition to the cash contribution, more …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that paging customers using WolfeTech Corp.’s PocketGenie Internet access software will be able to receive driving directions on their pagers from its Maps On …
WASHINGTON-Down payments for newly won 800 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses are due at Pittsburgh’s Mellon Bank tomorrow. Nextel Communications Inc. said it plans to be there, cash in hand. …
NEW YORK-Twenty years ago, her parents-both civil servants-gave Rosanne M. Cahn, chief economist of equities for Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, a cartoon she said aptly describes her profession. …
