NEW YORK-Citing poor market conditions, WinStar Communications Inc. announced July 30 it was halting an add-on stock offering of 4 million shares and a concurrent $200 million debt issue, both …
CTIA President Tom Wheeler called it the biggest issue facing the wireless industry in 1996. Last Thursday, he simply said, “Hooray.” The Federal Communications Commission revamped interconnect agreements last week …
NEW YORK-High-technology companies have benefited in recent years from the robust market for initial public stock offerings, which in turn encourages venture capital investments. But even the most vigorous IPO …
NEW YORK-TeleTech, a Denver-based customer care service provider, planned to go public last week with 4 million shares of common stock priced from $14.50 to $16.50 each. At the end …
Taiwan opens to wireless tradeWASHINGTON-The Clinton administration said Taiwan has agreed to open its wireless market as part of an overall effort to liberalize telecommunications in that country. The move …
For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area. The company’s service is branded VoiceStream Wireless and is …
ESPOO, Finland- Sapura Digital Sdn. Bhd. and Nokia Telecommunications signed a long-term agreement for the expansion of Sapura’s nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia, said Nokia. This agreement is the …
WASHINGTON-With less than a ringing endorsement from two commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted hybrid radiofrequency exposure guidelines that may violate a new law regarding technical standards used …
Anne Bingaman, the government’s antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the Clinton administration later this year. “The …
ProNet Inc. of Plano, Texas, released bleak second-quarter financial results, said its proposed merger with Teletouch Communications Inc. was mutually terminated and is fighting a class action lawsuit filed by …
RICHARDSON, Texas-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has chosen Alcatel Telecom to install SX digital cross connect systems in PrimeCo’s personal communications services switching stations in 11 areas across the United States. …
NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. last week scaled down a planned secondary Class A common stock offering to 2.5 million shares, from the 3.6 million shares anticipated in the preliminary offering statement. …
LE MANS, France-Philips Electronics North America Corp. has appointed Osmo Hautanen president of Philips Consumer Communications Co., a seven-month-old Le Mans, France-based subsidiary of Philips Electronics. Hautanen will oversee Philips’ …
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-U.S. Olympic athletes in Atlanta communicated with their coaches, teammates, friends, family and press using OlymPagers, alphanumeric pagers that Motorola Inc. provided to each Team USA athlete. The …
Next to the bad guys, perhaps the biggest danger to America last week was the government as Congress and President Clinton worked frantically to craft an anti-terrorism bill before lawmakers …
AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications …
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks. The card enables wireless data transmission linking Nokia’s digital mobile phones …
NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service, announced Aug. 1 it had pulled a planned initial public offering of common stock and a …
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. said it successfully completed a consent solicitation approving certain amendments to the indenture of its 13.5 percent Senior Notes, due 2002. Under the amended terms, …
