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AirNet faces shutdown over slow base station sales

MELBOURNE, Fla.—Wireless base station supplier AirNet Communications Corp., which has been struggling through a restructuring for the past several years, has been hit with additional blows during the first half of this year and may have to close its doors. Last week, the company...

AirNet posts slightly bigger loss on increased revenue

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications said it suffered a loss of $4.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2004, compared with a loss of $4.3 million in the year-earlier period. However, the company's revenue was up 28.7 percent to $6.1 million in the period.The company said...

AirNet receives $1M order in Portugal

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. said it has received about $1 million in expansion orders from Tecore Wireless Systems to deploy its base station products to GuineTel of Portugal.The product, known as the AdataCell 4000 XE, is an outdoor base station."This order will expand the...

AirNet updates SDR architecture

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. said it has unveiled its next-generation software defined radio product architecture for large GSM operators with limited amounts of spectrum.The product, known as IntelliBSS, is an Internet Protocol-based architecture consisting of an adaptive array integrated base station system, a signaling...

AirNet expects to exceed revenue forecasts

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp., a software-defined base station provider, said it expects revenue for the second quarter to exceed its previously forecasted range of $4 million to $5 million.Based on preliminary results, the company said it now expects revenues to exceed $5 million due...

AirNet receives $3M in purchase orders

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications said it has received $3 million in new purchase orders for its software-defined base stations.The products, which include the AdaptaCell 4000 base stations and the AirSite 3000 Backhaul Free base stations, will be resold by an original equipment manufacturer reseller to...

AirNet receives $3M in orders

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. said it received $3 million in purchase orders from Tecore Wireless Systems for three new deployments in the Middle East and Africa. The orders include AirNet's AdaptaCell BTS 4000 with the AirSite Backhaul Free base station and related equipment.A portion...

AirNet raises revenue expectations

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Shares of AirNet Communications Corp. skyrocketed nearly 70 percent today after the company, which designs software-defined base station products for wireless communications, said it expects first-quarter revenues to be at the high end of its previously forecasted range. The company now expects revenues...

Alcatel signs OEMS, enters MMS contract

DALLAS-Alcatel announced First Cellular of southern Illinois will become the fist North American service provider to use its Multimedia Messaging Services. To date, Alcatel has installed its MMS Proxy Relay, WAP Gateway and Push Proxy Platform products in the carrier's network. With the service,...

AirNet stock up 80% on elevated 4Q forecast

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Investors cheered AirNet Communications Corp.'s elevated fourth-quarter earnings forecast, sending the wireless base station maker's stock up almost 80 percent to $1.70 per share.AirNet previously expected fourth-quarter revenues of between $3 million and $4.5 million, but now expects revenues above $4.5 million. The...

Comsys, Sasken team on EDGE terminals

HERZELIA, Israel—Comsys Communications and Signal Processing Ltd. are partnering with Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd. to develop software platforms for EDGE mobile terminals, Comsys announced.Comsys specializes in digital signal processing algorithm development and Sasken has expertise in wireless protocol stack software. Together, the companies will...

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Under a new licensing agreement, Nortel Networks will be able to license Certicom's Elliptic Curve Cryptography technology to create a virtual private network for handheld devices. Nortel said this will allow faster performance from its platform and will give Nortel the chance to use...

Nokia ousts Lucent as net income leader for year

NEW YORK-In this year's RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment vendors that are net income leaders.Lucent Technologies Inc., which had previously topped the charts...

MBO places second order with AirNet

MELBOURNE, Fla.-MBO Wireless Inc. placed a follow-up infrastructure equipment order with AirNet Communications Corp. valued at $1 million.The equipment, used for MBO's Global System for Mobile communications system in Muskogee, Okla., will include AirNet's AdaptaCell broadband, software-defined Base Transceiver Stations and AirSite Backhaul Free...

SECOND-TIER MARKETS DRIVE BASE STATION BUILDOUT

While many carriers and manufacturers are thinking about and preparing for third-generation wireless systems, buildout on first- and second-generation systems continues."Most carriers have built out their metropolitan markets, and now they are looking for solutions for rural markets," said John Chenoweth, product marketing manager...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

In addition to $8.9 million AirNet Communications Corp. raised last year, the company announced it recently received $19.3 million in financing from a group of private investors, including a number of institutional venture capital firms. The funds are primarily designated to further develop AirNet's...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Boston Communications Group Inc. signed a corporate agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to provide wireless roaming services to personal communications services customers roaming within Sprint PCS' coverage areas. Boston's Roamerplus service allows non-Sprint PCS subscribers traveling within the Sprint PCS network to place calls...

CORRECTION

A photo on the front page of RCR's April 21 issue incorrectly identified the president of Intraplex Corp. He is Bill Rollins.Due to incorrect information supplied to RCR, the information used in a chart in the April 7 issue should have indicated that SouthEast...

AIRNET WILL RESTRUCTURE COMPANY DUE TO DEARTH OF FINANCING FOR PCS

NEW YORK-Because many new personal communications services providers are unable to pay out of pocket for equipment purchases, AirNet Communications Corp. announced last week it would downsize, restructure and direct its attention to customers capable of arranging financing independent of vendors."In markets outside the...

AIRNET BRINGS IN PARTNER CTI TO EASE ENTRY INTO KOREAN MARKET

While AirNet Communications Corp. is busy this week demonstrating its PCS 1900 base station system at PCS '96, the company's new Korean joint venture, AirCom, is busy demonstrating AirNet's software driven and protocol independent base station technology in Korea.Communications Technology Inc. of Seoul is...

CDMA MAY ENTER CHINA AS GSM NETWORK FILLS UP

CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China.Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in Code Division Multiple Access technology for cellular systems as well.Arun Sarin, president and chief executive officer of AirTouch International and...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network using a Nokia PCS phone, Psion's palmtop computer and Palmtop BV's Messenger software. Messenger...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of about 3.8 million shares of its common stock. The offering will be managed by Alex, Brown & Sons Inc., Donaldson, Lufkin...

AIRNET AIMS WITH BASE STATION INDEPENDENT OF PROTOCOL CHOICE

ORLANDO, Fla.-A young Florida company is manufacturing a broadband base station system for cellular and PCS markets that it says has fewer components, uses less energy and can be programmed to be protocol independent.Melbourne, Fla.-based AirNet Communications Corp. was founded January of 1994 and...