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Globecomm Systems Inc. and Tecore Inc. formed an alliance to offer design, integration, installation, training and maintenance services for satellite communications and wireless networks. A key feature of the new service is its distributed switching architecture-a routing system that provides …

InterDigital Technology Corp. made another move in a long-running patent dispute with Ericsson Radio Systems AB. The company’s parent, InterDigital Communications Corp., announced ITC has sought a further stay of its patent litigation with Ericsson in federal court, requesting a …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it signed a technology and product engineering and test site support agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The new agreement will cover Samsung’s field trials and advance deployment of telecommunications equipment using InterDigital’s …

Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000) 1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,000 2 NEC Corp. $41,174,000 3 Motorola Inc. $27,973,000 4 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,000 5 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $18,074,530 6 Northern Telecom Ltd. $12,847,000 7 Nokia Corp. $8,454,015 …

Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000) 1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,000 2 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,000 3 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,152 4 NEC Corp. $718,000 5 Nokia Corp. $654,460 6 Northern Telecom Ltd. $619,000 7 Tellabs Inc. $117,965 8 Andrew …

1996 1995 Rank/Company Name % Change Revenues (000) Revenues (000) 1 DSP Communications Inc. 117.53% $88,899 $40,867 2 Qualcomm Inc. 110.51% $813,850 $386,612 3 WinStar Communications Inc. 104.35% $68,048 $33,300 4 Specialty Teleconstructors 99.16% $16,759 $8,415 5 Transcrypt International 69.49% …

RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN 1 Brightpoint Inc. 259.88% 2 Tellabs Inc. 169.96% 3 Specialty Teleconstructors 150.00% 4 ADC Telecommunications Inc. 149.00% 5 WinStar Communications, Inc. 132.53% 6 Andrew Corp. 128.50% 7 Tessco Technologies Inc. 124.43% 8 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone 123.00% …

% CHANGE 1996 1995 RANK/COMPANY ’95 TO ’96 REVENUE (000’s) REVENUE (000’s) 1 Associated Group Inc. 368.98% $20,035 $4,272 2 Teletouch Communications Inc. 265.75% $31,725 $8,674 3 PriCellular Corp. 171.34% $112,616 $41,504 4 Arch Communications Group Inc. 103.80% $331,370 $162,598 …

SINGAPORE-An air of triumph permeated last week’s second annual CDMA World Congress as the supporters of Code Division Multiple Access celebrated the past year’s network launches, announced a unified branding plan and prepared to enter the next millennium with a …

Telemac appointed Peter McCracken chief executive officer, with responsibility for overseeing the development of innovative software technology and formulating strategic alliances with wireless industry leaders. Previously, McCracken was president and CEO of VentureLine Database Corp., an Internet/intranet database company he …

German cellular service provider T-Mobil awarded a contract to Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand T-Mobil’s Global System for Mobile communications network. Lucent values the agreement at more than $30 million. T-Mobil’s D-1 network currently serves 2.5 million subscribers. According to …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. has dismissed its chief executive officer, Gregory Webb, after only seven months in the position. Prior to joining InterDigital, Webb was corporate vice president of Qualcomm Inc., where he was responsible for marketing, sales …

Metawave Communications Corp. named Tom Crawford director of product marketing and business development. He will be responsible for maintaining strategic partnerships that provide new sales and marketing opportunities for Metawave’s multibeam antenna systems. Prior to joining the company, Crawford was …

Swedish telecommunications giant L.M. Ericsson is promoting the application of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, and recently announced a partnership with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. of Japan to develop commercial uses for W-CDMA. The announcement has raised a …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. signed a letter of intent with Worldwide Wireless Inc. to trial its TrueLink broadband Code Division Multiple Access wireless local loop product in Worldwide Wireless’ service territory. Worldwide Wireless holds licenses covering portions of …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. will provide its UltraPhone system to Bukaka Sing Tel International of Indonesia, a joint systems operator owned by Singapore Telecom and PT Telkom of Indonesia. InterDigital values the order at $1.2 million. “There is …

HANNOVER, Germany-InterDigital Communications Corp. and its two manufacturing partners say their B-CDMA wireless local loop equipment will be commercially available during the first half of 1998. InterDigital is in an alliance with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Siemens AG to …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Arguments will begin Thursday in the appeal by InterDigital Communications Corp. of its 1995 patent infringement case against Motorola Inc. InterDigital’s patent protection arm, InterDigital Technology Corp., sued Illinois-based Motorola in 1993 regarding patents for Time Division …

J.D. Power and Associates appointed Joanne Codella its new manager of wireless services. Her responsibilities will include managing syndicated and proprietary customer satisfaction studies in the wireless industry. Codella worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Panasonic Cellular before joining …

Ericsson Radio Systems said it has transmitted data at a rate of 144 kilobits per second on 5 megahertz of channel bandwidth, using Code Division Multiple Access technology, in a Swedish test lab. “We don’t think this needs to be …

Centigram Communications Corp. announced it will sell its MobileManager enhanced services platform to Paging Network Inc. for limited testing this year with possible commercial deployment later. Centigram developed MobileManager in partnership with Priority Call Management. It is designed to support …

A joint venture that Geotek Communications Inc. was trying to put together in Canada fell apart last week after the companies involved failed to reach a final agreement. Canadian cable TV operator Cogeco Cable Inc. said it withdrew from negotiations …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it has favorably settled a class action lawsuit filed by a shareholder in November 1994. The shareholder claimed the company and its former chief executive officer failed to disclose some financing arrangements. InterDigital …

Part of a year-old jury verdict was reversed last week when the technology patent lawsuit between InterDigital Communications Corp. and Motorola Inc. was revisited in U.S. District Court. However, the victory for Motorola, and ultimately for L.M. Ericsson as well, …

The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there. Earlier this year, Indonesia’s government gave the state-owned operator the nation’s first license for personal communications …