Monthly Archives: February, 1997

SUPERFILTERS WILL SHRINK BASE STATION SIZES 30%

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. introduced its SuperFilter family of receiver filter subsystems.The SuperFilter offers advantages over conventional filter technologies in the areas of...

WORLD BRIEFS

Teklogix International Inc. received a contract from Samson Transport A/S, a third-party warehouse and transport company with worldwide locations. Under the agreement, Teklogix will...

TIA SPONSORING CHINA MEETING

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association is sponsoring the first China-America Telecommunications Conference April 20-24 in Dalian, China. The U.S. Department of Commerce is co-sponsoring...

WINSTAR ACQUIRES 38 GHZ LICENSES

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. signed agreements to acquire 47 additional 38 GHz licenses and associated business operations. The licenses open new markets for the...

MOTOROLA EXPANDS GSM PLANT IN CORK

CORK, Ireland-Motorola Inc.'s GSM Products Division will hire 300 software engineers at its Global System for Mobile communications facility in Cork, Ireland. The expansion...

FIRMS JOIN TOGETHER FOR CANADIAN MSS

SAN FRANCISCO-Canadian Satellite Communications Inc., AirTouch Satellite Services and Loral Space & Communications formed a joint venture to provide fixed and mobile wireless services...

4 LEO CARRIERS TO GARNER 80 PERCENT OF BUSINESS

Several low-earth-orbit satellite systems will have initial launches this year, marking the beginning of services that a Washington, D.C., consulting firm says "will fill...

MOTOROLA’S ICIG WINS AMPS DEAL

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Group won a contract to deploy Advanced Mobile Phone Service and narrowband AMPS cellular systems in Novosibirsk,...

VIEWPOINT

The laws of physics cannot be persuaded by politics, pricing or PR. And some economic principles are equally unyielding.Hence, economics and engineering considerations are...

BRITISH TELECOM’S DEBT DOWNGRADED BY MOODY’S

NEW YORK-Global telecommunications deregulation may be auspicious, but on behalf of bondholders, Moody's Investors Service Inc. remains suspicious.A day before negotiators at the World...

DUAL-BAND PHONE PACTS STILL UP IN AIR

If demand for dual-band handsets can be measured by vendor contracts, carriers must only now be finalizing plans for multi-frequency roaming.The industry's most prolific...

CERTAIN ARGUMENTS PERSUASIVE IN CHANGING SITING PERCEPTIONS

This is the fourth installment in the exclusive RCR five-part series highlighting the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup...

INDONESIAN CELLULAR FIRM GETS $31M CREDIT FACILITY

PT Mobile Selular Indonesia signed a credit note facility for $31 million with 12 national banks for a term loan.Lead arrangers are PT Makindo...

LITHIUM BATTERIES DON’T RUN “HOTTER”

Dear Editor: As the world becomes more mobile, and our tools become more portable, our collective frustration with the performance of our portable phones and...

CTS CEO KATZ ASSUMES MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN FIRM

NEW YORK-Stephen Katz, chief executive officer of Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc., has assumed day-to-day direction of operations for the Seattle-based provider of cellular...

ILLUMINET MEMBERS GET SPECIAL PRICING

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet signed an agreement to allow members of its Procurement Consortium to obtain antenna infrastructure from Celwave at volume prices. Cellular, personal communications...

GLOBUS SET TO TEST PRODUCT SAR LEVELS

KELOWNA, British Columbia-Globus Cellular & User Protection Ltd. said it will investigate the specific absorption rate levels of cellular phone and antenna products available...

NEW GROUP TARGETS GAPS IN WIRELESS EDUCATION

NEW YORK-Four wireless industry heavyweights and three universities announced Feb. 17 they had formed the Global Wireless Education Consortium to "attract and educate new...

HOLLINGS HOLDS USTR APPOINTMENT HOSTAGE FOR WTO AMENDMENT

WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest Hollings (R-S.C.), in what amounts to a showdown with the Clinton administration, is mounting a campaign to condition Senate confirmation of U.S....

PAGENET PREMIERES VOICENOW IN DALLAS

Inc.'s VoiceNow voice paging service is priced not only to compete, but to undercut industry rates for most numeric, alphanumeric and other advanced paging...

360 ADDS SERVICE IN NORTH CAROLINA

RALEIGH, N.C.-360

GTE LAUNCHES PCS IN CINCINNATI MTA

CINCINNATI-GTE Wireless launched its personal communications services network in the Cincinnati major trading area, which covers greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The network uses...

LUCENT TO DELIVER NEW CDMA OVERLAY

JARKARTA, Indonesia-Lucent Technologies Inc. has signed a supply contract with PT Komunikasi Selular Indonesia. The agreement is valued at $105 million and is Lucent's...

CALENDAR

FEBRUARY23-25 Mobile Insights '97, by Mobile Insights Inc. The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, Calif. (800) 640-6497.24 The Wireless Buildout-Pacific Northwest, by RCR Publications Inc. and...

INFOTECH SERVES SMALLER CARRIERS CUSTOMER CARE, BILLING NEEDS

A small Westbrook, Maine, company plans to carve its niche out of the giant telecommunications industry by focusing on the billing and customer care...
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