Monthly Archives: June, 1997

PRICE, DISTRIBUTION KEY TO PCS GROWTH

NEWTON, Mass.-Personal communications services providers must prevail in the consumer market in order to be successful, said a report issued by Business Research Group.PCS...

FOUR FIRMS WORK TOGETHER ON COMMON WIRELESS DATA PROTOCOL

Espoo, FINLAND-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Unwired Planet Inc. will work together to define a common protocol for wireless data technologies. The...

PROFIT GROWTH LEADERS

Rank Company Name % Change 1996 1995 ...

SAMSUNG, AT&T ENTER CDPD CONTRACT

RICHARDSON, Texas-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. won a one-year renewable contract from AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division to supply its Cellular Digital Packet...

WORLDTECH USES GTE TSI BUREAU

TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said World Technology Corp., Irvine, Calif., will be the first service provider to offer personal number services to consumers...

MOTOROLA SUPPLIES WMS TO TAIWAN

DALLAS-Motorola Inc. won a contract from First International Telecom, a nationwide paging operator in Taiwan, to provide its Wireless Messaging System paging network infrastructure....

D.C. NOTES

Bad hair week for the Baby Bells and smut police. A near miss for wireless.The Justice Department last Wednesday recommended against Ameritech's foray into...

WINSTAR WINS FOUR 38 GHZ LICENSES

NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission granted four additional 38 GHz licenses to Winstar Communications Inc., covering Las Vegas, Honolulu, Mobile, Ala., and Denver.The company...

SMR SUPPLIERS TO CREATE ADVANCED ANALOG SYSTEM

At an unprecedented gathering earlier this month, a number of prominent specialized mobile radio equipment suppliers temporarily set aside competitive interests to draft a...

NOKIA TOP VENDOR OR CHINA UNICOM

HELSINKI, Finland-China Unicom Shanghai Branch designated Nokia Telecommunications the main base station subsystem supplier for the third phase of its Global System for Mobile...

RESELLERS NEED TO BROADEN PRODUCT OFFERING TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Once the industry's dynamic duo of distribution, the relationship between paging carriers and paging resellers is no longer the love fest it once was.In...

FIRM GIVES AWAY PAGERS TO GET USERS

Power Page L.L.C., an emerging paging carrier and reseller in Los Angeles, is not only giving away free pagers to acquire new customers, but...

NORTEL WINS MTS’ CDMA CONTRACT

WINNIPEG, Manitoba-MTS Mobility, a wireless service provider in Manitoba, Canada, signed a four-year supply agreement with Northern Telecom Ltd. for Interim Standard 95 Code...

WIRELESSNORTH GOES WITH CELLSTAR

WirelessNorth selected CellStar Ltd. to provide customer fulfillment for personal communications services handsets, accessories and packaging for WirelessNorth's markets in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...

PAGEMART WILL OFFER PHILIPS’ PAGERS

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. reached an agreement to carry Philips Consumer Communications' Cobalt numeric pagers.The Cobalt pager has a three-button interface, large backlit display screen...

ERICSSON, WUHAN FORM CHINA GROUP

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Wuhan Research Institute established a joint venture company in China to develop, manufacture and market synchronous digital hierarchy transport network...

INDUSTRY REACTION MIXED ON 800 MHZ

WASHINGTON-The June 23 adoption of the Second Report and Order regarding the Phase II rules governing the future of 800 MHz specialized mobile radio...

MOTOROLA EXPANDS TELEPAR’S NETWORK

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group signed a contract to expand a cellular network in Brazil operated by Telecomunicacoes de Parana S.A.The agreement,...

NOKIA SUPPORTS ONE DATA PROTOCOL

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it supports a proposed consolidation of wireless data technologies into a license-free and platform-independent protocol.The purpose of the Wireless Application...

TWO-YEAR TOTAL RETURN

RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN1 Brightpoint Inc. 259.88%2 Tellabs Inc. 169.96%3 Specialty Teleconstructors...

BRIGHTPOINT AND TELLABS LEAD VENDORS IN TOTAL INVESTMENT RETURN

Editor's note: On the previous page are five charts ranking major telecommunications vendors according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenues from 1995 to...

REVENUE LEADERS

Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000)1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,0002 NEC Corp. ...

USCI REPORTS SOLID QVC PAGING SALES

NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Ameritel Communications Inc., said it successfully sold its paging services over the QVC television program in the first...

LAG IN DIVERSITY DOCUMENTATION MAY LEAD TO LACK OF BID CREDITS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's delay in compiling a telecom diversity report could foreclose future female and minority bidding credits because of new anti-affirmative action...

QUALCOMM STARTS BRAND CAMPAIGN

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. launched a multimillion dollar national advertising campaign to help build brand identity for its Code Division Multiple Access subscriber products.The initial...
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