Monthly Archives: October, 1997

WINSTAR TO SUPPLY POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT SERVICE WITH SIEMENS, BNI

WinStar Communications Inc. last week announced it signed agreements with Siemens Telecom Networks and Broadband Networks Inc., which will allow WinStar to supply digital...

ORDER INPUT BOOSTS NORTEL’S EARNINGS

TORONTO-Northern Telecom Ltd. reported a 37-percent increase in net earnings to $153 million, or 59 cents per share, compared with $112 million, or 43...

RCR CALENDAR

OCTOBER27-28 Telecommunications Law and Regulation Fundamentals: Your Roadmap to Opportunities, Options and Obstacles in this New Era, by Government Institutes. Arlington, Va. (301) 921-2345.27-28 Wireless...

TU-KA COMPANIES ORDER TANDEM’S IN

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Tandem Computer Inc. announced it is supplying Tu-Ka Cellular of Tokyo and Tokai, Japan, with the intelligent network infrastructure for the operators' Personal...

PAGEMART ADDS COVERAGE IN THREE MORE COUNTRIES

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its international paging network is now operational, as a result of recent agreements with telecom companies in Mexico, Panama and...

AMERITECH USING TEKNOW’S PHENX IPG

PHOENIX-TekNow Inc., announced that Ameritech Cellular Services has installed its PhenX Internet Paging Gateway to support corporate intranet e-mail-to-paging requirements.The PhenX IPG receives e-mail...

NIIGATA PHONES USE COMMQUEST CHIPS

ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. said it signed a product development agreement with Niigata Seimitsu, a telecom manufacturing company in Japan.Under the agreement, Niigata will...

MILLICOM SCORES GSM LICENSE IN LUXEMBOURG

LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it was awarded an integrated Global System for Mobile communications 900/Digital Cellular System 1800 license in Luxembourg, becoming the...

FEDERAL PRE-EMPTION STIRS DEBATE ACROSS POLITICAL LINES ON HILL

WASHINGTON-The federal pre-emption debate has become much bigger than antenna siting moratoria, with no clear political line on the explosive question of whether state...

SMARTALK TO PAY $35 MILLION FOR FRONTIER’S PREPAID BUSINESS

LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk Teleservices Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the retail prepaid business of Frontier Corp. for $35 million cash.Frontier distributes...

WALL STREET EAGER TO INVEST IN WIRELESS IF BUSINESS PLAN IS SOLID

NEW YORK-"Show me the money!"Flush with capital pouring in and looking for places to invest, that is exactly what Wall Street hopes to do...

PRICE TO SELL OFF GEORGIA RSA FOR $25M

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp., New York, announced Oct. 22 it has reached a definitive agreement to sell for $25 million the GA-1 rural service...

NATION BRIEFS

Customers of two-way paging devices using WolfeTech Corp.'s PocketGenie software now will have access to the information services provided by InfoSpace, according to a...

MCCAIN WARNS KENNARD NOT TO TAKE ALL TO COURT

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Federal Communications Commission chairman-designate Bill Kennard against continuing the agency's penchant for litigating 1996 telecom act rules...

INTEK SELLS INTEREST IN TRANSCRYPT STOCK

PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Diversified Corp. sold its entire interest in Transcrypt International Inc. for nearly $7.5 million cash as part of Transcrypt's secondary stock offering,...

MOTOROLA TO SUPPORT SIEMENS FRAMES 1B UMTS PROTOCOL

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced plans to work with Siemens AG and other Global System for Mobile communications equipment manufacturers to develop a next-generation...

RCR TOP 20 PAGING CARRIERS

RCR TOP 20 Paging CarriersThe RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest paging companies in the United States...

KING DATA UNIT INTEGRATED AT 220 MHZ

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Police Emergency Radio Services Inc. announced that in collaboration with King Communications USA, Orlando, Fla., it has successfully integrated the King KDT-5000 mobile...

VANGUARD PROFITS DOWN, SALES RISE

GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. reported in its third-quarter results that while the company's overall service revenue increased 26 percent over the same three-month...

PRODUCTS

Erico Inc. introduced a new line of ground bar assemblies and related products designed for the personal communications services market. Erico ground bars are...

SBC THIRD QUARTER PROFIT SLIPS SLIGHTLY

SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. reported a net income of $816 million, or 89 cents per share, for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared...

ARGENTINE CELLULAR OPERATOR WINS WIRELESS PERMIT IN PARAGUAY

Telecom Personal, a cellular service provider in northern Argentina, announced a consortium it is part of has been granted the B-band license to provide...

TELUS TO USE NORTEL CDMA IN ALBERTA

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Telus Mobility-a subsidiary of Canada's Telus Corp.-announced plans to expand its cellular, paging and private radio systems business by offering advanced digital...

SPYGLASS INC. LICENSES NOKIA WITH ITS WEB SOFTWARE, PRISM

NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has licensed its Spyglass Prism content conversion technology to Nokia Telecommunications.The Prism technology answers needs of wireless users browsing...

LETTERS

CTIA clarifies role in standardizationDear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept....
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