Monthly Archives: October, 1997

U.S. CELLULAR 3Q RESULTS STAND OUT IN TDS FAMILY

United States Cellular Corp. was once again the cash cow in Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s family of wireless businesses during the third quarter.USCC's...

CALENDAR

OCTOBER20-21 Wireless Business Telephone Systems Seminar, by Alexander Resources. Dallas. (800) 948-8225.20-22 Discovering the Value of LMDS, by Shorecliff Communications International and RCR Publications...

SPECTRUM AUCTIONS WORK, FCC TELLS CONGRESS IN 42-PAGE REPORT

WASHINGTON-Most of the wireless industry still has not seen the entire Federal Communications Commission report to Congress on spectrum auctions, released Oct. 9, but...

SAMSUNG SUPPORTS CDMA 3G STANDARD

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it will join with Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc., Northern Telecom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. to speed up the...

FCC NOMINEES (DON’T) SHARE OPINIONS ON C-BLOCK SITUATION

What impact will the four nominees to the Federal Communications Commission have on a wireless industry struggling with a myriad of issues whose resolution...

CALL SCIENCES PRODUCT STRIKES ACCESSIBILITY BALANCE

Cellular phones, pagers, faxes and e-mail all are tools that help us function in today's fast-paced society. But how many times have you answered...

AT DEADLINE

Mtel simplifies credit covenantsMobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced it has simplified certain covenants associated with its $250 million credit facility after negotiations with its...

INQUISIT OFFERS DATA FILTER FOR WIRELESS SERVICE USE

SAN FRANCISCO-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. selected San Francisco-based information service provider Inquisit Inc. to provide information services to its PocketNet subscribers. Inquisit commercially launched...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Geotek Communications Inc. announced an 85 percent increase in subscribers during the third quarter, to almost 10,000. The company pointed to improvements in its...

FRANCE TELECOM ISSUES OFFERING

NEW YORK-France Telecom's partial privatization through an initial public offering of common stock, priced Oct.7, should raise $8.2 billion for the federal government, Dominique...

CTS LOSS GREATER FROM ORDER DELAYS

SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. said its third quarter revenues and earnings results will fall significantly lower than analysts' expectations.Third quarter losses are expected...

METROCALL LAUNCHES NOTE SALE TO REPAY SECURED CREDIT FACILITY

NEW YORK-Metrocall Inc. last week launched a private sale of $150 million in senior subordinated notes due 2007 to repay partially the sum the...

IBS, LUCENT AGREE ON PROCESSING DEAL

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a five-year deal calling for IBS to provide Lucent's Business Communications Systems...

MANUFACTURERS SHUN MOTOROLA’S OFFER TO MAKE IDEN PRODUCTS

More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn't found any takers, despite the...

ILLUMINET TO USE AGCS’S INGAGE

PHOENIX-AG Communication Systems announced it delivered to Illuminet its INgage Service Order Activation software for local number portability, which allows customers to keep their...

WORLD BRIEFS

Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne's Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers....

IOWA TEAM EXTENDS VOICESTREAM PCS

DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Network Services Inc. and Western Wireless Corp. announced a joint venture formed to expand personal communications services throughout Iowa.Called Iowa Wireless...

ITALY’S TREASURY PLANS TO SELL REMAINING TELECOM ITALIA SHARES

NEW YORK-In a public offering scheduled for late this month, Italy's Treasury Ministry will sell its remaining 35.7 percent stake in Telecom Italia, the...

HOUSE COMMITTEE OKS SCANNER BILL

WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee last week approved a bill to crack down on radio scanner interception of wireless communications and mobile phone identification numbers....

ARCHITEL TO EQUIP GTE WITH ASAP

TORONTO-Architel Systems Corp. will license its Automatic Service Activation Program to GTE Data Services Inc. under an agreement valued at $7 million in the...

ASSOCIATED TO ISSUE TWO-FOR-ONE SPLIT

PITTSBURGH-The Associated Group Inc. announced its board of directors approved a two-for-one stock split of the company's class A and B common stock.The split...

ASTRONET RELOCATES, JOINS MITSUBISHI

DULUTH, Ga.-Astronet Corp., a Mitsubishi Electric America company, said it has completed its move from Lake Mary, Florida, to Duluth, Ga. By moving to...

AT&T PITCHES POCKETNET TO THE CONSUMER CROWD

NEW YORK-Expanding an offering available to corporate customers for the last year, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced its PocketNet service, which allows...

POCKETNET PARTNERS

ABC News-ESPN SportsZoneAccuWeatherAmerican Weather Conceptsbiztravel.com, New YorkBloomberg OnlineCellNews by NewsAlert IncData Broadcasting Corp.Festivals.comFuture AccessInfoSpace Inquisit IncIntelligent Information Inc.Internet Restaurant Guide ...

SENATE IS LIKELY TO OK KENNARD

WASHINGTON-President Clinton's four picks for the Federal Communications Commission won approval by the Senate Commerce Committee last week, and there were new indications that...
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