November 1997

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Crop. announced it has entered into agreements to acquire 24 additional licenses in the 38 GHz band and has received new grants of seven other 38 …

AirCell Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that has developed a system to provide ground communications for aircraft using cellular channels, has been in a holding pattern since early this year. …

The paging industry is gearing up for a fight over what one industry executive termed “one of the most important issues affecting our industry at this point.” The comment refers …

TEMPE, Ariz.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced that its paging services will by resold by Chicago-based 360

NEW YORK-Xypoint Corp., Seattle, has developed a wireless Enhanced 911 solution that doesn’t require carriers to install a Home Location Register or other expensive hardware or software in their networks. …

ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. ended the third quarter with 101,000 personal communications services customers, adding 26,600 subscribers during the quarter. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Western Wireless recorded a …

As far as first press conferences go, new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard did well. In fact, he was nearly flawless as far as these thing go. Relaxed, composed …

WASHINGTON-In his last appearance Nov. 3 at the front of the Federal Communications Commission’s eighth-floor meeting room, outgoing Chairman Reed Hundt said to a packed house closed to outsiders, “It’s …

NEW YORK-Israel plans to open its telecommunications market to full competition by January 1999, Communications Minister Limor Livnat said at a news conference, Nov. 3. A week earlier, the Israeli …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its personal communications services network in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Lucent Technologies Inc. provided the Time Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment for the …

Northern Telecom Ltd. won a $780 million contract with Teligent Corp. and offered to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Broadband Networks Inc. on a fully …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is on its way to a rout in the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction, leading its closest competitor in the race for licenses by nearly $29 …

NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. arguably is the only Finland-based company that is synonymous in the United States with telecommunications. But the Invest in Finland Bureau, Helsinki, is working to change that …

DALLAS-DSC Communications Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Celcore Inc., a Memphis, Tenn.-based manufacturer of Global System for Mobile communications and Advanced Mobile …

Aeris Communications Inc. announced that Ameritech Cellular Services will deploy Aeris’ MicroBurst technology for short-burst data applications in Ameritech’s cellular territory. The wireless data messaging solution enables mobile telemetry services …

The wireless data industry has long been considered the most optimistic bunch in the world of wireless. Each year, it seemed, was going to be “the year” the technology would …

New senior team at CTIA: The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association recently added new executives to its senior management team. The new team consists of (standing) Brian Fontes, senior vice president …

MINNEAPOLIS-Personal communications services provider WirelessNorth said it signed a roaming agreement with Clearnet PCS Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Clearnet Communications Inc. of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. The agreement is …

CALGARY, Alberta-Cell-Loc Inc., a provider of cellular telephone location technology, announced that a trial will begin Nov. 3 in Calgary. The company will test its Cellocate-Analog Mobile Phone Services product …

NOVEMBER 10-11 Channel Development for Wireless Distribution and Retail, by AIC Conferences. The Hotel Monaco, San Francisco. (800) 409-4AIC. 10-12 Intele-CardNews Expo of the Americas: A Global Partnership, by Intele-CardNews. …

LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc., a provider of specialized mobile radio service, completed an agreement that ends options to acquire 5.5 million shares of its common stock at an exercise …

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it won a contract to expand the Time Division Multiple Access network for the Costa Rican national telephone company, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad. …

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced three South Korean wireless communications equipment manufacturers are including Lucent’s digital signal processor-based compression and decompression (codec) technology in their Code Division Multiple Access …

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. announced it has received $5 million in equity financing, consisting of $3.5 million from new investors, Elliott Associates L.P. and Westgate International L.P., and $1.5 …

DALLAS-BearCom Inc. acquired three dealers as part of its strategy to provide a worldwide network of local sales and support for wireless communications through a series of acquisitions. The company …