Monthly Archives: November, 1997

ADVANCED RADIO TELECOM GAINS PERMITS

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...

AIRCELL AIMS TO REUSE CELLULAR CHANNELS FOR AIRBORNE APPLICATIONS

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...

PAGING FIRMS FIGHT PAY-PHONE FEES

The paging industry is gearing up for a fight over what one industry executive termed "one of the most important issues affecting our industry...

360° TO RESELL ARCH PAGING IN MIDWEST

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

XYPOINT E911 SOLUTION DOES NOT DEMAND HLR

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...

WESTERN WIRELESS PCS TOPS 100,000-USER MARK

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....

KENNARD EASES INTO ROLE, TOUGH PART STILL TO COME

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

HUNDT TURNS OVER KEYS TO 8TH FLOOR TO KENNARD

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...

ISRAEL PLANS TO ISSUE BASIC PHONE PERMITS TO WHOEVER WANTS ONE: WLL SERVICE CAN BE OFFERED AS ALTERNATIVE TO LANDLINE

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....

AT&T DIGITAL PCS IS LIVE IN ST. LOUIS

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...

NORTEL PAYS TO PLAY IN BROADBAND WIRELESS: LMDS AUCTION COULD BE DUD

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

NEXTEL STILL LEADS 800 MHZ AUCTION PACK, CONTENDERS CUT BY HALF

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...

INVEST IN FINLAND TARGETS INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

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,...

DSC TO BUY CELCORE IN STOCK EXCHANGE

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...

AMERITECH TO USE AERIS’ FOR DATA

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...

WIRELESS DATA INDUSTRY FIGHTS FOR GROUND ON NEW BATTLEFIELD

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

NEW SENIOR TEAM AT CTIA

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)...

WIRELESSNORTH, CLEARNET INK ROAMING PACT

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...

CELL-LOC TO BEGIN TESTING IN CALGARY

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...

CALENDAR

NOVEMBER10-11 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...

CHADMOORE CANCELS RIGHTS TO 5.5M OPTIONS

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...

LUCENT WINS TDMA DEAL IN COSTA RICA

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...

KOREAN MANUFACTURERS TO EMPLOY LUCENT EVRC: CHIP USED IN HANDSETS, BASE STATIONS

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...

ILL. SUPERCONDUCTOR GETS $5M FINANCING

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....

BEARCOM ANNOUNCES 3 MORE PURCHASES

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...
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