Monthly Archives: December, 1997

COURT REMANDS CASE AGAINST L.A. CELLULAR BACK TO LOWER LEVEL

A California court of appeals remanded for further proceedings a judgment for Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co., allowing four cellular dealers to revisit part...

ERICSSON CUTS INFOCOM UNIT AGAIN; SOME MAY MOVE TO WIRELESS

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Saying "profitability is not satisfactory," the Business Area Infocom Systems division of L.M. Ericsson plans to lay off another 10,000 employees worldwide in...

CONGRESS PROBES FREE LICENSES, TELEDESIC AND TELIGENT CRY FOUL

WASHINGTON-As key House and Senate GOP lawmakers probe whether licenses valued at more than $1 billion were given away to Teledesic Corp. and Teligent...

DTS RECEIVES ITS LARGEST ORDER EVER

ATLANTA-Digital Transmission Systems Inc., a telecommunications equipment maker, recently announced that it received a $5.4 million order from a national wireless carrier.The order, which...

ERICSSON PCS SET PROMISES STYLE, PERSONALIZED FEATURES

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. recently announced that shipments of its smallest personal communications services phone are under way this month.The CF 788 weighs...

GENERAL MAGIC INC. RELEASES DATAROVER FAMILY OF HANDHELDS

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. unveiled its first product in the DataRover family of handheld communications devices.The DataRover 840 is a handheld computer, weighing 18...

GTE PLANS TO USE MOTOROLA’S CDMA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-GTE Wireless plans to launch an 800 MHz digital cellular phone system in San Diego using the cdmaOne infrastructure equipment supplied by...

FLA. TOWN TO INSTALL MOTOROLA NETWORK

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-The city of Hialeah, Fla., approved the $6.4 million purchase of a trunked, two-way public-safety radio system from Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products...

800 MHZ SMR AUCTION SLOWS; FCC RELEASES ’98 BIDDING DATES

WASHINGTON-With the numbers showing net revenues of $80.7 million at the end of round 142 last Wednesday, and with 14 new high bids garnered,...

CELLULAR ONE GIVES HOMELESS FREE CALLS

MADISON, Wis.-Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois said it will provide cellular phones and airtime to homeless people again this Thanksgiving so they...

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCES FAMILY OF RF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

NEW YORK-With the introduction Dec. 1 of a suite of radio-frequency integrated circuit products, Texas Instruments, Dallas, made a giant leap forward toward providing...

TELLABS, ERICSSON EXTEND PARTNERSHIP

LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs Inc. and Ericsson Radio Access announced they will extend their collaboration partnership for another seven years. The terms of the new joint...

WIRELESS VENDORS WILL CONTINUE GLOBAL REVENUE TIDAL WAVE RIDE

Global industry trends regarding future sales of wireless communications equipment are going to include enough opportunity for everyone with something to offer, according to...

D.C. NOTES

Reps. Tom Bliley (R-Va.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) apparently have had it with rope-a-dope delays by Franklin L. Haney. Haney, as you may recall,...

CORRECTIONS

In the Oct. 13 issue of RCR, the story on Motorola Inc.'s FLEX Architecture Solutions Division incorrectly stated the nature of the division's November...

VIEWPOINT

'Tis the season to buy!And with some wireless carriers estimating that between 30 percent and 40 percent of their business takes place this quarter,...

LITTLE LEOS FAIL TO SECURE SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-The United States failed once again to secure spectrum below 1 GHz for little low-earth-orbit satellites at the World Radio Conference in Geneva, but...

TELULAR DELIVERS WLL SERVICE TO THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA

VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. said it will begin delivering PhoneCell fixed wireless terminals to the West African Republic of Guinea this month, after being...

CARRIERS GET ILLUMINET SUPPORT

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Several wireless carriers selected Illuminet's Cellular Administration and Operations Support Service to manage seamless roaming in new markets and to establish roaming with...

INTELLICELL PLATFORM PART OF PHS SYSTEM

SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. recently announced the incorporation of its IntelliCell Personal Handyphone System platform into the next generation of cell stations to serve...

BRIGHTPOINT WINS ESAT DIGIFONE PACT

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc.'s new subsidiary, Brightpoint (Ireland) Ltd., will supply Esat Digifone with "Digipacks" that will include fulfillment and distribution services, and wireless handsets and...

NOKIA WILL EXPAND CHINESE NETWORKS

ESPOO,Finland-Nokia Corp. signed agreements to expand Global System for Mobile communications networks for two carriers in China.An agreement with Jiangxi Post and Telecommunications Administration...

PRICES DOWN 6 PERCENT AS PCS AND CELLULAR FIGHT FOR CUSTOMERS

NEW YORK-Competition among wireless carriers has driven down per-minute use charges by 6 percent on average, with some carriers slashing prices by more than...

LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY EMBRACES WIRELESS DATA SERVICES

The use of mobile data products by police departments has gained such rapid acceptance across the country this year that it may be emerging...

VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT MAY SCHEDULE JANUARY LICENSE AUCTION: ANALYST DOUBTS TIME FRAME

Shortly after the Venezuela telecom regulatory agency Conatel was forced to lift the ban prohibiting the country's two cellular operators from adding new subscribers,...
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