Yearly Archives: 1997

MSS INDUSTRY MAY CONSOLIDATE AS CARRIERS PREPARE TO LAUNCH

NEW YORK-As the new year approaches in the horse race that is commercial deployment of low earth orbit mobile satellite systems, "we're still at...

EUROTEL PRAHA GROWTH UP 250 PERCENT

PRAGUE, Czech Republic-EuroTel Praha, a cellular operator in the Czech Republic, reported that growth increased 250 percent between third quarter 1996 and the third...

ARCH PURCHASES SATELLITE CHANNEL

TULSA, Okla.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said it bought a fourth satellite channel from SpaceCom Systems to expand its transmission capacity.The company said it expects...

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...

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...

WTO NATIONS MAY COMPETE IN U.S. MSS

NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission adopted policies Nov. 25 that permit non-United States licensed satellites to provide services in this country.As a result, the...

EURO GROUP TO BID ON ITALIAN LICENSE

ROME-A joint venture of France Telecom Group, Deutsche Telekom AG and the Italian electric company, Enel, was formed to bid for the third mobile...

PRIMECO DEPLOYS SMS SYSTEM USING LUCENT INFRASTRUCTURE

DALLAS-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced its new wireless system, Short Message Service, has been installed in PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P.'s nationwide PCS network to give...

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...

FRANCE TELECOM AIMS FOR 3M USERS

PARIS-As a leading cellular service provider in France, with a 55-percent market share, France Telecom Mobile is hoping to have 3 million Itineris Global...

FOURTH-QUARTER SALES AVERAGE 40 PERCENT OF PAGING REVENUES

With 1997 drawing to a close, the paging industry is readying itself to go out with a bang.Whether the achievement of the carrier, reseller...

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...

1998 MARKS BEGINNING OF SHIFT FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL PHONES

NEW YORK-For handset manufacturers, next year likely will be a transition period as new entrants gear up to enter the rapidly expanding wireless marketplace,...

IMTA MAINTAINS CELLULAR, PCS GROUPS, LIE TO GLOBAL GOVERNMENTS

The International Mobile Telecommunications Association announced it is launching a campaign to oppose the regulations proposed by the cellular and personal communications services industries...

SAVILLE TEAMES WITH COOPERS & LYBRAND

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Saville Systems and Coopers & Lybrand signed a strategic agreement to provide end-to-end convergent billing to telecommunication service providers worldwide.Saville will provide customers...

BELL ATLANTIC OFFERS PREPAID IN NYC

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-MobileMinutes, Bell Atlantic Mobile's prepaid wireless service, now is available in the New York metropolitan and Philadelphia areas.The prepaid service has no monthly...

APCO IS READY TO FIGHT TV LOBBY OVER FREQUENCIES

WASHINGTON-Public-safety wireless advocates have urged federal regulators not to license additional digital TV stations using frequencies that Congress this year reserved for police, fire...

GEOTEK TAKES NET LOSS; REVENUE DOUBLES FROM FHMA SYSTEM SALES

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. reported continuing net losses for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, despite significant increases in revenues.Net loss for the quarter...

HUTTON TO MARKET WI-LAN’S MODEMS

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Wi-LAN Inc. signed an agreement with Hutton Communications Inc. calling for Hutton to distribute Wi-LAN's Hopper wireless modems and Hopper Plus wireless...

METRICOM EXPANDS LINE OF RICOCHET PRODUCTS

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. announced it expanded its Ricochet line of products, which provide unlimited wireless access to the Internet, intranets, e-mail and other...

RCR PRODUCTS

Dataradio introduced T-Base, a transparent integrated radio modem base/repeater unit. It features vir-tually no bit dribble and is compatible with most protocols, including Modbus...

INTELLIGENT BUYS HM’S BATTERY UNIT

SAN DIEGO-Intelligent Technologies announced it purchased HM Electronics Inc.'s Battery Systems Division.Intelligent Technologies, or iTECH, supplies custom-designed and private-label battery systems, to companies including...

JATO AIMS TO USE LMDS FREQUENCIES FOR TWO-WAY DATA TRANSFER

Jato Communications Corp., a small Denver-based company, has big plans in the Local Multipoint Distribution Services market."We think that there is going to be...

LIGHTBRIDGE CANCELS INITIAL STOCK OFFERING

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced it will not offer 2.5 million shares of its common stock for sale to the public. Lightbridge had previously announced...

SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA SELLS MICROWAVE BIZ

ATLANTA-Scientific-Atlanta Inc. announced it sold its Microwave Instrumentation business to a private group of investors called Microwave Instrumentation Technologies L.L.C."The sale of the microwave...
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