Yearly Archives: 1997

MOTOROLA TO SET UP PAGING IN TAIWAN

SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Paging Networks Division announced it signed a paging infrastructure contract with Express Telecommunications Co., a regional paging carrier in the...

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...

CONDUCTUS SECURES SUBSYSTEM ORDERS

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has received commitments from two cellular operators to deploy its multiple ClearSite receiver subsystems in the carriers' base stations.Conductus...

GEOTEK’S FHMA IS LIVE IN KOREA

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. announced the commercial launch of a Frequency Hopping Multiple Access network in Seoul, South Korea.The network will be operated by...

SMARTALK TO SELL 1.3 MILLION SHARES

LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk announced it will sell 1.3 million shares of its common stock.Robert Lorsch, chairman and chief executive officer, still will remain the company's...

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...

SANDLER CAPITAL BUYS PRICE STAKE

NEW YORK-Sandler Capital Management purchased 750,000 shares of Price Communications Corp. in a private transaction during October, announced Price Communications."Harvey Sandler is a successful...

PAGEMART EXECS SHIFT TO FOCUS ON NARROWBAND

DALLAS-In a move the company said would better position it for future competition, PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a reorganization in its executive management structure...

IEEE CONFERENCE JOINS PCS ’99

ALEXANDRIA, VA.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced that the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Communications Society's Wireless Communications Conference will be held in...

FIDO BECOMES WORLD TRAVELER

MONTREAL-Users of Microcell Solutions Inc.'s personal communication service, Fido, can now roam in France, England, Switzerland, Germany and Hong Kong, said the company.Fido customers...

ADC AND INTERWAVE TO SELL MICROCELLULAR SYSTEMS IN CHINA

SAN DIEGO-ADC Wireless Systems and interWave Communications International Ltd., which provides digital microcellular network systems worldwide, announced they have reached an exclusive agreement to...

CORSAIR TARGETS POOR QUALITY PHONES WITH NEW CARRIER PRODUCT

Corsair Communications Inc. released a follow-on product to its PhonePrint fraud product designed to target subscriber handset problems that could lead to churn.Called PhoneCheck,...

ACCESSLINK PAGING USERS CAN CONNECT TO PALMPILOT

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced users of the AccessLink two-way data messaging pager, made by its recently acquired wholly owned subsidiary Wireless Access...

NEW YORK RESELLER LEAVING LONG-DISTANCE FOR RUSSIAN ENTERPRISE

NEW YORK-A New York City in-state reseller of long-distance wireline services did an about face with the advent of telecommunications deregulation here, changing its...

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...

PCS ONE KICKS OFF IN PENNSYLVANIA

LANCASTER, Pa.-PCS One, a joint venture of D&E Communications and Omnipoint Corp., launched personal communications services in Central Pennsylvania, which the operator said is...

MOTOROLA SIGNS ON LIAONING FOR FLEX

SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.'s Asia-Pacific Paging Networks Division announced it signed a paging infrastructure contract with Liaoning Province Mobile Communications Ltd. in China.The contract, valued at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SAMSUNG PARTNERS TO DELIVER PHONES

NEW YORK-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and Ameritech Corp. expect to announce by early next month a partnership to deliver dual-mode Code Division Multiple Access/Analog...

BRIGHTPOINT SELLS PREPAID TO ISLA

INDIANAPOLIS-Isla Communications Co. Inc., a network carrier in the Philippines, has selected Brightpoint Inc. to install and manage its prepaid cellular service.Brightpoint said it...

QUICKPHONE TO SELL SHARED’S SERVICES, COMPANY SET TO EXPAND OPERATIONS

NEW YORK-Quickphone has negotiated a nationwide airtime agreement with Shared Technologies Cellular to provide analog cellular coverage to Quickphone's established markets throughout the United...

AT&T, ERICSSON DONATE WARES TO MAKE SCHOOLS SAFER PLACES

WASHINGTON-In an effort to increase safety for students, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Ericsson Mobile Phones announced their Safe Schools program yesterday, which will...
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