Yearly Archives: 1997

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...

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...

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...

PRIMECO TO OFFER INVESTMENT ACCESS

HOUSTON, Texas-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. and Telescan Inc. have signed an agreement to offer Telescan Direct, a customizable wireless service that helps consumers keep...

UNIDEN LAUNCHES NEW CDPD DEVICE

SAN DIEGO-Mobile computer users now will be able to retrieve e-mail, connect to the Internet, send faxes and stay in touch while out of...

PEOPLE

ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for...

LET’S TALK CELLULAR PREPARES TO GO PUBLIC TO FUEL EXPANSION PLANS

NEW YORK-Let's Talk Cellular and Wireless Inc., Miami, was scheduled to go public Nov. 21, raising funds to fuel its construction of new stores...

CACTUS TACKLES PRICKLY PRICE-SENSITIVE NETWORK BUILDOUT ISSUES

A Denver-based company has caught the attention of price-sensitive mobile phone carriers as well as some big manufacturers.Cactus Integration Group, incorporated Aug. 1, provides...

VIEWPOINT

It's always uneasy when a new group of people in power take over, whether it's at the local city council, Congress or the Federal...

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...

MEN PLEAD GUILTY TO INTERCEPTING PAGES

Three men accused of illegally intercepting alphanumeric paging messages of New York City Police and Fire Departments each pled guilty to misdemeanor charges of...

NATTEL ASKS FCC TO DISCIPLINE POCKET OVER EX PARTE VIOLATIONS

WASHINGTON-C-block personal communications services bidder National Telecom PCS Inc. has charged DCR PCS Inc., also known as Pocket Communications Inc., with conducting illegal ex...

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...

MIZAR, LOUGHBOROUGH TO MERGE DSP MANUFACTURING BUSINESS

DALLAS-Mizar Inc. and Loughborough Sound Images Ltd., both suppliers of computing products for the real-time signal and image processing markets, signed a definitive merger...

SPRINT EXTENDS PCS TO NEW ENGLAND

PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. began offering personal communication services in New England, including the cities of Providence, R.I., Boston, Manchester, N.H., and Portland, Maine.Sprint...

ODETICS WINS $3M IN ORDERS FROM LG

ANAHEIM, Calif.-Odetics Telecom announced it has received more than $3 million in orders for its K-Star II and PCS-GPS wireless synchronization systems from LG...

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...

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...

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...

EGYPTIAN CARRIER PREPARES FOR IPO

NEW YORK-A 30-percent stake in Egyptian Mobile Telephone Co., the federally run wireless carrier, is expected to be offered later this month in an...

NEXUS’ TWO-WAY IS LIVE IN AUSTRALIA

TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced its inauguration of the TagNet two-way paging network in Sydney, Australia.TagNet Pty Ltd. is operating the network,...

MOTOROLA TO EQUIP ALIANT CELLULAR INC.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said Aliant Cellular Inc. awarded it a contract to replace an analog cellular network and deploy Narrowband...

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...

D.C. NOTES

More bad news for the wireless telecom industry on the RF front. The Communications Workers of America is throwing its full weight behind an...

COMMUNICATION IS KEY IN SUCCESSFUL RESELLER-CARRIER RELATIONSHIP

The sensational failure of California-based reseller Econopage Inc. last month, chronicled with great detail and length in the media, brings to light several questions...
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