1997

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 $14 million, is for a …

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 Mobile Phone Service phones. The handsets …

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 with the convergent billing system …

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 track of their investments anytime via …

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 the office using the Uniden Data …

ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for building and enhancing strategic partnerships and …

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 and its role as a consolidator …

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 integrated, turnkey site development solutions …

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 Communications Commission. Certainly the people in …

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 a bandwidth scarcity and LMDS …

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

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 parte communications regarding its PCS licenses …

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 online services. The Ricochet SX modem …

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 agreement. According to the proposed agreement, …

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 PCS offers home service areas …

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 Information and Communications Ltd. Odetics telecom …

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 will deliver the systems during …

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 media money manager and we …

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 fees and does not require …

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 initial public stock offering. The offering …

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, locally called TagNet, which is …

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 Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Code …

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 binary, and also is capable of …

More bad news for the wireless telecom industry on the RF front. The Communications Workers of America is throwing its full weight behind an appeal in the D.C. circuit to …

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 regarding the nature of the paging …