Yearly Archives: 1997

D.C. NOTES

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONNNEEEY, the song goes.That's what went through my mind after watching and reading about how salivating, sycophantic American business leaders, including...

O’HARE SHOP TO SELL GTE AIRFONE CARDS

OAK BROOK, Ill.-Airport Cellular, a retail store located at Chicago's O'Hare Airport International Terminal 5, will become the first retail outlet to sell GTE...

CITIBANK TAKES OVER LOAN TO OMNIPOINT

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. said it sold to Citibank its $132 million vendor financing loan facility with Omnipoint Communications Inc.Ericsson is one of two suppliers...

KENNARD CONFIRMED BY SENATE

WASHINGTON-The Senate last week confirmed Bill Kennard as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and approved three other agency nominees, but immediately put the...

TSR COMPLETES $175 MILLION CREDIT ISSUE

NEW YORK-TSR Paging Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., announced Oct. 29 it has closed on a new $175 million credit facility, which represents a $50...

SYNACOM TO EQUIP AIRTOUCH, DAEWOO

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Synacom Technology Inc. signed a purchase agreement with Daewoo Telecom of South Korea for its CloneSafe Interim Standard-41 authentication product. Synacom said...

MOTOROLA TO SUPPLY EQUIPMENT TO CHINA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it signed a $115 million contract with China Eastern Communications Co. Ltd. and Zhejiang Technical Import...

AMERITECH BRANCHES OUT WITH TELE DANMARK STAKE

Ameritech Corp. announced it will invest $3.2 billion to become a strategic partner in Tele Danmark, helping the company speed up its domestic and...

CLINTON, ZEMIN AGREE TO PHASE OUT TELECOM TECHNOLOGY TARIFFS

WASHINGTON-Amid an uproar of protest within an earshot of the White House against China's human and religious rights record and its sale of nuclear...

SMR FIRMS UNITE AS ALASKA WIRELESS

LOS ANGELES-Specialized mobile radio carriers AirCom L.L.C., TelAll Corp., Alaska Communications, Cardiff Communications, South Central Radio, Unitel Inc. and Lancelot Holding Corp. agreed in...

FCC SEEKS INDUSTRY COMMENT ON CALLING PARTY PAYS

WASHINGTON-Perhaps in a long-awaited move to mirror wireless billing practices around the world, the Federal Communications Commission released a notice of inquiry into the...

CONESTOGA TO USE ORGA’S SMART CARDS

PAOLI, Pa.-Conestoga Wireless selected Orga Card Systems, a supplier of Global System for Mobile communications subscriber identity module cards, to provide smart cards for...

DOBSON BUYS STAKE IN ARIZONA OPERATOR

DENVER-Dobson Communications Corp. announced an affiliate has acquired 75-percent owner-ship in the Gila River Cellular G.P. through partnership agreements.The interests were acquired from Tohona...

FLA. UTILITY TO TEST CELLEMETRY SERVICE

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp., the Fisher Pierce Division of Pacific Scientific Co. and Florida Power Corp. jointly announced an agreement to begin testing BellSouth's Cellemetry Data...

SYNERGISTIC ORDERS NETTECH INSTANTRF

PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. announced that Neptune Beach, Fla.-based software vendor Synergistic Systems will use its InstantRF wireless middleware architecture in its MobiSyn mobile...

PAGING RESELLER DEFAULTS ON PAYMENTS TO CARRIERS: ECONOPAGE CLOSES DOORS

In perhaps the biggest reseller default case ever, Paging Network Inc., PageMart Wireless Inc. and Metrocall Inc. all terminated their service agreements with San...

AERIAL $100M NOTE OFFERING RATED BBB BY DUFF & PHELPS

CHICAGO-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. assigned a BBB rating to Aerial Communications Inc.'s $100 million proposed offering of 10-year series B zero coupon...

NEXTEL LEADS ALL BIDDERS IN SPEEDY SMR AUCTION

WASHINGTON-If statistics and probability are indicators, the auction of 525 800 MHz specialized mobile radio services licenses that began last Tuesday could be over...

DIGITAL DEBT GETS ALL BS FROM MOODY’S

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. confirmed Monday its speculative grade ratings, all in the `B' range, on $1.4 billion of debt and preferred stock...

MOODY’S TO REVIEW AMERITECH RATINGS

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service placed the long-term debt ratings of Ameritech Corp., Chicago, and the affiliates it supports under review for possible downgrade.The rating...

LEAHY BILL COULD GUT ANTENNA PRE-EMPTION

WASHINGTON-In a stunning setback and reversal of fortune for the wireless industry, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) last week introduced legislation...

ERICSSON ADOPTS BRITE, VOCALIS APPS

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. announced it signed agreements with voice processing specialists Brite Voice Systems Inc. and Vocalis Group plc to integrate voice-activated dialing services...

CHADMOORE’S SMR ON IN 34 AREAS

LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has activated service in 32 more markets, bringing to 80 the number of U.S. markets in which...

ERICSSON TO EXPAND BRAZIL OPERATIONS

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to expand its existing production plant in Brazil to manufacture base stations for analog and digital Advanced Mobile Phone...

D.C. NOTES

If you don't believe in the new global economy, you probably aren't in the market.Last week's free fall in Hong Kong stock prices triggered...
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