Yearly Archives: 1997

COMMISSIONERS STILL BITTER OVER C-BLOCK RESTRUCTURING BLUEPRINT

WASHINGTON-With all its internal struggles regarding the proposed new Federal Communications Commissioners reportedly solved, Congress was poised at press time to vote on the...

ILLUMINET FINISHES PORTABILITY TESTING

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet said it completed the service provider testing necessary to connect to Lockheed Martin's Number Portability Administration Center in the mid-Atlantic region.Completion of...

MOTOROLA TO MARKET BOSTON’S PRODUCTS

WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has signed an agreement with Motorola Inc. through the its Cellular Subscriber Sector's Latin America Division, under...

BELL ATLANTIC NYNEX MERGER BRINGS MORE SAVINGS THAN EXPECTED

NEW YORK-Two months into Bell Atlantic Corp.'s completed acquisition of Nynex Corp., company executives told the investment community they expect greater savings and higher...

BELLSOUTH TO BUY REST OF RAM STAKE

BellSouth Corp. announced it will buy Ram Broadcasting Corp., thereby gaining complete control of Ram Mobile Data USA's wireless data network, which the two...

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...

GEORGIA BUSINESS SAYS STATE AL LOWS LEGAL CELL PHONE EXTENSIONS: CELL PHONE EMULATION REMAINS MURKY POINT FOR COMPANIES

NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions...

AERIAL TEAMS WITH BIG BEAR GROCERIES

CHICAGO-Aerial Communications Inc. is trying to lure potential Ohio customers to its personal communications services network as they ponder over pork chops and compare...

WINSTAR TO SUPPLY POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT SERVICE WITH SIEMENS, BNI

WinStar Communications Inc. last week announced it signed agreements with Siemens Telecom Networks and Broadband Networks Inc., which will allow WinStar to supply digital...

CONGRESS QUESTIONS INDUSTRY, FBI ON LACK OF CALEA PROGRESS

WASHINGTON-Members of the House Subcommittee on Crime now know what the wireless industry has recognized but the public-safety community refuses to admit: that the two...

ADC INTRODUCES NEW MULTIPLEXER

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced the release of its EZT3 DS3 access multiplexer, which it said gives carriers the power of simple network management protocol...

PUTTING INTELLIGENCE ON NETWORK, INFERNO TO MAKE PHONES SMART: LUCENT, NEO NETWORKS EXPLORE DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE DESIGN

NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.NEO...

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...

HUGHES’ ARMSTRONG TO LEAD AT&T, 3Q EARNINGS DROP 15 PERCENT

AT&T Corp.'s board of directors unanimously elected C. Michael Armstrong chairman and chief executive officer of the company, effective Nov. 1.AT&T was widely viewed...

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...

AMS’ NET INCOME DOWN 58 PERCENT

FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems announced its third-quarter net income reached $4.5 million, or 11 cents per share, compared with $10.7 million, or 25 cents...

AMERITEL TEAMS WITH CABLE & WIRELESS

NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc. subsidiary Ameritel Communications and Cable and Wireless Inc. announced they formed a strategic alliance, under which CWI will use USCI's carrier...

MESSAGING COMPANIES TRY TO MARKET SERVICE TO DEAF COMMUNITY: ADVOCATE SAYS PAGING SERVICES ARE CRUCIAL TO DEAF PEOPLE

Business and consumer market customers traditionally have been the focus of the paging industry's marketing and sales efforts. But there is a hidden, some...

GEOTEK SUBSIDIARY GETS ARGENTINE DEAL

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. announced its majority-owned subsidiary, Geotek Argentina S.A., was awarded a nationwide license to build a digital Frequency Hopping Multiple Access...

CHINA MPT STARTS FLEX WITH ROAMING

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications launched its FLEX-based Nationwide High Speed Paging Network in 11 provincial capital cities. The system uses high-speed...

BC TEL TO EQUIP POLICE WITH CDPD

BURNABY, B.C.-BC Tel Mobility, a Cellular Digital Packet Data network provider in British Columbia, Canada, announced the Victoria and Abbotsford police departments have opted...

CELLPORT INTRODUCES NEW DATA APP SERVER PLATFORM

CellPort Labs Inc. introduced its second-generation communications server platform for wireless data applications in intelligent vehicle communications.Formerly called Mobile Web, the renamed C/P Connect...

POWERTEL AND GEMPLUS TESTING STUDENT CARDS ON FSU CAMPUS

NEW YORK-Powertel Inc., a personal communications services carrier based in West Point, Ga., announced Oct. 20 it joined forces with Gemplus Corp. and CyberMark...

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...

CORSAIR FRAUD TOOL ON IN PUERTO RICO

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications deployed its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in Puerto Rico for Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico Inc., announced the company.The...
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