Yearly Archives: 1997

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...

GLOBALSTAR TO ISSUE $325M SENIOR NOTES

NEW YORK-Globalstar, L.P., which plans to become a wholesaler of a satellite-based wireless voice and data communications, will sell a $325 million issue of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

POWERTEL ADDS PCS IN TWO MORE CITIES

AUGUSTA, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced it has launched personal communications services in Augusta, Ga., and Aiken, S.C., based on Global System for Mobile communications technology.The...

NORTEL TO EQUIP TELSTRA SYSTEM

SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra, an Australian telecom company, announced it selected Northern Telecom Inc. as its preferred digital fixed wireless access network infrastructure equipment and 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...

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...

NIIGATA PHONES USE COMMQUEST CHIPS

ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. said it signed a product development agreement with Niigata Seimitsu, a telecom manufacturing company in Japan.Under the agreement, Niigata will...

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...

SHARED PARTNERS WITH WORLDWIDE

WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed an agreement appointing Worldwide Direct Inc. an exclusive authorized distributor of STC's prepaid service, called CellEase.Under...

LETTERS

CTIA clarifies role in standardizationDear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept....

BRIGHTPOINT STOCK TO SPLIT TWO-FOR-ONE

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it declared a two-for-one stock split to be effected in the form a 100-percent stock dividend payable on Nov. 21 to...

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...

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...

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...
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