1997

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 system covers the carrier’s properties …

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 senior notes. Globalstar, headquartered in New …

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 to be under pressure to …

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 in a four-month trial of prototype …

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 to use CDPD for wireless communications. …

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 leaders of a new regime at …

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 earnings growth than originally envisioned for …

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 Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate …

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 made, said John Doumont, president of …

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 parties are no closer to …

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 server platform is “an embedded, …

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 the testing means Illuminet’s service …

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 company said it now provides …

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 provider, with plans to deploy 350 …

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 the company provides specialized mobile radio …

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 say ignored, segment of the population …

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 network in Argentina. The subsidiary holds …

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 use CommQuest’s Global System for …

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 fat content on nutritional labels. Exploring …

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 the agreement, Worldwide Direct will …

CTIA clarifies role in standardization Dear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept. 22 edition that CTIA …

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 common stock shareholders of record on …

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 into Ericsson’s total solutions for its …

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 per share, for the third quarter …

WinStar Communications Inc. last week announced it signed agreements with Siemens Telecom Networks and Broadband Networks Inc., which will allow WinStar to supply digital multipoint local network systems for deployment …