1997

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola’s Land Mobile Products Sector announced it signed a $38 million, 10-year contract with the city of San Francisco to provide a digital 800 MHz trunked radio communications system. …

Confirming rumors that have been circulating for weeks, Teligent LLC announced that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. of Japan has agreed to make a $100 million strategic investment in the …

NEW YORK-Within five years, the Global Chipcard Alliance envisions a transformation from today’s fragmented patchwork of closed systems to a worldwide seamless environment of multipurpose smart cards, said David P. …

MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. announced it signed a contract valued at $2.1 million with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Taiwanese partner, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd. The order for LCC’s field …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc.’s subsidiary, Brightpoint China Ltd., completed its acquisition of the business and certain assets of Legend International Ltd. The acquisition of the Hong Kong-based distributor of wireless communication equipment …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Subscription fraud-the practice of assuming another person’s identity and possibly his or her credit history-is the successor to cloning in the wireless industry, and carriers are putting in place …

WorldCom Inc. last week made an unsolicited offer to merge with MCI Communications Corp. in a deal that would eclipse British Telecommunications plc’s planned acquisition of MCI, which has been …

WASHINGTON-Though legislation to privatize the world’s two multigovernment international satellite consortia is unlikely to move until next year, firms are moving ahead aggressively to lock in new mobile satellite service …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Southwestco Wireless L.P. have agreed to settle their highly emotional dispute over in-market roaming in Phoenix. The companies have resumed reciprocal cellular roaming under a …

NEW YORK-After a two-year bear market, wireless stocks began a rebound in April that is ongoing, and companies involved in all aspects of the industry are well worth a look, …

MACON-WARNER ROBINS, Ga.-More than 300,000 residents here now have access to personal communications services, as Powertel Inc. launched its service last week. The company uses Global System for Mobile communications …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-Brightpoint Inc. entered into an agreement with RAM Mobile Data to provide integrated order fulfillment for RAM’s new RAMfirst Interactive Paging Service. According to the agreement, Brightpoint is handling …

WASHINGTON – In a surprise move, National Telecom PCS Inc., which lost its C-block American Samoa personal communications services license last year due to default but which has been fighting …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile announced its next-generation Cellscape Internet access service, which includes additional information services, enhanced encryption and predictable pricing. Cellscape provides business customers with access to information on …

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. reported a third quarter net income of $16.2 million, or 53 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $12.3 million, or 43 cents per share, …

The Federal Communications Commission denied Southern California SMR entrepreneur James Kay Jr.’s appeal to disqualify Administrative Law Judge Richard Sippel from presiding over an evidentiary hearing Kay won the right …

A shift in mobile phone operators’ attitudes toward leasing sites has caused a Cary, N.C., company to push ahead with plans to develop and build its own tower sites and …

WASHINGTON-With industry consolidation increasing and prospects for greater facilities-based competition diminishing, new life has been breathed into the wireless resale debate. Most recently, San Francisco-based AirTouch Communications Inc. has come …

Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000) 1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,000 2 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,000 3 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,152 4 NEC Corp. $718,000 5 Nokia Corp. $654,460 6 …

Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000) 1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,000 2 NEC Corp. $41,174,000 3 Motorola Inc. $27,973,000 4 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,000 5 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone …

IBM Corp. and Geotek Communications Inc. announced they will join forces to provide integrated mobile communications services, equipment and software to business customers in the United States and some international …

The PCS companies now proposing that the Federal Communications Commission change the rules to allow them to stay in business are proposing options that any creditor in the business world …