Yearly Archives: 1997

MOTOROLA LMPS SIGNS SFO CITY

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...

TELIGENT CONFIRMS NTT INVESTMENT

Confirming rumors that have been circulating for weeks, Teligent LLC announced that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. of Japan has agreed to make a...

GLOBAL CHIPCARD ALLIANCE ENVISIONS MULTIPURPOSE SMART CARDS

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...

LCC WINS CONTRACT FROM FAR EASTONE

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....

BRIGHTPOINT CHINA CLOSES LEGEND BUY

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...

SUBSCRIPTION FRAUD COMES FULL CIRCLE IN CRIME GAME

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,...

WORLDCOM OFFER FOR MCI ECLIPSES BT’S PROPOSAL

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...

BILL TO RESTRUCTURE SATELLITE POLICY MAY BE STALLED IN CONTROVERSY

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...

AT&T WIRELESS AND SOUTHWESTCO SETTLE PHOENIX ROAMING TIFF

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...

WIRELESS SECTOR STOCKS ARE OUTPERFORMING BROADER MARKETS

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...

POWERTEL STARTS PCS IN GA. TOWN

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...

BRIGHTPOINT SIGNS WITH RAM MOBILE

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...

NATTEL PITCHES POCKET TAKEOVER

WASHINGTON - In a surprise move, National Telecom PCS Inc., which lost its C-block American Samoa personal communications services license last year due to...

BAM ANNOUNCES INTERNET SERVICE

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...

CELLSTAR REPORTS RECORD 3Q REVENUE

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...

KAY APPEAL TO DISQUALIFY LAW JUDGE SIPPEL DENIED BY FCC

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...

ATTITUDE SHIFT CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR SPECTRASITE

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...

Mobile Data Operators

AIRTOUCH TAKES HEAT FOR WIRELESS RESALE PROGRAM FROM CRITICS

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...

NET INCOME LEADERS

Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000)1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,0002 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,0003...

REVENUE LEADERS

Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000)1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,0002 NEC Corp. ...

IBM, GEOTEK PARTNERSHIP TO PROVIDE INTEGRATED MOBILE BUSINESS SERVICES

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

VIEWPOINT

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