1997

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 …

NEW YORK-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. said June 25 it had raised the ratings on debt securities issued by U.S. Cellular Corp. while affirming the ratings on outstanding debt …

Bad hair week for the Baby Bells and smut police. A near miss for wireless. The Justice Department last Wednesday recommended against Ameritech’s foray into the Michigan long-distance market. So …

Espoo, FINLAND-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Unwired Planet Inc. will work together to define a common protocol for wireless data technologies. The initial proposal to consolidate the technologies …

With the advent of competition in the wireless marketplace, many carriers are focusing on building networks or protecting and acquiring their customer bases. A white paper released by Arthur Anderson …

At an unprecedented gathering earlier this month, a number of prominent specialized mobile radio equipment suppliers temporarily set aside competitive interests to draft a historic action plan. Their goal: selecting …

CEDAR CREST, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. signed letters of intent to acquire all of the capital stock of Microcell Communications of America Inc. and Ellis Tower Co. Inc. in exchange for …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.’s Wireless Messaging Group said it successfully transmitted one-way and two-way paging messages concurrently using the same network infrastructure. During ReFLEX testing with PageMart Wireless Inc., Glenayre …

When Mark Feighner took the reins as president of GTE Wireless Corp. a little more than two years ago, his goal was to profitably grow the company in line with …

Bell Atlantic Corp.’s Carrier Services has teamed up with Metrocall Inc. to launch a calling party pays numeric paging service. The four-month trial service will be available to residents of …

WASHINGTON-The June 23 adoption of the Second Report and Order regarding the Phase II rules governing the future of 800 MHz specialized mobile radio and related auctions by the Federal …

WirelessNorth selected CellStar Ltd. to provide customer fulfillment for personal communications services handsets, accessories and packaging for WirelessNorth’s markets in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. WirelessNorth said it …

The whisper on Wall Street is turning into a roar. Suddenly, telecom stocks are “hot” again, springing back to life in recent weeks following a painful and prolonged two-year slump. …

BearCom Inc., a two-way radio equipment dealer, acquired a portion of Motorola Inc.’s Radio Products Group rentals business, commonly referred to as Motorola Rentals. The business will be consolidated into …

WASHINGTON-Comments submitted last week by NextWave Telecom Inc. to the Federal Communications Commission regarding proposed changes to the established C- and F-block personal communications services repayment plans smacks of a …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee last week rejected spectrum fees and toll-free telephone number auctions, but embraced lease fees for private wireless licensees in budget legislation lawmakers concede will fail to …

Antagonism is high between wireless carriers and local governments these days as carriers continue to fight with municipalities about zoning ordinances and tower sites. “Cities really want to deal with …

MANCHESTER, N.H.-Summa Four Inc. said it intends to work with Dialogic Corp. on co-development and co-marketing initiatives. Dialogic manufactures high-performance computer telephony components. Under the name “Project Summa,” the companies …

NEW YORK-Telecommunications carriers are experiencing and causing a lot of taxing questions related to how they are defined-and therefore treated-by tax departments in state and local government. It’s not your …

SAN DIEGO-ComStream Corp. won a contract to supply its VSATPlus II technology to the Telephone Organization of Thailand for a large Time Division Multiple Access very small aperture terminal satellite …

Consolidation as a means to expansion has been the tradition in the wireless industry. Look no further than Craig McCaw, amassing a wireless fortune one cellular license at a time. …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has shipped more than 6 million Mobile Station Modem chips to Code Division Multiple Access handset manufacturers worldwide. Qualcomm’s ASCI Business Unit is producing approximately …