Yearly Archives: 1997

TELALERT FUNCTION EXTENDS TO TWO-WAY

OAKLAND, Calif.-Telamon, which makes notification, interactive response and data communications products, announced that its flagship TelAlert product has been integrated with two-way pagers and...

BELL ATLANTIC BARTERS INFOSTRADA STAKE FOR GREATER OMNITEL SHARE

Bell Atlantic Corp. announced it sold its 33-percent ownership stake in the Italian telephone carrier Infostrada to its partner in that venture, Olivetti spa,...

QUALCOMM SECURES WLL DEAL FROM NIGERIAN STARCOMMS LTD.

SAN DIEGO-Nigerian Starcomms Ltd., a privately licensed wireless local loop operator, has agreed to provide service to the Lagos area of Nigeria using a...

AMERICAN PAGING ADOPTS PHENX

PHOENIX-American Paging Inc. has installed TekNow Inc.'s Internet paging gateway, PhenX, to support its Internet-based paging programs in 15 U.S. markets.The IPG receives e-mail...

CARRIER COURTS SIEMENS BUT NO RING EXCHANGE YET

ClearComm L.P. is courting Siemens AG to provide equipment and finance the C-block personal communications services winner's Puerto Rican network, but the licensee still...

ATTENTION TO WORDING IS ESSENTIAL TO AVOID SECURITIES LAWSUITS

NEW YORK-A year after enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995-designed to prevent frivolous shareholder lawsuits-the caliber of the federal cases...

CELLCOM ACTIVATES TWO WIS. TOWERS

DE PERE, Wis.-Cellcom announced it has activated two new towers in the Green Bay, Wis., area. One is located on the west side near...

GOAMERICA SEEKS BUSINESS USERS TODAY, MASS MARKET TOMORROW

GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is...

CMS ST. CLOUD WILL OFFER ANALOG, TDMA OR CDMA

ST. CLOUD, Minn.-Wireless carrier CMS St. Cloud said it will become one of the first operators in the United States to offer customers a...

LUCENT EQUIPS AT&T IN DETROIT

DETROIT-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services network in Detroit, using infrastructure equipment supplied and installed by Lucent...

PRICE WINS STATE CONTRACT FOR ALA.

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-The state of Alabama awarded Price Communications Wireless Inc. a two-year contract for cellular service effective Dec. 1, said the company..The contract includes...

MOTOROLA SHOWS CDMA-BASED MICROCELLULAR BASE STATIONS

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group introduced two Code Division Multiple Access microcellular base stations.The SC 614 and SC 614T base transceiver stations...

NOKIA TO ACQUIRE IPSILON NETWORKING

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will acquire Ipsilon Networking Inc., a company that develops open Internet Protocol routing platforms, in a $120 million transaction.Nokia...

GRUPO IUSACELL PLANS UPGRADE IN MEXICO CITY, TO BUILD CDMA

PHILADELPHIA-Grupo Iusacell, Bell Atlantic Corp.'s communications venture in Mexico, plans to launch Mexico's first Code Division Multiple Access network as part of a $200...

D.C. NOTES

Well, here it is only a couple weeks from the holidays and folks are getting frazzled.Imagine kicking out the First Lady's luncheon pal, gossip...

PAGEROLA BECOMES GOCOMM WIRELESS

Pagerola Corp. announced that it changed its name to GoComm Wireless Corp., pursuant to an undisclosed agreement with Motorola Inc., which had threatened to...

ANALYSTS FORESEE FUTURE FULL OF SEGMENTED CARRIER OPPORTUNITIES

ORLANDO, Fla.-Put four analysts up on a podium, ask them what they think and while their answers don't always agree on specifics, their big...

RCC OWNER SAYS ARTICLE MISGUIDED

Dear Editor: Mr. Jeffrey Silva's "Little LEO's fail to secure spectrum" (Dec. 1, p.1) is one-sided and incorrect. The first line stated that the "United...

QUALCOMM TO OFFER VERY SMALL CDMA TRANCEIVER STATIONS

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. says it introduced the industry's smallest Code Division Multiple Access base transceiver stations for cellular and personal communications services networks.The QCell...

CONGRESS MAY NOT WANT FCC TO MOVE TO THE PORTALS IN THE END

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee said a law partner of Peter Knight, lobbyist for Portals developer Franklin Haney and former Clinton-Gore campaign manager, told the...

LUCENT COMPLETES PROTOTYPE W-CDMA BASE STATION FOR NTT

MT. OLIVE, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed its prototype base station that will be used by NTT DoCoMo of Japan in experiments on...

QUALCOMM SELECTS LUCENT CONVERTERS

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Qualcomm Inc. has chosen DC-to-DC power converters from Lucent Technologies Inc. to power its next generation of satellite communications equipment, announced the...

MCCAW TO REJOIN TELEDESIC AS CEO

Teledesic Corp. announced Craig McCaw will return to his former post as chief executive officer of the company, where he will share the position...

GEOWORKS OS TO AID SMART PHONE DESIGN

Geoworks announced a significant evolution to its GEOS operating system that will allow handset manufacturers to quickly produce a range of low-end to high-end...

KENNARD SAYS SPECTRUM PROBE MAY BE COMPETITIVELY MOTIVATED: FCC PLANS TO REVIEW TELEDESIC, TELIGENT AGREEMENTS NEXT YEAR

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard, under fire from Capitol Hill, last week defended a compromise with the Clinton administration to protect U.S. spy...
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