1997

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 touch-tone phones. The TelAlert product automates …

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, which already holds the remaining 67 …

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 $40 million cdmaOne system supplied by …

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 and World Wide Web-based messages …

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 has to clear two major hurdles …

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 brought is improving, but the overall …

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 Austin Straubel Airport, and the other …

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

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 choice of Code Division Multiple Access, …

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 Technologies Inc. The new system has …

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 options for two additional 12-month …

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 support operators in both the …

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 has held a minority interest …

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 million upgrade beginning in Mexico City …

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 columnist Cindy Adams, for making …

Pagerola Corp. announced that it changed its name to GoComm Wireless Corp., pursuant to an undisclosed agreement with Motorola Inc., which had threatened to sue for trademark infringement, according to …

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 picture themes often seem similar. That’s …

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 States failed once again to …

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 519e and 508e BTSs are …

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 panel the $1 million Haney paid …

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 a wideband Code Division Multiple Access …

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 companies. The Lucent JW060 triple-output series …

Teledesic Corp. announced Craig McCaw will return to his former post as chief executive officer of the company, where he will share the position with Steve Hooper, a longtime associate …

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 smart phones. Consumer electronics giant Mitsubishi …

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 satellite frequencies by shifting around spectrum …