1997

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. next month will begin construction on a cellular equipment manufacturing plant and global provisioning center in Brazil. The company said more than 300 people will …

LONDON-Prepaid card sales may fuel mobile phone growth, but they also will erode already declining margins, according to a new report by CIT Research Ltd. of London. Cards allow calling …

TORRANCE, Calif.-Intek Diversified Corp.’s subsidiary Roamer One signed an agreement to provide voice communication and computer aided dispatch to Time Warner Inc. for its cable television fleet operating in northern …

NEW YORK-Through an add-on offering of American Depository Shares, FGI Wireless Ltd., an Illinois corporation, is looking to reduce substantially its ownership in Vimpel-Communications, a Russian cellular carrier that went …

Metrica says it holds the sole championship title in its corner of the global telecom industry, network performance management. The United States is especially promising right now for its business, …

NEW YORK-Metrocall Inc. announced an escalation in paging users in two markets where broadband personal communications services have been launched, discrediting the theory that the introduction of broadband PCS services …

DENVER-Winners of the recently completed Wireless Communications Services auction may be likely to choose Personal Access Communications Systems as their technology of choice, said Paul Carroll, vice president of marketing …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. has acquired the naming rights to two sports facilities, the renovated Gatorbowl stadium in Jacksonville, Fla., and a new Civic Center that will be built in …

WASHINGTON-Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom accused Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler of making false and misleading statements to Congress about the agency’s role in implementing the 1994 digital …

WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. introduced its Direct Link one-number service, which integrates voice, fax, messaging and “find me” capabilities into a customer’s cellular phone number. Calls can be routed …

Motorola Inc. has agreed to license to Racal Communications Inc. the digital technology for APCO Project 25 public safety products. Rockville, Md.-based Racal is the seventh company to license the …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. granted a worldwide, royalty-bearing license to Sharp Corp. to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access subscriber products. Sharp is the 16th Japanese manufacturer to receive an …

Belt-tightening, steady growth of one-way services and advances in two-way and voice paging are winning the paging sector renewed interest on Wall Street. “I think there are people in the …

TORONTO-Telular Canada Inc. agreed to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Lava Systems Inc., which together will operate as an integrated information management company. According to the agreement, each Telular …

NEW YORK-When it comes to further consolidation in paging, the industry in the United States has taken a deep breath and is waiting to exhale. During 1995 and early 1996, …

WASHINGTON-Overarching economic, trade and political policies evolving in the United States and abroad are likely to eclipse telecommunications policy as the key drivers of wireless commerce in the next century. …

TUCSON, Ariz.-AirTouch Cellular selected Authentix Network Inc.’s Roamer Verification Reinstatement system for roaming fraud prevention in 17 states. The agreement follows a successful implementation last year of the Authentix Verification …

TORONTO-Telular Canada Inc. agreed to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Lava Systems Inc., which together will operate as an integrated information management company. According to the agreement, each Telular …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Cellcom, which operates a cellular network in Wisconsin and Iowa, will purchase four beta units of Conductus Inc.’s ClearSite receiver subsystem following a successful trial of the system, Conductus …

CARLSBAD, Calif.-Coded Communications Corp. and Racom Corp. partnered to provide wireless data access to Iowa public safety fleets, which allows them to access various law enforcement databases, broadcast their positions …

NEW YORK-Comcast Cellular Holdings Inc., a newly formed holding company, plans to sell privately $900 million in senior unsecured notes that will be used to help repay the outstanding debt …

Frontier Cellular should have been included on RCR’s Top 20 Cellular Carriers list. The company had 233,199 subscribers for year-end 1996. Also, Comcast Cellular Communications Inc.s markets are in Delaware, …

DENVER-An affiliate of Dobson Communications Corp. acquired cellular assets from Horizon Cellular Telephone Co. of Hagerstown L.P. and Cumberland Cellular Partnership. Included in the acquisition are the Hagerstown, Md., metropolitan …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden- L.M. Ericsson’s first quarter financial results produced net sales of $4 billion, a 36 percent increase from $2.9 billion during the same period a year ago. Net income …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Radio Messaging AB agreed to transfer all production and marketing rights for Ericsson’s RDS products to Cetronic AB. RDS is a subcarrier technology that is used in the …