Yearly Archives: 1997

DSC COMPLETES CELCORE BUY

DALLAS-DSC Communications Inc. completed its acquisition of Celcore Inc. for about $145 million in cash and the assumption of Celcore's outstanding stock options.The total...

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...

GLOBAL MOBILITY DEVELOPS OPEN PLATFORM TO LET APPS GO WIRELESS

A new company led by former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. executive Michael Buhrmann has developed a client-server operating platform designed to let wireless carriers...

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...

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...

NEW NEXTEL SMR AUCTION LICENSES COVER 97 PERCENT OF NATION

WASHINGTON-After 235 rounds of bidding, Nextel Communications Inc. ended up paying $88.8 million for 475 licenses covering 97 percent of the country in the...

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...

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...

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...

ERICSSON OFFERS TRIPLE-BAND BASE STATION

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson introduced what it said is the world's first Global System for Mobile communications triple-band base station system that will allow wireless...

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...

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...

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...

FEDERAL PRE-EMPTION FOE DEAN COULD CHALLENGE GORE IN 2000

WASHINGTON-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, the politician whose fight to retain local and state oversight of antenna siting and whose small Northeast state is leading...

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...

DANIELS NAMED COO AT ARCH COMMUNICATIONS

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. has chosen Lyndon Daniels as the company's new president and chief operating officer.Daniels replaces former President C. Edward Baker,...

LIGHTBRIDGE, DUN & BRADSTREET DESIGN TOOL TO ASSESS RISK

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. and Dun & Bradstreet plan to offer the Wireless Telecommunications Industry Score, a software tool that assesses risk of doing business...

NORTEL, CELLNET TEAM TO OFFER IN TERNET TO CUSTOMERS VIA SMARTPHONE APPS

MAIDENHEAD, United Kingdom-Northern Telecom Ltd. and Cellnet announced the start of a joint project to bring next-generation information and communication services to Cellnet's mobile...

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...

DTS DEBUTS ZAP-IT WIRELESS INBOX

DTS Wireless unveiled its Wireless InBox addition to its line of ZAP-IT wireless messaging services.The product is a one-mailbox solution that enables seamless wireless...

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...

U.S. DIGITAL CHANGES CHANNELS TO BECOME IRIDIUM DISTRIBUTOR

NEW YORK-U.S. Digital Communications Inc., Calabasas, Calif., is a classic example in action of the old saying, "when the going gets tough, the tough...

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...

PRIMECO PRIMETRAVEL ALLOWS DUAL-BAND ROAMING ON SONY SET

DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched its PrimeTravel service, which allows subscribers to roam throughout the nation using dual-mode/dual-band handsets manufactured by Sony Corp.The company...

PORTALS DEVELOPER MISSES COMMITTEE QUERY DATE

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee, claiming its probe of the Federal Communications Commission's relocation to The Portals is being deliberately thwarted, is considering subpoenaing the...
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