Monthly Archives: January, 1998

WIRELESS FIRMS HOT TO SECURE WINDOWS CE AGREEMENTS

With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company's Windows...

VIEWPOINT

While not everything is rosy in the PCS world-what with a couple bankruptcies, some layoffs, downgraded and stagnant rollout plans-the industry, in general, has...

SPECTRIAN PLANS SACRAMENTO MOVE

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. signed a five-year lease on a new 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Stanford Ranch Industrial Park, northeast of Sacramento, Calif.The new location...

INTEK’S ROAMER ONE BUYING WIRELESS PLUS

NEW YORK-Intek Diversified Corp., Princeton, N.J., announced its Roamer One subsidiary signed a letter of intent to acquire Wireless Plus Inc.Wireless Plus, headquartered in...

PRODUCTS

Matrix Systems introduced the Model 7000 Series Coaxial Relay Modules, designed to maintain coaxial switching continuity over a wide range of critical and severe...

HAUTANEN TO EXIT PHILIPS

Philips Consumer Communications announced Osmo Hautanen, president of the Americas region, will leave the company March 15.Michael Lang, vice president of marketing for the...

AERIAL’S 1997 YIELDS 125,000 PCS USERS

CHICAGO-Aerial Communications Inc. cited strong holiday sales and the November launch of its Orlando, Fla., market as factors that helped the company nearly double...

PAGENET TO START SUREPAGE SERVICE

LAS VEGAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced its new guaranteed-delivery text messaging service, called SurePage Nationwide Delivery.Airtime for the service will be provided by Mobile Telecommunication...

SAMSUNG AIMS FOR HALF OF CDMA HANDSET MARKET

Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced...

CENTURY REVENUES UP, PROFITS DOWN

NEW CANAAN, Conn.-Century Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $43.6 million during the fiscal 1998 second quarter ended Nov. 30, 1997, despite a...

SOUTHWESTERN BELL ACHIEVES ROLLOUT MILESTONE

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-With the launch of digital service in Kansas City, Southwestern Bell said it now offers Time Division Multiple Access service in all...

SMARTLINK AND TRANSCRYPT AGREE ON TRUNKING SYSTEM

SmartLink Development L.P. and Transcrypt International Inc., which recently acquired E.F. Johnson Co., reached an agreement allowing SmartLink to implement Transcrypt's enhanced LTR-Net protocol...

TELLABS SIGNS ON INDIA CARRIER

LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs won a contract to supply its MartisDXX managed access and transport network solution to Indian mobile network operator Spice Telecom for its...

NO IMMEDIATE PCS COMPETITION EXPECTED FOR CENTENNIAL PUERTO RICO

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service assigned a speculative grade rating of B1 to a $130 million bank credit facility that Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp....

’99 AUCTION ESTIMATES IN LINE WITH LAST YEAR’S BUDGET

WASHINGTON-With the federal deficit giving way to an anticipated surplus, congressional and White House number crunchers are less apt to be as preoccupied with...

AT&T EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE CUTS

AT&T Corp. is expected to announce to analysts today its operating strategy for the year that will include as many as 19,000 layoffs, management...

BELL ATLANTIC MOBILE ENDS 4Q WITH $3B REVENUES

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile added almost 1 million customers and earned revenues in excess of $3 billion during 1997, the company recently announced. The...

WORLD BRIEFS

BrazilMicrowave radio equipment manufacturer Harris Corp. announced plans to open a plant during the second quarter in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to its...

INTEREST HIGH FOR BUNDLING AND CONSOLIDATED SERVICE BILLING

BOSTON-Wireless consumers increasingly are interested in bundled services from a single provider and consolidated billing, according to a recent study by the Yankee Group.Sixty-three...

WJ BUYS SAMSUNG MICROWAVE’S SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co. increased its production capacity with the purchase of Samsung Microwave Semiconductor Inc., the company said.Watkins historically produced semiconductor devices primarily...

ORBCOMM COMPLETES COVERAGE IN W. HEMISPHERE WITH MEXICO

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said it has completed satellite coverage across the Western Hemisphere, as it signed an agreement with Orbcomm de Mexico S.A....

PRICE COMMUNICATIONS GAINS 20,000 SUBS IN 4TH QUARETER

NEW YORK - Price Communications Corp. announced its new subsidiary, Price Communications Wireless - formerly Palmer Wireless - poster 19,296 net subscriber additions during...

FDA RECOMMENDS MORE RF STUDIES

WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration has recommended to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) that more research be conducted on possible health risks from mobile telephones,...

INTERDIGITAL CUTS WORK FORCE BY 17%

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. has reduced its work force by 17 percent and has restructured its operations to reduce spending and focus...

ERICSSON AND SCI TEAM TO OFFER IN-BASED PREPAID BILLING SYSTEM

IRVINE, Calif.-L.M. Ericsson and Subscriber Computing Inc. entered a partnership agreement in which Ericsson plans to market SCI's wireless intelligent network-based prepaid metered billing...
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