Monthly Archives: January, 1998

LCC FOCUSES ON INTERNATIONAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT

LCC International Inc. last week made two moves that appear to be pointing toward an increasing importance of international markets to its radio frequency...

LSI LOGIC INTRODUCES ONE-CHIP GSM BASEBAND SOLUTION

MILPITAS, Calif.-LSI Logic Corp. announced the availability of what it calls the industry's first programmable single-chip Global System for Mobile communications baseband solution.The GSM...

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...

HK TELECOM QUITS LONG-DISTANCE FOR WIRELESS

NEW YORK-Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd. announced Jan. 20 it will terminate its exclusive international telecommunications license March 31 in exchange for a cash payment of...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

NHancement Technologies Inc. announced that its Voice Plus subsidiary installed and launched a voice processing system in Wichita, Kan., for VoiceStream Wireless, the personal...

D.C. NOTES

Grumbling about wireless ways and means at the FCC. First, there is the claim the bureau is tinkering with its 931 MHz paging database...

CABLE & WIRELESS STARTS UP IN PANAMA

LONDON-Cable & Wireless Panama announced it has launched Panama's first competitive cellular service, eight months after successfully bidding for a 49-percent stake in Intel,...

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...

BOSTON TECHNOLOGY, COMVERSE MERGE

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. and Boston Technology Inc. have merged in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction. As a result of the merger, each share of...

UNITEL BUYS GEORGIA RSA FROM PRICE

DENVER-Daniels & Associates, an investment banking and financial services company specializing in the cable and telecommunications industries, announced that an affiliate of Unitel Cellular...

WTB PLANS TO STREAMLINE PROCEDURES

WASHINGTON-Industry participants in a Jan. 21 open forum to review the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's rules and performance during the past two years agree that...

WIRELESS SERVICE HEATS UP DURING ICE STORM

Wireless carriers mobilized their resources earlier this month to maintain cellular service when an ice storm in upstate New York and northern New England...

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM GETS AA1 RATING ON DEBT

NEW YORK-Deutsche Telekom AG has received an investment grade rating of Aa1 from Moody's Investors Service for its $3.26 billion debt issuance program sold...

HOW THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY WILL TACKLE THE FCC IN 1998

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry accomplished much last year on the regulatory road to competition, but the task of creating parity with wireline services and eliminating...

PUSH PURSUES WALL STREET FOR MINORITY TELECOM $$

NEW YORK-Allen B. Salmasi, chairman and chief executive officer of NextWave Telecom Inc., went to Wall Street on Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday to...

BT, KOREA TELECOM WORK TO DEVELOP NETWORK SOLUTION

NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc and Korea Telecom have joined forces to develop a form of artificial intelligence for network management they hope will eliminate...

NEW PHONES DEBUT AT CES

LAS VEGAS-Manufacturers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have been hinting at things to come with a handful of launches...

JUSTICE PROBES LABOR SECRETARY’S LINK TO LEO LICENSEE

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department is investigating whether Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, in her role as a White House aide during President Clinton's first term, sold...

SITING GROUPS DRAW LINES FOR DEBATE

WASHINGTON-When Congress returns next week, battle lines will begin forming for a highly charged antenna siting debate that is likely to be shaped as...

TELSTRA TO TEST NOKIA TETRA TECHNOLOGY OVER SIX MONTHS

Australian telecommunications company Telstra, and Nokia Corp. signed an agreement to trial Nokia's Terrestrial Trunked Radio system. The six-month trial will begin in Sydney...

POCKET NEVER DESERVED C-BLOCK LICENSE

To the Editor: Last week, in a letter to the editor, a former employee of Pocket Communications blamed me for Pocket's demise. Well, he's right!Pocket...

SPRINT PCSCUTS JOBS, CONSOLIDATES OFFICES

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has begun streamlining its operations nationwide, eliminating engineering and operations positions. Sprint PCS spokesman Tom Murphy said the reorganization reflects the...

CTIA CPP DOCUMENT READY FOR STANDARDS PRESENTATION

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has completed work on a calling-party-pays standard scheduled for presentation to "appropriate industry standards bodies" this month and next...

GLENAYRE GETS PUSH IN RIGHT DIRECTION

After almost two years of savage beatings on Wall Street, Glenayre Technologies Inc. has proven to have a tough chin, and analysts believe the...

MOODY’S WATCHES KOREAN FIRMS FOR DOWNGRADES

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service placed the ratings of the Republic of Korea and the publicly held foreign currency debt of its major companies under...
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