February 1998

MONTVALE, N.J.-Two Geotek Communications Inc. board members purchased a total of 480,000 shares of company common stock on the open market, said the company. Winston Churchill, chairman of the Executive …

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. announced its fourth-quarter subscriber results, saying it activated 12,595 units, and that additional December orders activated in early January brought the total to 15,151 units as …

Bundling cellular equipment with a service plan played a significant role in the success of the wireless industry. People could justify penny phones, even if it meant signing up for …

WASHINGTON-The Vermont congressional delegation last week applauded Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard’s rejection-for now-of federal pre-emption of local zoning regulation, but vowed to continue fighting for legislation to overturn …

SAN RAMON, Calif.-US Wireless Corp. announced it has successfully completed testing its wireless E-911 caller location product, which exceeded the 125-meter range required by a 1996 Federal Communications Commission mandate. …

NEW YORK-Seeking to crack down on what it considers abusive overseas transactions by American companies, the Internal Revenue Service recently published a warning of impending regulatory action in its bulletin. …

Coverage is king, says Iridium North America, which is aiming to help cellular and personal communications services operators offer wireless coverage anywhere in the world. Iridium L.L.C. is a Motorola …

Argentina Brightpoint Inc. is expanding its international operations with the formation of Brightpoint de Argentina S.A. and plans to establish Brightpoint France, said the company. As part of its Argentine …

The interconnection fight between paging carriers and local exchange carriers is far from over. LECs, wounded by a Federal Communications Commission Common Carrier Bureau letter denying them the right to …

While Global System for Mobile communications technology networks currently have more subscribers, technical and competitive advantages will propel Code Division Multiple Access into a market-leading position by early 2003, concludes …

WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office said last week the Federal Communications Commission will rack up $14 million in back-rental costs by the time it moves into its new Portals headquarters this …

WASHINGTON-While call blocking may be the easiest and quickest way of preventing pay-phone operators and long-distance carriers from charging excessive access fees on toll-free calls to messaging providers, all three …

WASHINGTON-For Beverly Wilborn, being female and African American has not kept her from climbing the corporate ladder in a telecommunications industry dominated in all respects by white males. In that …

SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.’s Asia-Pacific Paging Networks Division announced it signed an $8 million contract with Zhejiang P & T Radio Paging Corp. for a high-speed, multifrequency, roaming paging network. The network …

NEW YORK-USN Communications Inc., Chicago, went public Feb. 4 with an initial public offering of 8 million shares priced at $16 each. Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., New York, was …

MOSCOW-Russian paging operator Multi-Page and Seattle-based Segol RadioPAGE Inc., which operates a network in Russia, merged at the end of January in a move seen as heralding the impending consolidation …

Orbcomm Orbcomm Global L.P. said it successfully launched eight satellites Dec. 23 from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. Based on results of testing that is about half finished, …

CUSHCRAFT Cushcraft Corp. introduced the FRX450 UHF fiberglass omnidirectional antenna, which provides for transmission and reception of vertically polarized signals in the 450 MHz to 470 MHz frequency band. The …

DENVER-An affiliate of PriCellular Corp. has acquired the cellular assets of the Tennessee 4 rural service area from Tennessee 04 Partners L.P., an affiliate of Bachow & Associates Inc., announced …

United States Cellular Corp. appointed Paul Henri Denuit to a special committee of the board of directors that will consider how the company should respond to a proposal from its …

Look out, Craig McCaw! A low-earth-orbiting pie in the eye-Bill Gates a la mode-could be in your future once the world finds out you’ve joined forces with McCaw expatriates and …

Just less than a month before the Philippine government plans to hold an auction for new mobile phone licenses, Isla Communications Co. and Globe Telecom Gmcr both launched prepaid Global …

A former Oregon reseller of Paging Network Inc. is suing the Oregon branch of the nation’s largest paging carrier, and is encouraging others to join it in a possible future …

PageMart Wireless Inc., which recently selected Glenayre Technologies Inc. as the primary supplier of its planned nationwide two-way narrowband personal communications network, announced a $10 million net loss for the …

STAMFORD, Conn.-Online service subscribers make up a majority of wireless users and are considered top prospects for wireless providers marketing emerging technologies or bundled services, according to a recent survey …