Monthly Archives: February, 1998

FINNISH FIRM WON’T TAKE PART IN TALKS

NEW YORK-Until it goes public in a partial privatization planned for late this year, Telecom Finland Ltd. will not take part in merger talks...

FINDING RIGHT BUNDLED BILL MIX IS COMPLEX FOR CARRIERS

Many telecommunications companies are banking on the fact that consumers want their long-distance, local, Internet, wireless and cable TV services-or some combination of these-bundled...

MOTOROLA TO DEPLOY PAGING IN ZHEJIANG

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,...

ONLINE USERS TOP PROSPECTS FOR WIRELESS INNOVATIONS

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...

PAGEMART GOES WITH GLENAYRE

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...

OREGON RESELLER SUES PAGENET

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...

PREPAID COMES TO PHILIPPINES, BUT GOVERNMENT HANGS UP ON AUCTION DATE

Just less than a month before the Philippine government plans to hold an auction for new mobile phone licenses, Isla Communications Co. and Globe...

OLIGOPOLY A LA MODE

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...

PEOPLE

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

PRICELLULAR BUYS EASTERN TENNESSEE

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...

MSS OPERATORS TRY TO GET BIRDS IN FLIGHT

OrbcommOrbcomm Global L.P. said it successfully launched eight satellites Dec. 23 from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. Based on results of testing...

RUSSIAN PAGING OPERATORS MERGE

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...

WILBORN BECOMES EXCEPTION TO RULE BY FOLLOWING THE RULES

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...

HOW NOT TO BUNGLE BUNDLING

Bundling cellular equipment with a service plan played a significant role in the success of the wireless industry. People could justify penny phones, even...

KENNARD TO ATTEND VERMONT TOWN HALL SITING MEETING

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...

DISPATCHERS PREFER CALLER-PAYS APPROACH TO PAY PHONES

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...

PRODUCTS

CUSHCRAFTCushcraft Corp. introduced the FRX450 UHF fiberglass omnidirectional antenna, which provides for transmission and reception of vertically polarized signals in the 450 MHz to...

GAO REPORT SAYS PORTALS DELAY COSTLY

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...

CDMA GROWTH TO ECLIPSE GSM, SAYS DATACOMM

While Global System for Mobile communications technology networks currently have more subscribers, technical and competitive advantages will propel Code Division Multiple Access into a...

LECS BATTLE FCC RULES ON INTERCONNECT

The interconnection fight between paging carriers and local exchange carriers is far from over. LECs, wounded by a Federal Communications Commission Common Carrier Bureau...

WORLD BRIEFS

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

IRIDIUM AIMS FOR BIG BUNDLE

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

IRS WARNS IT WILL SCRUTINIZE FOREIGN TAX CREDITS

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...

USN COMPLETES IPO AT $16 PER SHARE

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 &...

US WIRELESS TESTS E-911 PRODUCT

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...
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