Monthly Archives: March, 1998

D.C. NOTES: NOBLE CAUSES

Latest statistics put the national capital area as the second worst gridlocked place in the country, second presumably to Los Angeles.As a native Washingtonian,...

WIRELESS ANTI-FRAUD BILL ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING LAW

WASHINGTON-A wireless anti-fraud bill is headed to the White House for President Clinton's signature, following House passage last week of legislation that will deny...

INNOVATIVE NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES USES HIGH-SPEED ANALOG

NEW YORK-Rumors of analog's death are premature, according to a group of former IBM Corp. executives who have joined with other industry veterans to...

AVANTGO SOFTWARE EXTENDS INTRANETS TO HANDHELDS

SAN MATEO, Calif.-AvantGo Inc., a mobile computing software company, introduced AvantGo Web Client and AvantGo Desktop, software, which extends enterprise applications to handheld computers.AvantGo...

BELL ATLANTIC OFFERS $10 FLAT RATE ON AIR

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Starting yesterday, Bell Atlantic Mobile DigitalChoice customers in Bell Atlantic's Maine-to-Georgia footprint are being offered unlimited airtime for a flat monthly fee starting...

BELL ATLANTIC’S FRAUD DECREASES

ATLANTA-Bell Atlantic Mobile said it attributes its 74-percent decrease in home and roaming cellular fraud losses to continued deployment of authentication and radio-frequency fingerprinting...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Qualcomm Inc. announced a joint agreement with AirTouch Cellular, U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. for the supply of Qualcomm's...

WORLD BRIEFS

Motorola Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with Latin American paging provider Alfa-Bip of Mexico to provide infrastructure for a nationwide expansion of...

BRIGHTPOINT TEAMS WITH US/INTELICOM, SECURFONE ON PREPAID

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it reached an agreement with US/Intelicom and SecurFone America Inc. to provide prepaid cellular solutions for the U.S. market.The prepaid solution,...

BELLSOUTH STARTS TELECOM CONSULTING

ATLANTA-BellSouth Small Business Services announced it now has specialists who consult individually with business customers about their telecommunications needs.The enhancement to its "one-stop shopping"...

SCHOOL BUSES TO USE CELLEMETRY SERVICE

ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellemetry announced an agreement with Global Research Systems, adding Cellemetry applications to GRS's BusCall service.BusCall notifies families when a school bus is approaching...

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Entelec 98March 1-4Entelec. San Antonio Convention Center, San Antonio. (888) 503-8700.Build-to-Suit and Purchase/Leaseback Tower ProgramsMarch 2-3Shorecliff Communications International. Wyndham Emerald Plaza Hotel, San Diego....

ACTION CELLULAR TO RENT TO TRAVELERS IN ISRAEL

SAN FRANCISCO-Action Cellular Rent A Phone now provides cellular and satellite phone rentals in Israel and throughout the Middle East, announced the company.News crews...

UWCC ANNOUNCES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

ATLANTA-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group made up of Time Division Multiple Access technology supporters including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced a migratable...

DIGITAL MICROWAVE GAINS WINSTAR CONTRACTS

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp. announced it received contracts from competitive local exchange carrier WinStar Communications Inc. valued at $2.8 million.Shipments of Spectrum II...

CTIA ASKS FCC TO TAKE ON CALLING-PARTY-PAYS ISSUES

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to address three regulatory issues surrounding calling party pays, calling on the agency...

DANIELS & ASSOCIATES OFFERS 1997 TRANSACTION WRAP-UP

DENVER-Daniels & Associates, an investment banking and financial services company specializing in media and telecommunications, announced its telecommunications group completed 20 transactions during 1997,...

MOODY’S SAYS DEFAULTS DOUBLED LAST YEAR

NEW YORK-The number of issuers defaulting on publicly held corporate debt more than doubled from 1996 to 1997, Moody's Investors Service reported in a...

WIRELESS NOT RESPONSIBLE

To the Editor: I read with some interest Mr. Angelmyer's diatribe on the lack of a "white knight" to save MobileMedia from extinguishing its equity....

ERICSSON COMBINES CORDLESS SYSTEM WITH GSM MOBILE NETWORK

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson's Global System for Mobile communications-based cordless telephone system now allows subscribers to use their GSM mobile phones on the fixed public...

UNIVERSAL ELECTRONIC LICENSING PLAN COULD CUT OUT LEGAL MIDDLEMEN

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is taking steps to solve both the millennium-bug problem and inconsistencies that exist between radio-frequency services applications rules by issuing...

WYTEC AND PILIPINO TEST LMDS EQUIPMENT

Wytec Inc. and the Pilipino Telephone Corp. are conducting a joint trial of Wytec's local multipoint distribution service equipment in Manila to ascertain its...

GREEK PCS CARRIER TO START ACTIVATIONS

ATHENS-According to sources at OTE, the Greek telephone company's subsidiary Cosmote will begin activating personal communications services customers this week as scheduled, becoming the...

VIEWPOINT: WIRELESS ’98: CRAZY TIME IN ATLANTA?

The Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association's 1998 convention has come and gone. This gives PCS '98 convention planners six months to try to one-up this...

SPYGLASS, FUJITSU JOIN WAP FORUM

ATLANTA-Spyglass Inc. and Fujitsu Software Corp. both have joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum, the companies announced at CTIA's Wireless 98 trade show.Founded by...
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