Monthly Archives: March, 1998

CELLEMETRY AND HIGHWAYMASTER TO SHARE PATENTS

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp.'s Cellemetry data division announced it signed a joint-license agreement with HighwayMaster Corp.'s HighwayMaster Communications Inc. to share wireless data application patents.Patents for...

CHATHAM TECHNOLOGIES TO ACQUIRE INNOVATION

DALLAS-Chatham Technologies Inc., Dallas, announced Feb. 23 it signed a letter of intent to acquire Innovation Inc., a Bothell, Wash., manufacturer of base stations...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

SNAPSHOT OF THE WORLD’S CDMAONE HANDSET MANUFACTURERS

EuropeNokia Corp.Siemens Wireless TerminalsJapanDenso Corp.Fujitsu Ltd.Kyocera Corp.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.NEC Corp.Oki telecomSanyo ElectricSony Corp.Toshiba Corp.South KoreaHyundai ElectronicIndustries Co. Ltd.LG Information &Communications Ltd.Maxon Electronics Co....

CELLULAR BRIEFS

Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) now accounts for 31 percent of the world's wireless market, and the GSM industry is well on course...

CELLULAR ONE REPORTS RESULTS OF PHONE-USAGE SURVEY

Cellular One Group in the United States commissioned a national telephone survey of 600 Cellular One customers who use their phone primarily for business...

COMPANIES TO DEVELOP CDMA-BASED 3G SYSTEMS

KANSAS CITY, United States-Sprint Spectrum L.P., Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group, Northern Telecom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced plans to jointly...

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Telexpo '9831 March - 3 AprilSao Paulo, BrazilH&T Congressos e FeirasTel: (+55) 21-541-2393Fax: +(55) 21-542-5095GSM Latin America31 March - 1 AprilBuenos Aires, ArgentinaIBC UK Conferences Ltd.Tel: (+44)...

BARGAINING ALLOWED

BEIJING-"Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice."No, we have not discovered Beijing's red-light district, and the...

INTEREST SWITCHES TO BRAZIL’S A-BAND LICENSES

Further developments in the B-band auction for cellular licenses in Brazil continue to be stymied, while the June privatization auction date set for government-owned...

LUCENT UNVEILS FLEXENT ELEMENTS FOR NETWORK SOLUTION

MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, United States-Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced the initial elements of a new global wireless network architecture called Flexent.Designed by Lucent's Bell...

ASIA-PACIFIC CARRIERS WORKING TO RETAIN CUSTOMER BASE

DENVER, United States-Market strategy has taken on a new meaning for wireless carriers in the Asia-Pacific, which are picking themselves up, dusting themselves off...

DOT, TRAI BAR MTNL FROM CELLULAR MARKET

BANGALORE, India-The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has moved court on a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) order, striking down Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.'s...

NORTH AMERICA BRIEFS

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to move forward with a rulemaking on...

WIN MUST EVOLVE TO BE GLOBAL COMPONENT

The simultaneous explosions of wireless telecommunications and the Internet have presented a unique opportunity to global consumers: truly personalized communications. The key to realizing the...

PCT DELAYED AGAIN IN THAILAND

BANGKOK-Although Thailand is the first country outside Japan to embrace PHS as a low-cost alternative to conventional mobile-phone service, commercial rollout of the system...

QUALCOMM: CDMAONE/GSM TRIAL A SUCCESS IN THE U.K.

DENVER, United States-Determined to penetrate Europe with the Interim Standard-95 (IS-95) protocol, U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. announced in February its United Kingdom trial of a...
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