Monthly Archives: March, 1998

BRIGHTPOINT BUYS WAVETECH OF U.K.

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it acquired Wavetech Ltd., a United Kingdom-based company that distributes wireless handsets.Wavetech, which reported sales of $64 million last year, has...

NEWS BRIEFS

Socket Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced an agreement to develop and support software that will allow FLEX-enabled palmtop computers...

TELESYSTEM DOUBLES WIRELESS CUSTOMERS

MONTREAL-More than doubling its number of cellular, specialized mobile radio and paging subscribers helped Telesystem International Wireless Inc. drastically increase its revenues for the...

ROCKWELL SEMICONDUCTOR ENTERS GSM MARKET WITH CHIP SOLUTION

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc. introduced a complete antenna-to-microphone system solution for 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications, the first GSM products...

U.S. WIRELESS ACQUIRES LABYRINTH

SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp. announced it completed the acquisition of the minority interest in its subsidiary, Labyrinth Communication Technologies Group Inc.The merger will...

RAINBOW COALITION SEEKS 12-POINT PLAN TO BRING DIVERSITY TO TELECOM

WASHINGTON-As the Justice Department broadens its antitrust probe of WorldCom Inc.'s proposed $37 billion purchase of MCI Communications Corp., Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition...

TARGETING NEW SERVICES TO CONSUMERS IS LIKE PLAYING POKER

Paging carriers and industry analysts alike believe one of the biggest struggles facing the industry is that it needs to change its image in...

COLORADO CONSIDERS WIRELESS-ONLY AREA CODE

DENVER-The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is considering a plan to provide a new area code just for wireless phones and pagers despite a 1995...

CENTURY IS FIRST CUSTOMER FOR NORTEL TDMA NETWORK

ATLANTA-Northern Telecom Inc. received its first order for a 1900 MHz Time Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services network from Century Telephone Enterprises, said...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

American Alpha Dispatch Services Inc. said it formed an alliance with Intellisoft Corp. to create an online system for the alphanumeric dispatch industry. Intellisoft...

FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS OFFER QUICK DEPLOYMENT

NEW YORK-Field-programmable gate arrays are poised to become the next key driver in the trend toward smaller, less expensive, more powerful and more quickly...

D.C. NOTES: BANKRUPTCY REFORM

Like many other Americans, for the foreseeable future I am locked in the credit-card death cycle of "pay now, pay later, pay forever." While...

TDS CLOSES ON MERGER OF API MERGER & AMERICAN PAGING

NEW YORK-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. announced it completed the merger of its wholly owned subsidiary, API Merger Corp., with American Paging Inc., effective...

CREDIT SUISSE EXPECTS PAGING INDUSTRY TO ENJOY LONG LIFE

Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. initiated coverage on the paging industry last month, issuing a report titled "Where's the Beep?"-written by company vice president...

MERGERS: WHO WILL BE NEXT?

The recent merger activity involving second-tier cellular companies has touched off speculation about which companies may be next to tie the knot.Alltel Corp. and...

FCC DENIES AIRTOUCH WAIVER ON PAY-PHONE FEES

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission denied a waiver request forwarded last December by AirTouch Communications Inc. that would have stayed any per-call pay-phone compensation until...

POCKET CREDITORS CUT DEAL WITH FCC, JUSTICE

WASHINGTON-Major lenders to C-block personal communications services licensee Pocket Communications Inc. have struck a tentative deal with the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice...

CALENDAR

March 23-25The CDMA Development Group. The China World Hotel, Beijing.(888) 800-2362; outside the United States call (714) 545-5211.WorldTelecommunicationDevelopment ConferenceMarch 23-April 1The International Telecommunication Union....

TBG TO PURCHASE COMSAT’S RSIUNIT

NEW YORK-Comsat Corp. signed a stock-purchase agreement valued at $116.5 million to sell most of Comsat RSI Inc. to a subsidiary of TBG Industries...

VIEWPOINT: PURE SPECULATION

Twelve of the carriers featured in RCR's Top 20 Cellular operators list in 1987 either no longer exist or have substantially changed. It's not...

FCC IS DRAWN INTO CALEA FRAY

WASHINGTON-Negotiations between the Justice Department and the telecom industry over a digital wiretap standard collapsed last week, an outcome that will pull the Federal...

PAGING: GOLDEN EGG OR GOLDEN CALF?

NEW YORK-"The challenge for the paging industry is to reinvent itself so it can become a free cash-flow business, to put the brakes on...

INTERDIGITAL RECEIVES ULTRAPHONE WLL ORDERS

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it received orders for UltraPhone wireless local loop systems from Telecom Namibia, Vietnam PJT, Kenya KPTC and...

WIRELESS GROWTH FUELS FRANCE TELECOM EARNINGS

NEW YORK-France Telecom S.A., the second-largest telecommunications company in Europe, announced March 18 it had returned to profitability by the Dec. 31 close of...

PRICELLULAR IMPROVES REVENUES AND LOSSES

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-PriCellular reported revenue of $49.8 million and record net subscriber additions of 28,200, as well as a net loss of $7.6 million...
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