Monthly Archives: March, 1998

SCT ENDS COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS

Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has ended commercial distribution of its cryoelectronic receiver front-end products for the mobile wireless base station market, igniting questions of...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Brightpoint Inc. and CellStar Corp. said they discontinued negotiations to form a joint venture in India. The proposal for the venture was announced in...

ALLTEL CORP. TO BUY 360°?

Alltel Corp. reportedly is in negotiations to purchase 360

TRANSCRPYT WINS TRUNKED RADIO ORDER FROM CENTENNIAL

LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc. said Denver-based Centennial Communications signed a purchase agreement valued at more than $1.5 million for its wide-area LTR trunked radio...

PILOTS BREAK “NO CELL PHONE USE” RULE

While it may be clear that the use of wireless phones is prohibited aboard commercial aircraft, many private pilots in a recent survey indicated...

KENNARD REAFFIRMS TOWER SITING STANCE

HARDWICK, Vt.-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard, facing Vermont citizens hostile to the prospect of losing control of cherished land-use oversight, resoundingly reaffirmed his...

OMNITEL-PRONTO ITALIA STAKEHOLDER SEEKS $225M IN PRIVATE DEBT

NEW YORK-Cellular Communications International Inc., New York, plans to retire outstanding senior discount notes paying 13.25-percent interest and replace them with a private placement...

CELLNET OBTAINS APPROVALS FOR METERS

SAN CARLOS, Calif.-CellNet Data Systems Inc. said it obtained the necessary approvals as a Meter Data Management Agent and Meter Service Provider required to...

METROCALL TO USE VENTERA’S TRACKING

VIENNA, Va.-Ventera Corp. announced it will build an Internet-based software application to track and report key engineering data for Metrocall Inc.'s nationwide paging network....

BT TO CUT RATES ON SATELLITE SERVICE

NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc announced its mobile satellite communications customers will enjoy price reductions up to 15 percent, when the company introduces a new...

PRICELLULAR STAYS ON CREDITWATCH

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's ratings on PriCellular Wireless Corp. remain on CreditWatch with negative implications even after the announcement that its parent company, PriCellular...

QUALCOMM, ORTEL TRY TO IMPROVE REPEATER TECHNOLOGY

Qualcomm Inc. and Ortel Corp. said they demonstrated measurable performance improvements in receive diversity in Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services repeaters.Ortel, a...

POCKET CREDITORS DON’T WANT LICENSEE TO GIVE BACK ASSETS

BALTIMORE-Pacific Eagle Investments Ltd., Masa Telecom Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Siemens Telecom Networks-collective creditors to bankrupt C-block personal communications services licensee Pocket Communications Inc.-have...

UNRESOLVED 220 MHZ AUCTION ISSUES MAY DELAY NEW ROUND

WASHINGTON-The auction of Phase II 220 MHz licenses is scheduled to begin May 19, but that date could be pushed back at least 30...

SMR BIDDER THAT GOT IN OVER HEAD DENIED RECOURSE

WASHINGTON-Portland, Ore.-based Mountain SMR Group L.L.C., which is in default on the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio service license it purchased last winter during...

VIEWPOINT: HAVING IT BOTH WAYS

My head has been full of thoughts about government this week. My husband and I had the opportunity to hear former President George Bush...

ERICSSON TO GROW SERBIAN GSM NETWORK

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it received a contract valued at more than $60 million to expand a Global System for Mobile communications network in...

OMNIPOINT TO ROAM IN INDONESIA

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Communications Inc. activated its first roaming deal in Indonesia with PT. Satelit Palapa Indonesia.This brings to 41...

NORTEL DEMOS ISDN VIA FIXED WIRELESS

PAIGNTON, United Kingdom-Northern Telecom Inc. said it successfully demonstrated Integrated Services Digital Network capability via fixed wireless access.The company said it plans to begin...

ARGENTINA LIBERALIZATION PLAN WOULD BROADEN MARKET ACCESS

Argentine President Carlos Menem last week announced a telecommunications liberalization plan that would give American wireless companies broader access to the Argentine telecommunications market.Under...

METROMEDIA PROVIDES FLEX IN ROMANIA

STAMFORD, Conn.-Metromedia International Telecommunications Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Metromedia International Group Inc., said Communicatii Nationale Mobile S.A., a joint venture between the...

CABLE & WIRELESS SELLS BOND ISSUE

NEW YORK-Cable & Wireless Communications plc, the London-based international telecommunications conglomerate, sold a $1.8 billion Yankee bond issue March 4, through an underwriting syndicate...

ARCH TO EQUIP INSURANCE AGENTS

TEMPE, Ariz.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said Auto-Owners Insurance Co. of Lansing, Mich., selected its National Services Division to provide messaging services for its insurance...

HOUSE INVESTIGATES BELLSOUTH LONG-DISTANCE EFFORTS

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee said an investigation confirmed that BellSouth Corp. offered to drop a regulatory challenge to Teligent Corp.'s wireless licenses if Teligent...

INDUSTRY GETS EXTRA WEEK TO WORK ON CALEA PLAN

WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno will decide by this Friday whether to pull the Federal Communications Commission into a digital wiretap controversy that kept the...
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