Monthly Archives: March, 1998

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...

ALLTEL CORP. TO BUY 360°?

Alltel Corp. reportedly is in negotiations to purchase 360

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...

NO ACCIDENT THAT VERMONT IS ANTENNA-SITING BATTLEGROUND

HARDWICK, Vt.-Even on a miserable, rainy day in March, this small New England state of maple syrup, cheddar cheese, splendid ski resorts and Ben...

VANGUARD SHEDS PROPERTIES TO CONCENTRATE ON NE

NEW YORK-The share price of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc., Greensboro, N.C., closed up $1 at $17.13 per share March 11, the day it announced...

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...

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...

INVESTORS TRY TO TAKE ANADIGICS, SPECTRIAN TO COURT

NEW YORK-Touted by some securities analysts last summer as small-cap wireless companies likely to outperform broader markets, Anadigics Inc. and Spectrian Corp. now are...

IPR ISSUES SPARK NEW 3G DEBATE

Vendors and carriers have renewed hope that the world could have one standard in place for third-generation systems, but Europe holds one of the...

D.C. NOTES: MASS CONFESSIONS

In this March Madness season of religious conversion, I join David Brock (Clinton basher turned sympathizer) and Trent Lott (Starr malcontent turned sympathizer) in...

TURKCELL SELECTS COMPUTER ASSOCIATES

ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkcell, a cellular phone company in Turkey, selected Computer Associates International Inc.'s integrated enterprise management solution, Unicenter TNG, to proactively manage its entire...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES TO EQUIP ADVANCED RADIO FOR WIRELESS DATA

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a letter of intent for Lucent to supply equipment and integrate Advanced Radio's...

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...

SPECTRUM RESOURCES BUYS TOWER ASSETS OF PB INDUS TRIES

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. acquired the tower assets of PB Industries, consisting of 20 towers located in Oklahoma with tenants including Western...

JUSTICE CONTINUES TO LOOK AT MCHI LEO LICENSE

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department last week extended for 60 days its probe into whether Labor Secretary Alexis Herman financially benefited from helping Mobile Communications Holdings...

BRIGHTPOINT AND NOKIA EXTEND DISTRIBUTION DEAL

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. and Nokia Corp. said they extended their current agreement to distribute cellular phones and accessories in China until Dec. 31, 1999.

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...

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...

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...

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...

WIRELESS TRADING FIRMS TARGET INVESTORS

NEW YORK-Wireless online financial information services are a hot item, judging from the flurry of recent announcements about new offerings in this category.w-Trade Technologies,...

UNIVERSAL SERVICE LAW WOULD KEEP FCC HONEST

WASHINGTON-Four Senate telecom lawmakers plan to introduce universal service legislation this week aimed at preventing mandated Internet links for schools, libraries and rural health-care...

S. CALIF. AGENCY SAYS FCC WRONG TO GRANT SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission may have violated a key telecom provision of the 1997 budget act by making idle frequencies available to a paging...

U.S. WIRELESS AND CTS TO UNITE

Seeking to take advantage of their similar technology and markets, U.S. Wireless Corp. and Cellular Technical Services Company Inc. last week signed a letter...

VODAFONE CEO: IS IT CLEAN? IS IT GSM?

NEW YORK-Although his company recently completed field trials with Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group plc Chief Executive Officer Chris Gent believes next-generation wireless technology, rather...
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