Monthly Archives: April, 1998

PCIA CHALLENGES FEE INCREASES

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week challenged unexplained regulatory fee increases, claiming the fees will hinder competition between wireless and wireline services.PCIA...

NET INCOME DOWN 77 PERCENT: GLENAYRE EXPECTS CONTRACTS TO IMPROVE BOTTOM LINE

DALLAS-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s net income dropped 77 percent in the first quarter, but the company announced several new contracts.Glenayre reported net income of $3.2...

INTERDIGITAL LICENSES 2 JAPANESE FIRMS

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Technology Corp. entered into patent license agreements with two unnamed Japanese manufacturers of digital cellular equipment, resulting in up-front payments...

OMNIPOINT TO UNLOAD SMALL MARKETS

Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Corp. last week became one of the first C-block licensees to select options from the Federal Communications Commission's license...

CORRECTIONS

The story on Rock Creek Park antenna siting in the April 10 issue (page 3) misidentified the companies of two executives. Maureen Kane is...

SOUTHWEST PCS DRIVING SBC’S WIRELESS GROWTH

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-SBC Communications Inc. added 112,000 wireless subscribers during this year's first quarter-and 919,000 during the past 12 months-bringing its total number of...

SIERRA WIRELESS INTRODUCES DUAL-MODE WIRELESS DATA MODEM

LAS VEGAS-Sierra Wireless Inc. introduced a new type of wireless data modem at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas last week that...

SPECTRUM RESOURCES BUYS TOWER ASSETS OF CLEVELAND FIRM

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. announced it has acquired the tower assets of Tower Industrial Park, which is based in the Cleveland area.Major...

SUBSCRIBER FRAUD IS LATEST THEFT TOOL

NEW YORK-As wireless carriers have closed off easier avenues for theft of services, subscriber fraud, including outright theft of identity, has emerged as the...

LUCENT ACQUIRES GERMAN SOFTWARE COMPANY

Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held software-development company based in Munich, Germany.Optimay, which will become a subsidiary of Lucent...

POCKET’S UNSECURED CREDITORS TO GET REORGANIZATION INFORMATION

WASHINGTON-A federal bankruptcy judge in Baltimore last week ordered the Federal Communications Commission to surrender to unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. information intentionally...

SPRINT PCS ADDS SONY PHONE TO LINE

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced the latest addition to its line of digital phones, the Sony CM-S110SPR, which is manufactured by Qualcomm Personal...

NOKIA TO PROVIDE GSM SOLUTION TO TELE DANMARK

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will provide Tele Danmark a full turnkey solution for a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network in...

DIGITAL SOUND BECOMES PULSEPOINT

CARPINTERIA, Calif.-PulsePoint Communications' shareholders approved the company's name change from Digital Sound Corp. to PulsePoint, re-elected its board of directors and authorized a reverse...

PCS PROVIDER AMICA TO LAUNCH SERVICE

IRVINE, Calif.-Personal communications services provider Amica Wireless Phone Service Inc. plans to launch service this year in Illinois and Iowa complete with a customer-care...

ERICSSON UNVEILS OFFICE SOLUTION

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.The premise-based...

QUALCOMM ENTERS LICENSING DEAL

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. entered into a multimillion-dollar, royalty-bearing Code Division Multiple Access subscriber license agreement with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. of Japan.Qualcomm will grant...

UNSECURED CREDITORS DEMAND INFO ON POCKET PLAN

Unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. have subpoenaed the Federal Communications Commission for information omitted from the reorganization plan approved last month by several...

TELEDESIC GAINS $200M INVESTMENT

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia invested $200 million cash in Teledesic L.L.C., the "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications venture of...

INFOCELLULAR ENTERS MARKETING AGREEMENT

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-InfoCellular Inc. entered into a joint marketing agreement with Onyx Technologies L.L.C. to market the companies' combined product, Info4Score, which is designed to...

WIRELESS ISSUES $14B DEBT IN 1Q

NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications services and equipment providers issued nearly $14 billion in debt securities during the first quarter of this year, according to Securities...

CENTENNIAL MAY LOOK FOR BUYER

NEW YORK-Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., announced the company is considering its options, including selling some or all of its assets.The company, a...

SIEMENS WINS CONTRACT FOR NORWAY BASE STATIONS

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Norway's mobile communications network operator NetCom GSM of Oslo awarded Siemens AG a contract valued at $21.8 million to expand and modernize...

RAM TECHNOLOGIES ACQUIRES AAS

ASHLAND, Ken.-RAM Technologies announced it has acquired American Answering Service of Charleston, W.Va."We look forward to providing American Answering Service's customers with state-of-the-art computerized...

FURCHTGOTT-ROTH CRITICIZES INTERNET CONNECTION PLAN

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth, joining a growing chorus of critics, has charged the Democratic-led agency with subordinating the interests of rural and...
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