Monthly Archives: April, 1998

COMVERSE TO EQUIP FRENCH CARRIER

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Societe Francaise du Radiotelephone selected Comverse Network Systems to supply a voice/text messaging system for the SFR network in France, announced Comverse.The N.J.-based...

3 CONSORTIA BID FOR ITALY LICENSE

ROME-Three consortia have submitted bids for Italy's third mobile phone license, due to be awarded mid-year.Two of the bids were expected for some time....

TELECOM ITALIA AND CABLE & WIRELESS ENTER PARTNERSHIP

Signaling the beginning of a global partnership, Telecom Italia said it will pay $2 billion for minority interests in Cable & Wireless plc's international...

SCC TO ISSUE IPO FOR $46 MILLION

NEW YORK-SCC Communications Corp., a Boulder, Colo., provider of emergency call services to wireline and wireless carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange...

VODAFONE TO EXPAND DATA NETWORK COVERAGE

LONDON-Vodafone Data Network Ltd. announced an expansion to extend its data communications service to several areas of the United Kingdom.The company has made a...

NEXUS ISSUES STOCK SHARES TO ISRAELI FIRM

TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. announced it issued 450,000 ordinary shares of Nexus stock-representing 3.7 percent of the issued share capital of the...

TEAM TELECOM CHOSEN FOR BRAZIL’S B-BAND

PETAH TIKVA, Israel-Team Telecom International and its Brazilian representative, Construtel Projetos e Contrucoes Ltda., have been selected to provide a B-band operator in Brazil...

BLILEY SAYS INMARSAT PRIVATIZATION MAY BE INCONSISTENT WITH U.S. LAW

WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) said the privatization of the International Maritime Satellite Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization being negotiated...

SOFTWIRE INTRODUCES OBJECT-BASED SERVER TO WIRELESS

A California software company has introduced an object-based server that captures, processes and manages distributed events and transactions across disparate computer and network systems.Softwire...

SCI EQUIPS MICROCELL WITH FRAUDWATCH PRO

IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. installed a fraud detection system for Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc., announced the company.Subscriber Computing said Microcell...

NEC, U.S. CELLULAR TO PROMOTE PREPAID

IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc.'s Communications Terminals Division and United States Cellular Corp. announced they will work together in an advertising program to promote a...

WIRELESS PRICE WARS MAY BE OVER

Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C's latest quarterly survey of U.S. mobile phone prices indicates the pricing wars may be over. The Atlanta-based company said pricing decreased since...

ORANGE PLACES BID FOR IRELAND LICENSE

LONFON-Orange plc, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Orange Communications Ltd., said it submitted a bid for the third mobile phone license in the Republic...

NOKIA TO EXPAND CELLNET GSM NETWORK

NEW YORK-Cellnet, a U.K. mobile phone network operator, has placed a contract with Nokia Telecommunications to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network....

NEC, ERA TO DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE

NEW YORK-NEC Corp. announced it signed an agreement with ERA Technology Ltd. of the United Kingdom that established a joint-venture company to design and...

MOTOROLA FACES GLOOMY FINANCIALS

This year's financial outlook appears gloomy for Motorola Inc., which released poor first-quarter results last week and told analysts this quarter's results won't look...

MILLICOM TO COMBINE SOME EUROPEAN LICENSES

STOCKHOLM-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it will merge its combined Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and digital cellular system 1800 MHz license...

SMARTALK ESTIMATES $40M IN REVENUES

COLUMBUS, Ohio-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. estimated first-quarter revenues will be about $40 million, and earnings per fully diluted share are anticipated to reflect a loss...

NEWS BRIEFS

Northern Telecom Ltd. and Matra Communication launched a joint-venture subsidiary in France. Matra Nortel Communications will provide French customers with one-stop access to a...

GENERAL MAGIC UNVEILS VOICE PLATFORM

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. introduced MagicTalk, the intelligent voice user interface platform for its integrated voice and data network, code named "Serengeti."Based on a...

MAGELLAN SATELLITE UNIT CLOSE TO MARKET

Magellan Systems Corp., a maker of consumer-oriented Global Positioning System and navigation devices, said it will release its Global Satellite Communicator 100 late next...

MOBILECOMM BUILDS NETWORK IN CAROLINAS

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp., dba MobileComm, announced it is building a new paging network in North and South Carolina.MobileComm said the new system is...

MCCOLLUM BILL SHORT OF WIRELESS WISH LIST

WASHINGTON-Wireless and wireline carriers last week tabled a plan to sue the FBI over implementation of the 1994 digital wiretap law, just as Rep....

INDUSTRY’S COLLECTIVE MUSCLE NEEDED TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT TAX POLICY

In February, at CTIA's Wireless '98 convention and exposition in Atlanta, I talked with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) about many of the policy issues...

WESTERN WIRELESS STOCKHOLDERS TO SELL SHARES

NEW YORK-Cellular and personal communications services carrier Western Wireless Corp., Issaquah, Wash., announced that its two largest investors planned to sell 10 million shares...
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