Monthly Archives: May, 1998

GTE AND BAJA CELLULAR TO PARTNER ON CROSS-BORDER NETWORK HANDOFF

ATLANTA-GTE Wireless and Baja Celular of Tijuana, Mexico, have partnered to use digital networks that allow U.S. and Mexican cell sites to serve calls...

BOEING PARTNERS WITH MCHI

NEW YORK-Mobile Communications Holdings Inc., Washington, D.C., announced The Boeing Co. is to be the system integrator for the new Ellipso mobile satellite system...

GOP TO PROBE CLINTON ROLE IN SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

WASHINGTON-The Republican congressional leadership plans hearings to investigate Clinton-administration approval of commercial satellite technology transfers from U.S. wireless firms to China that Pentagon and...

CTIA CITES CONCERNS ABOUT PARK SITING

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association remains concerned proposed guidelines for siting wireless antenna on National Park Service lands will not adequately protect sensitive commercial...

WIRELESS PRICING STABILIZED

Pricing has stabilized in the majority of U.S. markets, say analysts.While the name of the game last summer was to get the phone in...

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, FIND YOUR CELL PHONE

BOULDER, Colo.-If Boulder, Colo., had experienced flooding last week, SCC Communications Corp. and U S West Communications Inc. might have been able to help...

MSS MARKET EVENTUALLY COULD SUPPORT 30 COMPANIES

NEW YORK-Led by dramatic expansion of television, mobile telephony and multimedia services, global satellite industry revenues will skyrocket to $171 billion in 2007 from...

AERIS AND ORBCOMM TO INTEGRATE SERVICES

DALLAS-Aeris Communications Inc. and Orbcomm Canada Inc. announced an agreement to integrate their respective MicroBurst and Orbcomm services for hybrid wireless data and messaging...

MARKEY TO STAY OUT OF ROCK CREEK FIGHT

WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), ranking minority member of the House telecommunications subcommittee, will not engage in the controversy surrounding antenna siting in Rock Creek...

MILLICOM SELLS PART OF NETCOM SHARES

LONDON-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it sold 900,000 B shares in NetCom Systems A.B.-representing 11.6 percent of a total holding of about 7.8 million...

PAGENET TO RESELL IRIDIUM SERVICES, TO BE EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL PROVIDER

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. and Iridium North America announced an agreement under which PageNet will be the exclusive provider of Iridium's global paging products and...

PAGENET TO BUY GLENAYRE SYSTEM

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Paging Network Inc. officially threw its hat into the narrowband personal communications services game last week when Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced thatPageNet has...

RURAL CELLULAR TO PRICE NOTES

NEW YORK-Rural Cellular Corp., Alexandria, Minn., hopes to price late this week the sale of $125 million in senior subordinated notes to help finance...

AMERICAN CELLULAR PLANS DEBT FINANCING

NEW YORK-American Cellular Corp. and its subsidiary, American Wireless, received a low, speculative grade rating of Caa1 from Moody's Investors Service on $1.285 billion...

AMTEVA INTRODUCES UNIFIED MESSAGING PLUS

NEW YORK-Amteva Technologies Inc., Glen Allen, Va., announced May 5 the introduction of Unified Messaging Plus, a carrier-class software to allow wireless and wireline...

CARRIER LAUNCHES PCS IN OHIO, KENTUCKY

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless said it has launched personal communications services based on Time Division Multiple Access technology in the Cincinnati/Dayton/northern Kentucky market.The launch is...

CHATHAM BUYS ENGINEERING FIRM

Chatham Technologies Inc., a Dallas-based manufacturer of custom enclosures for electronic and communications equipment, announced it has acquired Innovation Inc. of Bothell, Wash., an...

CELSAT OPPOSES MSS ALLOCATION TO APPLICANTS WITH SPECTRUM

Trying to compete with satellite-industry giants, Celsat America Inc., a small, domestic player in the mobile satellite services arena, filed comments with the Federal...

WIRELESS DATA INDUSTRY TO CREATE HYBRID APPS FOR MULTIPLE NETWORKS

DALLAS-"It's an exciting time in the industry. It's a time of growth and rebirth."So said Konstantin Zsigo, president of Zsigo Wireless Data Inc., at...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Conductus Inc. announced two agreements providing up to $4.5 million in financing to support the commercialization of its new ClearSite wireless products next year....

SIDDALL, BLILEY HONORED WITH BOWLER AWARDS

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The 1998 Eugene C. Bowler award was presented to David Siddall, legal adviser to Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness at the Personal Communications...

BELL ATLANTIC MOBILE AND GTE SWAP CELLULAR INTERESTS IN VA., N.C.

ATLANTA-GTE Wireless Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to purchase in cash Bell Atlantic Mobile's interest in Virginia Cellular L.P. GTE also agreed...

JAPAN TELECOM MARKET NOT PERFECT, BUT CHINA POTENTIAL STRONG

NEW YORK-"The Asian crisis is overstated; the real problem is Japan," said Joseph W. Duncan, chief economic adviser to The Dun & Bradstreet Corp.,...

CARRIER’S FINANCIALS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN WITH PCS PURCHASE

NEW YORK-Compania De Radiocomunicaciones Moviles S.A., one of two cellular carriers serving the greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, received a BBB-debt rating from Standard...
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