May 1998

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 simultaneously without signal interference, said GTE. …

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 in a contract valued at more …

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 intelligence officials say were converted to …

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 information about wireless carriers’ future business …

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 the hand of the user …

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 the city notify residents that they …

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 $38 billion in 1997, according to …

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 products and services in Canada. The …

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 Park, said Colin Crowell, a member …

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 A and B shares-to an unnamed …

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 services when the service launches later …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Paging Network Inc. officially threw its hat into the narrowband personal communications services game last week when Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced that PageNet has agreed to buy a two-way, …

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 its acquisition of Atlantic Cellular Co. …

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 in debt financing they plan to …

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 phones and other devices to use …

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 coordinated through a management agreement …

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 engineering and design firm serving the …

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 Communications Commission opposing the allocation of …

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 the opening session of Wireless …

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. Conductus also said it concluded the …

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 Industry Association’s Eighth Annual Eugene 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 to sell to Bell Atlantic Mobile …

NEW YORK-“The Asian crisis is overstated; the real problem is Japan,” said Joseph W. Duncan, chief economic adviser to The Dun & Bradstreet Corp., Murray Hill, N.J. “The other countries …

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 & Poor’s Corp. The New York-based …