Monthly Archives: May, 1998

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MotorolaMotorola Inc. appointed Dennis Roberson vice president and chief technology officer. Roberson reports to Merle L. Gilmore, president, Europe, Middle East and Africa. As...

LMDS LICENSEES GAIN SAME FLEXIBILITY AS OTHERS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week did some house-cleaning on the local multipoint distribution service auction by adopting partitioning and disaggregation rules that give...

METROCALL STARTS PAGING FROM CALIF.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. launched paging service through its Global Messaging Gateway, a newly installed satellite uplink facility located in Stockton, Calif.Metrocall now handles about...

LAWMAKER PRESSES FOR 3G ANSWERS

WASHINGTON-Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.), chairwoman of the House Science subcommittee on technology, is pressing the Clinton administration for support to prevent U.S. companies from...

MOTOROLA CIG WINS HUNAN GSM CONTRACTS

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts, valued at about $105 million, by China's Hunan Posts and Telecommunications to expand...

ITA TO BE FIRST CONTACT ON INTERFERENCE COMPLAINTS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and the Industrial Telecommunications Association have signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow ITA to be the first contact...

GSM GROUP SIGNS DOCOMO TO DEVELOP 3G

WARSAW, Poland-The GSM MoU Association and Japan's largest wireless communications operator, NTT DoCoMo, have signed an agreement regarding the development of third-generation mobile phone...

ORBCOMM TO GO PUBLIC TO REPAY START-UP COSTS

NEW YORK-Orbcomm Corp. of Herndon, Va., filed for a public offering to raise capital to repay Orbcomm Global L.P., which has financed the start-up...

WINSTAR TO BUY STOCK IN ADVANCED RADIO

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. agreed to purchase from private investors 14.9 percent of Advanced Radio Telecom Corp.'s outstanding common stock, which is about 3.3...

STATES WORK ON COST RECOVERY FOR WIRELESS E911

Midway through this year's legislative session, many states have considered and passed bills to provide a cost-recovery mechanism for wireless carriers deploying enhanced 911...

CELLPORT RELEASES AUTOSERVER SOFTWARE

BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs introduced its AutoServer embedded vehicle-based wireless data server software last week.AutoServer is based on recently patented technology the company developed to...

US$1 TRILLION IN PROJECTS, BUT IS THERE MONEY?

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp., an international debt rating agency based in New York, estimates there will be US$1 trillion in wireline and wireless...

COUNTRY’S LOW PENETRATION OFFERS ROOM FOR GROWTH

LONDON-After years of uncertainty and confusion, the Russian wireless telecommunications market finally seems set to come out of hibernation and deliver what investors and...

RUSSIA’S TRUNKED RADIO USERS TO DOUBLE BY 2000, IMTA SAYS

WASHINGTON-Lack of awareness and problems with securing financing have made for a slow start in Russia's commercial trunked radio industry, but the number of...

PHS IN TROUBLE

TOKYO-The number of Personal Handy Phone System (PHS) subscribers in Japan has decreased for six straight months since last October. Suffering from a total...

NOKIA’S TETRA PRODUCTS TO USE INTEK TECHNOLOGY

PRINCETON, New Jersey, United States-United States-based Intek Global Corp. announced its Linear Modulation Technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement...

NOKIA PACT TO OFFER VALUE-ADD SERVICES

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Tele-communications and Computer Sciences Corp. formed an alliance to offer value-added services to Nokia's infrastructure clients, including mobile and fixed wireless carriers,...

NTT DOCOMO JOINS GSM SUPPORTERS

OXFORD, England-Japan's largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo, has allied itself closely with the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) operator camp.The company signed a...

TEST COMPANIES WAVETEK AND W&G AGREE TO MERGE

HANNOVER, Germany-Test equipment companies Wandel & Goltermann Management Holding GmbH and Wavetek Corp. announced they agreed to merge. The transaction, subject to execution of...

MOTOROLA’S WINGS TO UNIFY PRODUCTS

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Motorola Inc. launched a US$100 million global advertising campaign, called Wings, to create unified brand awareness for consumer products produced by...

WESTERN EUROPE BRIEFS

DENMARKMobilix, a France Telecom subsidiary, has begun offering services on its DCS 1800 network.GERMANYLucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held...

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT REVIEWS AMPS RURAL COVERAGE

MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has called an urgent review to end speculation about the future of analog mobile phone coverage in regional and remote...

CHINA AND JAPAN TO FUEL REGION’S GROWTH

BANGKOK, Thailand-Cellular and PCS operators in the Asia-Pacific region have doubled from 56 in 1993 to the current 113, according to the Yankee Group's...

ASIA-PACIFIC BRIEFS

HONG KONGHong Kong's SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. announced agreements with Star Telecom International Holdings Ltd. and Telecom Service Ltd. to acquireP Plus Communications Ltd.,...

AUSTRALIA EXAMINES NUMBER PORTABILITY

MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Communications Authority has released a report on the technical options for implementing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Australia. The report recognizes...
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