Monthly Archives: June, 1998

SPAIN TO AWARD 3RD LICENSE

MADRID-Spain's incumbent mobile phone operators Telefonica and Airtel could have some competition soon, as the country prepares to award a third license this month.Involved...

SMALL BUSINESSES SURVEYED ON COMMUNICATIONS NEEDS

ATLANTA-A survey of 500 small business owners, released at SuperComm '98, demonstrated a "tremendous potential for sales in the coming years."The survey, conducted by...

SCC REPORTS E911 DEPLOYMENT

BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications announced the first two-state wireless Phase 1 E911 deployment is up and routing E911 calls to public-safety agencies in Washington County,...

PRODUCTS

Interlink ElectronicsFreedom Writer OEM, the first application using Interlink Electronics Inc.'s new medium-range wireless communications technology, RemoteLink, is set to be introduced this month...

PINPOINT USES RF TO TRACK PEOPLE AND PERSONNEL

An indoor solution to wireless electronic asset tracking that uses digital radio-frequency technology to locate personnel and property has been developed by PinPoint Corp.,...

NEXTWAVE CHOOSES BANKRUPTCY

WASHINGTON-Notwithstanding the Federal Communications Commission's consistent call for Congress to pass legislation to protect FCC licenses from being held up by auction bidders in...

CONN. ATTORNEY GENERAL PUTS WRENCH IN SBC PLANS

A request by Connecticut's attorney general and state utility regulators that a combined SBC Communications Inc./Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. reduce its local telephone...

CANTEL LAUNCHES AT&T PAGE PARTNER

TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. launched its AT&T Page Partner + service, a package that allows a wireless phone and up to five pagers to be...

POWERTEL LAUNCHES IN ATHENS

ATHENS, Ga.-Powertel Inc. said it launched commercial personal communications services in Athens, Ga.Powertel provides commercial service in 26 metropolitan areas and major highway corridors...

NEWS BRIEFS

SecurFone America Inc., a company specializing in prepaid communications, said it plans a major market expansion of its Buy-the-Minute prepaid cellular handset solution. Bill...

RAM-PAGE LAUNCHES PREPAID

ASHLAND, Ky.-RAM-Page, a division of RAM Technologies, announced it has launched Pre-Paid Paging, a new service aimed at customers who require occasional paging service...

NOKIA TO MAKE GSM PRODUCTS IN JIANGSU

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced plans to establish a manufacturing facility in China that will produce Global System for Mobile communications base stations and network...

PAGEMART GIVES CREDIT FOR SATELLITE SNAFU

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will provide customers with a two-day airtime credit for the downed service time that occurred during the PanAmSat Galaxy...

WIND TAKES THIRD ITALY LICENSE AFTER LENGTHY TENDER

The Italian government named the Wind consortium the winning bidder for the country's third mobile phone license, bringing to a close a tender process...

LHS COMPLETES INFOCELLULAR BUY

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. said it completed its acquisition of Marlborough, Mass.-based InfoCellular Inc.The acquisition provides LHS with a point-of-sale software solution, which expands its...

SPRINT PCS INKS FRANCHISE PACTS WITH FIVE CARRIERS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sprint Spectrum L.P. formed affiliation agreements that will bring Sprint PCS personal communications services to key cities in Georgia, Missouri,...

SMITH MICRO UPGRADES HOTPAGE SOFTWARE

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc. said it released its version 3.0 HotPage software, which provides message management and transmission to alphanumeric and numeric...

SMARTALK ACQUIRES WORLDWIDE DIRECT

COLUMBUS, Ohio-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. acquired Worldwide Direct, a direct-to-consumer prepaid cellular phone distributor, in a stock-for-stock transaction that provides it with terminal-based prepaid capability.Combined...

FCC REJECTS SKYTEL APPEAL

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected an appeal by SkyTel Communications Corp.-formerly Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.-that argued the paging carrier deserved its narrowband personal communications...

SIGMAONE PRESENTS E911 PROTOTYPE SYSTEM

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.-SigmaOne Communications Corp. held the first prototype demonstration of its E911 system for locating and tracking wireless calls, said the company.Results showed...

ALLIANCES CHANGE DSP LANDSCAPE

Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the...

WIRELESS CEOS PICK FUTURE PLAYERS AND SERVICES

NEW YORK-After receiving "Big Daddy" T-shirts from BT Alex. Brown Inc. telecommunications analyst Jeffrey L. Hines June 10, top executives of four of the...

BOSCH AND CISCO DEVELOP BROADBAND WIRELESS SERVICES

ATLANTA-Bosch Telecom Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. announced plans to develop and market broadband wireless networking solutions designed to help service providers offer integrated...

BEA DEBUTS OBJECT-BASED MIDDLE WARE FOR TELECOM

NEW YORK-BEA Systems Inc., a major player in providing mission-critical middleware solutions, announced BEA M3, which it said is the first and only production-ready...

MOBILEMEDIA CLOSES ACTIVATION CENTER

JACKSON, Miss.-MobileMedia Communications Inc. announced it will close its retail activation center in Jackson, Miss., and consolidate its functions at the Dallas-based call center...
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