Monthly Archives: August, 1998

GURIAN RECALLS OKI’S EARLY DAYS

Watching a cellular handset manufacturer that was once on top of the market exit from the U.S. handset business has broken Mal Gurian's heart.The...

BUYOUTS LOOM IN TOWER INDUSTRY

The vast number of players coupled with loads of savvy Wall Street money has set the stage for mass consolidation within the tower industry.The...

TIA PUBLISHES CELLULAR STANDARD

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it published a new performance guideline for cellular Time Division Multiple Access and personal communications services networks.Interim Standard-727,...

BELLSOUTH OFFERS WORLDWIDE SERVICES

ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS is offering two new wireless products for international business travelers-Bosch's World 718 Mobile Phone and DCS Fax Mailbox service.Bosch's world phone...

NDC TO PROVIDE DISPATCH TO U S WEST

SAN DIEGO-National Dispatch Center Inc. announced U S West selected it to provide operator dispatch service to U S West alphanumeric paging and personal...

QUALCOMM LICENSES ACER

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. licensed Acer Peripherals Inc. of Taiwan to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber products based on its Code Division Multiple Access technology.Terms...

AMTA REQUESTS FORBEARANCE

WASHINGTON-The American Mobile Telecommunications Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission requesting a forbearance for non-commercial wireless from the type of regulation imposed...

AML BOARD OKS STOCK BUYBACK

CAMARILLO, Calif.-AML Communications Inc.'s board of directors approved a stock buyback of up to 400,000 shares of the company's outstanding common stock. Shares repurchased...

AIRNET RECEIVES PCS CONTRACTS

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. said it received four new contracts amounting to more than $22 million to supply personal communications service wireless infrastructure equipment...

LIBERATOR OR LEASH: EXPLORING PAGING’S LEGACY

As a trade news reporter covering the paging industry, I talk with all sorts of marketing and public-relations personnel, as well as company executives,...

FCC SETTLES ISSUES IN PREPARATION FOR NEXT MONTH’S 220 AUCTION

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission recently settled some outstanding issues regarding the 220 MHz (220-222 MHz) band in preparation for an auction of licenses scheduled...

WORLD BRIEFS

EuroTel Praha awarded Nokia Corp. a three-year frame agreement valued at almost $200 million to continue as the sole supplier to expand its 900...

TELIGENT ADDS 5 CITIES TO `98 LAUNCH PLANS

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. reported a net loss of $59.1 million for the second quarter on revenues of about $143,000, reflecting the company's continued expenditures...

HANDSET MAKERS SET TO RIDE GPS TECHNOLOGY WAVE WITH SIRF

NEW YORK-Sirf Technology Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif., company established in 1995, announced agreements last week with Ericsson Inc., Hitachi America Ltd. and Nokia...

GRUPO IUSACELL RESTRUCTURES

MEXICO CITY-Grupo Iusacell announced a restructuring and recapitalization plan aimed at increasing liquidity of its public shares, providing proceeds to pay for personal communications...

VIEWPOINT: IS THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY GETTING A BAD REPUTATION?

As part of this week's paging special report, RCR explores people's love-hate relationship with technology. It's an interesting read, and it certainly has caused...

ARCH, MOBILEMEDIA CLOSE TO MERGER DEAL

Arch Communications Group Inc. and MobileMedia Communications Inc. reportedly are extremely close to an agreement to merge, said sources close to the talks. Nothing...

IRIDIUM SET TO USE AUGUST LAUNCH DATES

No one at Iridium L.L.C. or Motorola Inc. has explained the cause of two satellite failures last month, but the consortium maintains the problem...

SOUTH KOREAN CARRIERS AGREE TO ADVERTISING RESTRAINTS

The battle among South Korea's five mobile phone carriers has become so intense that the Ministry of Information and Communication has prodded the carriers...

ERICSSON’S HEDFORS EXITS TO MOTORLA

Joining a slew of other industry captains abandoning ship for various reasons, Ericsson Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Bo Hedfors last week decided...

SYMBIO SELECTS FRAUDBUSTER

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Symbio Systems Inc., a worldwide consulting and systems-integration provider, selected Lightbridge Inc. to provide local customer support for its FraudBuster clients in Taiwan,...

PRIME WIRELESS PROPERTIES COULD BE UP FOR GRABS

The first half of this year has produced several landscape-changing events in the wireless industry. If completed, the proposed mergers between SBC Communications Inc....

BOSTON COMMUNICATIONS ENTERS PREPAID MARKET IN CANADA WITH CANTEL

NEW YORK-Cantel AT&T's Pay As You Go prepaid cellular and paging services, launched nationwide in May in Canada, is using prepaid technology and customer...

FCC EXTENDS BUILDOUT ON GOODMAN/CHAN

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission again extended the buildout time on the so-called Goodman/Chan licenses until current litigation can be resolved.In a July 31 ruling,...

CARRIERS CREATE WIRELESS VENTURE-CAPITAL FUND

NEW YORK-"One of the humbling things about this business is that, for three out of four years, we are unapproachable and obnoxious, but in...
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