Monthly Archives: September, 1998

CELERITEK RECEIVES INNOVA ORDER

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Celeritek Inc. said it received a $4.7 million order for transceiver products from Innova Corp.Innova plans to use the components in its...

PENTAGON MAY WANT 3G SPECTRUM FOR PROTECTION

WASHINGTON-About a year after the Clinton administration created a special panel in 1996 to assess potential threats to telecom networks and other critical infrastructure,...

DOJ APPROVES ALCATEL, DSC

PARIS, and DALLAS-Alcatel and DSC Communications Corp. announced the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has favorably completed its review of the...

ARCH MODIFIED MERGER AGREEMENT

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will make certain modifications to its merger agreement with MobileMedia Corp. in response to recent capital market...

BAM EQUIPS 30 MARYLAND POLICE CRUISERS WITH AIRBRIDGE

BETHESDA, Md.-The Maryland-National Capital Park Police-Montgomery County Division has equipped 30 of its police cruisers with wireless access to criminal databases and Motor Vehicle...

SENATORS AGAIN PUSH FOR AAA SPECIAL STATUS

WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America received a powerful push from six U.S. senators last week, who urged the Federal Communications Commission to grant AAA...

Mobile Data Carriers

MOBILEMEDIA CLOSES TOWER SALE

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it has closed the sale of its transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. for $170 million in cash.MobileMedia diverted...

VERMONT LAWMAKERS TRY HAND AT NEW ANTENNA-SITING BILL

WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) shortly plan to introduce new legislation that would repeal federal pre-emption of local zoning regulation, encourage...

POWERTEL OFFERS PREPAID PLANS

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced the availability of prepaid personal communications services in all of the company's markets."Powertel's prepaid offering is an extension of...

CDMA ROLLOUTS DELAYED IN CHINA

An old Chinese saying may be relevant to the commercialization of CDMA mobile phone networks in China-"Those who know don't talk, and those who...

TELLABS, CIENA POSTPONE MEETING

LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs Inc. and Ciena Corp. canceled the special stockholder meetings scheduled for Sept. 9 to vote on the proposed merger of the companies.The...

CAPITALIZED COMPANIES HOLD ADVANTAGE AS STOCKS DROP

U.S. stock markets, like most markets around the world, last week experienced a roller-coaster ride that left many companies with no choice but to...

LOOPHOLE FOUND IN WIRETAP LAW

WASHINGTON-A federal court ruling has exposed a huge loophole in the wiretap law, one that gives wireless consumers far less protection from eavesdropping than...

CORRECTION

In RCR's Aug. 17 story reporting Omnipoint's second-quarter earnings, the company's second-quarter subscriber figures should have been 255,000.

INCONCERT, EVOLVING TO JOINTLY MARKET

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-InConcert Inc. and Evolving Systems Inc. announced a joint marketing agreement to provide telecommunications companies with operational support system solutions.The agreement combines Teoss,...

PREPARATIONS IN FULL SWING FOR WRC 2000

WASHINGTON-The World Radiocommunication Conference is a lot like the Olympics: preparations for the next one start almost before the current event has ended. And, like...

ANOTHER TELECOM HEADACHE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT: PORTABILITY

WASHINGTON-Imagine for a moment law enforcement is able to convince the Federal Communications Commission to approve all the items it is asking for to...

BELL MOBILITY TO ROLL OUT WILDFIRE

Wildfire Communications Inc. announced Bell Mobility of Canada will become the first telecom service provider to offer the Network Wildfire personal assistant service commercially.The...

NAM LAUNCHES Y2K SITE

NEW YORK-The National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C., has launched a new Web site designed to provide Year 2000 product and service information for...

NEWS BRIEFS

AirNet Communications Corp. announced it has received a $17 million contract to supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Message Express...

NEW MOTOROLA CHIP EXPANDS PAGING CAPABILITY

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. introduced a new chip last week designed to bring paging capability to personal digital assistants and other devices not traditionally used...

QUALCOMM, ERICSSON CONTINUE TO LOCK HORNS OVER IPR

Sweden-based L.M. Ericsson said it has found no reason to believe the current W-CDMA 3G standard chosen by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute would...

CELLULAR USERS TO DOUBLE IN A DECADE

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.-During the next decade, worldwide cellular phone users are expected to more than double to 715 million from this year's subscription numbers...

VIEWPOINT: UNANSWERED QUESTION

I need your help.The next few weeks at RCR and everywhere else in the wireless industry are going to be crazy. It's too late...
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