September 1998

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 new XP2 product, a low-cost, …

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, the Pentagon conducted a top secret …

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 pending agreement for Alcatel to acquire …

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 volatility. Arch has agreed to modify …

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 Administration records, announced Bell Atlantic Mobile. …

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 “quasi public-safety” status, a request AAA …

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 the fee for the 163 …

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 alternative technologies in lieu of large …

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 our simplified, post-paid service plans,” …

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 talk don’t know”-at least on the …

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 meetings are expected to be …

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 hold on and hope for the …

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 industry officials and government policy makers …

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

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, InConcert’s process-based OSS integration framework, …

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 the athletes who competed earlier …

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 implement the digital wiretap act. And, …

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 limited market launch is expected …

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 businesses dealing with Y2K computer upgrade …

AirNet Communications Corp. announced it has received a $17 million contract to supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Message Express Co., owner of two Michigan basic …

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 for paging. The MMC2080 chip can …

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 infringe on any valid intellectual property …

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 of 268 million, according to Baskerville …

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 to try to clean off …