Monthly Archives: September, 1998

SYBASE TOOLS USED IN FCC ULS SYSTEM

BETHESDA, Md.-Sybase Inc. announced the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau began implementing the Universal Licensing System to make filing for wireless licenses easier.The...

ULTRATEK SYSTEM WOULD USE AIRPLANES AS CELL SITES

UltraTek, a Torrance, Calif.-based telecommunications equipment research company, has filed patent applications for a global wireless telecommunications system that would turn commercial airplanes into...

VIEWPOINT: TIME TO COMPROMISE

Is anyone else in the industry weary of the debate over the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994?Finally admitting that you can't...

OFFERING GIVES FUTURE TRADERS MARKET UPDATES

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has created a new customized wireless service for the Chicago Board of Trade that will allow futures traders to...

MOTOROLA UNVEILS NEW PAGER PRODUCTS

Motorola Inc.'s North American Paging Subscriber Division plans to announce several new paging devices at the Personal Communications Showcase in Orlando this week, including...

MOTOROLA CIG WINS GSM CONTRACT IN SICHUAN PROVINCE

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it won a $53 million contract to expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in...

FIXED WIRELESS SECTOR PUSHES FOR SPECTRUM-IMPACT STUDIES

WASHINGTON-Manufacturers and fixed wireless users are poised to launch a campaign on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission to advocate "spectrum-impact studies"...

QUALCOMM RELEASES NEW SOFTWARE FEATURE

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. introduced the Global SmartRate software feature, which allows operators to immediately boost overall capacity on Interim Standard-95 Code Division Multiple Access...

POWERTEL LAUNCHES PCS IN CHATTANOOGA

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Powertel Inc. launched wireless personal communications services in Chattanooga, Tenn., expanding its market to 27 metropolitan areas and major highway corridors throughout 12...

CONDUCTUS COMPLETES $6.5 MILLION IN FINANCING

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it completed $6.53 million in financing, consisting of $5.03 million in new equity funds, $1 million from a new lease...

COLORADO COMPANY OFFERS DEVELOPER’S KIT FOR OPTIMIZING MICRODISPLAYS

Colorado MicroDisplay Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based supplier of microdisplays, announced it is taking orders for its CMD View Cube Optics Developer's Kit.The kit provides...

AIRTOUCH LAUNCHES IN IDAHO

BOISE, Idaho-AirTouch Cellular announced it launched digital wireless service in southern Idaho using Code Division Multiple Access technology.Services include text messaging, voice mail with...

GOAMERICA TEAMS WITH JP SYSTEMS ON ENHANCED SERVICES

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. said it is supplying enhanced services for its Go.Mail wireless e-mail software for the PalmPilot and Palm III connected organizers...

PAGEMART FORMS TELEMETRY UNIT

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. has created a Telemetry Strategic Business Unit as part of its strategy to extend in-progress ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services...

P-COM RESTRUCTURES, CUTS WORK FORCE

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. announced a cost-cutting restructuring program that eliminates about 10 percent of its global work force, affecting approximately 120 full-time employees. In...

INDUSTRY PREPARES PORTABILITY ARGUMENT FOR COURT

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry this week is preparing to argue before a federal appeals court in Oklahoma City that the Federal Communications Commission's rules requiring...

AMERITECH DECLARES 3RD QUARTER DIVIDEND

CHICAGO-Ameritech Corp.'s board of directors declared a regular third-quarter dividend of 30 cents per share, payable Nov. 2 to shareowners of record Sept. 30....

COMVERSE TO DELIVER SYSTEM TO BELLSOUTH

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems announced it has agreed to supply BellSouth Corp. with universal messaging infrastructure for BellSouth's Advanced Intelligent Messaging 2000 initiative.BellSouth hopes...

CABLE & WIRELESS ADDS INTERNET BACKBONE TO MIX

LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc completed its $1.75 billion cash acquisition of MCI Corp.'s U.S.-based Internet business, including its Internet backbone services, about 1,000 specialist...

PREPAID SERVICES COME TO PAGING INDUSTRY

In the paging industry today, money talks.Carriers know this and are pursuing every avenue available to bulk up the bottom line. One relatively new...

`NO ONE, BUT NO ONE’ IS MARKETING PREPAID TO AMERICANS

NEW YORK-Domestic wireless carriers "now have prepaid (services) fully introduced throughout their geographic territories," but they lag behind their peers abroad in fully tapping...

COMMQUEST GSM CHIP TO IMPROVE POWER EFFICIENCY

NEW YORK-By incorporating Silicon Germanium into its components for wireless handsets, CommQuest Technologies, Encinitas, Calif., announced Sept. 14 it has advanced significantly toward its...

HOSPITAL TESTS PINPOINT

BEDFORD, Mass.-PinPoint Corp. unveiled 3D-iD, its real-time wireless asset-tracking and personnel-management system using location techniques similar to those used by the global positioning system...

PHOENIX EXPANDS FOCUS ON DOMESTIC BUSINESS

Maitland, Fla.-based Phoenix Wireless Group Inc. this month announced the company is taking its software-defined telecommunications products in a new direction.A four-year-old company that...

PCS ’98 TO FEATURE INVESTMENT BANKER

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The SuperSession on the second day of the Personal Communications Showcase '98, "Connect to Competition, the Business of Success," will feature keynote speaker...
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