September 1998

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 ULS, an integrated information system …

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 flying cell sites. The company has …

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 put the cart before the …

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 monitor futures pricing and market trends …

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 a new voice pager. The next-generation …

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 China’s Sichuan province. Motorola CIG will …

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” as a prerequisite to frequency reallocations …

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 networks. “In listening to our customers’ …

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 Southeastern states with 11 million pops. …

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 line and $500,000 that was released …

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 a visual interface development platform …

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 notification, paging and caller ID. …

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 with the integration of One-Touch Communicator …

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 network to more “off-the-hip” applications and …

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 addition, members of senior management will …

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 wireless number portability were enacted improperly …

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. The dividend is the same as …

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 AIM 2000 will give customers …

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 employees, as well as its retail …

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 road eyed by some carriers …

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 its potential, said Scott R. Cassell, …

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 goal of offering a Global System …

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 satellite network. PinPoint’s 3D-iD network is …

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 established itself as a player …

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 David Golden, managing director and co-director …