Monthly Archives: September, 1998

MOTOROLA CIG TAKES CONTRACTS IN CHINA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts valued at $38.8 million to replace another vendor's existing cellular Global System for...

LUCENT AIMS TO MAKE MESSAGING MAINSTREAM WITH IN SOLUTION

Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an intelligent network messaging solution designed to bring messaging mainstream, said the company.The solution makes use of information in network...

FORMUS, UNISOURCE TO INTERCONNECT TELECOM NETWORKS

DENVER-Formus Communications Inc., a high-speed broadband wireless provider to overseas markets, and Unisource NV formed a strategic partnership to interconnect their communications networks in...

DST SYSTEMS-USCS MERGER VALUED AT $874M

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.-DST Systems Inc. and USCS International Inc. announced an agreement to merge USCS with a wholly owned subsidiary of DST in a...

NEWS BRIEFS

Qualcomm to spinoff LeapSAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced a record date of Sept. 11 for the proposed spinoff of Leap Wireless International Inc.The board declared...

GHANA TELECOM TO USE HUGHES HUB SYSTEM

GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems, a provider of very small aperture terminals, announced Ghana Telecom has purchased an HNS shared-hub satellite system.The hub will be...

III’S VILLAGE SQUARE IS LINK TO PERSONAL INFORMATION SERVICES

STAMFORD, Conn.-Intelligent Information Inc. introduced a wireless commerce platform called Village Square for wireless phone, pager and wireless data device users.Village Square allows users...

INFOTECH ENHANCES SOFTWARE, LOOKS FOR PARTNER

Though intense competition for second-tier cellular carriers is some time away, a Westbrook, Maine, company is looking to help these carriers get ready for...

ILL. SUPERCONDUCTOR EQUIPS RAMCELL WITH FILTER SYSTEMS

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. said Ramcell Cellular Communications bought RangeMaster cellular filter systems for three rural cell sites to improve performance of the...

LANTANA TO OFFER TELEDATA PRODUCTS

ATLANTA-Teledata World Services Inc. said it is in final negotiations with Lantana Merchants Solutions Corp., which provides prepaid cellular cards, to offer Teledata cellular...

MITSUBISHI UNVEILS PDA KIT

The massive popularity of 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot personal digital assistant has spurred several mobile communications companies to develop wireless solutions for the product. The...

PRODUCTS

GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network...

PREPAID SERVICES INCREASINGLY VIEWED AS COST MANAGEMENT OPTION

Prepaid services continue to advance in the United States and overseas as the market moves increasingly away from the credit-challenged and more toward individuals...

IWC FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION

International Wireless Communications Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month, saying its finances and several of its businesses have been...

IRIDIUM DELAYS SERVICE LAUNCH

Iridium L.L.C. announced it will delay its initial Sept. 23 service launch date to Nov. 1, citing the need to "improve operational stability of...

WORLD BRIEFS

VENEZUELANokia Corp. was awarded a multi-year contract valued at up to $105 million to supply a turnkey 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications...

TIW’S REGIOCOM ACQUIRES BOUYGES SMR OPERATION

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its French subsidiary, Regiocom SA, has acquired S3RP, the specialized mobile radio operations of Bouyges marketed under the brand...

NATION BRIEFS

Globecomm Systems Inc. said its board of directors authorized a stock repurchase of up to $2 million of its outstanding common stock, representing about...

NO STANDARD GIANT FORESEEN IN HANDHELD DEVICES

Sorry Microsoft Corp., but analyst firm Strategy Analytics predicts the handheld device market in the future will not be dominated by any single standard."Microsoft...

ECI TELECOM AND TADIRAN TO MERGE

PETAH TIKVA, Israel-ECI Telecom Ltd. and Tadiran Telecommunications Ltd. signed an agreement in principle to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction, pending a definitive agreement...

ERICSSON TO ACQUIRE ACC

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to acquire Advanced Computer Communication, a California-based vendor of remote access and internetworking products, for about $285 million in...

FINDING ANTENNA SITES THAT ARE `NOT IN MY BACKYARD’

Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an...

WIRELESS OUTLOOK MURKY ON CAPITOL HILL

WASHINGTON-Under even the most abnormal of normal circumstances, it usually is possible to handicap odds for passage of wireless legislation before Congress adjourns.But these...

MOODY’S, S&P MAY DOWNGRADE HYUNDAI DIVISION

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's Corp. are considering whether to downgrade about $400 million of Hyundai Semiconductor America Inc. debt because...

INTERDIGITAL APPROVES STOCK REPURCHASE

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp.'s board of directors approved the repurchase of up to 1.5 million shares of the company's outstanding common stock,...
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