Monthly Archives: September, 1998

CENTENNIAL MAKES CASH OFFER ON NOTES

NEW CANAAN, Conn.-Centennial Cellular Corp. announced an offer to purchase for cash all $250 million principal amount of its 8.875-percent senior notes due 2001...

VIEWPOINT: HONESTY SHOULD COUNT FOR SOMETHING

Iridium announced last week it does not plan to meet its commercial launch goal of Sept. 23 because the mobile satellite service provider needs...

CARRIERS CAN KEEP REVENUES FROM GOING DOWN THE DRAIN

"There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza, dear Eliza, There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza, my love. Then fix it, dear...

CORSAIR DEVELOPS NETWORK-BASED WIRELESS LOCATION SYSTEM

Corsair Communications Inc. joined the ranks of companies hoping to capitalize on the Federal Communications Commission's mandate on wireless 911.The company, whose product history...

MOODY’S PLACES C&W DEBT UNDER REVIEW

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service, London, announced it has placed the long-term ratings of about $4 billion of Cable & Wireless plc debt under review...

D.C. NOTES: HOW DO YOU SPELL RELIEF? T-I-A

When controversy comes calling, policy makers and wireless telecom firms turn to a high-tech sounding board whose work is based more on reality than...

TRANSDATA CREATES INTEGRATED ELECTRIC METER

RICHARDSON, Texas-TransData announced it has created an electric meter that integrates national two-way automatic meter reading technology completely under glass using American Mobile Satellite...

MOTOROLA TO TRIAL TWO-SLOT PHONE IN EUROPE

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. plans to begin trials in Europe late this year of CardFone, which it hopes will be the first handset available commercially...

BILL WOULD LET COMPANIES HIRE MORE SKILLED FOREIGN WORKERS

WASHINGTON-The House is set to begin debate this week on legislation to allow more highly skilled foreign workers into the United States, an initiative...

NEXTEL NEGOTIATES FOR MORE SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., in a move possibly signaling capacity problems that may be forcing the already highly leveraged wireless giant back into acquisition mode,...

GLENAYRE SERVER ALLOWS SYNCHRONIZED WMTP NETWORKS

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. introduced a Distributed Network Configuration Server, which it said allows paging carriers to automatically synchronize WMtp-based networks over a single...

CELLNET DATA BRINGS ON 1.5M DEVICES

SAN CARLOS, Calif.-CellNet Data Systems Inc. announced it brought the 1.5-millionth device online in its networks. The devices are primarily monitoring metered energy usage...

CDG OPENS COSTA MESA OFFICE

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced it opened a new office in Costa Mesa to serve as its global headquarters.The organization, which promotes...

CALENDAR

Pricing, Marketing, Packaging & Branding Bundled Services in the Telecom IndustrySeptember 14-15Institute for International Research. The Wyndham Resort, Miami Beach, Fla. (888) 777-8730 or...

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...

LHS GROUP AND COMPAQ TO EQUIP EUROTEL BRATISLAVA

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. and Compaq Inc. announced Slovak mobile carrier EuroTel Bratislava is migrating its customer base to the upgraded version of LHS' Business...

LETTERS

Reply to Kennard: Since when has the FCC been for the public?To the Editor: I read Chairman (William) Kennard's response in your Aug. 24, 1998,...

LUCENT TO EXPAND NETWORK FOR ARGENTINA’S CTI MOVIL

BUENOS AIRES-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a $52.5 million contract with CTI Movil of Argentina to provide equipment, services and software for another expansion of...

POLITICS, ECONOMIES CAUSE AUCTION DELAYS

Political turmoil and economic problems around the world have delayed tenders and auctions of mobile phone spectrum in some countries.At least three Latin American...

TADIRAN TO PROVIDE GSM RADIOS

HOUSTON-Tadiran Microwave Networks was awarded a contract from a cellular company in the Russian Federation to provide high-frequency radios to expand a Global System...

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,...

BLAST TECHNOLOGY COULD BOOST FIXED WIRELESS CAPACITY

Lucent Technologies Inc. said scientists at its Bell Labs research and development arm have developed a technology that could boost capacity of some wireless...

SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES JOINS BLUETOOTH SIG

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.-Symbol Technologies Inc., which designs, manufactures and installs wireless local area network systems, bar-code systems and short-range wireless-connectivity products, today announced its support...

BUILD TO SUIT OR FORMULA FOR FAILURE?

The latest rage in the wireless industry has been the rush to purchase and build towers and facilities and lease them to wireless carriers....

FCC EXTENDS CALEA COMPLIANCE TO JUNE 2000

The Federal Communications Commission late Friday extended the compliance deadline for implementation of the digital wiretap act until June 30, 2000. Without the extension,...
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