Yearly Archives: 1998

ARCH TO EQUIP INSURANCE AGENTS

TEMPE, Ariz.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said Auto-Owners Insurance Co. of Lansing, Mich., selected its National Services Division to provide messaging services for its insurance...

ARGENTINA LIBERALIZATION PLAN WOULD BROADEN MARKET ACCESS

Argentine President Carlos Menem last week announced a telecommunications liberalization plan that would give American wireless companies broader access to the Argentine telecommunications market.Under...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES TO EQUIP ADVANCED RADIO FOR WIRELESS DATA

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a letter of intent for Lucent to supply equipment and integrate Advanced Radio's...

HOUSE INVESTIGATES BELLSOUTH LONG-DISTANCE EFFORTS

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee said an investigation confirmed that BellSouth Corp. offered to drop a regulatory challenge to Teligent Corp.'s wireless licenses if Teligent...

SMR BIDDER THAT GOT IN OVER HEAD DENIED RECOURSE

WASHINGTON-Portland, Ore.-based Mountain SMR Group L.L.C., which is in default on the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio service license it purchased last winter during...

BT TO CUT RATES ON SATELLITE SERVICE

NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc announced its mobile satellite communications customers will enjoy price reductions up to 15 percent, when the company introduces a new...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Brightpoint Inc. and CellStar Corp. said they discontinued negotiations to form a joint venture in India. The proposal for the venture was announced in...

INDUSTRY GETS EXTRA WEEK TO WORK ON CALEA PLAN

WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno will decide by this Friday whether to pull the Federal Communications Commission into a digital wiretap controversy that kept the...

CELLNET OBTAINS APPROVALS FOR METERS

SAN CARLOS, Calif.-CellNet Data Systems Inc. said it obtained the necessary approvals as a Meter Data Management Agent and Meter Service Provider required to...

VIEWPOINT: HAVING IT BOTH WAYS

My head has been full of thoughts about government this week. My husband and I had the opportunity to hear former President George Bush...

ERICSSON TO GROW SERBIAN GSM NETWORK

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it received a contract valued at more than $60 million to expand a Global System for Mobile communications network in...

CABLE & WIRELESS SELLS BOND ISSUE

NEW YORK-Cable & Wireless Communications plc, the London-based international telecommunications conglomerate, sold a $1.8 billion Yankee bond issue March 4, through an underwriting syndicate...

INVESTORS TRY TO TAKE ANADIGICS, SPECTRIAN TO COURT

NEW YORK-Touted by some securities analysts last summer as small-cap wireless companies likely to outperform broader markets, Anadigics Inc. and Spectrian Corp. now are...

TURKCELL SELECTS COMPUTER ASSOCIATES

ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkcell, a cellular phone company in Turkey, selected Computer Associates International Inc.'s integrated enterprise management solution, Unicenter TNG, to proactively manage its entire...

VANGUARD SHEDS PROPERTIES TO CONCENTRATE ON NE

NEW YORK-The share price of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc., Greensboro, N.C., closed up $1 at $17.13 per share March 11, the day it announced...

NO ACCIDENT THAT VERMONT IS ANTENNA-SITING BATTLEGROUND

HARDWICK, Vt.-Even on a miserable, rainy day in March, this small New England state of maple syrup, cheddar cheese, splendid ski resorts and Ben...

COMSTREAM REPORTS VSATPLUS CONTRACTS

SAN DIEGO-The Satellite Global Access division of ComStream has signed several new contracts to provide its VSATPlus II satellite networking product to companies in...

SPECTRUM RESOURCES BUYS TOWER ASSETS OF PB INDUS TRIES

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. acquired the tower assets of PB Industries, consisting of 20 towers located in Oklahoma with tenants including Western...

D.C. NOTES: MASS CONFESSIONS

In this March Madness season of religious conversion, I join David Brock (Clinton basher turned sympathizer) and Trent Lott (Starr malcontent turned sympathizer) in...

IPR ISSUES SPARK NEW 3G DEBATE

Vendors and carriers have renewed hope that the world could have one standard in place for third-generation systems, but Europe holds one of the...

JUSTICE CONTINUES TO LOOK AT MCHI LEO LICENSE

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department last week extended for 60 days its probe into whether Labor Secretary Alexis Herman financially benefited from helping Mobile Communications Holdings...

OMNIPOINT TO ROAM IN INDONESIA

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Communications Inc. activated its first roaming deal in Indonesia with PT. Satelit Palapa Indonesia.This brings to 41...

OMNITEL-PRONTO ITALIA STAKEHOLDER SEEKS $225M IN PRIVATE DEBT

NEW YORK-Cellular Communications International Inc., New York, plans to retire outstanding senior discount notes paying 13.25-percent interest and replace them with a private placement...

KENNARD REAFFIRMS TOWER SITING STANCE

HARDWICK, Vt.-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard, facing Vermont citizens hostile to the prospect of losing control of cherished land-use oversight, resoundingly reaffirmed his...

KNIGHT IS KEY FIGURE IN JUSTICE PROBES

WASHINGTON-In the private sector, he has represented Pacific Telesis, Bell Atlantic Corp., Lockheed Martin and other high-tech corporate giants. In the world of politics,...
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