Yearly Archives: 1998

CHATHAM TECHNOLOGIES TO ACQUIRE INNOVATION

DALLAS-Chatham Technologies Inc., Dallas, announced Feb. 23 it signed a letter of intent to acquire Innovation Inc., a Bothell, Wash., manufacturer of base stations...

WIRELESS ANTI-FRAUD BILL ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING LAW

WASHINGTON-A wireless anti-fraud bill is headed to the White House for President Clinton's signature, following House passage last week of legislation that will deny...

CTIA ASKS FCC TO TAKE ON CALLING-PARTY-PAYS ISSUES

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to address three regulatory issues surrounding calling party pays, calling on the agency...

DANIELS & ASSOCIATES OFFERS 1997 TRANSACTION WRAP-UP

DENVER-Daniels & Associates, an investment banking and financial services company specializing in media and telecommunications, announced its telecommunications group completed 20 transactions during 1997,...

MOODY’S SAYS DEFAULTS DOUBLED LAST YEAR

NEW YORK-The number of issuers defaulting on publicly held corporate debt more than doubled from 1996 to 1997, Moody's Investors Service reported in a...

WIRELESS NOT RESPONSIBLE

To the Editor: I read with some interest Mr. Angelmyer's diatribe on the lack of a "white knight" to save MobileMedia from extinguishing its equity....

ERICSSON COMBINES CORDLESS SYSTEM WITH GSM MOBILE NETWORK

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson's Global System for Mobile communications-based cordless telephone system now allows subscribers to use their GSM mobile phones on the fixed public...

UNIVERSAL ELECTRONIC LICENSING PLAN COULD CUT OUT LEGAL MIDDLEMEN

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is taking steps to solve both the millennium-bug problem and inconsistencies that exist between radio-frequency services applications rules by issuing...

WYTEC AND PILIPINO TEST LMDS EQUIPMENT

Wytec Inc. and the Pilipino Telephone Corp. are conducting a joint trial of Wytec's local multipoint distribution service equipment in Manila to ascertain its...

GREEK PCS CARRIER TO START ACTIVATIONS

ATHENS-According to sources at OTE, the Greek telephone company's subsidiary Cosmote will begin activating personal communications services customers this week as scheduled, becoming the...

VIEWPOINT: WIRELESS ’98: CRAZY TIME IN ATLANTA?

The Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association's 1998 convention has come and gone. This gives PCS '98 convention planners six months to try to one-up this...

SPYGLASS, FUJITSU JOIN WAP FORUM

ATLANTA-Spyglass Inc. and Fujitsu Software Corp. both have joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum, the companies announced at CTIA's Wireless 98 trade show.Founded by...

DIGITAL MICROWAVE GAINS WINSTAR CONTRACTS

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp. announced it received contracts from competitive local exchange carrier WinStar Communications Inc. valued at $2.8 million.Shipments of Spectrum II...

UWCC ANNOUNCES TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

ATLANTA-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group made up of Time Division Multiple Access technology supporters including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced a migratable...

ACTION CELLULAR TO RENT TO TRAVELERS IN ISRAEL

SAN FRANCISCO-Action Cellular Rent A Phone now provides cellular and satellite phone rentals in Israel and throughout the Middle East, announced the company.News crews...

INNOVATIVE NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES USES HIGH-SPEED ANALOG

NEW YORK-Rumors of analog's death are premature, according to a group of former IBM Corp. executives who have joined with other industry veterans to...

AVANTGO SOFTWARE EXTENDS INTRANETS TO HANDHELDS

SAN MATEO, Calif.-AvantGo Inc., a mobile computing software company, introduced AvantGo Web Client and AvantGo Desktop, software, which extends enterprise applications to handheld computers.AvantGo...

BELL ATLANTIC OFFERS $10 FLAT RATE ON AIR

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Starting yesterday, Bell Atlantic Mobile DigitalChoice customers in Bell Atlantic's Maine-to-Georgia footprint are being offered unlimited airtime for a flat monthly fee starting...

BELL ATLANTIC’S FRAUD DECREASES

ATLANTA-Bell Atlantic Mobile said it attributes its 74-percent decrease in home and roaming cellular fraud losses to continued deployment of authentication and radio-frequency fingerprinting...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Qualcomm Inc. announced a joint agreement with AirTouch Cellular, U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. for the supply of Qualcomm's...

WORLD BRIEFS

Motorola Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with Latin American paging provider Alfa-Bip of Mexico to provide infrastructure for a nationwide expansion of...

BRIGHTPOINT TEAMS WITH US/INTELICOM, SECURFONE ON PREPAID

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it reached an agreement with US/Intelicom and SecurFone America Inc. to provide prepaid cellular solutions for the U.S. market.The prepaid solution,...

BELLSOUTH STARTS TELECOM CONSULTING

ATLANTA-BellSouth Small Business Services announced it now has specialists who consult individually with business customers about their telecommunications needs.The enhancement to its "one-stop shopping"...

SCHOOL BUSES TO USE CELLEMETRY SERVICE

ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellemetry announced an agreement with Global Research Systems, adding Cellemetry applications to GRS's BusCall service.BusCall notifies families when a school bus is approaching...

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Entelec 98March 1-4Entelec. San Antonio Convention Center, San Antonio. (888) 503-8700.Build-to-Suit and Purchase/Leaseback Tower ProgramsMarch 2-3Shorecliff Communications International. Wyndham Emerald Plaza Hotel, San Diego....
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