1998

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-ICO Global Communications announced an agreement with American Management Systems in which the latter will provide ICO a fully automated billing service to reduce activation time. The system will …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-The creators of the PalmPilot handheld computer announced they have secured funding to create a new company, Handspring Inc., which will develop products for the consumer side of …

ORLANDO, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said its FraudX product is commercially available. FraudX, the company’s second-generation wireless fraud detection system, addresses fraud in both home and roaming markets as well …

Information Storage Devices Inc., San Jose, Calif., introduced a single-chip, fully integrated voice storage solution designed for digital cellular handsets. The ISD5008 eliminates external analog circuitry, such as automatic gain …

Chesapeake Microwave Chesapeake Microwave Technologies Inc. introduced a 50-watt personal communications services Global System for Mobile communications amplifier and a 30-watt DCS GSM amplifier. The 50-watt PCS GSM amplifier is …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc., a provider of chipsets, software and intellectual property to the wireless industry, said it received investments from two venture capital firms. Boston-based Greylock and Lucent Venture …

NEW YORK-Nickel cadmium batteries, long the mainstay of rechargeable power sources for wireless phones, are fading fast into handset history. Today, nickel metal hydride batteries are emerging at the top …

Collocation has evolved from something wireless carriers used to resist to something they do as a matter of course. The idea of collocation increasingly becomes important to independent tower companies, …

NEWBURY, Berskshire, England-Vodafone Group plc said it purchased from BellSouth New Zealand the national New Zealand GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) cellular network and related assets. BellSouth New Zealand …

In their effort to promote profitable growth vs. growth at all costs, paging carriers have watched their net subscriber additions fall incrementally over the last several quarters, most notably from …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it combined its Wireless Infrastructure Division with its Communication Systems Division to form the new Wireless Systems Division. The combined unit will focus on Code Division …

BEIJING-Six wireless operators with 11 networks is the daunting choice offered to Hong Kong’s techno-savvy consumers. The mobile phone scene here is a lot brighter than one would have expected …

It’s been more than a year since Glenayre Technologies Inc. first announced its intention to divest the Western Multiplex microwave business unit, yet the company continues to search for a …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. said it entered an agreement with Intelligent Information Inc. to resell III’s personalized information services. TSR is branding the III service Personal Paging. Personal Paging …

WASHINGTON-While this week’s election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course of telecom policy making in Congress, …

FREEHOLD, N.J.-BAP Acquisition Corp., which in July signed a definitive agreement to buy Bell Atlantic Corp.’s paging assets, has agreed to merge with Paging Partners Corp. Under terms of the …

SEATTLE-Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp. made good on their promise to converge the computing and wireless industries when they announced the formation of WirelessKnowledge L.L.C. last week, a joint venture …

United Kingdom CellPoint Systems AB and its partner Wasp International of South Africa demonstrated a Global System for Mobile communications phone positioning system at the 2nd International Conference on Mobile, …

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Metrica, a business unit of ADC Telecommunications Inc., said it won a contract to manage Omnipoint Communications’ network performance using Metrica/NPR. The system will manage performance statistics collected from …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment rose to $55.6 billion at the close of third quarter, an 11-percent increase from the same period of …

That the Clinton administration hasn’t said all that much since the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections is instructive. For one thing, who can say it better than angry Republicans who …

BOSTON-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. announced more than 2.3 million Global System for Mobile communications customers exist in the United States and Canada. “GSM’s growth continues to outpace rival …

Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group introduced a new platform for Global System for Mobile communications handsets. The platform, which is slightly larger than a business card, can provide standby times …

Alltel Corp. said it acquired Armstrong Cellular Inc.’s 15-percent interest in a network the two companies operate in Charleston, W.Va. Alltel now has 100 percent control of the operation. Terms …

HOUSTON-Equiva Services L.L.C., an affiliate of Shell, and TruePosition Inc. signed an agreement to jointly develop and market location-based services and applications using the TruePosition Wireless Location System. Under terms …