Yearly Archives: 1998

AMS TO EQUIP ICO GLOBAL

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...

PALMPILOT CREATORS FORM NEW COMPANY

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...

GTE TSI OFFERS FRAUDX

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...

ISD OFFERS ONE-CHIP VOICE STORAGE SOLUTION

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...

PRODUCTS

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

PRAIRIECOMM GAINS FINANCING

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...

BATTERY BUSINESS EVOLVES FROM ONE ACRONYM TO ANOTHER

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...

SOFTWARE COULD REDUCE SPACING NEEDED AT ANTENNA SITES

Collocation has evolved from something wireless carriers used to resist to something they do as a matter of course. The idea of collocation increasingly...

VODAFONE BUYS NEW ZEALAND GSM NETWORK

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...

GROWTH SLOWS FOR PAGING CARRIERS IN 3Q

In their effort to promote profitable growth vs. growth at all costs, paging carriers have watched their net subscriber additions fall incrementally over the...

QUALCOMM COMBINES TWO DIVISIONS

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...

HONG KONG STILL DRIVING WIRELESS INNOVATION

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...

GLENAYRE AWAITS BUYER FOR WESTERN MULTIPLEX

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...

TSR TO RESELL III INFORMATION SERVICE

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...

WIRELESS WILL FACE SAME `NEW FEDERALISM’ CHALLENGE UNDER LIVINGSTON

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...

BAP ACQUISITION TO MERGE WITH PAGING PARTNERS

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...

WIRELESSKNOWLEDGE PROMISE: ANY DEVICE, ANY NETWORK

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...

WORLD BRIEFS

United KingdomCellPoint Systems AB and its partner Wasp International of South Africa demonstrated a Global System for Mobile communications phone positioning system at the...

ADC METRICA TO EQUIP OMNIPOINT

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...

U.S. TELECOM EQUIPMENT SALES UP 11 PERCENT

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...

D.C. NOTES: HIGH ANXIETY

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...

GSM GROUP REPORTS 2.3M USERS

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...

LUCENT OFFERS NEW GSM HANDSET PLATFORM

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...

NEWS BRIEFS

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...

TRUEPOSITION JOINS EQUIVA ON WIRELESS LOCATION SERVICES

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...
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