Yearly Archives: 1998

TELIGENT NAMES 1998 MARKETS

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent announced plans to launch facilities-based service over its digital wireless networks this year in Chicago; Denver; Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Dallas, Houston,...

INCOME, REVENUE RISE FOR TELLABS IN 1997

LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs Inc. reported fiscal 1997 fourth-quarter and annual financial results with annual revenues above the billion-dollar mark.Sales for the fourth quarter ended Jan....

THE TERRIBLE TWOS OF THE TELECOM ACT

WASHINGTON-After two years, is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 a success or failure? In the eyes of Washington telecom insiders, is it an industry...

UNISITE COMPLETES PRIVATE PLACEMENT

DALLAS-UniSite Inc. announced it has closed the private placement funding it began in August, reportedly surpassing its goal of raising $50 million in financing."After...

VIEWPOINT: A PARENT’S DILEMMA

Since before she was born, I have wondered what I want my daughter to be when she grows up.After dismissing college professor (too snooty),...

WTO PACT COULD OPEN FOREIGN INVESTMENT

WASHINGTON-The global telecommunications free trade pact goes into effect this week, following last week's decision in Geneva that promises to open the floodgates to...

2 YEARS AFTER TELECOM LAW, INDUSTRY DEBATES REWRITE

WASHINGTON-This week's second anniversary of the 1996 telecom act is being greeted with heightened skepticism by industry, policy makers and the public about whether...

ART TO BUY 38 GHZ PERMITS FROM DCT

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with DCT Communications Inc. to acquire 49 additional 38 GHz licenses...

AIRTOUCH AND U S WEST ANNOUNCE NEW MERGER PLAN

AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Media Group announced a new $5.7 billion definitive agreement to merge U S West Media's U.S. cellular...

AT&T LOOKS TO HIGH-END WIRELESS CUSTOMER FOR GROWTH

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings announcement last week was notable both for what the company said about its recent past and about its plans...

AT&T, LOTUS TEAM FOR WIRELESS ACCESS

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Lotus Development Corp. have teamed up to provide wireless access to Lotus Notes with AT&T PocketNet phones and...

AT&T RALLIES BEHIND CALLING PARTY PAYS

AT&T Corp. also told analysts it plans to push a calling party pays program for its wireless customers, as well as a dual-band, dual-mode...

BRIGHTPOINT ENJOYS SIGNIFICANT INCREASES

NEW YORK-It was a glowing quarter for Brightpoint Inc., Indianapolis, which reported significant increases in net sales, income and income per share.The company, a...

WTB PLANS TO STREAMLINE PROCEDURES

WASHINGTON-Industry participants in a Jan. 21 open forum to review the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's rules and performance during the past two years agree that...

BELL ATLANTIC MOBILE ENDS 4Q WITH $3B REVENUES

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile added almost 1 million customers and earned revenues in excess of $3 billion during 1997, the company recently announced. The...

COMMQUEST CHIP OFFERS `TRI-BAND ABILITY’

CommQuest Technologies Inc. today introduced a tri-band Global System for Mobile communications chipset that will allow global roaming in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz...

BOSTON TECHNOLOGY, COMVERSE MERGE

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. and Boston Technology Inc. have merged in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction. As a result of the merger, each share of...

CORRECTION

In the Jan. 12 edition, RCR incorrectly identified the pager watch offered by MTX Paging Products L.L.C., a joint venture of Motorola Inc. and...

CTIA WIRELESS 98 TO ACCOMMODATE INTERNATIONAL FIRMS

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association said it is taking steps this year to accommodate international participants at the Wireless 98 convention and exposition...

CABLE & WIRELESS STARTS UP IN PANAMA

LONDON-Cable & Wireless Panama announced it has launched Panama's first competitive cellular service, eight months after successfully bidding for a 49-percent stake in Intel,...

D.C. NOTES

Grumbling about wireless ways and means at the FCC. First, there is the claim the bureau is tinkering with its 931 MHz paging database...

EARNINGS STRONG, STOCKS POOR FOR MICROWAVE & RF INDUSTRY

AUSTIN, Texas-The microwave and radio-frequency components industry had a good year for earnings, but stocks did relatively poorly in 1997, primarily because of a...

MICROWAVE POWER DEVICES TO SUPPLY QUALCOMM WITH AMPLIFIERS

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced it won a $900,000 order to supply Qualcomm Inc. with amplifiers for its Code Division Multiple Access cellular...

MOTOROLA WINS GTE CONTRACT FOR CDMA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced an agreement to replace the analog equipment in GTE Wireless' Greensboro and Raleigh, N.C., and Charleston,...

MTS TO SUPPLY CANADIAN POLICE WITH TWO-WAY RADIO

WINNIPEG, Canada-MTS Mobility, the Province of Manitoba and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police signed a 10-year, $60 million contract calling for MTS to provide...
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