1998

Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced in the fourth quarter and its …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-With the launch of digital service in Kansas City, Southwestern Bell said it now offers Time Division Multiple Access service in all of its major markets. The company’s …

WASHINGTON-Greg Simon, telecom lobbyist and former domestic policy adviser to Vice President Gore, last week denied any wrongdoing regarding his 1996 meeting-undertaken at the request of then-White House aide Alexis …

SmartLink Development L.P. and Transcrypt International Inc., which recently acquired E.F. Johnson Co., reached an agreement allowing SmartLink to implement Transcrypt’s enhanced LTR-Net protocol into its SMRLink multi-protocol trunking and …

The World Trade Organization will meet again today in Geneva in hopes of reaching a compromise on a new date to put the basic telecom services agreement into effect. WTO …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it launched a network function called PrePaid Calling Service for wireless networks that use Advanced Mobile Phone Service and digital-AMPS standards. Ericsson’s new service allows for …

CHICAGO-Ameritech Corp. announced annual net income grew by 7.6 percent to around $2.3 billion, and revenues increased 7.2 percent to about $16 billion for its fiscal year ended Dec. 31, …

SINGAPORE-The main effects of the Asia-Pacific currency crisis on wireless carriers will be to make both foreign-manufactured equipment and foreign-debt servicing more expensive, said Jonathan Tarlin, senior vice president-international for …

SINGAPORE-The Asia-Pacific currency crisis has taken its toll on the Personal Communications Industry Association’s first venture into the international trade-show arena. Wireless Showcase Asia, held here last week and touted …

AT&T Corp. is expected to announce to analysts today its operating strategy for the year that will include as many as 19,000 layoffs, management restructuring and the integration of its …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced that its joint venture in Taiwan, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd., launched its dual-band wireless communications service in Taiwan. The Global System for Mobile …

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 while the WTB has come a …

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 company also expanded its Code Division …

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 and 1900 MHz frequency bands using …

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 Boston Technology common stock was converted …

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 Timex Corp. The watch is called …

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 Feb. 23-25 in Atlanta. Last year …

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, when the company was privatized in …

Grumbling about wireless ways and means at the FCC. First, there is the claim the bureau is tinkering with its 931 MHz paging database in order to free up more …

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 severe price-per-earnings multiple contraction caused by …

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 communications system base stations. The company …

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, S.C., networks, with Code Division Multiple …

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 the police force with province-wide FleetNet …

Brazil Microwave radio equipment manufacturer Harris Corp. announced plans to open a plant during the second quarter in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to its manufacturing operations, the new facility …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has completed work on a calling-party-pays standard scheduled for presentation to “appropriate industry standards bodies” this month and next in an effort to end the …