Yearly Archives: 1998

CELLSTAR TO BUY SWEDEN’S INTERCALL

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TA Intercall AB, a wholesale distributor of wireless communications products in...

MOTOROLA EARNINGS SLIGHTLY AFFECTED BY ASIAN STOCKS

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., reported higher sales and earnings for the fourth quarter of 1997 and for all of last year, but slightly...

NEWS BRIEFS

ArrayComm Inc. announced its next-generation IntelliCell-enhanced Personal Handyphone System cell stations are operating in Tokyo's PHS network, following months of field trials conducted with...

NEXTEL BOOMS IN 1997, NEW PHONE ADDS BATTERY POWER

McLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. introduced several new products and services, including the i600 phone, and announced record subscriber numbers in the fourth quarter 1997.Nextel's...

NEXTWAVE ROLLS DICE IN VEGAS

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. is poised to begin a technical trial in Las Vegas of what it describes as the first F-block personal communications services...

D.C. NOTES

First, the nation's capital gave you the Million Man March. Now, the Million-Dollar Question.It's just a matter of time now before subpoenas go out...

INDUSTRY WANTS NUMBER PORTABILITY DEADLINE EXTENDED

WASHINGTON-Wireline telecommunications carriers are gearing up to offer two phases of number portability this year, after successfully winning a time extension from the Federal...

SAMSUNG DESIGNS PICO BASE STATION FOR CHEAP DEPLOYMENT

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America introduced a new compact Code Division Multiple Access base station designed to drastically reduce initial deployment and recurring network costs.Samsung said...

PCS CARRIERS RATE HIGH IN J.D. POWER STUDY

DENVER-Personal communications services providers have overall customer satisfaction levels significantly higher than traditional cellular carriers, according to a new J.D. Power and Associates study...

USN IPO TO FUND CELLULAR SERVICES

CHICAGO-Competitive local exchange carrier USN Communications Inc. has increased the size of its initial public offering to 8 million shares, and plans to use...

VIEWPOINT

Growing up, my best friend in the whole world was named Wilma. She moved to Montana in eighth grade. I can still remember her...

AU-SYSTEM MOBILE AIMS TO EXPAND U.S. PRESENCE

NEW YORK-AU-System Mobile AB, a wholly owned division of Stockholm-based software provider AU-System, is making a foray into the U.S. subscriber identity module market,...

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Branding & Bundling for Telecommunications Service ProvidersJANUARY 21-23IBC USA Conferences Inc. Wigwam Resort, Scottsdale, Ariz. (508) 481-6400.Supercomm Mexico '98JANUARY 21-23The Telecommunications Industry Association. Mexico...

CELCORE TO EQUIP RUSSIA WITH AMPS

DALLAS-Celcore, a division of DSC Communications Corp., has signed multiple contracts with Millicom International Cellular S.A. and two Russian telecommunications companies to provide its...

CTIA CPP DOCUMENT READY FOR STANDARDS PRESENTATION

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...

NEW PHONES DEBUT AT CES

LAS VEGAS-Manufacturers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have been hinting at things to come with a handful of launches...

JUSTICE PROBES LABOR SECRETARY’S LINK TO LEO LICENSEE

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department is investigating whether Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, in her role as a White House aide during President Clinton's first term, sold...

PUSH PURSUES WALL STREET FOR MINORITY TELECOM $$

NEW YORK-Allen B. Salmasi, chairman and chief executive officer of NextWave Telecom Inc., went to Wall Street on Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday to...

MOODY’S WATCHES KOREAN FIRMS FOR DOWNGRADES

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service placed the ratings of the Republic of Korea and the publicly held foreign currency debt of its major companies under...

BT, KOREA TELECOM WORK TO DEVELOP NETWORK SOLUTION

NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc and Korea Telecom have joined forces to develop a form of artificial intelligence for network management they hope will eliminate...

KSI LOCATION TECHNOLOGY FEATURES 911 APPLICATION

KSI Inc., a company with its roots in the defense industry, has developed a location technology that it hopes the industry will embrace as...

RUSSIA’S KUBTELECOM TO USE CDMA WLL

SAN DIEGO-Kubtelecom of Krasnodar, Russian Federation, awarded Qualcomm Inc. a $10 million contract to supply an 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access wireless local...

MCCAIN SUPPORTS PCIA CLEARING HOUSE FOR SITE DATA

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week asked Attorney General Janet Reno to consider for approval a site collocation data clearinghouse developed...

LUCENT WINS CDMA DEALS

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it received several contracts, totaling nearly $100 million, for Code Division Multiple Access systems in California, Georgia and...

PRODUCTS

ANRITSU CO.Anritsu Co. introduced the MS8606A digital mobile radio transmitter tester that performs Code Division Multiple Access measurements in less than two seconds. Covering...
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