1998

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 Sweden. TA Intercall recorded sales of …

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 below analysts’ expectations due to the …

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 DDI Pocket Telephone. DDI holds a …

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 digital subscriber units in service …

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 network built to date. The company …

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 to one or more of …

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 Communications Commission. Some in the wireless …

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 the PicoBTS base station provides …

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 that analyzed 18 PCS markets in …

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 some of the proceeds to add …

Growing up, my best friend in the whole world was named Wilma. She moved to Montana in eighth grade. I can still remember her phone number, 2-3476. (It wasn’t until …

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, but with a twist. AU-System Mobile …

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

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 Advanced Mobile Phone Service GlobalSwitch mobile …

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 …

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 and plenty of promises of phones …

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 political clout to win Federal Communications …

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 seek support for use of tax …

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 review for possible downgrade. Telecommunications carriers …

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 channel interference on cell sites. Known …

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

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 loop system in the Krasnodar region, …

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 by the Personal Communications Industry Association. …

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 South Carolina. Central Wireless Partnership purchased …

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 the 300 kHz to 3 …