Yearly Archives: 1998

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...

MODERATE PRICES INDICATE BULLISH MARKET

Overall wireless pricing has decreased between 6.1 percent and 10 percent in the United States since September, said Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C.'s latest pricing survey."This...

REPORT SAYS CELL PHONES CONTRIBUTE TO ACCIDENTS

NEW YORK-Noting there is inadequate data available about the impact of cellular phone use on car crashes, a federal agency nevertheless said cell phone...

NHTSA OFFERS GUIDELINES FOR CRASHES WITH PHONES

NEW YORK-The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration made several specific recommendations for future actions regarding highway safety in its recent report.Today, only the...

SBC BUYS SNET IN `RACE TO BECOME TOPS IN POPS’

SBC Communications Inc. and Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. last week executed a definitive agreement to merge in a $4.4 billion stock transaction.San Antonio,...

SPRINT PURCHASES REMAINING SHARES OF APC

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it completed its purchase of the remaining shares in its partnership with American Personal Communications to make the...

BELL CANADA LIVE IN SHANDONG CITY

MONTREAL-Bell Canada International Inc. announced that its consortium Shandong Bell launched cellular service in Weifang, a city in the Chinese province of Shandong with...

BEST PAGING GROWTH TO COME IN TWO-WAY

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-In-Stat, a market research company serving the semiconductor and communications market, predicts that revenues from paging integrated circuits will peak at $511.3 million...

WORLD BRIEFS

ArrayComm Inc. announced the opening of a liaison office in New Delhi, India, to serve a growing interest in its proprietary IntelliCell processing technology...

CTIA ASKS IRS TO RULE ON COMMISSION DEDUCTIONS

NEW YORK-Taxes generally may be one of life's two certainties, but there is plenty of ambiguity surrounding the application of specific Internal Revenue Service...

WIRELESS NOT LIKELY TO ENJOY SAME TAX CARVE-OUTS AS INTERNET

WASHINGTON-Clinton administration telecom adviser Larry Irving said last week there will continue to be strong support for huge deregulatory and tax carve-outs for the...

IUSACELL STEPS UP ANTI-FRAUD EFFORTS

MEXICO CITY-Iusacell, Bell Atlantic Corp.'s Mexican communications company, announced it plans to fight cellular fraud in Latin America using Corsair Communications Inc.'s PhonePrint technology.This...

WIRELESS TRAINING COURSE ADDS CDMA SEGMENT

The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment...

USTEL BEGINS TAILORED BILLING

CULVER CITY, Calif.-UStel Inc. announced that its new proprietary, in-house billing service began operation after nine months of development and parallel testing.The company's chief...

RESELLERS ASK FCC FOR ROAMING RIGHTS EQUAL TO CARRIERS

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association said it asked the Federal Communication Commission to require wireless carriers to offer automatic roaming agreements on a nondiscriminatory basis.TRA...

US/INTELICOM APPROACHES PREPAID WITH NEW OPTION

Software developer US/Intelicom stands poised to capitalize on prepaid wireless, an industry segment some analysts expect to grow rapidly during the next few years....

VIEWPOINT

They're coming out of the woodwork to point out the perils of driving and dialing. Cellular phones can cause distractions, says a new report...
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