1998

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 …

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 relatively low price decrease is …

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 use does play a role in …

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 states of Minnesota and Oklahoma …

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, Texas-based SBC, a regional telephone …

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 venture wholly owned by Sprint Spectrum. …

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 a population of 5 million. The …

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 in 2000 and begin falling annually …

ArrayComm Inc. announced the opening of a liaison office in New Delhi, India, to serve a growing interest in its proprietary IntelliCell processing technology and IntelliWave wireless local loop system. …

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 code provisions to the commissions wireless …

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 Internet, a position starkly at odds …

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 is the fourth element in …

The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access …

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 executive officer, Robert Diener, said …

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 asserts that wireless resellers “have …

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. The company entered the prepaid arena …

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 from the National Highway Traffic Safety …