1998

In RCR’s Aug. 17 story reporting Omnipoint’s second-quarter earnings, the company’s second-quarter subscriber figures should have been 255,000.

WASHINGTON-The World Radiocommunication Conference is a lot like the Olympics: preparations for the next one start almost before the current event has ended. And, like the athletes who competed earlier …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a $300 million frame agreement with Telcel to expand the wireless operator’s 800 MHz network and create a dual-band/dual-mode system by building the country’s first 1900 …

With American carriers and manufacturers gallantly fighting here and abroad for global wireless supremacy and the U.S. government pocketing billions from the sale of airwaves that fuel pagers and mobile …

NEW YORK-SkyTel Communications Inc. said declining investments per subscriber and strong cash flow has put it in position to show positive net income figures by the fourth quarter. Net loss …

LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc.’s stock began trading on the OTC Bulletin Board late last month, after it was delisted from the Nasdaq National Market May 11 for non-compliance with rules …

While the short-term forecast for wireless operators in financially troubled parts of the world could be turbulent, carriers remain optimistic the wireless industry will weather the current financial crisis without …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless, Inc. announced it plans to extend its narrowband personal communications services ReFLEX network in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee in September. …

Wildfire Communications Inc. announced Bell Mobility of Canada will become the first telecom service provider to offer the Network Wildfire personal assistant service commercially. The limited market launch is expected …

NEW YORK-Venture-backed investments in the second quarter reached an all-time high of $3.7 billion, breaking the prior record of $3.3 billion set in the last quarter of 1997. These investments …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will resell Conxus Communications Inc.’s Pocketalk voice paging service in the New York metropolitan area. Pocketalk uses an InFLEXion-based network developed by Motorola …

JERUSALEM, Israel-Afraid of scaring Israeli consumers, wireless carriers operating in this nation of 2 million cellular phone users are awaiting the arrival of a third player, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., …

GSM in Central and Eastern Europe 8-9 September Prague, Czech Republic IBC UK Conferences Ltd. Tel: (+44) 171-453-5493 Fax: (+44) 171-636-1976 www.ibc-uk.com/prague 2nd European Mobile Radio Congress 14-16 September Prague, …

The quest for international partnerships continued in the summer as AT&T Corp. announced a US$10 billion joint-venture plan with British Telecommunications plc to more strongly position itself in the global …

Across most of the world’s regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered one of the leading contributors to …

The first GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network in Zambia is scheduled to be commercial at the end of October. At its launch, Zambia will join more than 20 …

JERUSALEM, Israel-In the southern town of Ashkelon stands a larger-than-life black marble grave stone that is as much a monument to the teenager buried in the plot as it is …

WANDEL & GOLTERMANN RadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values …

MEXICO CITY-Grupo Iusacell announced a restructuring and recapitalization plan aimed at increasing liquidity of its public shares, providing proceeds to pay for PCS (Personal Communications Services) licenses in northern Mexico …

WASHINGTON-The Mexican government will auction new frequencies for paging, narrowband PCS (two-way paging), trunking and point-to-point microwave. The auctions are scheduled for late 1998 and early 1999, depending on the …

What does the acronym MoU mean? MoU stands for Memorandum of Understanding, of course-as in the GSM MoU Association. Any European cellular operator could tell you that. Except today, some …

L.M. Ericsson Argentina. With Telecom Personal to expand its D-AMPS/AMPS network. Value: up to US$77 million Argentina. With Telefonica Comunicaciones Personales to expand its D-AMPS IS-136/AMPS network. Value: US$45 million …

If all goes as planned, Iridium L.L.C.’s vision of a global wireless phone network-based on a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites interconnected to several terrestrial-based networks-will begin commercial service on …

Chances are slim to none that U.S. mobile phone operators will agree on one standard for the next generation of mobile phone services. Already fragmented with three different digital standards-cdmaOne, …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Conferences are an integral part of the mobile communications scene, an ideal platform for catching up with the latest developments and a chance to meet old friends and …