Yearly Archives: 1998

GAO REPORTS POSTAL TOWER PROGRAM `ON HOLD’

WASHINGTON-A Government Accounting Office report says the U.S. Postal Service has "put on hold" plans to expand an antenna-siting program, which could have significant...

PAGENET TO USE AETHOS SITE-PLANNING TOOL

DALLAS-Aethos Communication Systems Inc. announced it has agreed to provide its Odyssey RF Planning Tool to Paging Network Inc., the first time Aethos has...

VALUE-ADDED SERVICES FARE DIFFERENTLY MARKET TO MARKET

BOSTON-The success of wireless value-added services depends on the region where the services are being offered, according to a Yankee Group report on value-added...

EVOLVING SYSTEM PROVIDES LNP FEATURE FOR POOLING TRIAL

DENVER-Evolving Systems Inc. said it provided its local number portability number pooling feature to three telecommunications services providers in order to continue participating in...

BOSCH TO CLOSE U.S. OFFICE

NEW YORK-Denmark-based Bosch Telecom Inc., which introduced the World 718 phone in June, has decided to close its Dallas office for U.S. sales and...

CINCINNATI BELL DECLARES 10-CENT DIVIDEND

CINCINNATI-The Board of Directors of Cincinnati Bell Inc. declared a regular quarterly dividend of 10 cents per common share, payable Feb. 1 to shareholders...

ORBCOMM GLOBAL WINS EUROPEAN REGULATORY APPROVALS

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said the European Regulatory Commission issued two rulings positively affecting the company's effort to bring mobile satellite-based data services to...

18 FIRMS BAND TO BOOST WIRELESS DATA MARKET

Sierra Wireless said it has brought together 17 other companies in an alliance formed to work together to offer more complete solutions so the...

LIGHTBRIDGE OPENS COLORADO FACILITY

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc., a provider of customer acquisition and retention solutions for the global communications industry, said it opened a new call center at...

TELECOM WIRELESS GAINS FUNDING

ATLANTA-Telecom Wireless Solutions Inc. announced it obtained $17 million in financing for strategic acquisitions, new ventures and product development initiatives.As a part of this...

CIA TIED TO HUGHES SATELLITE PROBE

WASHINGTON-CIA officials last week were expected to appear before a federal grand jury here in connection with new revelations that intelligence officials may have...

JAVA 2 TARGETS BROAD RANGE OF INDUSTRIES, DEVICES

NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., released the Java 2 platform, which it said provides significant performance improvements, a flexible security model and...

PREPAID GROWTH IN WESTERN EUROPE LIKELY TO DECLINE

The rapid growth of prepaid wireless services in Western Europe will not continue unchecked, according to a report published by Strategy Analytics.The availability and...

SATELLINK TO ACQUIRE CAPE FEAR PAGING

ROSWELL, Ga.-Satellink Communications Inc. announced it signed a definitive merger agreement with Cape Fear Paging Co. of Fayetteville, N.C. The companies expect the merger...

VANGUARD BOND HOLDERS CONSENT TO PAYMENT AGREEMENT

GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. announced it has received the requisite consents from a majority in aggregate principal amount of its 9.38-percent senior debentures,...

SUPRA DEPLOYS TRACCESS SYSTEM IN AT&T WIRELESS’ CENTRAL REGION

Supra Products Inc. won a contract from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to provide its TRACcess electronic access control system at AT&T Wireless cell sites...

VIEWPOINT: INTERNET MAY SHAPE WIRELESS DATA MARKET

Get ready, the wireless world as we know it is going to change-again.When we look back at 1998 in wireless to see which announcements...

RAM-PAGE NETWORK NOW USING SATELLITE LINK

ASHLAND, Ky.-Ram-Page announced it has transitioned most of its paging network to satellite link distribution, choosing Microspace of Raleigh, N.C., as the vendor.

AMERITECH OFFERS ROADSIDE SERVICE

CHICAGO-Ameritech Corp. said it introduced Ameritech Roadside Assistance, designed to provide prompt, reliable nationwide auto service to stranded motorists via their cellular phone.The service...

TELGUA PRIVATIZATION LARGEST YET IN CENTRAL AMERICA

NEW YORK-The recent privatization of Telecomunicaciones de Guatemala S.A., doing business as Telgua, was the largest such transaction in Central America to date and...

SAFCO VOICEPRINT SYSTEM AVAILABLE FOR GSM

CHICAGO-Safco Technologies Inc., a division of Salient 3 Communications, said its VoicePrint voice quality measurement system is available for Global System for Mobile communications...

SPRINT COMPLETES STOCK SEPARATION

KANSAS CITY-Sprint Corp. announced it completed the recapitalization of its common stock into two separate classes and the restructuring of Sprint Spectrum L.P., branded...

PREPAID SERVICE HAS ITS CRITICS

NEW YORK-The rapidly growing prepaid wireless sector offers carriers a means to reduce customer acquisition costs and capture market segments otherwise out of reach.Nevertheless,...

U S WEST EXPANDS PCS COVERAGE

DENVER-U S West expanded its Advanced PCS wireless service territory west from Denver to include the major ski resorts and mountain communities that reside...

CAP GEMINI PARTNERS WITH SLP INFOWARE

PARIS-Cap Gemini Group, a systems integrator and business consultancy, formed a partnership with SLP InfoWare,Alexandre Haeffner, group vice president of Cap Gemini Telecom &...
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