Yearly Archives: 1998

3COM’S PALM VII LOGS ONTO THE INTERNET

Palm Computing Inc., an affiliate of 3Com Corp., introduced the Palm VII personal digital assistant at the Palm Computing Platform Worldwide Developer Conference in...

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...

KLEIN SAYS TELECOM BIG GUNS WILL FACE LOCAL COMPETITION

WASHINGTON-Justice Department antitrust czar Joel Klein, sending a mixed message, predicts Baby Bells will face local competition from wireless and wireline firms over time,...

CLEARNET PCS BEGINS IN VICTORIA, B.C.

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it launched personal communications services in Victoria.Clearnet PCS offers a Sony Corp. dual-mode PCS phone.Clearnet originally brought...

MOTOROLA AND GLENAYRE PROMOTE REFLEX IN ASIA

In an unprecedented show of cooperation, Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. joined forces to promote ReFLEX paging systems in the Asia Pacific, organizing...

PAGENET PROVIDES ESPN INFO

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it will be the exclusive provider of ESPN sports information to its paging subscribers, according to an agreement the two...

APCO SAYS DIGITAL-ONLY RULE WILL LEAVE SPECTRUM FALLOW

WASHINGTON-The current Federal Communications Commission plan for public-safety digital-only operations in the 700 MHz band (746-806 MHz) will lead to unused spectrum for as...

PCS Markets (21-40)

CORRECTIONS

In the Nov. 23 issue of RCR, it was incorrectly stated Mitsubishi would be exiting the handset manufacturing business.Based on incorrect information supplied to...

PRIMECO, AUDIOVOX ENTER HANDSET DEAL

DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. and Audiovox Communications Corp. have signed a $100 million handset agreement to launch Audiovox's PCX-1000XL, the first Code Division Multiple...

ARCH, MOBILEMEDIA MODIFY MERGER AGREEMENT

Arch Communications Group Inc. and MobileMedia Corp. have made additional modifications to their merger agreement, first announced Aug. 18 and initially amended Sept. 3.The...

WORLD BRIEFS

CanadaResearch in Motion Ltd. announced it received a $1.3 million contract to supply its original equipment manufactured wireless modems to GMSI Inc.'s fleet management...

CENTENNIAL MERGER VALUE LOWERED

NEW CANAAN, Conn.-Centennial Cellular Corp. and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe VIII L.P. lowered the value of their July 2 merger agreement by $60...

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,...

USTR DEMANDS MEXICO FOLLOW WTO

WASHINGTON-U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky last week demanded that Mexico live up to World Trade Organization commitments to liberalize its telecommunications market."We urge Mexican...

E911 HEADS TO COURT

WASHINGTON-Marcia Spielholz, the California woman whose emergency 911 cellular phone call went unanswered in 1994 during an attempted auto theft in which she was...

PAC BELL CALLS ON WILDFIRE

LOS ANGELES-After more than a year of testing, Pacific Bell Wireless announced it will offer the Wildfire electronic personal assistant from Wildfire Communications Inc....

NEWS BRIEFS

CellNet Data Systems Inc. announced it signed a contract with Puget Sound Energy to expand CellNet's 700,000-meter network by another 100,000 meters to extend...

CELLULAR ONE ENHANCES DIGITAL EDGE SERVICE

GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One here announced it is now offering an Information Services feature to its new Digital Edge wireless phone customers.Information Services includes hundreds...

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...

TELENOR TO BUY INTEREST IN RUSSIA’S VIMPELCOM

MOSCOW-Telenor AS, a fixed, mobile, satellite and Internet services provider, will purchase a strategic ownership interest in Russian cellular carrier Vimpel-Communications, announced the companies.According...

INET OFFERS SPIDER II

PLANO, Texas-Inet Inc. said it introduced its Spider II modem, a type II Cellular Digital Packet Data modem designed for Windows CE.Casio's Cassiopeia personal...

ERICSSON TO SUPPLY RUSSIAN NETWORK

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced Nov. 25 it signed a contract to provide a turnkey Global System for Mobile communications network to OOO Tomsk Cellular...

ORBCOMM CONSTELLATION COMPLETE WITH 28 SATELLITES IN ORBIT

Orbcomm Global L.P. announced its $500 million constellation of 28 low-earth-orbit satellites is complete and able to offer full commercial service worldwide.Orbcomm has offered...

SPRINT EXPANDS PCS MARKETS

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched its personal communications services network in several key markets as part of...
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