Yearly Archives: 1998

TELIA GIVES UP OWNERSHIP STAKE

DUSSELDORF, Germany-Mannesmann AG, Olivetti and Bell Atlantic International have acquired Swedish telecom operator Telia's 9.66 percent ownership in Monitel Sistemi Radiocellulari, which owns 6.8...

ERICSSON UNVEILS OFFICE SOLUTION

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.The premise-based...

INFOCELLULAR ENTERS MARKETING AGREEMENT

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-InfoCellular Inc. entered into a joint marketing agreement with Onyx Technologies L.L.C. to market the companies' combined product, Info4Score, which is designed to...

DIGITAL SOUND BECOMES PULSEPOINT

CARPINTERIA, Calif.-PulsePoint Communications' shareholders approved the company's name change from Digital Sound Corp. to PulsePoint, re-elected its board of directors and authorized a reverse...

LEAHY TAKES ON PAY-PHONE INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON-The paging industry's battle against pay-phone deregulation has picked up support from an unlikely source in Congress.Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a leading opponent of...

PCS PROVIDER AMICA TO LAUNCH SERVICE

IRVINE, Calif.-Personal communications services provider Amica Wireless Phone Service Inc. plans to launch service this year in Illinois and Iowa complete with a customer-care...

PEOPLE

Nextel CommunicationsKevin Gleason was hired at Nextel Communications Inc. as Indiana General Manager and Sherri Cobb joined the company as market branch manager for...

UNSECURED CREDITORS DEMAND INFO ON POCKET PLAN

Unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. have subpoenaed the Federal Communications Commission for information omitted from the reorganization plan approved last month by several...

PRICE LOSS UP 90 CENTS PER SHARE

Cellular carrier Price Communications Corp. announced results for the fourth quarter of 1997, ended Dec. 31, which is the first reporting period that includes...

TELEDESIC GAINS $200M INVESTMENT

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia invested $200 million cash in Teledesic L.L.C., the "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications venture of...

QUALCOMM ENTERS LICENSING DEAL

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. entered into a multimillion-dollar, royalty-bearing Code Division Multiple Access subscriber license agreement with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. of Japan.Qualcomm will grant...

SPRINT PCS ADDS SONY PHONE TO LINE

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced the latest addition to its line of digital phones, the Sony CM-S110SPR, which is manufactured by Qualcomm Personal...

RAM TECHNOLOGIES ACQUIRES AAS

ASHLAND, Ken.-RAM Technologies announced it has acquired American Answering Service of Charleston, W.Va."We look forward to providing American Answering Service's customers with state-of-the-art computerized...

FURCHTGOTT-ROTH CRITICIZES INTERNET CONNECTION PLAN

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth, joining a growing chorus of critics, has charged the Democratic-led agency with subordinating the interests of rural and...

WIRELESS ISSUES $14B DEBT IN 1Q

NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications services and equipment providers issued nearly $14 billion in debt securities during the first quarter of this year, according to Securities...

CENTENNIAL MAY LOOK FOR BUYER

NEW YORK-Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., announced the company is considering its options, including selling some or all of its assets.The company, a...

POWER PAGE EXEC SAYS COMPANY NOT GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION

California-based paging carrier/reseller Power Page L.L.C. and its marketing arm, Wireless Marketing Inc.-profiled last June in RCR for its uncommon practice of enlisting independent...

NORTEL TO EQUIP BOUYGUES’ EXPANSION

PARIS-Bouygues Telecom, a French Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network operator, selected Northern Telecom Ltd. to supply radio equipment in its fourth-phase...

SERIAL ADAPTER TO BE BUNDLED WITH BEACON PAGER

BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems announced its JetEye PC infrared serial adapter will be bundled with NEC America Inc.'s Beacon Data Pager.JetEye will allow a PC...

POINT OF PURCHASE SALES IN RETAIL ALMOST DISSOLVED

Mobile phone accessory manufacturers and distributors say the accessory market has redefined itself since the onslaught of increased wireless carrier competition.Retailers no longer try...

SILVERLAKE ADDS ENHANCEMENTS

CALABASAS, Calif.-Silverlake Communications Inc. announced it has completed software enhancements for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with MessageFlash Text Messaging Software version 2.0 in AT&T...

SOFTWIRE INTRODUCES OBJECT-BASED SERVER TO WIRELESS

A California software company has introduced an object-based server that captures, processes and manages distributed events and transactions across disparate computer and network systems.Softwire...

U S WEST TO COMPLETE COMPANY SPLIT

DENVER-U S West Inc. said it hopes to finish the split of its two companies, U S West Communications Inc. and MediaOne Group, by...

SPRINT PCS UNIT CONTRIBUTES TO LOSS

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. reported a first-quarter net income of $212.1 million, or 49 cents per share, which reflects a 27-percent drop from its...

SALES STAFFERS PROVIDES TEMPORARY SALES STAFF

NEW YORK-In its five-year history, Sales Staffers International Inc., Andover, Mass., has carved an unusual niche in the broader market of outsourced services for...
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