Yearly Archives: 1998

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...

SCI EQUIPS MICROCELL WITH FRAUDWATCH PRO

IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. installed a fraud detection system for Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc., announced the company.Subscriber Computing said Microcell...

CENTURY REVENUES UP, LOSS DEEPENS

Century Communications Corp. reported an increase in revenue and a greater net loss for its third quarter, ended Feb. 28, compared with the corresponding...

COHERENT SETS MEETING FOR MERGER APPROVAL

LISLE, Ill.-Coherent Communications Systems Corp. plans to hold a special stockholders' meeting May 12 to approve the previously announced merger with Tellabs Inc.Following approval...

VIEWPOINT: PARANOID OVER PRIVACY

I'm not paranoid. Really, I'm not.But I am becoming increasingly protective of my privacy as I get bombarded with companies trying to glean bits...

COLORADO SCRAPS PLAN FOR WIRELESS AREA CODE

DENVER-The Colorado Public Utilities Commission scrapped a plan that would have provided a new area code for wireless phones and pagers only.Citing legal and...

COMVERSE TO EQUIP FRENCH CARRIER

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Societe Francaise du Radiotelephone selected Comverse Network Systems to supply a voice/text messaging system for the SFR network in France, announced Comverse.The N.J.-based...

ECUADOR’S CELLULAR CARRIER SCRAPS IPO PLANS

NEW YORK-Consorcio Ecuatoriano de Telecommunicaciones S.A., Ecuador's largest cellular carrier, announced last week it had scrapped plans to go public.Instead, the Quito-based company said...

BLILEY SAYS INMARSAT PRIVATIZATION MAY BE INCONSISTENT WITH U.S. LAW

WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) said the privatization of the International Maritime Satellite Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization being negotiated...

3 CONSORTIA BID FOR ITALY LICENSE

ROME-Three consortia have submitted bids for Italy's third mobile phone license, due to be awarded mid-year.Two of the bids were expected for some time....

TELECOM ITALIA AND CABLE & WIRELESS ENTER PARTNERSHIP

Signaling the beginning of a global partnership, Telecom Italia said it will pay $2 billion for minority interests in Cable & Wireless plc's international...

JAMIE LEE CURTIS IS VOICESTREAM REP

ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. selected actress Jamie Lee Curtis to be the "voice of VoiceStream," representing the company's personal communications services products throughout 1998.Curtis...
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