Yearly Archives: 1998

WEATHER PHENOMENON AFFECTS WIRELESS SYSTEMS

This year's El Nino phenomenon has brought unseasonably mild weather to some parts of the nation while slamming others with sudden bizarre weather, including...

NORTEL’S FOCUS 3G AT CHINA CDMA SUMMIT

BEIJING-Northern Telecom Ltd. said its focus at the 1998 Second China CDMA International Summit will be on third-generation wireless services.The summit, which opened March...

PRO IV OF BRITAIN TO EQUIP ORBCOMM

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P., which provides commercial low-earth-orbit satellite data and messaging communications services, said it awarded Pro IV Ltd. of Great Britain a...

NEW PAGENET STRATEGY UPS VALUE AND PRICE

Responding to recent media coverage airing the complaints of disgruntled resellers, Paging Network Inc. said these resellers may be upset at the company's change...

PREPAID NOT JUST FOR CREDIT POOR

Initially used as a tool to tap into the credit-challenged market, many carriers are finding that prepaid service is attracting more than those with...

PCIA RESPONDS TO IVAN

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In response to MCI Communication Corp.'s "Ivan" ads, which portray American consumers as oppressed due to the lack of freedom to choose from...

FCC PHASE I E911 DEADLINE APPROACHES

The Federal Communications Commission's Phase I E911 deadline is set for Wednesday, but that doesn't mean that dispatchers across the nation this week will...

POCKET CREDITORS MAY GET DALLAS, CHICAGO LICENSES

WASHINGTON-Unless it receives as-yet-undefined "higher and better alternatives" from potential buyers who would like to purchase the Dallas and Chicago C-block licenses from bankrupt...

PALMPILOT ACCESS $50 FOR UNLIMITED USE

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. introduced a new pricing plan that offers unlimited wireless data access for PalmPilot users with Novatel Wireless Inc.'s new Minstrel...

PRICE NET ADDS GROW MORE THAN 31 PERCENT

NEW YORK-Price Communications Wireless Inc. said its service revenues increased 22 percent to a record $40.1 million during the fourth quarter, compared with service...

QUALCOMM FORMS RESEARCH PROGRAM

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it will engage in a joint research program with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, which will focus on Qualcomm's...

SEVERAL FACTORS WEIGH ON FUTURE OF RESALE

BOSTON-The future of wireless reselling is based on the resellers' ability to realize economies of scale, provide a wide scope of services and achieve...

ROGERS THREATENS TO BLOCK FCC BUDGET BILL

WASHINGTON-House Commerce appropriations subcommittee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) last week threatened to block a Federal Communications Commission budget bill and vowed not to fund...

METROMEDIA GAINS STAKE IN RUSSIAN PAGING FIRM

MOSCOW-The Radio Paging Group of Metromedia International Telecommunications Inc. agreed to become a co-owner of Russian paging company ZAO Mobile TeleCom by acquiring shares...

SCI OFFERS WIN-BASED PREPAID BILLING

IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. introduced a wireless intelligent network-based prepaid billing solution, which uses Oracle Corp.'s scalable RDBMS technology on a Sun Microsystems Inc....

WHAT THE C-BLOCK RECON ORDER DOES:

Eliminates the requirement that a licensee elect the same restructuring option for all its licenses. Instead, the licensee must elect the same option for...

CROWN CASTLE BUILDS TOWERS IN N.Y.

HOUSTON-The State of New York awarded Crown Castle International Corp. a contract to manage existing towers and construct new towers for the state.Crown Castle...

DATA BROADCASTING, AT&T & SI ERRA TEAM

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Data Broadcasting Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a new wireless service that the companies said will provide real-time financial information...

DIGITAL MICROWAVE CLOSES ON MAS BUY

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp. has completed its merger with MAS Technology Ltd.Digital Microwave makes advanced wireless solutions for worldwide telephone network interconnection and...

N.J. FIRM DSET TO GO PUBLIC

NEW YORK-Dset Corp., a Bridgewater, N.J.-based telecommunications network solutions provider, plans to go public with a 3.5 million share offering of common stock priced...

PRIVACY CONCERNS COULD HURT E911 GRANTS

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) voiced strong support last week for emergency wireless services, but concerns over funding and privacy could hurt...

GEOS IS FOUNDATION FOR NOKIA 9110

HANOVER, Germany-Geoworks Corp. announced its graphical, communications-centric GEOS operating system will provide the foundation for the new Nokia Corp. 9110 Communicator for Global System...

OMNIPOINT EXPANDS GSM INTO SOUTH FLORIDA

HALLANDALE, Fla.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced it expanded its Global System for Mobile communications network coverage to include Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach,...

NORTEL TO EXPAND HEBEI GSM SYSTEM

BEIJING-Northern Telecom Inc. said it won a contract, valued at about $61 million, to expand Hebei Post and Telecommunications Authority's Global System for Mobile...

BROWN TRADE MISSION SEATS EXCHANGED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS?

WASHINGTON-In the most explosive and potentially damning allegation of its kind to date, a former business associate of late Commerce secretary Ron Brown testified...
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