Monthly Archives: January, 1999

CORRECTIONS

In the Top 20 Wireless Resellers list (Jan. 11), Discount Cellular Inc. and The Mobile Phone Co. were listed wrong. The companies are agents...

NEW WTB TEAM TO TAKE CONTROL

WASHINGTON-James Schlicting and Diane Cornell, two highly regarded Federal Communications Commission regulators with strong management and common carrier policy backgrounds, are expected to join...

UNWIRED PLANET OFFERS HANDSET MAKERS WAP COMPATIBILITY TEST

Unwired Planet Inc. took another step toward making its vision of Wireless Application Protocol devices and services a commercial reality by providing interoperability testing...

TRITEL TO LAUNCH AS AT&T AFFILIATE

JACKSON, Miss.-Tritel Inc. announced it will launch a 1900 MHz personal communications services wireless network as an affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The...

FRENCH PHONE MANUFACTURER TO USE TEGIC SOFTWARE

Tegic Communications Inc. said Groupe Sagem will incorporate Tegic's European and Chinese character-based versions of its T9 Text Input software into Sagem mobile phones."The...

LATE NEWS

AT&T Wireless employee wounded in Utah shootingSALT LAKE CITY-The Associated Press reported AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee Anne Sleater was shot in the head...

PUSH SAYS MINORITIES TO BID FOR AMERITECH PROPERTIES

NEW YORK-"The SBC (Communications Inc.)-Ameritech (Corp.) merger will provide outstanding opportunities for minorities to get into the wireless business," said Thomas A. Hart Jr....

FIRM SUES LUCENT, ALLEGING Y2K PROBLEM

NEW YORK-A company called Beatie, King & Abate L.L.P. has filed a class-action lawsuit against Lucent Technologies Inc. individually and as a successor to...

LUCENT ADDS TWO NOTCHES TO ITS ACQUISITION BELT

NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc., the Murray Hill, N.J., telecommunications equipment giant, gobbled up two other properties last week.In its bid to become a single-source...

NRIC WANTS MORE WIRELESS PARTICIPATION

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry forum studying whether the telephone network will work when the new century arrives needs better participation from the wireless industry, said...

XYPOINT CERTIFIES KSI

SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. awarded its first certification for location determination technology to KSI Inc., which has developed TeleSentinel, a network-based wireless location system.The certification ensures...

BUNDLING STILL A MIXED BAG

Bundling continues to push forward, albeit at a slow pace.A recent Arthur Andersen survey of telecommunications companies found 66 percent of respondents offer bundled...

AT&T OFFERS IN-FLIGHT PROMOTION

SEATTLE-AT&T Wireless Services announced Alaska, American, Canadian, Northwest and Southwest airlines' passengers who make or receive, during any single month, five in-flight calls via...

PRICE COMMUNICATIONS REPORTS 30-PERCENT SUBSCRIBER INCREASE

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. announced its Price Communications Wireless subsidiary recorded 72,385 net subscriber additions in 1998, vs. 55,632 for 1997, an increase of...

SILVERLAKE TO REMAIN ‘INDEPENDENT’ UNDER PAGENET OWNERSHIP

Paging Network Inc. announced it acquired Calabasas, Calif.-based Silverlake Communications Inc., and it has integrated the company into its Advanced Wireless Integration Group. Financial...

CWA TO REPRESENT PAC BELL EMPLOYEES

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Communications Workers of America announced Pacific Bell Wireless employees chose the union to represent them and, under "card check" provisions negotiated last...

NEXTLINK TO ACQUIRE WNP

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nextlink Communications Inc. announced it has reached an agreement to acquire WNP Communications Inc. in a combined cash and stock transaction valued at...

ERICSSON INKS DEAL FOR WCDMA IN CHINA

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a memorandum of technology and industrial cooperation for wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology with the Ministry of Information Industry...

CDG OFFERS COMPROMISE ON 3G, BUT NOT ON CHIP RATE

A group of cdmaOne operators are making another push to harmonize third-generation technology and avoid a potential deadlock within the International Telecommunication Union over...

STORM CONTINUES TO FOLLOW C-BLOCK INTO REAUCTION PROCESS

The reauction of C-block personal communications services spectrum is expected to be a dismal affair in March, and most small entrepreneurial businesses-which the auction...

BRIGHTPOINT, NEXTEL EXTEND AGREEMENT

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced Nextel Communications Inc. extended its agreement with Brightpoint through July 1, 2001. Under the agreement, Brightpoint provides inventory management, fulfillment, returns...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed a letter of intent with MCI WorldCom's prepaid services division to provide prepaid cellular services nationwide under...

SPRINT EXPANDS IN GEORGIA

ATLANTA-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced it expanded its network into Atlanta and the surrounding communities.Sprint PCS said it will provide coverage on I-75 north through...

ALPHA JOINS BLUETOOTH

WOBURN, Mass.-Alpha Industries Inc. has become the latest company to join the Bluetooth Special Interest Group as an early adopter. Alpha Industries designs and...

YANKEE RELEASES PRICING DATA

BOSTON-The Yankee Group has concluded that wireless prices are both stabilizing and homogenizing. The company's Wireless Price Index, which has tracked wireless prices in...
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