January 1999

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

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 new Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Thomas …

Unwired Planet Inc. took another step toward making its vision of Wireless Application Protocol devices and services a commercial reality by providing interoperability testing between its WAP-enabled UP.Link Server and …

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 network will cover Mississippi, Alabama and …

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 demand for new advanced communications …

AT&T Wireless employee wounded in Utah shooting SALT LAKE CITY-The Associated Press reported AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee Anne Sleater was shot in the head Thursday by a woman demanding …

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. on Thursday at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s …

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 AT&T Corp., alleging its telecommunications products …

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 supplier to a rapidly growing …

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 Peter Spring of the Network Reliability …

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 the product provides seamless interoperability …

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 services to business customers, and …

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 AT&T’s incoming call service will receive …

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 30 percent for the year on …

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 terms of the transaction were not …

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 year, the company agreed to recognize …

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 $695 million. Through the deal, Nextlink …

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 of the People’s Republic of China. …

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 intellectual property rights. The CDMA Development …

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 was designed for-are likely to forgo …

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 and repairs and outsourced accounts receivables …

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 MCI WorldCom’s brand name, and through …

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 Knoxville, Tenn.; on I-85 north …

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 manufactures products for microwave and radio-frequency …

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 25 cities since 1994, shows that …