Monthly Archives: January, 1999

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...

NEW CONSULTING UNIT HELPING GEOWORKS GET BACK ON TRACK

Geoworks Corp. announced the latest stage in its continuing transformation last week with the introduction of a consulting division called the Professional Services group.The...

WIRELESS NUMBER PORTABILITY APPEAL ON HOLD UNTIL MAY

WASHINGTON-A wireless industry appeal of the Federal Communications Commission's rules on local number portability, which become effective on March 31, 2000, has been postponed...

POWERTEL INC. TO SELL INTERCEL CELLULAR DIVISION

WEST POINT, Ga.-In its continuing effort to shift the main focus of its operations from cellular to personal communications services, Powertel Inc. announced it...

HASTERT EXPECTED TO RELEGATE TELECOM LAWMAKING TO COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

WASHINGTON-New House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is expected to impact process more than policy in the 106th Congress, but his past support for Ameritech...

MOTOROLA TO DEVELOP ENCRYPTION CERTIFIED RADIO

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola's commercial, government and industrial solutions sector announced the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with the National Security Agency to develop a...

FIDELITY TO USE BELLSOUTH NETWORK

BOSTON-Fidelity Investments announced its InstantBroker wireless stock alert and e-trading service will use BellSouth Wireless Data L.P.'s network for data transmission.As part of the...

MANY SMALL TOWER COMPANIES CHOOSING INDEPENDENCE

Despite massive consolidation among players in the tower industry, many small tower owners said they are not interested in selling their sites, according to...

GEOTEK LICENSES UP FOR GRABS TODAY

WASHINGTON-Rothschild Inc. this week will learn whether bulk bidders can top the $54 million fetched from bidders for Geotek Communications Inc.'s 900 MHz specialized...

ITU WORKS AROUND IPR OBSTACLES

The International Telecommunication Union said it may look for a way to work around the intellectual-property-right stalemate caused by Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson over...

KENNARD HINTS AT MORE DEREGULATION

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week said he would consider further wireless deregulation and intends to streamline operations, objectives that could help...

LEAP AWAITS APPROVAL TO BID IN C-BLOCK REAUCTION

The clock is ticking away for Leap Wireless International Inc. as it awaits Federal Communications Commission approval to bid in the reauction of C-block...

MERCEDES 2000 S-CLASS TO OFFER TELEAID

Motorola Inc. announced an agreement with Mercedes-Benz to incorporate a telematics system called TeleAid into all 2000 model Mercedes-Benz S-class sedans in North America.The...

PINNACLE AMENDS IPO STATEMENT

SARASOTA Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. filed an amendment to the registration statement it previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to an initial...

NEXTEL FORMALIZES NATIONAL PRICING

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. officially announced its Nextel National Business Plan that will broaden its reach to include more traditional high-end white collar business...

MERGER TALKS SLOW BETWEEN KOREAN SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANIES

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. is reviewing $400 million in Hyundai Semiconductor America debt for possible downgrade because merger talks between HSA and LG...

IRIDIUM TO OFFER 7.5M STOCK SHARES HERE AND ABROAD

WASHINGTON-Iridium World Communications Ltd., which is listed on Nasdaq, announced Jan. 4 it plans an add-on public offering of 7.5 million shares of its...

CELLCOM U.S. IPO PENDING

NEW YORK-Cellcom Israel Ltd., which has about 1 million customers, reportedly is planning to go public with a stock sale in the United States.Shares...

ERICSSON SPA SELLS SHARES

STOCKHOLM-Ericsson announced through its Italian subsidiary, Ericsson Spa, it reached an agreement with Sieti/Itel to sell 80 percent of Sielte Spa's outstanding shares. Sielte...

COMPANY COMPLETES FUEL-CELL CALL

LOS ALAMOS, N.M.-Manhattan Scientifics Inc. said Robert G. Hockaday, a chief fuel-cell scientist with the company, successfully made a cellular phone call using a...

MILLICOM SHEDS STAKE IN BHARTI

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it sold its interests in Bharti Cellular Ltd., Bite GSM UAB and Comliet UAB.The company sold its 13-percent...

U.K.’S NUMBER PORTABILITY BEGINS

NEW YORK-The United Kingdom started off 1999 with a bang, becoming the first country to implement local number portability for wireless telephony customers.All four...

MOTOROLA CIG WINS GSM CONTRACTS WITH RUSSIA’S ZAO MOBILE TELESYSTEMS

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said Russia's largest Global System for Mobile communications operator, ZAO Mobile TeleSystems, awarded Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group two contracts for...

METROONE, SPRINT CONTRACT EXTENDED

PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications announced Sprint Spectrum L.P. extended its Enhanced Directory Assistance services contract with Metro One for three more years."Metro One has...

MOTOROLA TO OFFER CDMA PHONE SOON

LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced plans to commercially introduce the SC3160 phone, a new entry-level Code Division Multiple Access wireless phone at the Consumer Electronics...
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