February 1999

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Including a one-time charge of $3.1 million for the acquisition of Crown Satellite, California Microwave Inc. reported a net loss of $4.5 million, or 30 cents per share, for …

VIENNA, Austria-Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector will provide Global System for Mobile communications equipment to expand Mobilkom’s “A1” GSM network in Austria. Plans call for the program to be finished …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-In an effort to enter the growing market of speech products in communications networks, Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a new unit called Lucent Speech Solutions, which introduced two …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission received comments supporting its definitions of “small business” and “very small business” in rules for the location and monitoring service and wireless communications service spectrum auctions. …

Telecom companies plan to spend more, on average, than any other industry on Year 2000 compliance projects, but they also have spent the smallest percentage of their Y2K budget to …

NEW YORK-Nearly 40 electronics manufacturers have joined forces with Sun Microsystems Inc. to develop new devices that run Jini programming language, some of which could come to market by late …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. and InterVoice Inc. jointly introduced the first interactive voice response solution to “push” alphanumeric caller information to agent phone displays without the …

Despite a five-week service launch delay and continued handset production problems, Iridium L.L.C. finished the fourth quarter with results that beat analysts expectations. The quarter, ended Dec. 31, marked the …

Paging Network Inc. announced it is offering the Iridium World Page Service commercially in the United States as the country’s exclusive paging carrier offering Iridium service. The paging portion of …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will host two-day sessions prior to Wireless ’99 in New Orleans to address small market operations, wireless data and Y2K. The “Market Operations Forum: Solutions …