Monthly Archives: February, 1999

GTE CREATES WIN-4 VIRTUAL NETWORK

NEW ORLEANS-Imagine you are in a horrible accident on a dark road, late at night. Your airbag deploys but you are unconscious, alone, so...

COMMNET CELLULAR SHOWS GROWTH

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-CommNet Cellular Inc. reported results for the three months ended Dec. 31, 1998. The company added 36,865 subscribers during the period, 19,622 from...

JUDGE PLANS TO RULE ON POCKET LICENSES NEXT WEEK

BALTIMORE-At press time Friday, Judge E. Stephen Derby told parties in the Pocket Communications Inc. bankruptcy case he would make a decision in the...

PAGEMART FIELD TECHS CAUGHT OFF GUARD WITH NEW PAY SCALE

NEW YORK-The approximately 70 field engineers for PageMart Wireless Inc. feared a St. Valentine's Day massacre last week after receiving a company Human Resources...

CONVERGYS SUPPORTS HOLIDAY ACQUISITIONS

NEW ORLEANS-Convergys Corp. said its information management solutions supported the acquisition of 2 million new wireless subscribers nationwide during the holiday season.The company also...

E911, PRIVACY BILLS HEAD TO HOUSE FLOOR

WASHINGTON-Wireless E911 and privacy bills breezed through the House Commerce Committee last week, setting the stage for votes on the House floor by month's...

TRITON PICKS UP ALABAMA MARKET

MALVERN, Pa.-Triton Cellular Partners LP reached an agreement to acquire the Alabama 5 Rural Service Area cellular operating system from Cranford Cellular Communications L.L.C....

NETTECH OPENS CONSULTING UNIT, NEW SALES OFFICES

PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. announced an expansion plan that included establishing a Professional Services consulting division to help software developers deploy wireless data solutions...

METROMEDIA TO PAY DIVIDEND

NEW YORK-Metromedia International Group Inc. announced that on March 15 the company will pay its regularly scheduled dividend of 91 cents per share on...

BIG PLANET TO SELL BEEPWEAR PAGER

PROVO, Utah-Big Planet announced its national network of independent sales representatives will begin selling the BeepwearPRO pager, made jointly by Motorola Inc. and Timex,...

S&P DOWNGRADES NEC, MITSUBISHI

TOKYO-Standard & Poor's Corp. said it downgraded the investment grade corporate ratings of nine Japanese industrial companies.The ratings of NEC Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric...

MOTOROLA, CISCO TEAM ON IP

NEW ORLEANS-Following a trend of convergence between the wireless and Internet industries, Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced the first phase...

TELECOM EQUIPMENT SALES UP 11 PERCENT

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association released figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce that state sales of telecommunications equipment rose to $78.8 billion at...

LUCENT BUILDS CHIP WITH AUDIO TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED FOR AIRLINES

NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access chip that uses technology with origins in the airline industry to make...

WESTOWER REPORTS HOUSTON CONTRACT

VANCOUVER, Wash.-WesTower Corp. announced a build-to-suit agreement with Houston Cellular Telephone Co. WesTower will build a portion of Houston Cellular's towers in the Houston...

UWCC DEMONSTRATES INTEROPERABILITY

NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, which represents the interests of Time Division Multiple Access technology proponents, demonstrated interoperability between 850 MHz and 1900...

WATKINS-JOHNSON REVENUES DOWN

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co.'s unaudited results for 1998 showed revenue of $212.2 million, down from $291.3 million reported in revenue for 1997. The company...

ROGERS POSTS GAINS

ROGERS, Conn.-Rogers Corp. reported 1998 sales of $216.6 million, an increase of 14 percent over 1997 sales of $189.7 million. The company's net income...

UWCC AND GSM AIM FOR INTEROPERABILITY

NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology,...

NEXTEL TO BUY GEOTEK LICENSES

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. Friday said it plans to sell to Nextel Communications Inc. its portfolio of 191 specialized mobile radio 900 MHz licenses....

TMTOUCH DEPLOYS LIGHTBRIDGE PRODUCT

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced TMTouch, the digital cellular network service and product of Telekom Cellular Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, deployed Lightbridge's FraudBuster to detect...

CELLNET TO BUILD GPRS NETWORK SUPPLIED BY MOTOROLA

SWINDON, U.K.-Cellnet announced it will build a General Packet Radio Service wireless data network supplied by Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector, in a $50...

NEW SPYGLASS PRISM PLATFORM CONFORMS TO WAP STANDARDS

NEW ORLEANS-Spyglass Inc. released version 2.2 of its Prism platform for converting Internet content into formats that can be displayed on mobile phones.The most...

COURT UPHOLDS 800 MHZ AUCTION, STRIKES DOWN DIFFERING BUILDOUT RULES

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here rejected a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 800 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses in 1997, but...

TEKTRONIX PURCHASES NECSY’S TEST SYSTEMS UNIT

WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. announced an agreement to buy the Network Monitoring and Mobile Test Systems business of Necsy Network Control Systems S.p.A., based in...
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