Monthly Archives: March, 1999

CHADMOORE CLOSES ON FINANCING

LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it closed a $13.5 million secured financing transaction with GATX Capital Corp. Per the agreement, GATX Capital has...

WORLD BRIEFS

South KoreaCentigram Communications Corp. announced it signed a $2.4 million agreement with South Korea-based Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. to expand the voice-messaging capabilities on Shinsegi's...

GLOBAL CROSSINGS TO BUY FRONTIER

Frontier Corp., one of the parents of Frontier Cellular, announced plans to merge with Global Crossing Ltd., an independent global fiber-optic network operator.The transaction...

FCC TO RULE ON LEAP’S RIGHT TO OWN C AND F PCSLICENSES

The Federal Communications Commission could rule today on whether Leap Wireless International Inc. is qualified to own C-and F-block personal communications services licenses and...

MOBILEMEDIA REORG OBJECTORS MAY PRESENT ALTERNATE PLAN

MobileMedia Corp. said it filed a stipulation to its reorganization plan with the U.S. bankruptcy court in order to appease certain unsecured creditors who...

FCC NEEDS TO ALERT RURAL CARRIERS OF WNP OBLIGATIONS

WASHINGTON-Despite the fact that the government has extended the time for wireless carriers to implement number portability, the government needs to alert all wireless...

TOWER INDUSTRY ‘GAME’ FAR FROM OVER

NEW YORK-Television programming often can be as good a barometer as hard numbers about trends that are hot, and so it is with the...

VLSI BOARD AMENDS SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AGREEMENT TO GUARD AGAINST TAKEOVER

VLSI Technology Inc. announced its board of directors adopted a new shareholder rights agreement and bylaw amendments to fend off a hostile bid from...

LETTERS

Polson on target regarding public's RF perceptionThank you for Peter Polson's excellent article "Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation," Feb. 8 in...

SMRS JUGGLE MULTIPLE TRADE GROUP MEMBERSHIPS

SAN DIEGO-If you are a small specialized mobile radio operator, which trade association, if any, should you belong to?Three trade associations, all based in...

WESTERN WIRELESS: DON’T TREAT RURAL CARRIERS ‘SPECIAL’

WASHINGTON-In a policy paper presented to the Rural Task Force on universal service, Western Wireless Corp. reiterated that rural local exchange carriers should not...

QUALCOMM BATTLE FOR PIONEER’S PREFERENCE CONTINUES

Qualcomm Inc. seems to be waging an uphill battle with the Federal Communications Commission over its quest for a pioneer's preference mobile phone license...

PATHNET EXPANDS TO FIBER-OPTIC CABLE

WASHINGTON-In reporting its year-end 1998 results, Pathnet Inc. also announced it expanded its wholesale-to-carriers digital broadband access provision strategy beyond wireless to include fiber-optic...

VLSI INCORPORATES BLUETOOTH TECHNOLOGY

SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France-VLSI Technology Inc. announced it has incorporated Bluetooth technology into its portfolio of wireless technologies and, with L.M. Ericsson, has co-developed a Bluetooth...

COUNTDOWN TO MPE RULES

Resistance to unsightly towers has prompted many wireless carriers to site their antennas on existing structures such as buildings and water towers to reduce...

NORTH AMERICAN GSM ALLIANCE JOINS WDF

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Data Forum, a technology-neutral trade association for wireless data and mobile computing, announced the North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. became its newest...

NEXTEL STAYS WITH AMTA

SAN DIEGO-Contrary to persistent rumors, Nextel Communications Inc.-the largest specialized mobile radio operator-will remain a member of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association for at...

GLOBALSTAR PRESIDENT DWYRE RETIRES

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. announced its president, Douglas G. Dwyre, will retire from his position at the end of the month but will...

TELECOM ITALIA BOARD OKS MERGER WITH MOBILE UNIT

DENVER-Telecom Italia Spa has received permission from its board of directors to merge with its mobile phone operator subsidiary, Telecom Italia Mobile, as a...

NORTEL SHOWS BASE STATION COVERAGE INCREASE

OTTAWA, Ontario-Nortel Networks said it has developed and demonstrated an order of magnitude increase in the coverage radius of 800 MHz cdmaOne base stations...

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FIRM RADISYS EXPANDS INTO TELECOM

NEW YORK-RadiSys closed March 1 on a $28 million purchase of IBM Corp.'s Arctic business, the first of up to 10 acquisitions the Hillsboro,...

HUTCHISON WHAMPOA UNIT’S BOND ISSUES MET FAVORABLY

NEW YORK-A subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which holds a minority stake in both Orange plc and Western Wireless Corp., plans to...

VERMONT DELEGATION AIM TO RETURN TOWER-SITING POWER TO LOCALS AGAIN

WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.), reacting to persistent complaints that federal law inadequately addresses the impact of antenna proliferation on property...

L-3 TO ACQUIRE AYDIN

NEW YORK-L-3 Communications signed an agreement to acquire Aydin Corp., under which L-3 Communications will purchase all of the outstanding common stock of Aydin...

HUNDT FAVORS KEEPING SPECTRUM CAP

WASHINGTON-The cellular industry apparently knew what it was doing when it waited for Reed Hundt to retire as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission...
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