Monthly Archives: March, 1999

SKYTEL ADDS TWO MORE SOURCES TO INFO SERVICE

JACKSON-SkyTel Communications Corp. announced it has added information services from Fortune and USATODAY.com to its advanced messaging Customer Newscast line.Under the agreements, Fortune will...

SBT LOSES BID TO STOP 800 MHZ RELOCATION

WASHINGTON-A federal court of appeals has denied an emergency motion for a stay filed by Small Business in Telecommunications designed to stop the 800...

WORLD BRIEFS

IrelandEsat Telecom Group plc confirmed it accepted an offer to acquire a pro rata share of 9 percent of Ireland's Global System for Mobile...

BRIGHTPOINT REVENUE FALLS BELOW EXPECTATIONS

INDIANAPOLIS-Inadequate product supply in the Asia-Pacific region, price instability and the devaluation of the Brazilian real will cause Brightpoint Inc.'s quarterly and annual net...

NEWS BRIEFS

The state of Utah awarded Applied Cellular Technology Inc.'s Communications Infrastructure division a $6.1 million contract to provide infrastructure and construction improvements for the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

TAUZIN TO START HEARINGS ON FCC REFORM

WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) this week kicks off the first in a series of hearings on Federal Communications Commission reform.All five...

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...

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...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld...

BELLSOUTH, PAGENET TEAM TO SELL MESSAGING

In what may be the beginning of a trend, BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Paging Network Inc. entered into a strategic alliance last week...

DIGITALCHOICE CALLING AREA EXPANDED

GREENVILLE, S.C.-Bell Atlantic Mobile's DigitalChoice customers who receive or make many calls to other Bell Atlantic Mobile customers now can travel throughout most of...

ANDREW TO CUT JOBS AS REVENUE SLOWS

ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said it expects results for the second quarter ended March 31 will fall short of analysts' expectations because of lower-than-anticipated...

AMERICAN TOWER COMPLETES BUY

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. completed its acquisition of TeleCom Towers L.L.C.In connection with the transaction, American Tower issued about 3.9 million shares of class A...

ALCATEL LATEST VENDOR TO SLASH WORK FORCE

PARIS-Alcatel, the telecommunications equipment company based in Paris, last week announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of its work force,...

EXCEL, SOLECTEK TO BRING WIRELESS TO RESERVATION

ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M.-After determining traditional telephone landlines would be too expensive, Excel Communications Corp. and Solectek Corp. suggested the Native American community of Isleta,...

PINNACLE BUYS TOWERS

SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. said it purchased 85 wireless towers located in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, in a series...

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...
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