Monthly Archives: March, 1999

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...

DOJ TO PROVIDE CALEA-COMPLIANT SOLUTION

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice has signed a letter of intent with a telecommunications manufacturer to buy software and give it to carriers to implement...

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...

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...

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...

RFS CABLEWAVE WINS SPRINT CONTRACT

MERIDEN, Conn.-RFS Cablewave announced it signed a two-year contract with Sprint PCS to supply coaxial cable, connectors and accessories for the Sprint PCS network.RFS...

CMG ANNOUNCES SMS FOR CMDA, TDMA

NASHUA, N.H.-CMG announced its short message service is available for Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access networks. SMS transmits limited text...

CHINA TELECOM CHOOSES HARRIS WLL SYSTEM

BEIJING/CALGARY-Harris Corp. announced China Telecom, the largest telecommunications provider in China, selected Harris' WINRoLLTM 136 digital wireless local loop system in a $3 million...

SPY CLAIMS THREATEN U.S.-SINO WIRELESS TRADE

WASHINGTON-Just when it appeared the United States and China were on the verge of a major trade agreement promising huge wireless export opportunities and...

CENTIGRAM NAMED GROUP SUPPLIER FOR C&W MESSAGING

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Centigram Communications Corp. announced it has been named a group standard supplier of messaging platforms for Cable & Wireless plc, according to...

CALIF. MICROWAVE SELLS GOV. BUSINESS

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. announced it entered into an agreement with Northrop Grumman Corp. to sell its government business for an anticipated $98 million...

BELLSOUTH WIRELESS DATA, VERIFONE ALLY

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with VeriFone Inc., a division of Hewlett-Packard Co., to develop wireless...

NEC, NTT TO COOPERATE ON W-CDMA TRIAL IN THAILAND

TOKYO-NEC Corp. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. have agreed to work together in technical trials of a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system...

WINSTAR STARTS SERVICE IN MIAMI

MIAMI-WinStar Communications Inc. announced it is now offering its service to businesses in Miami. WinStar's network uses high-frequency radio waves.The company said it will...

LHS WITHDRAWS STOCK OFFERING

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. submitted an application on behalf of the selling stockholders to the Securities Exchange Commission to withdraw the selling stockholders' secondary stock...

INTEL TO PURCHASE LEVEL ONE

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Level One Communications Inc., Sacramento, Calif., has agreed to be acquired by Intel Corp. in a $2.2 billion stock swap that is expected...

TRANSCRYPT REPORTS CONTRACT

LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc. announced the city of Anderson, Ind., awarded its EF Johnson division based in Waseca, Minn., a $1.3 million contract to...

NEXTEL TAKES CONSENT DECREE TO COURT

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. lawyer Thomas Cullen, attempting to convince U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last Friday to accept the dispatch giant's request to...

D.C. NOTES: ANTITRUST, BUT VERIFY

Are today's high-tech firms so different from companies of the Industrial Age as to make classic antitrust analysis archaic and no longer applicable?Top antitrust...

CONFIDENTIAL E-MAIL LAYS OUT NEXTEL’S 900 MHZ STRATEGY

WASHINGTON-In the public forum, Nextel Communications Inc. speaks earnestly of a brave new wireless world in which it could compete more favorably against AT&T...

OMNIPOINT ELIMINATES ROAMING FEES

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. became the first Global System for Mobile communications carrier to eliminate long-distance and roaming charges on GSM networks in...

ORBCOMM LICENSED IN VENEZUELA

NEW YORK-Orbcomm Global L.P., Dulles, Va., announced March 1 that Conatel, the Venezuelan government regulatory agency, has granted operating and frequency licenses to Telecomunicaciones...

TECH COMPANIES WORK ON INTERFACE

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Several technology companies announced they have created an alliance to develop an interface connecting consumer and small-business appliances to Internet services, called the...

GLENAYRE, GOLDEN EAGLE TEAM ON LEASES

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre's Wireless Access Group and Golden Eagle Credit Corp. have teamed to lease pagers directly to the end user.The new leasing arrangement...
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