Monthly Archives: April, 1999

U.S. CELLULAR BUYS SUPERFILTER SYSTEMS

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. received an initial purchase order for 25 of its SuperFilter Systems from United States Cellular Corp. of Chicago, said...

CARRIER CONSOLIDATION RAISES STAKES FOR VENDORS

Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects.In the last...

CDMA2000 FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN EUROPE

WASHINGTON-Despite the much-ballyhooed settlement of the patent dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson and the global embrace of multiple third-generation mobile phone standards,...

SENATORS COME TOGETHER ON ENCRYPTION LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON-Two powerful senators have come together on the sticky issue of encryption legislation.Encryption is technology used to scramble computer data. The computer industry has...

ENSEMBLE’S ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY TARGETS MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES

San Diego-based Ensemble Communications Inc. is approaching worldwide broadband wireless access markets with a point-to-multipoint wireless system that has three key technology layers with...

PRODUCTS

Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers...

PUMA, DOCOMO TEAM ON WIRELESS INTERNET

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology said it teamed with DoCoMo/NTT Mobile Communications Network to provide cellular phone users in Japan wireless Internet access to corporate...

CLEVELAND SUBURB CRACKS DOWN ON CHATTY, CARELESS DRIVERS

The Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Brooklyn, believed to be the first city in the nation to pass a mandatory seat belt law back in...

TELIGENT STARTS SERVICE IN CALIF.

VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. announced it now is offering its high-bandwidth, local, long distance, high-speed data and Internet services to small- and mid-size businesses in...

WIRELESS ADDS ALMOST 14 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS IN 1998

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry gained almost 14 million new subscribers by the end of 1998-a growth rate of nearly 25 percent in one year, said...

MEGA-MERGERS HIT SNAGS

WASHINGTON-Two telecommunications mega-mergers hit snags last week as the Federal Communications Commission said it had serious concerns about the SBC/Ameritech combination and the Virginia...

LUCENT, AT&T ENTER $1B EQUIPMENT AGREEMENT

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it signed a four-year agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to provide an expected $1 billion in equipment...

INDUSTRY WRONG ABOUT ‘COLLOCATION’ TERMINOLOGY

Dear Editor: I have been troubled for the last few years with the increased incorrect use and mispronunciation of the words "collocate" and "collocation" being...

INDIA TO REFORM TELECOM LAW

The government of India last month revealed a new telecommunications policy that aims, among other things, to rectify issues surrounding licensees of basic and...

COMPANY TO DISTRIBUTE ERICSSON MODEM

ATLANTA-Global Wireless Data announced it is the North American distributor for the new Ericsson M3090 Mobitex wireless modem."We chose Global Wireless Data as our...

MOTOROLA GIVES $5M TO DIGITALDNA LAB

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector announced a $5 million grant to establish the Motorola DigitalDNA Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge,...

FRANCE TELECOM TO FIELD TRIAL MOTOROLA GPRS

SWINDON, U.K.-France Telecom said Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector this summer will set up a General Packet Radio Service field trial on France Telecom's...

CONDUCTUS TRIES TO RAISE CAPITAL FOR NASDAQ LISTING

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Because its request to be listed on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market has been denied, Conductus Inc. said it hired Alliant Partners to provide...

LUCENT EXPANDS CHINA CDMA SYSTEM

GUANGZHOU, China-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract with Guangdong Mobile Communication Co. Ltd. to expand its Code Division Multiple Access network in the Guangdong...

PCS POSES LITTLE THREAT TO RURAL CELLULAR CARRIERS

While many major cities are supporting up to seven mobile phone operators, cellular carriers operating in small markets aren't expected to face much competition...

ANALYSTS GIVE CDMA BIGGEST PCS FOOTPRINT

WASHINGTON-Personal communications services 1900 MHz networks using Code Division Multiple Access technology lead in terms of radio-frequency footprint, according statistics released by The Strategis...

CCI MERGER COMPLETE

NEW YORK-The merger of Kensington Acquisition Sub Inc. with and into Cellular Communications International Inc. is complete, said Olivetti S.p.A. and Mannesman AG. As...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom's wireless local loop products worldwide....

BELLSOUTH WIRELESS DATA OFFERS OPERATOR SERVICE OPTIONS

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced its Interactive Paging Service customers now have four levels of operator service options through a deal with National...

TELEFONICA, IBM USE IP TO CREATE SOLUTIONS

MADRID-Telefonica and IBM Corp. announced an agreement under which the companies will create digital media solutions for Telefonica's Internet protocol-based networks in the Spanish...
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