Monthly Archives: April, 1999

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...

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...

TOSHIBA BUYS INTO AUDIOVOX

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Toshiba Corp. purchased newly issued shares of Audiovox Communications Corp. common stock for $5 million, giving Toshiba 5 percent of the shares outstanding,...

UNWIRED PLANET TO GO PUBLIC

Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in...

VANGUARD REVENUE UP SLIGHTLY

GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. reported revenues for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 of $102.3 million compared with revenues of $98.7 million for...

VIEWPOINT: ESSENTIAL SERVICE

My mom is flying into Denver today to see her 3-year-old granddaughter, (and the rest of us, too, I suppose.)Luckily, there is a direct...

PAGENET TO CARRY C-SPAN

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced an exclusive agreement under which C-SPAN will provide public affairs information to PageNet subscribers, including breaking coverage of House of...

INTEK LM TECHNOLOGY MEETS ETSI NARROWBAND REQUIREMENT

NEW YORK-The European Telecommunications Standard Institute's approval and publication of a new Europe-wide narrowband specification has given the licensing of Intek Global Corp.'s proprietary...

HUGHES’ INDIA WLL SYSTEM UPDATED

GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems announced Hughes Ispat Ltd. of India completed an in-service cutover of its wireless local loop network from an NEC NEAX61E...

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...

SHARED EXTENDS TELEMAC PACT

WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced a five-year extension of its technology licensing agreement with Telemac Corp.STC said it will feature handset-based prepaid technology...

NEXTEL CASE TO BE SCRUTINIZED BY COURT

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., already up against strong opposition from the Justice Department and dispatch radio operators, faces a heavy legal burden in convincing a...

PEOPLE

Sprint PCSSprint PCS named Steve Geldmacher president of its new north central region. Prior to this position, Geldmacher was area vice president for north...

PAGEMART EXTENDS INT’L NETWORK

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a partnership with Lisa Communications Ltd. to expand the PageMart Network into Trinidad and Tobago by July.This brings to 17...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...
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