Monthly Archives: May, 1999

DIGINET SECURES CONTRACT IN PERU

WASHINGTON-Diginet Americas Inc. said it has secured a local carrier license and spectrum concessions from the Peruvian Transportation and Communications Ministry for the province...

WTB LIKELY TO GRANT NEXTEL WAIVERS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau told private wireless advocates it is inclined to grant 54 waivers by Nextel Communications Inc., which would...

U.S. DISAPPROVES OF BRAZIL TELECOM EQUIPMENT PRACTICE

SAO PAULO, Brazil-The Telecommunications and Electronics Consortium for Latin America and the U.S. Government both have filed comments with Anatel in Brazil regarding Anatel's...

POLITICAL FIGHTS REMAIN AMONG 3G PLAYERS

Industry executives in February hailed the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue agreement as a major breakthrough in the 3G debate, but today it appears standards bodies...

BELL ATLANTIC UNVEILS MOBILE TEST VEHICLE

ORANGEBURG, N.Y.-In an effort to maintain and improve its service quality and reliability in the New York metro area, Bell Atlantic Mobile unveiled its...

CELLSTAR DISTRIBUTES PREPAID IN ARGENTINA

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it signed a one-year agreement to distribute prepaid cellular phone kits for CTI Compania de Telefonos del Interior S.A., the...

TOWER MANAGEMENT FIRMS BRING CONSTRUCTION EFFORTS TO THE FOLD

In addition to adding towers to their portfolios, tower management companies also have started to bring wireless construction capabilities in-house in an effort to...

DOLPHIN CLOSES NOTES OFFERING

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its subsidiary, Dolphin Telecom plc, closed an offering of $295 million of 14-percent senior discount notes due 2009.The net...

DOLPHIN COMPLETES TRANS-ATLANTIC 3G CALL

MONTREAL-Dolphin Telecom plc said it completed the first trans-Atlantic third-generation wireless call using a wideband-Code Division Multiple Access network in Canada and Dolphin's Trans...

WORLD BRIEFS

UNITED KINGDOMICO Global Communications Ltd. said it has commenced a rights offering that will permit shareholders to purchase up to approximately 207.6 million ordinary...

ELECTRIC UTILITIES EYE WIRELESS AS WAY TO KEEP CUSTOMERS

As deregulation slowly takes hold of the U.S. electric utility industry, many companies are beginning to take a look at wireless telecommunications as a...

AIRTOUCH WINS INTERCONNECTION CASE AGAINST PAC BELL

WASHINGTON-A federal district court in California handed AirTouch Paging of California a victory when it granted summary judgment in an interconnection case against Pacific...

MOTOROLA SELLS COMPONENTS UNIT

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. last week agreed to a management buyout of its Semiconductor Components Unit in a deal led by Texas Pacific Group, a...

AMDOCS REGISTERS FOR STOCK OFFERING

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., a provider of billing and related information systems to telecommunications carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a...

CROWN NOTES, STOCK SALES GENERATE $850M

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. raised $850 million last week from the sale of two 12-year note issues totaling $482 million and a secondary offering...

TELECOM LEADERS MEET WITH DOJ ON CALEA

WASHINGTON-The leaders of the four telecommunications trade associations, which are suing the Department of Justice over implementation of the digital wiretap act, met with...

D.C. NOTES: THE OTHER PUBLIC-SAFETY PROBLEM

At last Wednesday's hearing on wireless 911 legislation, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) made special note of a front-page Washington Post story published that day...

AVANTGO HOPES TO CAPITALIZE ON INTERNET PORTAL TREND WITH AVANTGO.COM

The buzz phrase of the wireless data industry this year is Internet portal, and AvantGo Inc. hopes to capitalize on this attention by introducing...

COURT CUTS NEXTWAVE BID PRICE BY $3 BILLION

NEW YORK-The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York handed NextWave Personal Communications Inc. a big victory May 13, cutting its...

AT&T N.Y. SERVICE OUTAGE PROMPTS LAWSUIT

NEW YORK-A class action lawsuit was filed last week by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. subscribers frustrated by dropped calls, busy signals and other indications...

CDG REPORTS 28.5M USERS

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced worldwide cdmaOne subscribers totaled 28.5 million at the end of March, a one-year increase of 309 percent.The...

CORRECTIONS

In the May 10 issue of RCR, the device used with American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s new eLink service should have been identified as the...

CELLEMETRY SERVICE EXTENDED TO WESTERN WIRELESS

ATLANTA-Cellemetry L.L.C. announced an agreement that will extend its Cellemetry Data Services throughout the 17-state area covered by Western Wireless Corp.With the agreement, Cellemetry...

INTERNATIONAL ACCORD MAKES BRIBERY IN COMMERCE ILLEGAL

WASHINGTON-A new treaty to curb bribery of public officials should help U.S. wireless firms become more competitive in the emerging global telecom marketplace.The accord,...
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