June 1999

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net announced the release of InfoXtra II, a new wireless information service that delivers news, financial updates, lifestyle information and other information services to pagers, digital mobile phones …

Liberty Media Group’s announcement last week that it plans to acquire The Associated Group Inc. would give Liberty, the Tele-Communications Inc. offshoot traditionally focused on video programming, a foothold in …

FRANKFURT, Germany-LHS Group Inc. announced licensing agreements with Retevision Movil S.A., Barcelona, Spain, and Telecom Personal Argentina. Retevision Movil selected LHS and joint venture Norsistemas/Endesa/Telesoft in Madrid to deliver a …

PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Corp. said it exercised its right to increase its ownership interest in Omnitel Pronto Italia to 23.1 percent. Bell Atlantic, which was an original partner in Omnitel, held …

NEW YORK-AirGate PCS Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate headquartered in Atlanta, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public through an initial public offering of $100 million …

MONTREAL-Microcell Telecommunications Inc. said it closed a debt transaction that raised about $150 million from the issue of 12-percent senior discount notes due 2009 at 55.73 percent amount at maturity …

SWINDON, U.K.-Motorola Inc. said it achieved the world’s first voice call over Global System for Mobile communications connected Internet Protocol technology. Motorola gave the demonstration at a conference in London, …

BETHESDA, Md.-Mobeo Inc. announced it signed a software license agreement with Comstar Inc., under which Comstar may market the mobeo 1.0 interactive stock quote service. Comstar said it will sell …

Granite Systems Inc., a Manchester, N.H.-based provider of network configuration management systems for the telecommunications industry, plans to announce its Network Interface Module this week at SuperComm in Atlanta. The …

NEW YORK-Electric Fuel Corp. announced its Consumer Battery Division completed its preproduction phase and the company is moving ahead with plans for its automated production line. Delivery of the equipment …

VENICE, Fla.-Frank Gunther, who devised some of the first radio communications devices, died last Monday. He was 91. Gunther helped create shortwave, two-way and FM systems, often working with the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission received somewhat of a mixed message last week when consumer advocates, and state and local government representatives appeared at a forum discussing what the FCC should …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. won a $750 million contract to supply equipment to 14 BellSouth Cellular Corp. markets, including Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Ericsson will provide base stations, …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. announced its sixth-generation Personal Digital Cellular chipsets are featured in Kyocera Corp.’s Digital Minimo 533G handset. Available from IDO Corp. in Japan, the Digital Minimo 533G …

CULVER CITY, Calif.-Digitcom Services Inc. announced it has developed a new routing hub that will allow any paging carrier in the world to link services with any other, on any …

DAPHNE, Ala.-Communitronics of America Inc. announced it has completed integrating Data Paging Inc. into the company, following its acquisition in December. Communitronics is a paging and specialized mobile radio operator …

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced it plans to work with Korea Telecom Freetel to develop a standards-based Internet and corporate service platform based on Microsoft products, such as Windows NT, Commercial …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it expects to surpass the current estimates by the financial community for earnings per share in fiscal 1999. The current estimate is 25 …