Monthly Archives: June, 1999

TRITON ANNOUNCES LAUNCH CITIES

MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. completed the first phase of its buildout by launching digital wireless service in Richmond, Va., and Hickory-Lenoir, N.C. The company...

CONVERGYS, IBM TEAM ON BILLING SOLUTION

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it is teaming with IBM Corp. to market and deliver billing and subscriber management solutions for the wireless industry.The alliance provides...

AMERICAN TOWER TO BUY TELEPORT

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. entered an agreement to acquire Dallas/Fort Worth Teleport, a full-service satellite telecommunications facility in Irving, Texas.The teleport supports 16 antennas offering...

ADC BUYS SAVILLE

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it acquired Saville Systems plc, a worldwide provider of customer-care and billing software solutions.Under terms of the agreement, each ordinary...

TELFONICA, MOTOROLA ENTER COLLABORATION

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica S.A. and Motorola Inc. signed an agreement under which the two companies will collaborate more closely and Motorola will become a preferred...

ERICSSON PLANS TO STRIKE IT BIG IN CDMA NETWORKS

L.M. Ericsson wants the industry to know it plans to become a formidable contender in the cdmaOne infrastructure business.It's been more than a month...

ERICSSON UNVEILS NEW SUITE OF PHONES

NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus '99 that the company plans to...

TRIQUINT FILES FOR STOCK OFFERING

HILLSBORO, Ore.-TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement relating to the proposed offering of approximately 3.8 million shares...

NOKIA TO SUPPLY WAP IN THE NETHERLANDS

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed an agreement with KPN Telecom to supply an end-to-end Wireless Application Protocol solution to the carrier in the Netherlands. The...

MCCAW TO EXERCISE NEXTEL OPTIONS

KIRKLAND, Wash.(AP)-Craig McCaw, his family and ex-wife plan to exercise options for 17 million shares in Nextel Communications Inc., investing about $315 million in...

SAMSUNG, AIRTOUCH SIGN PURCHASE PACT

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. completed a master purchase agreement for Samsung's open interface Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment, said...

ARGENTINA FINALLY GRANTS PCS LICENSES

After nearly two years of fits and starts, the government of Argentina finally awarded six personal communications services licenses for a total consideration of...

LUCENT TO BUY NEXABIT

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will acquire Nexabit Networks for about 14 million shares of Lucent common stock, or approximately $900 million.Nexabit...

CELL PHONE STAMP TO DEBUT IN APRIL

WASHINGTON-Based on votes by the American public, the U.S. Postal Service declared the cellular phone the most popular 1990s memory, and will depict the...

NORTEL, BELLSOUTH SIGN SUPPLY MOU

ATLANTA-Nortel Networks and BellSouth Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding regarding a long-term global supply agreement that makes Nortel Networks' communications equipment, software and...

AOL, 3COM TEAM TO OFFER E-MAIL ON HANDHELDS

DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. announced a strategic relationship with 3Com Corp., designed to extend AOL e-mail to Palm Computing handheld devices.3Com said it will...

SUPRA TAKES TRACCESS TO CABINETS, ENCLOSURES

Supra Products rounded out its TRACcess family of electronic access devices with the introduction of its TRAC-Cabinet device.TRAC-Cabinet is a general purpose electronic cabinet...

BELL ATLANTIC’S STRIGL HINTS OF IPO

WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Corp. continues to study ways to take its wireless business public, said Dennis F. Strigl, chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic Global...

BELLSOUTH DATA TO LAUNCH AD CAMPAIGN

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data Ltd. revealed plans to roll out a new national advertising campaign to support its Interactive Paging Service.The multimillion dollar print...

FCC CAN CUT ACCESS CHARGES; MUST JUSTIFY FORMULA

WASHINGTON-An appeals court last week told the Federal Communications Commission it could impose a cut in access charges but that it must review its...

BELL ATLANTIC TESTS WLL FOR RURAL AREAS

BRAINARDSVILLE, N.Y.-Bell Atlantic Corp. said it has begun testing wireless local loop technology as an alternative to traditional landline telephone service for many of...

TELSTRA MOVES TOWARD FULL PRIVATIZATION

SAN FRANCISCO-Australian telecommunications provider Telstra Corp. Ltd. welcomed the Australian parliament's decision to pass the Telstra Sale Bill and the government's announcement it will...

FIBREBOND PLANT OPEN AND OPERATING

MINDEN, La.-Fibrebond Corp. said its new $7.5 million, 210,000-square-foot Minden, La., production plant went online this month, replacing the company's 15-year-old plant that burned...

CONWAY TO HEAD GSM GROUP

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The GSM Association appointed Robert G. Conway its new director general. Conway was the former head of global business development for Motorola Inc.'s...

3COM PC CARD CONNECTS TO GSM NETWORK

NEW YORK-3Com Corp. introduced a wireless modem PC card, called the 3Com Megahertz 56K Global GSM & Cellular Modem PC Card, which connects laptop...
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