Monthly Archives: June, 1999

NEXTEL $500M DEBT ISSUE RATED B-

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. assigned a speculative grade rating of B- to a new, $500 million debt issue that Nextel Communications Inc. sold...

CTIA ELECTS NEW BOARD

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's board of directors elected new officers for fiscal-year 2000 at its first meeting June 8.The new officers for the...

MOTOROLA, SUN COLLABORATE ON IP NETWORK EQUIPMENT

Throwing its hat into the packet network ring, Motorola Inc. announced a 10-year, $1 billion nonexclusive strategic technology agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc., which...

U S WEST WIRELESS DEPLOYS PHASE 1 E911 IN MINN.

MINNEAPOLIS-U S West Wireless and SCC Communications Corp. announced the first deployment of Phase 1 wireless enhanced 911 for U S West Advanced PCS...

AMERICAN TOWER TO BUY TOWERS

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it entered into a purchase agreement to acquire approximately 75 communication sites in central and southern Illinois from Illinois PCS,...

TIA: TELECOM EXPORTS UP

ARLINGTON, Va.-According to statistics compiled by the Telecommunications Industry Association, U.S. exports of telecommunications equipment for first quarter 1998 totaled nearly $5.3 billion, and...

CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT FILED OVER INTEK-SECURICOR DEAL

NEW YORK-At least some shareholders are unhappy about last week's announcement that Securicor plc, which owns 40 percent of Cellnet, a United Kingdom cellular...

SPRINT PCS ENTERS NORTEL CONTRACT

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS said it signed a three-year contract with Nortel Networks valued at least $520 million for cdmaOne equipment and services for...

BROADBAND MARKET PROVING EX PENSIVE, BUT LUCRATIVE

It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality....

HARRIS RIDES BROADBAND WAVE

ATLANTA-Amidst the buzz surrounding the emerging broadband market and related wireless access technologies last week at SuperComm '99, Harris Corp., an established supplier of...

SOURCEONE BANKRUPTCY DRAINS CPP PAGING MODEL

SourceOne Wireless Inc.'s bankruptcy status may herald the end of the market for calling party pays paging, coming as no surprise to industry analysts,...

D.C. NOTES: BOMBS AWAY

It's bad enough that we bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade and killed three journalists because of shoddy military intelligence. So now Pentagon sympathizers...

CAP GEMINI JOINS EFTIA PARTNER PROGRAM

Eftia OSS Solutions Inc., a Canadian supplier of operational support systems products, announced June 7 that Cap Gemini Telecommunications, a systems integrator, has joined...

USTR SAYS REVOKING CHINA NTR WOULD HURT CONSUMERS

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week warned that failure by Congress to support renewal of normal trade relations with China could kill negotiations on China's...

WAVECOM GOES PUBLIC

NEW YORK-Wavecom S.A., a French provider of digital wireless standard modules, went public June 9 with a 3.3 million share offering at 13.50 euro...

VODAFONE REVENUES UP 36 PERCENT FOR YEAR

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31 of $5.4 billion, a 36-percent increase from the $4 billion in revenues...

U.S. DIGITAL REPORTS IRIDIUM PROBLEMS

WASHINGTON-U.S. Digital Communications Inc. announced it has begun curtailing the operations of its International Satellite Group Inc. subsidiary, citing difficulties in selling Iridium L.L.C....

FCC PUTS ULS ON INTERNET

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission announced last week that access to its Universal Licensing System will soon be available via the Internet."Anyone with a computer...

TURKCELL AIMS TO HAVE PUBLIC OFFERING IN U.S.

NEW YORK-Turkcell, the largest Global System for Mobile Communications operator in Turkey, said June 8 it has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...

ART TO TRIAL TRITON SYSTEM

ATLANTA-Broadband Internet service provider Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. announced plans to test Triton Network Systems Inc.'s consecutive point 100 Mbps radio as part of...

DATALINK.NET FORMS BUSINESS GROUP

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net announced it formed an Enterprise Business Group, dedicated to providing enterprise solutions by wirelessly enabling Internet, e-commerce, auction and portal sites.The...

FCC BEGINS INVESTIGATING FIXED WIRELESS ISSUES

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week began investigating various issues fixed wireless carriers believe make it difficult for them to offer facilities-based competition to...

VIEWPOINT: ORGAN EDUCATION

The subject of organ donation is rarely a casual conversation. It's a frightening subject because it forces you not only to confront your own...

CLARITI TO ACQUIRE ASIA-PACIFIC IP PROVIDER

PHILADELPHIA-Clariti Telecommunications International Ltd. announced it signed an agreement to acquire NKA Pty. Ltd., an Australian-based Internet protocol provider for the Asia-Pacific region.The acquisition...

CHILEAN CARRIER UNVEILS VOICE PAGING

SANTIAGO, Chile-CTC Startel announced it has introduced the Responder Plus voice paging service, developed by ReadyCom Inc., branded as MoviVox.The two-way voice messaging service...
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