Monthly Archives: June, 1999

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

PEOPLE

AuthentixAuthentix Network Inc. announced David Rowan and Raymond Szull joined the company as regional vice presidents in sales. Rowan will be based in Pennsylvania...

PHONE.COM STRIKES ALLIANCES BEFORE IPO

Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, has been tied to several announcements in the weeks preceding its impending initial public offering that have served to...

PHONE.COM BEGINS TRADING ON NASDAQ

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc., formerly Unwired Planet, announced it has commenced with its initial public offering of 4 million shares of common stock, priced...

FCC SAYS CALLING PARTY PAYS TO BE NATIONAL, OPTIONAL SERVICE

WASHINGTON-To the delight of the wireless industry, the Federal Communications Commission last week declared that if and when calling-party-pays service is authorized, it will...

PRODUCTS

NCRNCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer's readiness to respond...

BELLSOUTH SHOWS INTEREST IN QWEST

In a routine filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, BellSouth Corp. suggested it might be interested in increasing its ownership stake in broadband...

MICROWAVE USERS ASK FCC TO RULE ON FSS SHARING ISSUES

WASHINGTON-The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition has asked the Federal Communications Commission to issue rules that will help terrestrial microwave fixed services more easily share...

SOUTHERN LINC TO OFFER INTERNET ACCESS

ATLANTA-Southern LINC, the digital wireless communications services arm of energy company Southern Co., announced plans to offer a suite of wireless data and Internet...

FCC SETS DEC. 7 PAGING AUCTION DATE

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission June 7 announced it will auction 2,499 licenses for paging services on Dec. 7. The licenses are in the upper...

METROCALL ENTERS PAGEMASTER DEAL

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has entered into a nationwide marketing and promotional relationship with PageMaster Corp., a national promotions company based in Thousands...

OFFROAD SEEKS TO PARTNER ANGEL INVESTORS AND COMPANIES VIA INTERNET

NEW YORK-With the creation of San Francisco-based OffRoad Capital Corp., the realm of angels, those wealthy people who invest patient capital in promising start-ups,...

FCC CHANGES RULES ON CENTRALIZED TRUNKING

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week changed its rules regarding when private wireless users must get permission to use centralized trunking systems.In centralized trunking...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

KENNARD EDUCATES CONSUMERS ON NUMBER EXHAUST

WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has started a consumer awareness campaign about number exhaustion."People have a lot of questions about their area...
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