June 1999

COLLEGE PARK, Md.-Tim Ayers, former vice president for communications at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will join North Light Communications group to launch a new entity-North Light Public Affairs, said …

NEW YORK-Venture-capital investments in the telecom/wireless sector during the first quarter of this year reached $734 million, more than double the total during the same period a year ago, according …

WASHINGTON-Geotek Communications Inc. is moving forward to win creditor and bankruptcy court approval of a final plan of liquidation and is planning for contingencies in the event Nextel Communications Inc. …

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 …

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 …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association has published a new interim standard, Wireless Authentication Enhancements Descriptions, TIA/EIA/IS-778. The document presents a recommended plan for implementing authentication enhancements to use in wireless …

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. acquired AT&T’s Puerto Rico personal communications services license, said the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Wireless growth in Puerto Rico is equal to …

LISLE, Ill.-As recently as a year ago, investors feared Tellabs Inc.’s flagship telephone network-management system-long considered the industry Cadillac-was on its way to becoming an Edsel. Instead, Tellabs’ flagship Titan …

Another U.S. mobile phone carrier has announced definitive plans to commercially launch Internet access during the fourth quarter. Code Division Multiple Access operator Sprint PCS said it has signed an …

ORANGE, Calif.-World Wide Wireless Network Inc., a provider of high-speed business connectivity in Southern California, expanded its wireless network to include 13 points of presence. Prior to the expansion, World …

ATLANTA-World Access Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Comm/Net Holding Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Enhanced Communications Corp., Comm/Net Services Corp. and Long Distance Exchange Corp. World Access …

PHOENIX-AG Communication Systems, a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies Inc., completed an agreement it signed in August 1997 with Rogers Cantel Inc. to jointly market wireless office telephone systems based on …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

More than a year after receiving a favorable ruling from a Dallas bankruptcy judge, General Wireless Inc. still is crafting its business plan and searching for financing. The company, which …

MIAMI-MasTec Inc. announced it filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering 2 million shares of common stock for use for future North American operations.

CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. officially adopted Marconi Communications’ corporate name, logo, signage and letterhead, said Marconi, establishing a North American operator for the United Kingdom-based company. In March, General Electric Co. plc …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group introduced a subscriber line interface circuit chip that operates on 3.3 volts of power, thereby reducing power consumption by about 35 percent compared with …

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 …