Monthly Archives: June, 1999

PCS COMPANY FILES IPO, PLANS TO RAISE $100M

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...

BELL ATLANTIC UPS EQUITY IN OMNITEL

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...

DIGITCOM ROUTING HUB INTERLINKS PAGING CARRIERS

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...

FCC DENIES C-BLOCK INTEREST-RATE APPEAL

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in agreeing with the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, denied Omnipoint Corp.'s petition for a lower interest rate for the installment payment...

CDG REPORTS CDMA UPSWING IN JAPAN

HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group announced cdmaOne technology has gained significant momentum in Japan as a result of the recent cdmaOne nationwide service launch...

CHAT PAK VENDING TO SELL US UNWIRED PREPAID CARDS

LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired said Chat Pak vending machines at select Lake Charles, Westlake and Sulphur, La., Conoco/Sporty's locations now are dispensing its prepaid...

CHINA UNICOM PICKS UP 4 CDMA NETWORKS

China Unicom, which received the go-ahead from the Chinese government earlier this year to deploy cdmaOne technology, will gain control of four experimental Code...

CORSAIR EXPANDS COLOMBIA CONTRACT

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc.'s contract with Comunicacion Celular S.A., a cellular operator in the eastern region of Colombia, has been upgraded to provide...

PAGING RESELLERS WIN JUDGMENT AGAINST PAGENET

Paging resellers Your Phone Company Inc. of Portland, Ore., and Page Club USA of Seattle last week won a lawsuit against the Oregon branch...

STATES QUESTION VALUE OF CPP

WASHINGTON-State regulators are concerned the Federal Communications Commission this week will adopt an item suggesting calling party pays is a commercial mobile radio service...

WINSTAR TO EQUIP CRESCENT REIT

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. and Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. entered into an agreement under which WinStar will provide communications capabilities, including local and...

MILLER NAMED CROWN CASTLE CHAIRMAN

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International's board of directors named Ted Miller chairman. Miller also is the company's chief executive officer. He succeeds Carl Ferenbach as chairman.Ferenbach...

COMMUNITRONICS COMPLETES DATA PAGING INTEGRATION

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...

MICROSOFT, KOREA’S FREETEL TO CREATE PLATFORM FOR SERVICES

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...

COMSTAR TO MARKET MOBEO SERVICE

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...

LHS GRABS SPAIN, ARGENTINE DEALS

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...

AYERS LAUNCHES NEW PUBLIC RELA TIONS FIRM

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...

LIBERTY ENTERS BROADBAND MARKET WITH ASSOCIATED ACQUISITION

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...

DATALINK.NET OFFERS NEW IS SERVICE

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...

LUCENT INTRODUCES CHIP

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...

RELTEC ADOPTS MARCONI MONIKER

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...

MASTEC FILES TO SELL STOCK

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...

METRO PCS COMBS MARKET FOR FINANCING

More than a year after receiving a favorable ruling from a Dallas bankruptcy judge, General Wireless Inc. still is crafting its business plan and...

MICROCELL RAISES $150 MILLION IN DEBT OFFERING

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...

MOTOROLA PLACES VOICE OVER GSM INTERNET CALL

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...
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