Monthly Archives: July, 1999

IRVING NOTES TENSION BETWEEN ADMINISTRATION, DOD ON SPECTRUM ISSUES

WASHINGTON-National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving last week reiterated the administration's opposition to Department of Defense spectrum priority bills, but sidestepped the...

PREPAID SERVICE DRIVES SUBSCRIBERS IN LATIN AMERICA

WASHINGTON-A new study, "Prepaid Cellular/PCS in Latin America: Market Potential and Business Strategies," compiled by The Strategis Group, Washington, D.C., reports prepaid cellular/personal communications service...

LHS JOINS MALAYSIAN GROUP

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. said it has been accepted as a member of the new Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia, an initiative to encourage technological...

EUROPEAN PAGING ORGANIZATIONS MERGE

NYON, Switzerland-Europe's two paging industry trade associations, the European Public Paging Association and the ERMES MoU Association, announced they have merged, presenting a united...

RF MICRO BOOSTS PRODUCTION CAPACITY

GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. said it completed the movement of its product testing to a new expanded test floor."This expansion gives us the...

GTE TAKES QUALCOMM TO COURT OVER ROAMING PATENT

GTE Wireless Inc. is taking Qualcomm Inc. to federal court, claiming the handset manufacturer violated its patent by incorporating certain roaming technology in mobile...

PHONE.COM GAINS UP.LINK CUSTOMERS IN JAPAN

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. gained ground in Japan recently, having signed agreements to incorporate its UP.Link Server Suite in wireless networks there.Two Japanese cellular...

MOTOROLA GAINS TELEFONICA DEL PERU ORDER

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded an $18 million contract to expand Telefonica del Peru's Code Division Multiple Access cellular network,...

METAWAVE FINANCING TO FUND TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. closed a $91 million round of private equity financing, the largest private equity amount raised by an equipment manufacturer during...

PRIMAL PROMISES CUSTOMER CARE VIA INTERNET

Primal Systems Inc., a provider of customer management products, introduced a new product to its suite of e-business solutions, called WebCare, last week at...

NEWS BRIEFS

Iridium L.L.C. announced the deadline for meeting certain customer and revenue thresholds, under the financial covenants of its $800 million senior secured credit facility,...

BRIGHTPOINT SLIMS DOWN

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. is restructuring plan to better position the company for long-term success by eliminating or restructuring non-performing business activities and improving the company's...

CONVERGYS, AT&T ENTER OUT SOURCING AGREEMENT

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. said it signed an outsourcing agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to extend the current contract for inbound customer care and related...

MSS DEMAND IS THERE, ANALYSTS CONTEND

NEW YORK-It is true billions of people have never made a phone call, but that fact is worthless in determining actual demand for mobile...

IRIDIUM’S CHALLENGES SET THE STAGE FOR THOSE TO FOLLOW

When it became the first satellite-based global voice operator to launch commercial service last year, Iridium L.L.C. predicted its success would serve as the...

AT&T OFFERS CONSUMER VERSION OF ONE-RATE PLAN

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp. introduced a consumer-oriented version of its Digital One Rate plan, a plan that eliminates roaming and long-distance fees and is...

ASIAN CARRIERS TRY TO REBOUND FROM ASIAN FLU

Asia-Pacific countries are beginning to emerge from the severe economic problems that have gripped them for two years, and mobile phone carriers are finding...

AMTA LOOKS FOR ADDITIONAL SPECTRUM

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-"Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" asked Alan Shark, president of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, at the group's annual leadership...

AMERICAN WIRELESS BUYS FULFILLMENT FIRM

SAN JOSE, Calif.-American Wireless announced it purchased Cellular Networks Inc. of Seattle, expanding its activation, fulfillment and distribution services for Nextel Communications Inc. and...

SATELLITE, TERRESTRIAL DATA CARRIERS GAIN THROUGH INTERNETWORKING

Today's satellite-based data and messaging carriers have found the secret to their success is partnering with those they once considered their primary competitors-terrestrial-based wireless...

AMDOCS EXPANDS FRAUD OFFERINGS

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. expanded its Fraud Management product offering by adding two new products-Sleuth and Integrity+, said the company. Sleuth is a software system...

AIRFLASH TRIES DIFFERENT WIRELESS PORTAL APPROACH

AirFlash.com Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley start-up firm, has created a service bureau called AirFlash, taking a somewhat different approach to the wireless...

220 MHZ AUCTION PULLS $2M

WASHINGTON-The 220 MHz auction ended with the Federal Communications Commission collecting nearly $2 million for 222 licenses expected to be used for dispatch and...

SENATE ORDERS BAM TOWERS BUILT IN ROCK CREEK PARK

WASHINGTON-Even as the National Capital Planning Commission was voting to further delay the siting of two Bell Atlantic Mobile towers in Rock Creek Park,...

NEXTEL LICENSE TRANSFER REMAINS STICKY ISSUE

WASHINGTON - Nextel Communications Inc. last week met stiff opposition to efforts to secure private wireless spectrum and approval for the transfer of 900...
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