Monthly Archives: August, 1999

NORTEL OUTSOURCES AND DIVESTS SOME OPERATIONS, CUTS JOBS

BRAMPTON, Ontario-Nortel Networks said it entered into agreements with five manufacturing services companies to outsource and/or divest certain manufacturing and repair operations.Earlier in the...

TELECOM NZ CHOOSES CDMA

WELLINGTON, New Zealand-Telecom New Zealand announced it will adopt cdmaOne technology, but keep investing in its Time Division Multiple Access network.The company said it...

BT, AT&T TO PAY $937M FOR ROGERS CANTEL MOBILE STAKE

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and AT&T Corp. said they are jointly buying a 33-percent stake in Canadian operator Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications for $937 million.BT...

INDUSTRY PUSHES CLINTON ADMINISTRATION TO SECURE MORE 3G SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-A broad cross section of wireless carriers, manufacturers and trade associations called on the Clinton administration to secure an additional 160 megahertz for third-generation...

FWT FILES PLAN FOR REORGANIZATION

FORT WORTH, Texas-Tower manufacturer FWT Inc. filed a plan of reorganization with the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Texas.The company...

MOTOROLA RELEASES I500PLUS WAP-COMPLIANT IDEN HANDSET

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. unveiled its i500plus multiservice wireless phone. The integrated Digital Enhanced Network handset is a Wireless Application Protocol-compliant phone that features an...

WORLD BRIEFS

FranceFrance Telecom said it signed a partnership agreement with the Sonae group in Portugal. The two already have a working relationship as stakeholders in...

CHASE PRESSURES IRIDIUM ON MOTOROLA $300M GUARANTEE

One of Iridium L.L.C.'s main lenders, Chase Manhattan Bank, has asked Iridium to demand that Motorola Inc. provide a guarantee of $300 million under...

D.C. NOTES: GEORGE W.’S TROJAN HORSE

Last time around, you'll remember we made special note of Herculean Gore 2000 fund-raising efforts by one J. Shelby Bryan, wireless pioneer and FOB....

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICE SHIPMENTS WORLD MARKET 1999-2004

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The millimeter wave device market is expected to grow from 314,000 shipments this year to nearly 3 million shipments in 2004, according...

CHINA ENDS METROMEDIA’S JV WITH CHINA UNICOM

NEW YORK-Metromedia International Group Inc. said it received notification from China Unicom stating a department of the Chinese government requested termination of one of...

MANNESMANN’S D2 TO LAUNCH WAP SERVICE, REPORTS HIGH SMS USE

FRANKFURT, Germany-Mannesmann's D2 mobile carrier said sales for the first half of 1999 increased by 34 percent to $2.47 million compared with the same...

FCC ADDRESSES LACK OF WIRELESS ACCESS ON TRIBAL LANDS

WASHINGTON-With telephone penetration as low as 20 percent on some Indian reservations, the Federal Communications Commission last week began exploring ways to extend telecommunications...

SPECIAL-INTEREST REQUESTS FOR 36 MEGAHERTZ FLOOD FCC

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has been deluged with a slew of special-interest requests for 36 megahertz of prime spectrum that Congress wants sold this...

W-TRADE CREATES W-BANK FOR ON LINE BANKING

NEW YORK-w-Trade Technologies Inc., which developed the w-Trade wireless trading system, introduced a new product called w-Bank.Much like the way w-Trade allows brokerages to...

VIEWPOINT: COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Remember the slew of lawsuits filed by small- and medium-sized resellers several years ago? These companies argued cellular carriers were trying to squeeze them...

D.C. BRIEFS

The Federal Communications Commission has delayed until fall its truth-in-billing rules because the Office of Management and Budget did not approve of the information...

INDUSTRY FLUX CREATES MORE OPPORTUNITIES, AND CHALLENGES, FOR DISTRIBUTION

NEW YORK-Since the launch of carrier competition in the duopoly wireless market, third-party distributors have had to work hard to manage increasingly complex distribution...

TIA ISSUES POLICY POSITION ON SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association's board of directors approved a policy position paper that presents fundamental principles contributing to the effective management of radio...

WHITE HOUSE PREPARES FOR JAN. 1 PROBLEMS NOT Y2K-RELATED

WASHINGTON-"All problems that occur on Jan. 1 will be assumed to be Y2K problems," said John Koskinen, chair of the President's Council on Y2K...

MOTOROLA COMPLETES SEMICONDUCTOR UNIT SALE

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it completed its transaction with Texas Pacific Group for the management buyout of a business unit of Motorola's Semiconductor Products...

SPRINT CORRECTS 2Q RESULTS

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The weighted average shares reported in Sprint PCS' July 22 second-quarter operating results, which are used to calculate loss per share, inadvertently...

FBISUSPENDS MSS PROGRESS, FEARFUL OF SECURITY BREACH

WASHINGTON-The FBI, fearful that national security will be compromised unless it can overcome legal and technical obstacles in conducting global phone wiretaps, is scrutinizing...

TELEKOM WINS ONE 2 ONE IN $13.6B CASH, DEBT DEAL

LONDON-Following weeks of industry speculation, Deutsche Telekom on Friday won its bid to buy U.K. mobile carrier One 2 One in a deal valued...

ERICSSON FORMS INTERNET UNIT; PARTNERS WITH GOAMERICA

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.J.-Ericsson Inc. announced it formed Ericsson Wireless Internet Solutions, a new unit that will marry Ericsson's knowledge in wireless technologies and...
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