Monthly Archives: August, 1999

STAPLETON IS N.A. GSM ALLIANCE CHAIR

CHICAGO-The North American GSM Alliance elected VoiceStream Wireless President Bob Stapleton the group's new chairman.Stapleton served as president of Western Wireless Corp. from 1992...

BOLIVIA TO AUCTION PCS LICENSE

LA PAZ, Bolivia-The Government of Bolivia's Superintendent of Telecommunications, Guido Loayza, is accepting international bids for a 20-year concessionary contract for the provision of...

BT TO BECOME CELLNET SOLE OWNER

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc said it will acquire for $5 billion Securicor's 40-percent shareholding in BT Cellnet, the United Kingdom's second-largest cellular operator-behind Vodafone AirTouch...

INTELLICELL, CELLULAR WHOLESALERS TO MERGE

CHATSWORTH, Calif.-Intellicell Corp. signed an agreement to merge with Cellular Wholesalers Inc., a privately held wholesale distributor of wireless phone products.Under terms of the...

CHADMOORE BUYS 16 LICENSES FROM AMERICAN WIRELESS

LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has agreed to acquire 16 10-channel 900 MHz wide-area licenses from American Wireless Network Inc.Chadmoore will assume...

AIRTOUCH SIGNS PACTS TO RESELL FOR GLOBALSTAR

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Satellite Services Inc. announced it completed agreements under which AirTouch Cellular, Airstar Communications, GMPCS Personal Communications, O'Gara Satellite Systems and The Wireless...

TEGIC TARGETS CARRIERS WITH INSTANT MESSAGING

Having made partners of most wireless handset OEMs with its T9 Text Input technology, Tegic Communications Inc. said it plans to make customers of...

PCIA ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP AWARDS

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation announced the winners of its 1999 Leadership Awards, to be held at a reception at PCS '99...

PEOPLE

TeleCorp PCSTeleCorp PCS Inc. hired Raul Burgos as vice president and general manager of its Puerto Rican operations. He most recently served as general...

NOKIA EQUIPS PRIMATEL IN HUNGARY

HELSINKI-Primatel, the new Global System for Mobile communications 1800 mobile operator in Hungary, selected Nokia Corp. to supply its GSM 1800/GSM 900 network, said...

PCIA, ITA OPPOSE CHANGES TO 450 MHZ BAND

WASHINGTON-Associations representing private wireless users do not see a need for the petition, filed late Friday by the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, urging the...

PRODUCTS

CoherentThe Coherent original equipment manufacturer division of Tellabs launched a complete design verification kit for its CEC-128 Integrated Echo Canceller multichip module. The kit...

RCC REVENUES DOUBLE

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Rural Cellular Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $38.2 million, more than double the $17.7 million in revenues...

CRAZY PACE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IMPACTS REGULATION

WASHINGTON-The pace of technological change-rapid and frenzied-will have an impact on regulation, and in turn, how regulation impacts the wireless industry in the next...

ROGERS ADDS RECORD SUBSCRIBERS

TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. posted overall results for the second quarter, ended June 30, showing a 6.2-percent increase in total revenues to $215...

D.C. NOTES: EARTH IN THE BALANCE

Gore 2000 lists ex-Clinton Commerce official Jonathan Sallet (MCI WorldCom chief policy counsel, husband of former FCC spokeswoman Susan Lewis Sallet and son-in-law of...

NOKIA INKS DEAL TO DELIVER GSM TO CHINA

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. said it signed contracts with three branches of China United Telecommunications Corp. in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shanghai to deliver a range of...

BLUETOOTH RELEASES NEW SPECIFICATION

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The five founding companies of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group-Ericsson Inc., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp. and Toshiba Corp.-announced the release...

FIRMS GIVE MOBILE TWIST TO CORPO RATE APPS

Computer Associates International Inc. introduced a new wireless application infrastructure designed to give companies the ability to introduce corporate applications to mobile workers.The system...

COURT RULES ON CASE CONCERNING UNIVERSAL SERVICE

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans ruled largely in favor of the Federal Communications Commission late Friday in...

MOTOROLA INTRODUCES FIRST WAP HANDSET

Phone.com Inc.'s Unwired Universe conference attracted about 1,100 attendees from 29 countries, twice the number expected by conference planners.The conference was designed to act...

WATCHMARK BUY FILLS HOLE IN LUCENT’S OSS LINE

Lucent Technologies Inc. last week launched a new venture to deliver operations support system products designed to help carriers better manage their networks and...

MCCAW FAMILY BUYS 15 MILLION NEXTEL SHARES

RESTON, Va.-Craig McCaw and his family exercised their options to purchase 15 million shares of Nextel Communications Inc. common stock, according to the company.Nextel...

MICKOOL NEW UWCC PRESIDENT

The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group of more than 100 Time Division Multiple Access and Wireless Intelligent Network vendors and operators, appointed Sheila...

NEWS BRIEFS

Western Wireless Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $136.6 million, an increase from the $98.4 million reported the same...
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