Monthly Archives: August, 1999

PREFERRED NETWORKS NET LOSS IMPROVES

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. released second-quarter results with a net loss of $2.3 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with a net loss of...

MEDIAONE TO USE SCC SERVICE

BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. said it signed a contract to maintain enhanced 911 data for Colorado-based MediaOne Group Inc. in markets where MediaOne launches...

EVERYTHING WIRELESS OPENS NEW WEB SITE

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Everything Wireless, a division of Roxy.com, launched its new Web site from which the company will sell various wireless phones, accessories and pagers.

LCC REVENUES DROP 26 PERCENT

NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., McLean, Va., attributed its 26-percent decline in second-quarter revenues to an "early quarter ramp-down" in its current radio-frequency engineering and...

LUCENT ROUNDS OUT PORTFOLIO WITH EXCEL BUY

Lucent Technologies Inc. last week pulled off what could be seen as a major coup with the announcement that it plans to acquire Excel...

CI WIRELESS TO TAKE OVER ORTEL WIRELESS ASSETS

CI Wireless Inc., a supplier of wireless signal distribution products for wireless carriers, last week acquired Ortel Corp.'s domestic wireless assets, including certain technology...

VIEWPOINT: NEXTEL-FCC-NEXTWAVE

Anyway you slice it, the Nextel-government-NextWave thing is weird.Nextel Communications Inc. gets government approval to go after NextWave Telecom Inc. licenses, even though NextWave...

TELECORP LOSS TOTALS $23.4M

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $17.1 million. TeleCorp's net loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and...

MORE PAGING CARRIERS ACTIVATE CONTENT SERVICES

The paging industry made further progress toward implementing content services last week, as both Motorola Inc. and Arch Communications Group Inc. introduced products and...

WCA NAMES TEAM LEADERS

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association International's unlicensed council, created earlier this month, modified its group name and selected ADC Telecommunications, Clearwire Communications and WaveRider Communications...

COURT RULING PUTS CPNI UP IN AIR

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has thrown out recently changed rules on how telecommunications carriers use information about their customers.The court issued the ruling as...

HARRIS UNIT CHANGES NAME

PALM BAY, Fla.-Harris Corp.'s former semiconductor unit launched its new name and corporate identity.The company's new name is Intersil Corp.The company appointed Gregory L....

IRIDIUM OFFERS INVESTORS EQUITY AS REPAYMENT

According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report filed last week, the recently bankrupt Iridium L.L.C. said it proposed offering bondholders and other...

D.C. NOTES: A FOND FAREWELL

Soon my constant companion will leave me-no I don't mean my husband or my adorable bulldog-rather I mean my Sprint Spectrum phone.I (along with...

SCHWAB TO OFFER WIRELESS TRADING

SAN FRANCISCO-Charles Schwab Corp., San Francisco, plans to offer customers who trade securities more than 48 times each year access to this service over...

MOTOROLA COUNTERSUES QUALCOMM

Motorola Inc. said it filed counterclaims against Qualcomm Inc., the latest punitive move in a more than two-year dispute between the companies that is...

AUSTRIAN CARRIER SELECTS P-COM EQUIPMENT

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. received a $2 million purchase order from Tele.ring Telecom GmbH, an Austrian fixed access company known as 1012 privat.P-Com will provide...

SPECTRUM RESOURCES ACQUIRES TOWERS

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. said it acquired four towers from Tyris Corp. based in Reno, Nev.With this acquisition, Spectrum Resources Towers said...

AETHER CONNECTS WITH ERICSSON ON WIRELESS DATA

OWNINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Technologies Inc. announced it will join L.M. Ericsson's new Wireless Internet Solutions unit to co-market and develop wireless data services specifically...

ANDERSON FINANCIAL, AMS TEAM ON RECEIVABLES MANAGEMENT

NEW YORK-Anderson Financial Network Inc., Bloomington, Ill., and American Management Systems Inc., Fairfax, Va., announced a strategic alliance to offer outsourced receivables management for...

BERLINER MAPS STRATEGY, BEGINS IPO NEGOTIATIONS

Wireless construction company Berliner Communications Inc. said it has begun negotiating with underwriters to commence an initial public offering."We see geographic expansion and further...

SCHLUMBERGER TO EQUIP PITTSBURGH WITH TELEMETRY APP

PITTSBURGH-Schlumberger Resource Management Services Inc. won a contract to supply an advanced meter reading solution to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority.The product will...

TELECOM EQUIPMENT SALES UP 18 PERCENT

ARLINGTON, Va.-U.S. factory sales of telecommunications products in the first half of the year rose to nearly $41.6 billion, an 18-percent increase from last...

SKYTEL MESSAGE CENTER LETS TWO-WAY USERS REDIRECT MESSAGES

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. introduced a unified messaging service, called SkyTel Message Center, which notifies users on their two-way pagers when they receive voice...

SPRINT CREATES BROADBAND DIVISION

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. last week announced it created a new organization that will be responsible for building a broadband fixed wireless network in...
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