Monthly Archives: September, 1999

ASPEN COUNCILMAN LIKES CELL-PHONE ORDINANCE

DENVER-An Aspen, Colo., city council member said he is reviewing a new ordinance passed earlier this year in a Cleveland, Ohio, suburb that regulates...

NEOPOINT 1000 SHIPS TO SPRINT PCS

LA JOLLA, Calif.-NeoPoint Inc. said it has begun volume shipments of the NeoPoint 1000 smart phone to Sprint PCS, which will market the handset...

SKYBRIDGE TO COMPETE WITH LMDS CARRIERS

NEW YORK-When David Finkelstein looks up at the heavens and ahead to the future, he sees low-earth-orbit satellites as galactic warriors fighting to control...

NEXTLINK CASTS BROADBAND NET WITH HOPES TO COMPETE NATIONALLY

Craig McCaw and his crew at NextLink knew what they were doing, even if the rest of the world wasn't as sure.Long characterized as...

NEXTEL, NEXTWAVE EXTEND TRO IN GENTLEMEN’S PACT

Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. have tentatively agreed to again extend terms of a temporary restraining order banning Nextel from proposing...

SPRINT CLARIFIES NUMBER POOLING POSITION

WASHINGTON-Sprint Corp. was forced last month to clarify its position on the use of number pooling as a way to preserve telephone numbers after...

OMNIPOINT ADDS GSM COVERAGE FOR PCS ’99

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications said it will supply a temporary Global System for Mobile communications digital network in New Orleans during the Personal Communications...

ORANGE IMPROVES LOSS, SALES JUMP

LONDON-Orange plc in its results for the first half of 1999, ended June 30, said its loss before tax dropped 35 percent to $52.2...

COMPANIES TARGET WIRELESS PDAS FOR SERVICE

That personal digital assistants have attracted the attention of the wireless industry is evident in the many announcements made last week targeting the popular...

FCC TO CONSIDER E911, SPECTRUM CAPS AT MEETING

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to consider rules for the deployment of enhanced 911 automatic location identification technologies.The rules will come...

BAM BUYS RIVGAM LICENSES TO BOOST CAPACITY

Bell Atlantic Mobile purchased six 10-megahertz personal communications services licenses from Rivgam Communications L.L.C. to increase voice capacity and prepare for the onslaught of...

SOUTHERN LINC REPORTS GROWTH

ATLANTA-Southern LINC said its customer base increased 50 percent in less than a year, from 100,000 customers in October 1998 to 150,000 customers presently.Since...

GLOBALSTAR NAMES EXEC TEAM

NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P., shifting focus from a development company to an operating company, named a new senior operating team in preparation for its impending...

SYMMETRICOM TO ACQUIRE HP SYNCHRONIZATION BUSINESS

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. signed an agreement under which Symmetricom will acquire HP's Communications Synchronization business, said the companies.The business, part...

IRIDIUM AFRICA SAYS PARENT’S BANKRUPTCY SHOULDN’T AFFECT PERMIT AWARD

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Iridium L.L.C.'s recent financial restructuring and voluntary bankruptcy filing are not expected to have a financial impact on Iridium Africa, said Iridium...

CROWN CASTLE TO BUILD ONE 2 ONE NETWORK IN N. IRELAND

WARWICK, United Kingdom-Castle Transmission International, the U.K. subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp., said it is working in cooperation with One 2 One on...

U.S. SPECTRUM POLICY: GOING FOR WARD? GOING BACKWARD? OR BOTH?

Every day does not produce news about the 3G standards process; it just seems that way. The basic reason, as Jimmy Durante once succinctly...

NOKIA TO EQUIP ITALIAN CARRIER WITH TETRA NETWORK

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp., working in cooperation with Italian companies Site SpA, Teli SpA, Convert Italia SpA and ETS srl, said it will provide a TETRA...

PEGASO PCS LAUNCHES IN MONTERREY, MEXICO

SAN DIEGO and MONTERREY, Mexico-Leap Wireless International Inc. and its Mexican joint venture, Pegaso PCS, announced Pegaso will launch service in Monterrey, Mexico.Monterrey is...

LEHMAN BROTHERS REVISES WIRELESS GROWTH ESTIMATES FOR THE POSITIVE

Convinced that wireless growth was significantly outpacing its own estimates, Lehman Brothers Inc. last week dramatically upped its long-term forecast for the wireless industry...

CELLMANIA.COM LAUNCHES BROADVISION E-COMMERCE SOFTWARE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-BroadVision Inc. announced CellMania.com was the fastest e-commerce site to launch using BroadVision's One-To-One Business Commerce software. Time to market for CellMania.com...

HYBRID NETWORKS WINS SPRINT BROADBAND CONTRACT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that...

ATIS TO DEVELOP STANDARDS FOR WIRELESS FIXED ACCESS

WASHINGTON-A standards subcommittee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions plans to create a new working group to develop standards for fixed-access solutions.The Standards...

SIRF CREATES NEW GPS ARCHITECTURE

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-SiRF Technology Inc. announced an alliance with location technology product and services provider Integrated Data Communications. The two companies plan to develop...

INTERNET, DEREGULATION FUEL CHANGE IN TELECOM EQUIPMENT MARKET

SAN FRANCISCO-Continued growth of the Internet and continued deregulation are fueling the tremendous change in the telecommunications equipment market, said Sutro & Co. in...
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