Yearly Archives: 1999

BAM OFFERS SHARE-A-MINUTE FOR FAMILIES, CO-WORKERS

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile this week will introduce Share-A-Minute pricing that offers families and small businesses the option to share monthly access and home...

TRITON, US UNWIRED RAISE CAPITAL

NEW YORK-Triton PCS Holdings Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, and US Unwired Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate, were more successful than they...

HOUSE OKS REPORT THAT SUPPORTS ANTENNA SITING ON FEDERAL LANDS

WASHINGTON-The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved a new District of Columbia appropriations conference report, which includes a provision to foster antenna siting...

PHONE.COM REGISTERS FOR 3.3M SHARE OFFERING

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission proposing to offer up to 3.3 million additional shares of...

LOTUS DEVELOPMENT MESSAGING TAKES DOMINO WIRELESS

BERLIN-IBM's Lotus Development Corp. launched a unified messaging initiative aimed to extend the Lotus Domino platform to wireless devices, so users may access Domino-based...

MOTOROLA PROCESSOR CAN HANDLE VARIOUS AIRLINK STANDARDS

Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+...

DIGEST BRIEFS

LHSLHS Group Inc. said its net earnings during the third quarter rose to $11.7 million, up from $7.3 million a year earlier. Earnings per...

ORANGE LAUNCHES PREPAID WITHOUT THE FINE PRINT

LONDON-Orange, the United Kingdom's third-largest mobile operator, announced it is offering a new prepaid package, called Just Talk, that makes clear all conditions and...

GEOWORKS IMPROVES NET LOSS, REVENUES DOUBLE

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. reported a net loss of $994,000, or six cents per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, compared with a...

BELLSOUTH RESTRUCTURES IN EFFORT TO BUNDLE SERVICES

BellSouth Corp. last week announced plans to restructure the company to better position itself to provide bundled services.The move comes just weeks after BellSouth...

IUSACELL, BELL ATLANTIC DISCUSS FURTHER DEALS IN MEXICO

Nuevo Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. seems to be making moves to establish a nationwide wireless presence in Mexico.Bell Atlantic Global Wireless Inc. confirmed...

SPRINT PCS EXPECTS DATA TO DRIVE PCS DEMAND

The wireless industry is waiting to see how many customers are attracted to Sprint PCS Group's wireless Internet services, but they will have to...

FRANCE TELECOM ENTERS GERMAN MARKET WITH E-PLUS BUY

NEW YORK-France Telecom last week proceeded toward its goal of becoming a pan-European provider of seamless mobile, wireline and Internet communications through an agreement...

ABC PROGRAM DOESN’T TUMBLE WIRELESS MARKET

WASHINGTON-In some respects, the Main Event was a non-event.Wireless stocks did not go into free fall. Major dailies did not go wild with follow-up...

PHONE.COM TO OFFER EFAX SERVICE

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. will integrate fax-to-e-mail services in its MyPhone mobile portal offering through a deal with eFax.com, said eFax. As a result...

CELLSTAR TO SELL GLOBALSTAR PHONES IN SOUTH AMERICA

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. and Telecommunications par Satellite Mobiles SAS signed an agreement under which CellStar will distribute Globalstar terminals in most of TE.S.A.M.'s South...

CORSAIR CREDITS PREPAY PRODUCT FOR REVENUE INCREASE

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter of $17.1 million, an increase from the $12 million in revenues reported for...

FCC BANKRUPTCY LANGUAGE STRIPPED FROM SPENDING BILL

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) were thwarted last week in their attempts to attach language to the FCC spending bill...

TELENOR OFFERING INMARSAT SERVICE

OSLO, Norway-Telenor Satellite Services AS launched Inmarsat M4 service, a new global area network for multimedia applications that will improve the data transfer capabilities...

AETHER IPO PRICED HIGHER THAN EXPECTED

NEW YORK-Aether Systems Inc., a middleware provider based in Owings Mills, Md., sold an initial public offering Oct. 20 of 6 million shares, a...

CORRECTION

In the Oct. 18 issue of RCR, RCR's Top 20 list of personal communications services operators excluded two markets Omnipoint Communications Inc. has launched....

D. TELEKOM ANNEXES SHARE OF MEDIAONE EUROPE ASSETS

FRANKFURT, Germany-Deutsche Telekom AG announced it is buying a majority stake in MediaOne Group Inc.'s cellular phone assets in Central Europe and Russia for...

BELL ATLANTIC FINANCIALS STRONG AS IT HEADS INTO MARRIAGE

NEW YORK-During a quarter in which Bell Atlantic Corp. announced plans to create the largest U.S. wireless carrier via an agreement with Vodafone AirTouch...

ARCH CUTS DEBT THROUGH STOCK ISSUES

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the process of issuing stock and warrants in exchange for debt securities, reducing its total debt...

CROWN, METRICOM SIGN SITE LEASE AGREEMENT

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced Metricom Inc. signed a 10-year master license agreement for up to 500 wireless data sites on Crown Castle's domestic...
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