1999

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.-Integrated Systems Research said its new FleetTrack automatic vehicle location system is the first to offer users automatic switching from Cellular Digital Packet Data to analog cellular service. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to release auction and service rules that will make 30 megahertz of spectrum available for commercial use, setting aside six megahertz for …

Following months of speculation, three Japanese telecom companies announced plans to merge into one group to compete in the country’s increasingly competitive telecom market. DDI Corp., IDO Corp. and KDD …

NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc., New York, will receive $900 million from its sale of a 13-percent stake to a group of investors, including Microsoft Corp., the fixed wireless access carrier …

SAN DIEGO-Sprint PCS plans to acquire a 30.5-percent interest in Mexican wireless carrier Pegaso, said Leap Wireless International Inc., a co-founder and major shareholder in Pegaso. A memorandum of understanding …

WASHINGTON-The government, not industry, needs to study the interference impact of the explosion of wireless devices occurring today, said Bob Lucky, corporate vice president of Telecordia Technologies and chairman of …

At the recent Practicing Law Institute’s Telecommunications Conference, Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, gave a humorous presentation describing the wireless industry. Here is how the wireless …

WebLink Wireless Inc., formerly PageMart Wireless, announced several companies have joined its Enterprise Solutions Provider Program in the last week. The most recent addition is JP Systems Inc., which said …

MEXICO CITY-Nuevo Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, placed privately Dec. 9 a $350 million issue of 14.25 percent senior notes due 2006 that it will use to expand …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its Network Solutions Sector is pursuing several alternatives in the development of advanced emergency 911 wireless caller location functionality that meet the Federal Communications Commission’s …

NEW YORK-To further enable data communications, Sun Microsystems Inc. has updated its Java2 platform for the corporate enterprise and is at work on a Year 2000 release of a version …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-GTE Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they signed a multimillion-dollar contract for Lucent to provide a personal communications services network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced an agreement to cooperate on third-generation technology and research with the Ministry of Information Industry of the People’s Republic of China. Under terms of the …

NEW YORK-Newtel AB, formed by the merger of Sweden’s Telia AB and Norway’s Telenor AS, announced Dec. 7 it will not sweeten its hostile cash bid of $1.59 billion to …

WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. announced last week that early next year it will begin testing high-speed wireless Internet access in Houma, La., using wireless communications service spectrum. “BellSouth realizes the importance of …

WASHINGTON-While industry this holiday season pushes family plans and makes pocket phones attractive to the younger crowd, questions linger in the scientific community about whether children are more vulnerable to …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase personal communications services licenses in Denver and Pittsburgh for an undisclosed amount. The agreement, if completed, …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Inc. selected Transcept Inc. to help the carrier extend its personal communications services network using Transcept’s TransCell 1900TM PCS-Over-Microwave system. Trancept’s focus is …

SAN MATEO, Calif.-AvantGo Inc. unveiled the AvantGo Enterprise Publisher, a service designed to extend Web-based corporate intranet and Internet content to handheld devices. The solution consists of an AvantGo Server …

BETHESDA, Md.-SkyBridge L.P. and the Boeing Co. signed a partnership agreement under which Boeing will become the launch service provider for SkyBridge as well as becoming an equity partner in …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has scheduled a special stockholder meeting for Jan. 14 to vote on increasing Metrocall common stock from 100 million to 200 million shares and increasing preferred stock …

Carriers across the United States are scratching their heads trying to figure out what the best business model is when teaming up with content providers to offer Internet access. It’s …

SINGAPORE -Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and L.M. Ericsson announced they jointly plan to develop advanced wireless communications technologies. The technologies, radio frequency CMOS and BiCMOS, will support a range of wireless …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp., a manufacturer of Global System for Mobile communications network infrastructure equipment, raised $192.5 million in is initial public offering Dec. 7. Salomon Smith Barney, New York, …

BRASILIA, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil’s telecommunications regulatory agency, was planning to hold a public hearing to discuss terms for the sale of a round of personal communications services licenses. The licenses are …