Yearly Archives: 1999

AMDOCS TO RESELL SUN PLATFORM

ST. LOUIS-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Amdocs announced a global alliance reseller agreement under which Amdocs will resell and support the Sun platform.Under terms of...

OUTGOING NTIA CHIEF TO START INTERNET FIRM

WASHINGTON-Outgoing National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving said he will launch a start-up Internet firm and open a consulting practice here, but...

HOUSE MEMBERS URGE SENATE ACTION ON CALEA GRANDFATHER DATE

WASHINGTON-Six House members last week sent a letter to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging consideration of a...

AIRTOUCH TO LAUNCH NEW VERSION OF CPP

AirTouch Cellular plans to unveil a new version of its calling party pays service later this month.AirTouch will launch the new service first in...

ECONOMIC TRENDS, INDUSTRY TRACK RECORD HAS FINANCING TIGHT

NEW ORLEANS-The bankruptcies of certain C-block and mobile satellite companies, coupled with mutual fund outflows, rising interest rates and other macro-economic trends, have aligned...

MOTOROLA, PAGING RESELLERS ASSIST CONXUS CUSTOMERS

When voice paging carrier Conxus Communications Inc. shut off its network in the closing days of August, many wondered what would happen to the...

KENNARD: FCC NOT BOUND TO NEXTEL IN PACT FOR PCS

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week told the House of Representatives' top telecommunications lawmaker, Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), that a letter signed...

RAILROAD ASSOCIATION ASKS REGULATORS TO LIFT LICENSE FREEZE

WASHINGTON-The Association of American Railroads again urged federal regulators to lift the licensing freeze on private multiple address system applications and not auction fixed...

E-RATE PROGRAM UNDER ATTACK

WASHINGTON-Rep. George Gekas (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law, last week said the schools and libraries Internet program...

LAPD TO USE MOTOROLA SYSTEM

LOS ANGELES-The Los Angeles Police Department said it completed the installation of the infrastructure for its new mobile data communications system-Motorola Inc.'s $21.6 million...

ROHDE WINS PRESIDENT’S APPROVAL TO HEAD NTIA

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday approved President Clinton's nomination of Gregory Rohde to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The nomination now goes...

SPRINT PCS SELECTS QUALCOMM FOR 3G NETWORK

SAN DIEGO-Sprint PCS said it selected Qualcomm CDMA Technologies to provide infrastructure for trials of third-generation wireless technology based on the 3G Code Division...

PHILIPS LICENSES UP.BROWSER

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. said Philips Consumer Communications has licensed the UP.Browser microbrowser software for its line of Global System for Mobile communications wireless...

ILLUMINET AIMS FOR $56M-$65M IN IPO

NEW YORK-Illuminet Holdings Inc., which calls itself the largest unaffiliated Signaling System 7 network provider in the country, plans an initial public offering of...

SARAIDE ADDS TWO PARTNERS

SAN FRANCISCO-Saraide.-com Inc. announced it has formed partnerships with Critical Path Inc. and EDS.Critical Path provides business-to-business messaging solutions. Its partnership with Saraide.com is...

WIRELESS 911 BILL HITS LIABILITY, PRIVACY OBSTACLES

WASHINGTON-The wireless 911 bill, once assumed a sure bet for congressional approval this year, has hit snags over liability, privacy and other issues that...

APION, SYMMETRY DEMO WAP OVER GPRS EQUIPMENT

SAN JOSE, Calif.-APiON Ltd., a Wireless Application Protocol infrastructure provider, and Symmetry Communications Inc., which provides General Packet Radio System equipment, announced that have...

CLARIFICATION

A photo accompanying a story about tower siting in Rock Creek Park in the Sept. 27 issue of RCR (Page 25) was an illustration...

SPECTRASITE EYES FOCUS ON CORE COMPETENCIES

Tower company SpectraSite Communications Inc. last week began the process of shedding its in-house site acquisition and zoning capabilities.Stephen Clark, chairman and chief executive...

FCC REFORM MOVES ON DESPITE RUMORS OF FATIGUE

WASHINGTON-Amid rumors of congressional fatigue with the thought of reforming the Federal Communications Commission, the agency's chairman last week said reform efforts are going...

RIM HITS FINANCIAL SPEED BUMP, BUT INVESTORS, ANALYSTS CONFIDENT

Speculation that BellSouth Wireless Data Ltd. would not immediately renew its supply contract with Research In Motion Ltd. has proven accurate, expected to result...

TIA URGES NO INTERNET REGULATION

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is urging lawmakers and regulators to maintain the "hands off the 'Net" approach."The communications industry continues to boom ... Deployment...

VIEWPOINT: TALKIN’ BOUT AN EVOLUTION

The wireless industry has yet another trade show under its belt. It's time to sit back and take a deep breath before all hell...

COURT GIVES PRIVACY PRIORITY OVER FIRST AMENDMENT

WASHINGTON-In a victory for the wireless industry and a blow to free-speech advocates, a federal court here has revived a high-profile cell-phone eavesdropping lawsuit...

TELEDESIC CONTEMPLATES EARLY MARKET ENTRY TO SCOOP STRUGGLING LEOS

While the bankruptcies of Iridium L.L.C. and ICO Global Communications have cast doubt on the mobile satellite services market, fixed satellite services provider Teledesic...
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