Yearly Archives: 1999

US Unwired financing to fund expansion

LAKE CHARLES, La.-US Unwired, a Sprint PCS affiliate, said it secured more than $380 million in financing, which will be used to expand the...

Ericsson may renegotiate Qualcomm infrastructure unit price

L.M. Ericsson wants to renegotiate the price it paid for Qualcomm Inc.'s infrastructure division, Qualcomm revealed in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing.Qualcomm...

CTIA, USTA, privacy groups appeal CALEA

WASHINGTON-In the continuing saga that is the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, telecom and privacy groups have appealed the technical standards the Federal...

FCC to set up Y2K war room

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will establish a year 2000 "war room" that will be manned from Dec. 30 through the first part of January,...

TSR Wireless names Sacks CEO, promotes other staff

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless announced several changes to its senior management staff.The company promoted Mitchell Sacks, former president and chief financial officer, to president...

Dell to resell RIM solution

Research In Motion Ltd. announced Dell Computer Corp. will begin reselling its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution at the end of the month. BlackBerry allows...

Austrian GPRS trials completed

VIENNA, Austria-The first mobile data transfer trials over General Packet Radio Service in Austria have been completed by Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector and...

UltraRF unveils amplifier integration

DENVER-Newly formed UltraRF, the former semiconductor division of Spectrian Corp., announced a new amplifier integration technology, in addition to details of its focus as...

Tracking stock to trace growing AT&T wireless business

Speculation continues that AT&T Corp. will unveil plans to issue a separate tracking stock to trace its wireless business, which has grown significantly since...

Canadian wireless stocks high on growth, consolidation

The Canadian wireless market has seen a run-up in stock prices this year as tremendous growth and recent consolidation activity have driven increased interest...

World Briefs

Roberto Colaninno, chairman and chief executive of Telecom Italia, formally abandoned the financial restructuring plan he announced in September. The boards of Olivetti and...

Alcatel selects Tekelec’s GPRS testing solution

MORRISVILLE, N.C.-Tekelec announced Alcatel has selected its General Packet Radio Services testing solution, which is based on a new next-generation diagnostics platform, MGTS i3000.GPRS...

Appeals court reverses NextWave bankruptcy ruling

WASHINGTON-In a stunning turnabout, a federal appeals court in New York last week sided with the Federal Communications Commission and reversed a lower court...

Nextel settles out of court with dispatch operator

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. late last month quietly settled a lawsuit with Charles Dascal, an ex-Miami dispatch operator who claimed Nextel Vice Chairman Morgan O'Brien...

Telecom firms underestimate revenue leaks

NEW YORK-Telecommunications companies pay insufficient attention to revenue leaks, possibly due to the misconception that these hidden losses have a minor impact on their...

Lucent aims for No. 1 spot in 3G

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. has taken a page from Ericsson Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., each of which now dominate in certain areas...

Firms team on WebLink program

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc., which will be known as WebLink Wireless beginning Dec. 1, said Vitria Technology Inc., developer of the BusinessWare eBusiness automation platform,...

Crown Castle seeks consents

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced it is soliciting consents from the holders of its 10.63-percent senior discount notes due 2007 and its 12.75-percent senior...

VIEWPOINT: Holiday recipe

Ah, the Thanksgiving holiday is now behind us. The official HOLIDAY season is upon us, and it's time to start shopping, writing letters to...

O’Brien says Nextel is poster child for competition

NEW YORK-Nextel is a "rag dog" company that has fought against the odds of regulators, antitrust lawyers and Wall Street to win, said Morgan...

TeleCorp raises $184M in IPO

AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s largest affiliate, TeleCorp PCS Inc., raised $184 million last Tuesday from its initial public offering.TeleCorp priced its IPO offering of...

Millicom releases GSM online payment system

LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. released an Internet-based payment system for shopping online using Global System for Mobile communications telephones. GiSMo is a secure payment...

S&P lowers rating on Mannesmann

LONDON-Standard & Poor's said it lowered its long-term ratings on Mannesmann AG from A to BBB, and its short-term ratings from A-1 to A-2,...

Metrocall alliance to deliver high-speed Internet services

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Furthering its goal of becoming a complete communications provider, Metrocall Inc. announced an alliance with Covad Communications as the first step in providing...

Lucent edges out Nokia as profit leader

Lucent Technologies Inc. charged ahead during the first half of the year, recording a substantial jump in profit growth and edging ahead of Nokia...
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