Monthly Archives: February, 2000

Japan’s declining paging market claims another victim

OSAKA, Japan-KansaiTele-Message became the latest victim in Japan's declining paging industry by filing for liquidation with $183 million in debts, according to a Kyodo...

Lawmakers push for increase in high-tech visas

WASHINGTON-A group of lawmakers, responding to the growing shortage of skilled workers in the digital economy, last week introduced legislation to increase the number...

Leap acquires Georgia licenses

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. reached a definitive agreement to acquire personal communications services operating licenses in Macon, Columbus and Albany, Ga., from Zuma...

Citizens protest Mass. siting legislation

WASHINGTON-A major controversy with national implications has erupted in Massachusetts over draft legislation that would promote antenna siting collocation and streamline siting approval for...

More Metrocall expansion?

Speculation continues about Metrocall's stated intention to participate further in the paging industry's consolidation. The quintupling of Metrocall stock to more than $10 a...

NextWave loses in court, gets skewered by senator

WASHINGTON-Last Thursday was a bad day for bankrupt personal communications services operator NextWave Telecom Inc. Not only did a federal appeals court deny its...

NHTSA to look at digital driver distractions

WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, growing increasingly concerned about the use of mobile phones and other high-tech gadgets in vehicles, plans to expand...

Sandstrom replaces Dimert as Ericsson’s N.A. head

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced that Per-Arne Sandstrom, currently head of the business unit for Global System for Mobile communications systems, has been appointed executive...

TIA backs NTR for China

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is joining other business sectors in backing President Clinton's call for congressional passage this year of permanent Normal Trade Relations...

BellSouth to issue Latin American tracking stock

BellSouth Corp. said last week it could issue a tracking stock for its highly successful Latin American operations by late April or early May,...

I-Burst eases spectrum constraints

At the heart of all the hoopla and back patting over the success of wireless communications lies a critical problem that could bring the...

AT&T acquires Wireless One

NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Wireless One Network L.P. for an undisclosed amount.AT&T...

Audiovox offering raises $84.6M

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Corp. completed its follow-on offering of 3.1 million class A common shares at a price of $45 per share. Of the 3.1...

BAM offers StarTac 7860W for Web Access service

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile is now offering the Motorola StarTac 7860W as the third digital wireless phone available for use with its Web Access...

Bezeq Israel plans mobile call routing

JERUSALEM-Bezeq Israel Telecom Ltd., the state-owned telecommunications company, announced a plan to allow cellular telephone users to route incoming calls through either their mobile...

Spectrum uncertainty creates budget headaches

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week proposed levying $200 million in analog broadcast spectrum lease fees this year to fund upgrades of federal public safety wireless...

Chadmoore urges FCC to deny Nextel waiver request

WASHINGTON-A request by Nextel Communications Inc. that it be granted a waiver to use frequencies close to the Canadian border on a secondary basis...

Mixed feelings remain between technology camps

Public skirmishes over third-generation technology died last year when the wireless industry embraced a harmonized CDMA-based standard, but old feelings between camps die hard...

CellPort Labs changes name

BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs Inc. changed its name to Cellport Systems Inc. to reflect what the company says is the evolution from a research and...

Cyber defense planned

WASHINGTON-President Clinton plans to meet with Internet executives and key government officials on Tuesday to discuss last week's cyber attacks that temporarily shut down...

FCC debate centers on calling party pays

WASHINGTON-An FCC staff proposal for the implementation of calling party pays service is being heavily debated by the commissioners' offices-a debate that could lead...

Wireless growth, new services bode well for tower sector

NEW YORK-Tower companies are sitting pretty and poised for even greater prosperity in 2000 and beyond as domestic demand for their properties grows.Prime movers...

Long-term debt defaults hit record high in 1999

NEW YORK-Publicly held long-term debt set an unwelcome record in 1999 as 147 corporate and sovereign issuers defaulted on $44.6 billion in bonds, more...

Telephia financing totals $11M plus

SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc., a provider of integrated marketing and network quality data, reported its series B round of financing totaled more than $11 million.The...

TI exec predicts wireless phone growth to continue

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.-Speaking at a Goldman Sachs Technology Symposium, the head of Texas Instruments Inc.'s wireless business unit said the company expects last year's...
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