KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz in the metropolitan areas surrounding Philadelphia, Washington, D.C./Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C.The carrier is offering Ericsson Inc.'s dual-band dual-mode handsets LX 100 and LX 77. Dual-mode handset users can travel between digital wireless...
United States Cellular Corp. was once again the cash cow in Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s family of wireless businesses during the third quarter.USCC's net income increased 38.6 percent to $36.2 million, or 42 cents per share, from $26.1 million, or 30 cents per...
L.M. Ericsson signed three contracts valued at $223 million to expand Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications System mobile networks in China. The first contract, signed with the Guangxi Posts and Telecommunications Administration of Guangxi Province, includes equipment to expand both...
NEW YORK-Established and new entrants to the wireless handset manufacturing sector are sitting pretty on the crest of a wave of growing worldwide demand, said participants in the NatWest Securities Corp. "Global Mobile Handset Conference."Handset sales could reach 250 million units in 2000 compared...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. announced it will establish a research and development center in Japan to focus on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology and Japanese personal digital communication systems.Japan is a major market for Ericsson's products, the company said, and the R&D center "reaffirms...
Personal communications services operators Western Wireless and Aerial Communications Inc. each launched a service last week that will allow subscribers to receive e-mail messages using their PCS phones.Western Wireless customers using the company's @Stream e-mail service can have messages sent directly to the phone's...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Triton PCS formed a joint venture agreement that will expand AT&T's digital coverage in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, the Washington-Baltimore corridor and Georgia.The agreement calls for Triton to obtain financing and build out a Time Division Multiple Access...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. announced it signed its first Global System for Mobile communications contract in Central Asia with Daewoo Central Paging Cooperation, a wholly owned subsidiary of South Korea-based Daewoo, to provide network infrastructure in Uzbekistan.Under the contract, valued at about $8 million, Ericsson...
Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000)1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,0002 NEC Corp. $41,174,0003 Motorola Inc. $27,973,0004 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,0005 Ericsson...
Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000)1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,0002 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,0003 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,1524 NEC Corp. $718,0005 Nokia...
At an unprecedented gathering earlier this month, a number of prominent specialized mobile radio equipment suppliers temporarily set aside competitive interests to draft a historic action plan. Their goal: selecting a single enhanced analog standard for the SMR industry."It is absolutely critical that this happens...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Wuhan Research Institute established a joint venture company in China to develop, manufacture and market synchronous digital hierarchy transport network systems for the Chinese market. Production will begin in September.Functions of Wuhan Yangtze Ericsson Telecommunications Company Ltd. will include marketing,...
Editor's note: On the previous page are five charts ranking major telecommunications vendors according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenues from 1995 to 1996, percentage change in income from 1995 to 1996 and two-year total return on investment.Nordby International Inc. of Boulder, Colo.,...
RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN1 Brightpoint Inc. 259.88%2 Tellabs Inc. 169.96%3 Specialty Teleconstructors 150.00%4 ADC Telecommunications Inc. 149.00%5 WinStar Communications, Inc. 132.53%6 ...
SINGAPORE-Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson are submitting a statement to the Association of Radio Industries and Business, the Japanese standardization body, backing the proposal of NTT DoCoMo in support of the wideband Code Division Multiple Access air interface at 5 MHz bandwidth."Together, our companies...
Lucent Technologies Inc., the equipment division spun off by AT&T Corp. last year, and Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V., one of the world's largest electronic companies, announced plans to combine their consumer phone equipment operations in a joint venture sure to create the largest phone...
BALTIMORE-Major investor and creditor Pacific Eagle Investments Ltd. has pledged another $5 million infusion to Pocket Communications Inc. to keep the C-block personal communications services licensee going until mid-December. This new deal supersedes a $5 million loan contract that was pending between Pocket and...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The wireless infrastructure market grew 63 percent to $5.3 billion last year, driven largely by the increased spending of personal communications services companies, according to research compiled by Dataquest Inc. in its report "Personal Communications Services and Equipment Market Share."PCS spending increased...
L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to supply a Digital Cellular System 1800 network in Denmark for Telia Mobile AB. Ericsson values the first phase of the project at $49 million, with options for deliveries totaling $152 million, said the company. Bo Stokholm, vice president...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Ericsson Inc. settled one of several lawsuits pending between the two companies.The agreement, filed June 6 in federal court, resolves the patent infringement lawsuit Qualcomm filed against Ericsson in March.For the seven-month term of the agreement, Ericsson and its affiliates...
In a number of "hot" markets around the country, a tidal wave of demand for new personal communications services is swamping some companies' customer service departments-forcing scores of would-be customers to spend as much as an hour on hold as they try to activate...
NEW YORK-Competition from personal communications services companies in the United States is proving to be good news for wireless carriers and their stocks, David A. Freedman, managing director of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., New York, said June 4."If you look at a graph...
