LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc.'s information security business segment will officially be named Transcrypt Secure Technologies, said the company.Michael E. Jalbert, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Transcrypt International, said the name change better reflects the company's position in the industry.TST also announced the...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it agreed to provide a variety of value-added services to Telerj Celular S.A. and Telest Celular S.A., two wireless operators in the Brazilian states of Rio de Janiero and Espirito Santo. CellStar sells wireless handsets in bulk to the carriers.CellStar...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. gained ground in Japan recently, having signed agreements to incorporate its UP.Link Server Suite in wireless networks there.Two Japanese cellular carriers, DDI Corp. and IDO Corp., launched wireless Internet access services based on the technology, the company said. DDI's service...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded an $18 million contract to expand Telefonica del Peru's Code Division Multiple Access cellular network, said the company.Expansion of the network will begin immediately and is slated to be completed in November, said Motorola. Motorola...
WASHINGTON-The United States and Japan have reached an agreement over the procurement of telecommunications equipment by Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky announced last week.The United States and Japan were at a standoff over renewal of the 1980 NTT...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has allied with Sanmina Corp. to build network equipment supporting the ongoing national rollout of Metricom's 128 kilobits-per-+second Ricochet wireless data service.Sanmina will make MicroCell radios-which hang from light poles-and radio components for Metricom's Wired Access Points. Shipping is set...
DUSSELDORF, Germany-Mannesmann AG said it will be the general contractor responsible for planning and building a Global System for Mobile communications Rail Network for Deutsche Bahn's new railway digital mobile telephone network in Germany.The $1.6 billion contract calls for the replacement of the current...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has released the text of its notice of proposed rule making on calling party pays. The CPP item was adopted by the FCC at its Wireless Day in June.CPP is similar to long-distance toll calling, where the person placing the...
WASHINGTON-At the root of two remaining legal battles from the personal communications service C-block debacle is one word-money.If the Federal Communications Commission is not after money, it should not care what a New York bankruptcy judge ruled, says NextWave Personal Communications Inc.If Omnipoint Corp....
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-According to "World TDMA Digital Cellular Infrastructure Equipment Markets," a recent report compiled by Frost & Sullivan, Time Division Multiple Access markets are expected to see a compound annual growth rate of 2.7 percent from 1998 through the end of 2005.TDMA has...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Savera Systems Inc. said Tango, the Global System for Mobile communications provider in Luxembourg, is incorporating the Savera RealTime Prepaid Billing system into its Pronto prepaid wireless service offering.The Savera RealTime Prepaid Billing system is a client/server-based prepaid billing platform with real-time...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. acquired six towers in Baltimore, Md., in two separate transactions, said the company.The towers were acquired from Blanton Tower Leasing and Douglas Robison. Spectrum Resources Towers said tenants on the towers include Bell Atlantic Mobile, SBC/Cellular One, AT&T...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced its support for the letter U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley and USTR Charlene Barshefsky sent to Karel van Miert of the European Commission that reiterated the United States' support for the multiple third-generation technologies. The letter stated...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Consumers Alliance Inc. this week plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission to rule that state courts are not pre-empted by federal law from awarding monetary damages against wireless carriers for misleading advertising, a liability issue with far-reaching implications beyond the litigation...
Private radio users' use of cellular and paging services is lower than might be expected, considering their telecom needs, said The Strategis Group, which found about 30 percent of employees were issued radios, while 13 percent received pages and less than 10 percent cellular...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Federal Communications Commission needs to "strike the proper balance" between regulation and forbearance, the Personal Communications Industry Association told a congressional task force on July 2.PCIA was responding to a request from Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-Ohio) for information on how the FCC...
YAOUNDE, Cameroon-France Telecom signed a concession agreement for Global System for Mobile communications wireless phone service in Cameroon, to be operated by Yaounde-based Societe Camerounaise de Mobiles.SCM will build a GSM network, enabling service in both Yaounde and Douala, by the end of the...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced cellular service provider Cocelco S.A. in Colombia chose CellStar to provide a variety of distribution and value-added services.Under terms of the agreement, CellStar will provide a prepaid operating platform, be responsible for the packaging and distribution of accessory inventory to...
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Clearnet Communications Inc. introduced two new Internet-ready phones that integrate digital phone, two-way radio and alphanumeric paging services with a Internet microbrowser, e-mail, fax and remote dial-up capabilities.The Mike i1000plus and i500plus use the UP.Browser microbrowser from Phone.com Inc. and as such are...
VIENNA, Va.-Cable & Wireless USA filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to provide switched and private line service to Bermuda through facilities owned by C&W USA, said the company. Previously, C&W USA had been limited to providing services to Bermuda exclusively through...
BOSTON-Consistent with the tower industry's consolidation trend, American Tower Corp. scored high last week with several new transactions.The company signed a $39 million agreement to acquire 108 wireless communication towers from Dobson Tower Co. and build a minimum of 65 towers for Sygnet Communications...
ARCNET, an architecture and engineering firm based in Holmdel, N.J., held their inaugural key ceremony to present 28 1999 3-series BMWs along with prepaid car insurance to all employees with a year of service at the firm. ARCNET's Chief Executive Officer Al Galdi said,...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. entered an Internet commerce deal with AllnetServices.com Corp., under which the latter will make PageMart products and services available for purchase over the Internet.The new Web site, Allpagers.com, is in production and expected to be operational next month.
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered its rating on about $90 million in outstanding debt and $250 million in pending debt securities of Aliant Communications Co. because of the Nebraska phone company's recent acquisition by Alltel Corp."Ratings are constrained by the credit profile of...
