WASHINGTON-A new study, "Prepaid Cellular/PCS in Latin America: Market Potential and Business Strategies," compiled by The Strategis Group, Washington, D.C., reports prepaid cellular/personal communications service is driving growth in Latin America.Only three years after launching, prepaid cellular/PCS service generates more than 25 percent of new...
WASHINGTON-National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving last week reiterated the administration's opposition to Department of Defense spectrum priority bills, but sidestepped the question of whether the legislation signals a loss of confidence in NTIA's ability to manage federal government spectrum.Irving, unveiling a...
NEW YORK-Intek Global Corp. announced the tender offer and merger price for the outstanding shares of Intek Global by Securicor plc is expected to be increased from $2.75 cash per share to $3.01 cash per share.The plaintiffs in three class-action lawsuits related to the...
WASHINGTON-In another salvo in the war to reform the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, introduced legislation that would require all regional Bell operating companies to open their markets enough to pass the 14-point checklist...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sharp Corp. agreed to standardize specifications for stacked chip scale packages, a multiple memory module for mobile communications and handheld computing applications.Specifications of S-CSP with flash memory and SRAM chips include compatibility of pin assign, unification...
PARIS-Nortel Networks said it will deploy a General Packet Radio Service trial in selected areas of Paris for French operator Bouygues Telecom, the companies announced.The trial will demonstrate personalized wireless Internet portals, secure corporate intranet access and other, high-speed mobile data services. Bouygues Telecom...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. said it selected LinkShare Corp. as a Web affiliate partner to help it attract new subscribers for the Portico virtual assistant service and myTalk free e-mail service.LinkShare brokers affiliate programs between Web-based businesses by cross-referencing the customers of each, the...
WASHINGTON-Four members of the Senate Commerce Committee have introduced legislation to require all federal agencies to be located in buildings with access to competitive telecommunications. The legislation is intended to help fixed wireless companies, which require rooftop access.The legislation was proposed by Senate Majority...
The U.S. Department of Justice cleared the planned global venture between AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc, said AT&T. In July 1998, AT&T and BT announced their intentions to form a global venture to serve the communications needs of multinational business customers and carriers....
WASHINGTON-The digital divide between those who do and those who don't have access to the Internet persists even as the number of Americans connected to the Information Superhighway grows, according to a report released Thursday by President Clinton in Anaheim, Calif.The report, "Falling Through...
WASHINGTON-Admitting the disabilities provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are arcane, but saying the "impact is huge," the Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to adopt rules allowing the disabled community to participate in the telecommunications-dominant world.The FCC long has been expected...
The July 5 article referring to AT&T Corp.'s consumer-oriented version of its Digital One Rate plan indicated customers must pay a $30 fee to sign up for three new wireless calling plans. The article should have indicated that when customers sign up for the...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. said it completed the movement of its product testing to a new expanded test floor."This expansion gives us the capacity to more than triple the output of tested parts available to our customers," said Powell Seymour, RFMD vice president...
GTE Wireless Inc. is taking Qualcomm Inc. to federal court, claiming the handset manufacturer violated its patent by incorporating certain roaming technology in mobile phones.In a lawsuit filed in Virginia, GTE claims to hold a patent to technology that facilitates intelligent or preferred roaming-the...
PARAMUS, N.J.-Following closely on the heels of its launch in Washington, D.C., Nextlink Communications Inc. launched commercial service for small- and medium-sized businesses in northern and central New Jersey, said the company.Nextlink will provide broadband telecommunications services via high-bandwidth, local and national network assets.
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. has agreed to market its middleware product offerings in conjunction with Internet Image Inc.'s TargetLink remote software deployment technology. Together, the two hope to provide a comprehensive solution to enterprise customers with large mobile work forces, they said.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it is deploying Lightbridge Inc.'s FraudBuster fraud detection software."FraudBuster will alert us when wireless accounts show a pattern of activity that match one of the common criminal behavior patterns set up in the system," said Adrieanna Glover, manager of...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. introduced its Integrators Alliance Program, offered to system integrators and value-added resellers interested in the wireless data market.The program was created to ensure seamless integration and deployment of the company's Revolv service into Microsoft Exchange-based enterprises worldwide, the company said.The...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. announced its Wireless Fiber service will be made commercially available in buildings owned by Boston Properties Inc.Under terms of the agreement, WinStar will offer its high-speed broadband service capabilities to the 106 buildings in the Boston Properties portfolio, including the...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has agreed to resell its paging and messaging services for a five-year period to Sprint Corp.According to the agreement, Sprint initially will offer traditional local and nationwide paging services using devices from Motorola Inc. Advanced services like guaranteed and...
LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc. said it signed a memorandum of understanding with lead plaintiffs' counsel to settle the pending stockholder class-action lawsuits against the company and certain of its current and former officers. The principal terms require a settlement fund to be established. The...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Teledesic L.L.C. has completed a major launch contract with Lockheed Martin and signed a system agreement with Motorola Inc. to build Teledesic's satellite communications network, said the company.Under terms of the contract with Lockheed Martin, Teledesic will use two heavy-lift launch vehicles-the Proton...
NYON, Switzerland-Europe's two paging industry trade associations, the European Public Paging Association and the ERMES MoU Association, announced they have merged, presenting a united front to promote paging on the continent.The joint organization will retain the EPPA name, and all former ERMES MoU association...
WASHINGTON-Even as the National Capital Planning Commission was voting to further delay the siting of two Bell Atlantic Mobile towers in Rock Creek Park, the Senate was voting to override the NCPC.Sen. Thomas A. Daschle, the Democratic leader from South Dakota, attached an amendment...
