SAN JOSE, Calif.-American Wireless announced it purchased Cellular Networks Inc. of Seattle, expanding its activation, fulfillment and distribution services for Nextel Communications Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. in the Washington, Alaska and western Idaho markets.
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. expanded its Fraud Management product offering by adding two new products-Sleuth and Integrity+, said the company. Sleuth is a software system that provides control and detection of a wide spectrum of alternately billed telephone fraud, including credit and calling cards, said...
WASHINGTON - Nextel Communications Inc. last week met stiff opposition to efforts to secure private wireless spectrum and approval for the transfer of 900 MHz dispatch licenses from bankrupt Geotek Communications Inc."Because of the inter-category sharing freeze and the strict prohibition against commercial ...
WHIPPANY, N.J.-Bell Labs researchers say they have developed a wireless location system that is accurate to within 15 feet when users are outdoors, and to 100 feet when they are indoors.Using the Bell Labs technology, wireless networks would be equipped with global positioning system...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. signed a reseller agreement with Hughes Global Services to deliver Orbcomm's low-earth-orbit satellite-based communications services to U.S. government and military customers, said the company.Hughes will market Orbcomm's two-way communications services to government and military customers under a General Services Administration's...
HILLSBORO, Ore.-TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement relating to the proposed offering of approximately 3.8 million shares of its common stock.Three million shares are to be sold by the company and 863,314 are to be sold by...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. next month will launch SmartWave DSL, a high-speed data service that will combine the advantages of digital subscriber line copper technology inside a building with Teligent's digital SmartWave fixed-wireless networks outside the building.Teligent said it will offer SmartWave DSL service with...
WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Tektronix Inc. said it will split its businesses into two separate, publicly traded companies-a measurement business division and a color printing and imaging division.Additionally, the company announced it intends to sell or find a strategic alliance for its video and networking division, excluding...
WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Corp. continues to study ways to take its wireless business public, said Dennis F. Strigl, chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic Global Wireless. Strigl also was a featured speaker at the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. conference.Strigl said a spinoff of...
WASHINGTON-Based on votes by the American public, the U.S. Postal Service declared the cellular phone the most popular 1990s memory, and will depict the cellular phone on a stamp scheduled to be issued in April 2000, said the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.New stamps representing...
DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. completed a master purchase agreement for Samsung's open interface Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment, said Samsung.AirTouch plans to install Samsung's pico base transceiver station and base station controller. The CDMA system is designed to support...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. said it entered into a development agreement with Ericsson Mobile Communications AB to design specific solutions for Ericsson's third-generation terminal platforms.
ATLANTA-Nortel Networks and BellSouth Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding regarding a long-term global supply agreement that makes Nortel Networks' communications equipment, software and services available to BellSouth at competitive prices, said the companies."By being able to bring to the market wireless Internet, Internet...
DALLAS-To increase its prominence in the wireless industry, BearCom Group Inc. said it acquired Net Wireless, a San Ramon, Calif.-based dealer of Nextel Communications Inc., BellSouth Corp., MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint PCS Group products. Price and terms were not disclosed.
Alltel Corp. last week expanded its wireless reach with a definitive agreement to buy Liberty Cellular Inc., a privately held company operating under the name Kansas Cellular.Liberty, based in Salina, Kan., offers wireless, paging, long-distance and Internet services throughout Kansas.Terms of the agreement call...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data Ltd. revealed plans to roll out a new national advertising campaign to support its Interactive Paging Service.The multimillion dollar print and radio campaign revolves around a new concept called "Work@Lifespeed," created by The Sawtooth Group."The Work@Lifespeed concept perfectly captures the...
WASHINGTON-An appeals court last week told the Federal Communications Commission it could impose a cut in access charges but that it must review its rules regarding access charges before April 1, 2000.Long-distance carriers pay local exchange carriers to connect calls. These payments, known as...
NEW YORK-Exxon Corp., Irvine, Texas, has posted signs at its domestic filling stations requiring customers to turn off their wireless phones before filling their cars' gas tanks due to the slight chance the devices could ignite a fire.Esso Sekiyu K.K. and General Sekiyu K.K.,...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard and FBI Director Louis Freeh met June 21 to discuss implementation of the digital wiretap act, a meeting at which industry sources believed the two men cut a deal that would allow the technical standards to be voted...
IRVING, Texas-GTE Corp. sold its GTE Airfone Inc. subsidiary on Thursday for an undisclosed amount to Oak Hill Capital Partners L.P. The sale is part of a previously announced restructuring effort.GTE Airfone is the largest provider of airline passenger communications systems. Airfone provides in-flight...
MINDEN, La.-Fibrebond Corp. said its new $7.5 million, 210,000-square-foot Minden, La., production plant went online this month, replacing the company's 15-year-old plant that burned to the ground on Sept. 20, 1998.The cause of the Sept. 20 fire, which took firefighters from six departments 16...
L.M. Ericsson wants the industry to know it plans to become a formidable contender in the cdmaOne infrastructure business.It's been more than a month since the company completed its purchase of Qualcomm Inc.'s fledgling infrastructure division and licensed intellectual property rights to cdmaOne technology...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected to issue rules next month on what telecommunications carriers and manufacturers must do to comply with provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 dealing with disabilities access.The rules are expected to cover a wide range of issues, including...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The GSM Association appointed Robert G. Conway its new director general. Conway was the former head of global business development for Motorola Inc.'s International Network Ventures Group, and he also has served as general counsel for Motorola's Subscriber Terminals Group.The association also announced...
