RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. won a $750 million contract to supply equipment to 14 BellSouth Cellular Corp. markets, including Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.Ericsson will provide base stations, software, services, handsets and 17 switches that will be used to direct calls at 1,400...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. announced its sixth-generation Personal Digital Cellular chipsets are featured in Kyocera Corp.'s Digital Minimo 533G handset.Available from IDO Corp. in Japan, the Digital Minimo 533G is designed using DSPC's latest PDC baseband chipsets and offers up to 120 minutes of...
CULVER CITY, Calif.-Digitcom Services Inc. announced it has developed a new routing hub that will allow any paging carrier in the world to link services with any other, on any frequency.The Digitlink Infinity TNPP Routing Hub allows carriers with the company's Digitlink One router,...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced it plans to work with Korea Telecom Freetel to develop a standards-based Internet and corporate service platform based on Microsoft products, such as Windows NT, Commercial Internet System and Exchange.Korea Telecom Freetel operates a nationwide personal communications services network with...
BETHESDA, Md.-Mobeo Inc. announced it signed a software license agreement with Comstar Inc., under which Comstar may market the mobeo 1.0 interactive stock quote service.Comstar said it will sell the stock information service to existing and new customers in the New York metropolitan market,...
MIAMI-MasTec Inc. announced it filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering 2 million shares of common stock for use for future North American operations.
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. officially adopted Marconi Communications' corporate name, logo, signage and letterhead, said Marconi, establishing a North American operator for the United Kingdom-based company.In March, General Electric Co. plc acquired Cleveland-based Reltec for $2.1 billion. GEC subsequently merged Reltec into its wholly owned subsidiary,...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced a subscriber line interface circuit chip that operates on 3.3 volts of power, thereby reducing power consumption by about 35 percent compared with 5-volt SLICs.The SLIC chip, called the L9215, is targeted for use by telephone companies...
Liberty Media Group's announcement last week that it plans to acquire The Associated Group Inc. would give Liberty, the Tele-Communications Inc. offshoot traditionally focused on video programming, a foothold in the emerging broadband wireless access market.Among other things, Associated owns a 41-percent interest in...
PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Corp. said it exercised its right to increase its ownership interest in Omnitel Pronto Italia to 23.1 percent.Bell Atlantic, which was an original partner in Omnitel, held 11.66 percent of the company in 1996 before increasing its equity stake in the company...
NEW YORK-AirGate PCS Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate headquartered in Atlanta, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public through an initial public offering of $100 million of common stock.Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York, is lead manager of...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it expects to surpass the current estimates by the financial community for earnings per share in fiscal 1999.The current estimate is 25 cents per share, and InterDigital believes its earnings per share will be at least 40...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. and Dialogic Corp. announced they entered into an agreement under which Intel will acquire Dialogic for $44 per share in an all-cash transfer offer valued at approximately $780 million.The acquisition is aimed at expanding Intel's standard-high-volume server business, said the...
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. said it achieved 70-percent capacity improvements for Code Division Multiple Access systems during testing on a densely populated urban commercial site in the United States.After installing Illinois Superconductor's SpectrumMaster Classic filter, the carrier saw cell-site capacity increase from 16...
SEATTLE-Internet retailer Wireless Dimension changed its name and Web site address to Point.com in an effort to communicate the company's goal of helping customers "get to the point" of smart wireless phone purchases, the company announced.Point.com also announced it has entered a joint e-commerce...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has converted stores in Oklahoma City; Tulsa, Okla.; Portland, Ore.; and Boise, Idaho, to its new Centers of Excellence infrastructure, joining those in Salt Lake City and Dallas-Fort Worth in a transition process expected to include all U.S. customers...
LOS ANGELES (AP)-Motorola Inc.'s StarTac cellular phones have been plagued by severe technical glitches, prompting Pacific Bell Wireless to quietly stop selling the popular phones for several months.Motorola said the problems-which include dropped calls and the phone abruptly shutting off-are limited to the StarTac...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service, London, assigned a speculative grade rating of Ba3 to Orange plc's planned private placement of $562 million in 10-year senior notes."The Ba3 rating factors in the risks associated with Orange's funding of its capital ... requirements to provide sufficient capacity...
MILAN-Omnitel launched its new Web portal-Omnitel 2000-last week in Milan.The portal provides access to more than 150 different services and the Internet from any type of telephone connection using a combination of voice recognition and hypertext technologies, said the company.The service is planned to...
The Operators Harmonization Group, an ad hoc assembly of mobile phone operators from around the world, sent its third-generation technology harmonization proposal to the International Telecommunication Union, which meets in Beijing this week.As RCR reported, the agreement defines a harmonized CDMA standard with three...
LIVONIA, Mich.-Omnipoint Communications, Cedar Knolls, N.J., announced June 4 its intention to enter into an operating partnership with NPI Wireless, Livonia, Mich.The companies plan to jointly design, deploy and market a Global System for Mobile communications personal communications services network in the cities of...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks declared its regular quarterly dividend is 75 cents per common share, payable June 30 to shareholders of record at the close of business June 8.In regards to Nortel Networks cumulative redeemable class A preferred shares series 4, the company declared a dividend...
SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia Corp. announced several cooperative activities focused on supporting the Wireless Application Protocol at its third annual Wireless Data Conference.Companies cooperating with Nokia in the effort include Excite@Home, InfoSpace, Intelligent Information Inc., JP Systems, Macromedia, MapQuest, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch and Visto Corp.
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nextlink Communications Inc. said it expects to raise net proceeds totalling about $1.3 billion through the sale of 7.6 million shares of common stock and $1 billion in senior and senior discount notes.The company announced the pricing of the common shares at $76...
