The Semiconductor Industry Association said it is encouraged by President Clinton's decision to extend Normal Trade Relations with China for another year, and it urged Congress to support the measure. "If Congress fails to support extension of NTR with China, American industries could lose...
WASHINGTON-Geotek Communications Inc. is moving forward to win creditor and bankruptcy court approval of a final plan of liquidation and is planning for contingencies in the event Nextel Communications Inc. loses its bid to overturn a 1995 antitrust consent decree.The U.S. Court of Appeals...
NEW YORK-Venture-capital investments in the telecom/wireless sector during the first quarter of this year reached $734 million, more than double the total during the same period a year ago, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Money Tree Survey.This growth rate far outpaced that of the overall communications...
COLLEGE PARK, Md.-Tim Ayers, former vice president for communications at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will join North Light Communications group to launch a new entity-North Light Public Affairs, said the company.He will serve as president of the new organization and will concentrate on...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association has published a new interim standard, Wireless Authentication Enhancements Descriptions, TIA/EIA/IS-778.The document presents a recommended plan for implementing authentication enhancements to use in wireless radiotelephone service. It identifies authentication enhancements that should be standardized in wireless systems and explains...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Telcordia Technologies Inc.'s software development group earned a level-five rating from Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. The ranking is the highest possible based on the Capability Maturity Model developed at Carnegie Mellon. The assessment involved an evaluation of the company's management, organizational...
LISLE, Ill.-As recently as a year ago, investors feared Tellabs Inc.'s flagship telephone network-management system-long considered the industry Cadillac-was on its way to becoming an Edsel.Instead, Tellabs' flagship Titan line today looks more like a hot rod than a family sedan, driving the Lisle,...
Sprint PCS announced it will stop operating its Global System for Mobile communications network in Washington, D.C., by the end of the year, ending months of speculation and denials from the nationwide Code Division Multiple Access operator.Sprint PCS, which once held a 58.5-percent interest...
The paging industry last week experienced a flurry of major resale deals involving several large carriers.BellSouth Corp. followed paging carriers Metrocall Inc., AirTouch Paging and Arch Communications Group Inc. in reselling airtime on PageMart Wireless Inc.'s ReFLEX 25 advanced messaging network.BellSouth announced it is...
The new market for voice paging services has a rather dubious history of failed service rollouts, but companies like ReadyCom Inc.-which last week announced its first market launch-are not ready to give up on it quite yet.The company is not a carrier, but rather...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Rural Cellular Association elected three new officers. They include President Tommie Morgan, MobileTel Inc.; Vice President Gary Hudson, Poka-Lambro Telecommunications Inc.; and Secretary-Treasurer Terry Addington, First Cellular of Southern Illinois.RCA includes member companies that serve more than 100 license areas and approximately...
Another U.S. mobile phone carrier has announced definitive plans to commercially launch Internet access during the fourth quarter.Code Division Multiple Access operator Sprint PCS said it has signed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to deliver Web content and services to Sprint PCS customers in...
ATLANTA-World Access Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Comm/Net Holding Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Enhanced Communications Corp., Comm/Net Services Corp. and Long Distance Exchange Corp.World Access will pay about $27 million in stock for the company.Plano, Texas-based Comm/Net is a facilities-based...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it finished the purchase of the Brownsville and McAllen, Texas, cellular markets from CenturyTel Inc. for approximately $96 million in cash. The markets include the communities of Brownsville, McAllen, Harlingen, South Padre and surrounding areas.Although CenturyTel sold the properties...
WASHINGTON-While the Federal Communications Commission's implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has been upheld for the most part, the agency has wound up lately on the wrong end of tounge lashings by federal court judges.The FCC and its representatives, have had arguments called...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission diluted the agenda for the highly anticipated Wireless Day by including an item regarding low-volume users of long-distance services, but the chairman's office hopes the item will be considered before Thursday's meeting."The hope is that the other offices will vote...
ARLINGTON, Va.-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week launched a new effort to export the telecommunications revolution to African nations and other developing countries."Fair, open and transparent regulatory processes are essential to U.S. companies doing business abroad. This initiative is designed to promote...
As Telephone and Data Systems Inc. pursues a spinoff of personal communications services operator Aerial Communications Inc., it is dealing with sticky issues involving Sonera Ltd.'s investment in Aerial.Aerial announced last week Finland-based Sonera's right of first negotiation to acquire the company terminated after...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp. debuted its AccessAbility pages on its Web site. The pages will provide advice about services, discounts and other key resources of interest to the disabled community."Our new Web pages are designed to offer our customers with disabilities a single source...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Seven Seas Communications, a service provider for Iridium North America, announced it will lower its airtime rates for Iridium service, effective immediately.The new pricing plan offers access fees as low as $19 a month and airtime from $1.59 to $4.29 per minute,...
TORONTO-Bell Mobility announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with NeoPoint Inc., formerly Innovative Global Solution, to introduce the new NeoPoint smart phone to Bell Mobility Digital personal communications services customers in Canada.NeoPoint's handset, the NeoPoint 1000, is a combined personal information manager and...
NEW YORK-Metromedia International Group Inc. and PLD Telekom Inc. announced they have entered into a merger agreement under which Metromedia will acquire the stock of PLD Telekom. PLD Telekom would merge with a new subsidiary of Metromedia.Holders of PLD stock will receive shares of...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton, facing high-tech competitive pressures and stung by national security problems from increased reliance on China and others for launches of American-made satellites, last week called for an investigation of the rash of U.S. space launch failures over the past nine months.The White...
A front-page story in USA Today several weeks ago introduced a new technology called electronic ink, marketed by a company called E Ink, and paging technology just may be what brings it to life.The result of research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
