BELLEVUE, Wash.-OmniBrowse Inc. announced its information services software has been added to the Palm Computing Platform, which powers various personal organizers, such as the PalmPilot and the Palm III.The program allows Palm users who have wirelessly enabled their devices with the Synapse Pager Card...
President Clinton intends to renominate Susan Ness to a second term on the Federal Communications Commission. Speculation had been swirling in recent months about the White House's intentions regarding Ness, whose five-year term expires June 30. "She has been resubmitted and she's going through...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission regulatory procedures and wireless privacy have been put under the microscope by a federal appeals court here, following lawsuits by wireless firms and a former House Republican leader.Last week, FCC rules and processes were scrutinized by a three-judge panel in connection...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced it is consolidating its Latin America and North America regions into a new Americas region in an effort to increase growth in the U.S. market and to eliminate nonessential operating costs. The company also centralized the management of its Asia-Pacific...
WASHINGTON-The PCIA Foundation last week bestowed its annual awards on two significant telecommunications policy makers.The Personal Communications Industry Association's 1999 Eugene C. Bowler Award was given to Thomas S. Tycz, chief of the Satellite and Radiocommunications Division of the FCC's International Bureau. Tycz, who...
As telecommunications carriers' revenues are under attack in light of increased competition, BellSouth Corp. has found a way to generate billions marketing its intellectual property to other companies."BellSouth is spending millions developing state-of-the-art technologies like Caller ID for traditional customers," said Scott M. Frank,...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Justice gave its approval to the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., said the companies.The two companies and DOJ agreed to a consent decree to dispose of the companies' overlapping wireless properties. No other conditions were imposed on...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has extended the deadline for RF applications from May 1 to July 1. License applications filed at the FCC will be dismissed instead of returned (as was past practice) if there is an error or omission.Some applications still could be...
OMAHA, Neb.-AirTouch Cellular announced the AirTouch Statewide Toll and Roaming calling plans, which eliminate roaming charges and allow the company's Nebraska customers to call from anywhere in the state to anywhere in the country for one monthly fee.The calling plans range from 200 anytime...
NEW YORK-Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. and SBC Communications Inc. announced May 3 they would jointly purchase Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico Inc. for $814 million from CoreComm Inc., New York.Under terms of the transaction SBC and Telmex will acquire CCPR through a...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association blasted Rep. Charles Bass' (R-N.H.) pro-local antenna siting bill, saying it would undermine public safety and competition and potentially make local zoning authorities hostage to anti-tower activists."We urge Congress not to enact the Local Zoning Preservation Act of 1999...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced record revenue growth in the first quarter, adding 378,000 customers and surpassing 10 million total customers.AT&T Corp. said it was raising its revenue growth target for the wireless division to more than 20 percent for 1999. While revenue increased...
WASHINGTON-At a time when policy makers are wrestling with how best to reform the Federal Communications Commission in the Digital Age of Competition, the agency is quietly undergoing a transformation that may be turning an agency of spectrum managers into fiscal managers with broad...
Faced with an uncertain future and many difficult questions, members of the Paging Leadership Association met last month in Florida to determine how the industry should position itself in a game that is moving in an increasing number of new directions."The big question is...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. and Qualcomm Inc. signed an agreement under which Qualcomm will market and deliver the satellite-based trailer tracking system developed by Vantage Tracking Solution, a business unit of Orbcomm.Orbcomm also announced Schneider National Inc., one of North America's largest transportation and...
WASHINGTON-A group of telecom and oil companies has stepped up calls for the Federal Communications Commission to reject the extension of developmental wireless local licenses held by PetroCom License Corp. in the Gulf of Mexico.The coalition, in an FCC filing, accused PetroCom of making...
NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P. announced it is adjusting its launch schedule, delaying a May launch until November so it may take advantage of a newly available launch slot in July.The change in launch sequence will have no impact on the company's commercial activation, scheduled for...
WASHINGTON-MCI WorldCom Inc. chief Bernard Ebbers, basking in glow of first-quarter earnings that surpassed forecasts, last week did not indicate whether the No. 2 long-distance telephone company is seriously interested in acquiring national wireless operator Nextel Communications Inc. any time soon.In a conference call...
WASHINGTON-The House Republican leadership sent a letter to their colleagues last week stating strong support for a House bill to relax export controls on encryption products."H.R. 850, the Security and Freedom through Encryption (SAFE) Act is a balanced and bipartisan solution to the current...
SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Clearnet Communications Inc. said it entered into an underwriting agreement to raise cash proceeds of $256 million from the sale of its 10.13-percent senior discount notes due May 2009.Clearnet said the notes are being sold at a substantial discount from their principal amount,...
WASHINGTON-U.S. and Chinese officials will resume talks mid-May in Beijing in hopes of reaching a landmark deal by June that would dramatically open up the wireless equipment and services market in the huge Asian nation and allow China to enter the World Trade Organization.U.S....
SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. reported revenues for the first quarter of $2.8 million, a decrease from the $3.4 million reported for the same time the previous year.Net earnings for the quarter were $500,000, or 23 cents per share, compared with a net loss...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. completed the sale of its government business to Northrop Grumman for $93 million in cash, for an approximate net gain of $38 million, said the company.California Microwave will use the cash to retire its short-term debt, resume its buyback program...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. reported revenues for the first quarter ended March 31 increased 9 percent from $343.4 million in first-quarter 1998 to $372.7 million for the same time this year.The company experienced a first-quarter net loss of $15.3 million, or 29 cents per share, compared...
