CHICAGO-Ameritech Corp.'s board of directors declared a regular third-quarter dividend of 30 cents per share, payable Nov. 2 to shareowners of record Sept. 30. The dividend is the same as in the previous quarter, and up 6.2 percent compared with the third quarter last...
Alcatel Alsthom's announcement of lower-than-expected earnings hit telecom stocks in Europe and the United States late last week.The French telecom equipment vendor said its telecom segment's income will be "adversely impacted by sharp investment cuts recently decided by some traditional operators and the deepening...
BOISE, Idaho-AirTouch Cellular announced it launched digital wireless service in southern Idaho using Code Division Multiple Access technology.Services include text messaging, voice mail with notification, paging and caller ID. AirTouch offers cellular service throughout the western United States.
BELLEVUE, Washington-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. launched commercial services on its new metropolitan area network in Seattle and the surrounding areas, following an eight-week service test by more than 20 business.ART's integrated broadband wireless and fiber-optic technology uses a packet switched Internet Protocol and asynchronous...
Nextel 220 License Acquisition Co. and Intek License Acquisition Corp. appear to be in a fierce bidding battle for licenses in the 220 MHz (220-222 MHz) band.Nextel had expected to be an active participant since it had made an upfront payment of more than...
NEW YORK-Following the successful launch in eight initial target markets, WinStar Communications Inc. announced plans to expand its accounts sales initiative to 15 major U.S. markets by the end of the year.The company said it plans to further expand the initiative to 30 key...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co. said weak orders for semiconductor capital equipment is the primary reason for a planned restructuring of its operations that would reduce its global work force by about 20 percent.Watkins-Johnson expects its third-quarter loss, net of taxes, to be approximately $50...
WASHINGTON-A Kansas state law creating the Kansas Universal Service Fund discriminates against wireless carriers and should be pre-empted, the wireless industry told the Federal Communications Commission earlier this month.For example, Omnipoint Communications Inc. said rules established by the Kansas Corporation Commission "effectively precluded residents...
NEW YORK-Recent gyrations in the public capital markets have made for splashy headlines, but they are not likely to stop telecommunications mergers unless there is a prolonged and profound slump, said Dave Rhodes, senior vice president of Daniels & Associates, Denver.In terms of sheer...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. entered the fraud-detection and prevention market with its new product offering called SuperSleuth, which combines neural network-based technologies with more traditional rules-based detection techniques to help prevent false fraud alarms.Not unlike other fraud-prevention systems, SuperSleuth establishes individual calling profiles for subscribers...
Northern Telecom Ltd. last week said it plans to lay off 3,500 employees, or about 4 percent of its work force.Shares of Nortel on the New York Stock Exchange fell $2.50 to close Sept. 15 at $43.75 following confirmation by the company of the...
Extending desktop personal computer information to mobile phones has become a point of differentiation for several wireless companies of late, and Paragon Software plans to introduce a new application to do just that this week at PCS '98 in Orlando, Fla.In conjunction with Nokia...
Applied Cellular Technology Inc.'s board of directors approved a strategic plan aimed at growing its earnings per share by 20 percent that calls for the divestiture of non-core business units and the repurchase of 5 million shares of its common stock. Applied also intends...
The global market for in-vehicle intelligent transportation systems is expected to grow from $1 billion today to more than $18 billion annually during the next five years, according to a new report from Allied Business Intelligence. Major ITS systems include in-vehicle communications systems, electronic...
LOS ANGELES-The presenters and performing artists at the 15th annual MTV Video Music Awards each were given a Body Glove CellSuit phone case for the Motorola StarTAC phone, said GoNeo L.L.C., which makes the neoprene protective coverings for wireless phones.MTV presented the CellSuit cases...
EVANSTON, Ill.-A $600,000 grant from Motorola Inc. will fund research in wireless multimedia devices and protocols design in a new Northwestern-Motorola Center for Telecommunications in Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.The grant is intended to strengthen Motorola's relationship with...
Seventy years ago, the mobile radio industry was born when the Detroit Police Department installed the first one-way radios in their squad cars. Today there are approximately 19 million two-way radios in use in the United States, including 3.1 million specialized mobile radio units.Cellular...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. entered into an agreement with Omnipoint Communications Inc. to sell personal communications services in all Omnipoint markets in which TSR Wireless operates.TSR said it expects to begin selling Omnipoint PCS as soon as possible."Our objective at TSR Wireless is...
COLUMBUS, Ohio-The Ohio Controlling Board approved $24.8 million in state fund spending and a contract with TRW Inc. to design the first phase of a project to upgrade the state's 50-year-old radio communications system, TRW announced.TRW will supply the new Ohio Multi-Agency Radio Communications...
WASHINGTON-The newly installed chairman of the Telecommunications Industry Association also is the head of a company with a product and a position on implementing the digital wiretap act that differs from that taken by TIA."The difference is pretty clear ... TIA is looking at...
AKRON, Ohio-Best Buy awarded Telxon Corp. a contract valued at about $4 million to install mobile computers, portable printers and spread-spectrum wireless networks in its more than 300 retail stores, Telxon said.The contract includes wireless network hardware, installation, more than 900 Telxon PTC-960SL wireless...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced it received a letter of intent from a top 10 cellular carrier for a supply agreement of up to 200 of STI's SuperFilter Systems through Dec. 31, 1999.Prices and other terms and conditions of the transaction will be...
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-Sports-Ticker announced it renewed its license with the National Football League, allowing it to deliver in-progress game updates to its new organization subscribers.SportsTicker is a real-time sports news and information service, whose customers include America Online, CNN/SI and ESPN.com.
WASHINGTON-The remaining C-block licensees are being pushed into bankruptcy because the Federal Communications Commission has chosen to re-auction the returned licenses before the resolution of three outstanding bankruptcy proceedings, a licensee told a congressional hearing on Friday. "Financing that was hard to find before...
