PELHAM, Ala.-Computer Resources Inc. said it completed several international projects for Motorola Inc.CRI said it interfaced a Motorola Smart Zone mobile radio system to provide to the Rome Police Department, allowing them to reconstruct radio conversations.In Capetown, South Africa, CRI interfaced a Smart Zone...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court recently dealt a blow to wireless carriers hoping to site antennas in areas where residents believe they would be an eyesore. " industry should take it as a shout across the bow. The political winds are shifting," said Paul Rosa...
WASHINGTON-Teachers and principals from 120 U.S. schools that were supplied with wireless phones said the phone would be their first choice for a communications tool to have in the classroom, followed by computers and the Internet.The schools were equipped with the wireless handsets by...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers this week will be writing checks-big checks-to the Federal Communications Commission to pay statutorily required regulatory fees.Regulatory fees finance approximately 80 percent of the FCC's operating expenses. These fees, set each year by Congress, have been increasing steadily to the dismay of...
IRVING, Texas-Daniel Phythyon, chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is slated as the keynote speaker at the Radio Club of America's breakfast meeting Sept. 24, in conjunction with PCS '98 in Orlando, Fla.The breakfast is co-sponsored by RCC Consultants, Woodbridge, N.J.,...
So, you want to build a wireless telecommunications network. Then you must be thinking about how to leverage the infrastructures of existing cellular and PCS systems. After all, you figure, the more collocating you do, the sooner your system is on the air.But what...
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. said its financial results will not meet analysts' expectations because of issues and circumstances it believes to be unique to the fiscal period.Reltec experienced a capacity shortfall in part of its Network Components business, which it expects to be remedied by early...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Intelligent Information Inc. introduced a wireless commerce platform called Village Square for wireless phone, pager and wireless data device users.Village Square allows users access to various personal information services and transaction functions. Subscribers of Village Square can set up a personal reminder alert...
Qualcomm to spinoff LeapSAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced a record date of Sept. 11 for the proposed spinoff of Leap Wireless International Inc.The board declared a one-share dividend of Leap for every four outstanding shares of Qualcomm. The distribution of Leap is expected to occur...
Iridium L.L.C. announced it will delay its initial Sept. 23 service launch date to Nov. 1, citing the need to "improve operational stability of the network," according to Ed Staiano, the company's vice chairman and chief executive officer.In a briefing with reporters last week,...
WASHINGTON-Under even the most abnormal of normal circumstances, it usually is possible to handicap odds for passage of wireless legislation before Congress adjourns.But these are not normal times.An American president is under siege, and the global stage is imploding with financial meltdowns, political unrest,...
Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an antenna inside of it to fill a gap in its coverage.This is just one example of the extremes companies will...
A Dallas bankruptcy court approved General Wireless Inc.'s reorganization plan early last week, only to have a federal district court effectively stay the ruling on Thursday in response to a challenge from the Federal Communications Commission.The FCC disagrees with the bankruptcy court's decision allowing...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to acquire Advanced Computer Communication, a California-based vendor of remote access and internetworking products, for about $285 million in cash.The purchase is congruent with Ericsson's acquisition strategy focused on small- to medium-sized companies, and its focus on carrier-class solutions...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it will begin charging new customers for the CNN Interactive news service. Current subscribers receive the service free.The announcement came as the two companies disclosed they have extended their relationship to enhance and more aggressively market their existing information services...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications said it sponsored the Muscular Dystrophy Association's Executive Lock-Up, to air locally during the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. Business executives were "arrested" and locked up in the studio jail cell during two segments of the local telethon. Fortunately, they...
Globecomm Systems Inc. said its board of directors authorized a stock repurchase of up to $2 million of its outstanding common stock, representing about 450,000 shares, or about 4.9 percent of its total outstanding shares, based on a closing price of $4.44. The buy-back...
FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it has closed the sale of its transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. for $170 million in cash.MobileMedia diverted the fee for the 163 towers to its secured creditors, who have a lien on these types of assets totalling...
WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) shortly plan to introduce new legislation that would repeal federal pre-emption of local zoning regulation, encourage alternative technologies in lieu of large towers and allow communities to reject antenna-siting applications if wireless carriers fail to fully...
WASHINGTON-The World Radiocommunication Conference is a lot like the Olympics: preparations for the next one start almost before the current event has ended. And, like the athletes who competed earlier this year in Nagano, Japan, are preparing for the 2000 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake...
WASHINGTON-Imagine for a moment law enforcement is able to convince the Federal Communications Commission to approve all the items it is asking for to implement the digital wiretap act. And, then imagine you are a law enforcement officer wishing to set up a wiretap...
NEW YORK-The National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C., has launched a new Web site designed to provide Year 2000 product and service information for businesses dealing with Y2K computer upgrade issues.The association's "Clearinghouse for Current Solutions" to the Year 2000 computer conversion problem can...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. last week said its third-quarter revenue and earnings per share will be lower than analyst estimates.The company expects revenues for the third quarter ending Sept. 26 will be 5 percent to 10 percent lower than the $137.8 million recorded...
NEW YORK-Venture-backed investments in the second quarter reached an all-time high of $3.7 billion, breaking the prior record of $3.3 billion set in the last quarter of 1997.These investments increased by 26 percent from the $2.99 billion reported for the second quarter of last...
