LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc.'s stock began trading on the OTC Bulletin Board late last month, after it was delisted from the Nasdaq National Market May 11 for non-compliance with rules requiring timely filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Transcrypt has appealed the delisting and...
While the short-term forecast for wireless operators in financially troubled parts of the world could be turbulent, carriers remain optimistic the wireless industry will weather the current financial crisis without many lasting repercussions.Stock markets around the globe-in Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau last week issued an order granting the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's request for a nine-month stay of wireless number portability requirements. The Wireless Bureau said it found extending the deadline from June 30, 1999, to March 31,...
NEW YORK-SkyTel Communications Inc. said declining investments per subscriber and strong cash flow has put it in position to show positive net income figures by the fourth quarter.Net loss for the second quarter was $15.2 million, or 27 cents a share, on revenues of...
IRVINE, Calif.-Powerwave Technologies Inc. will acquire Hewlett-Packard Co.'s radio-frequency power amplifier business and its manufacturing facility located in Folsom, Calif., for about $59 million, the companies announced. The business, part of HP's Wireless Infrastructure Division, designs and manufactures RF power amplifiers for wireless communications,...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless, Inc. announced it plans to extend its narrowband personal communications services ReFLEX network in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee in September.The company said it will extend its Scout Guaranteed Messaging service in these areas, as...
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-NumereX Corp., which owns a controlling interest in Cellemetry L.L.C., announced a third-quarter net loss of $808,000, or 7 cents per share, compared with a net gain of $1.4 million, or 13 cents per share, during the corresponding period last year.Net sales...
NEW YORK-Northern Telecom Ltd., Toronto, completed its $7 billion-plus acquisition of Bay Networks, Santa Clara, Calif.Nortel is the third-largest wireless infrastructure supplier in the world. Wireless telecommunications remains the fastest-growing of Nortel's five independent business units, each of which currently brings in about $4...
AirNet Communications Corp. announced it has received a $17 million contract to supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Message Express Co., owner of two Michigan basic trading areas. The contract calls for AirNet to provide a complete Global System for...
Sweden-based L.M. Ericsson said it has found no reason to believe the current W-CDMA 3G standard chosen by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute would infringe on any valid intellectual property rights claimed by Qualcomm Inc.In fact, CEO Sven-Christer Nilsson's comments to the Japanese press...
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.-During the next decade, worldwide cellular phone users are expected to more than double to 715 million from this year's subscription numbers of 268 million, according to Baskerville Communications Corp. This 2008 subscription forecast represents 12.7 percent of the world population, up...
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs Inc. and Ciena Corp. canceled the special stockholder meetings scheduled for Sept. 9 to vote on the proposed merger of the companies.The meetings are expected to be held in mid-November.The rescheduling accommodates Securities and Exchange Commission review of a revised filing for...
An old Chinese saying may be relevant to the commercialization of CDMA mobile phone networks in China-"Those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know"-at least on the record.When will Code Division Multiple Access networks be launched commercially in China? No one...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Celeritek Inc. said it received a $4.7 million order for transceiver products from Innova Corp.Innova plans to use the components in its new XP2 product, a low-cost, single T1/E1 digital radio. Celeritek said it expects to begin shipping the order during its...
BETHESDA, Md.-The Maryland-National Capital Park Police-Montgomery County Division has equipped 30 of its police cruisers with wireless access to criminal databases and Motor Vehicle Administration records, announced Bell Atlantic Mobile.Officers can obtain records in about 15 seconds using portable laptop computers linked to Bell...
WASHINGTON-About a year after the Clinton administration created a special panel in 1996 to assess potential threats to telecom networks and other critical infrastructure, the Pentagon conducted a top secret exercise-code named "Eligible Receiver"-that found national security vulnerability far greater than what the U.S....
PARIS, and DALLAS-Alcatel and DSC Communications Corp. announced the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has favorably completed its review of the pending agreement for Alcatel to acquire DSC.The ruling is the last of a line of approvals necessary to complete the...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will make certain modifications to its merger agreement with MobileMedia Corp. in response to recent capital market volatility.Arch has agreed to modify the terms to MobileMedia's unsecured creditors, incorporating a Market Price Protection Mechanism that, if used,...
WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America received a powerful push from six U.S. senators last week, who urged the Federal Communications Commission to grant AAA "quasi public-safety" status, a request AAA has long been advocating. This status would allow it "the right of first refusal,"...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced the availability of prepaid personal communications services in all of the company's markets."Powertel's prepaid offering is an extension of our simplified, post-paid service plans," said Mike Bashaw, Powertel vice president of marketing. "There will be no credit check, no...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. began offering Motorola Inc.'s palm-sized integrated digital handset called the i1000.The fourth-generation integrated Digital Enhanced Network handset is designed to provide business professionals with multiple communications services in a single device. The phone is a clam-shell design with external buttons...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-InConcert Inc. and Evolving Systems Inc. announced a joint marketing agreement to provide telecommunications companies with operational support system solutions.The agreement combines Teoss, InConcert's process-based OSS integration framework, with Evolving Systems' MetOSS-Gem enterprise solution and services in order to link customers' existing systems...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc.'s Network Services Division signed agreements with Goldblatt's and the Farmer Jack's food-store chains to provide calling-party-pays paging services for their respective Chicago and Detroit retail locations.The department store and food-store chains will market "Priceless Page" pagers to their customers, who will...
