DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P., announced it successfully launched eight satellites into orbit, bringing its little low-earth-orbit constellation to 20.Orbcomm plans to offer satellite-based data and messaging services on a global basis by next year. Currently, the company provides service regionally in the United States...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. introduced the Siemens S12 handset. It is available through all Omnipoint centers, direct sales and retailers and Telesales for $99.The handset has a three-color, five-line display with voice memo capability, a lithium-ion battery, four to five hours of talk...
Transcrypt International Inc. announced Aug. 6 a net loss of $5 million, or 39 cents per share, for the second quarter, which ended June 30. Revenues for the latest quarter totaled $13.9 million, way above the $2.9 million reported for the same quarter in...
DALLAS-Iridium North America announced it has entered a joint venture with Neiman Marcus aimed at introducing the Iridium satellite phone and pager to the retailer's InCircle customers.Iridium's products will be featured in Neiman Marcus' December catalog and in the fall edition of its newsletter,...
SEATTLE-Tegic Communications added Motorola Inc. to the growing list of companies licensed to use its T9 text-input technology in their wireless handsets.Motorola initially plans to incorporate T9 technology into its integrated Digital Enhanced Network digital wireless handsets. T9 provides end users the ability to...
NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission could propose by early next year rules governing eligibility for applicants seeking access to the part of the 2 GHz spectrum allocated for mobile satellite systems in this country.The commission set a late-August deadline for comments on a petition...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. signed a multiyear strategic partnership with Metrocall Inc. for paging service development and distribution and closed its purchase of another paging carrier.Vanguard plans to buy and install paging transmitters on Metrocall networks in areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-New Local Multipoint Distribution Services operators are expected to earn $6.5 billion by 2007, according to "LMDS Buildout Strategies: A Broadband Wireless Market Research Report," a recently released report from Pioneer Consulting.About 75 percent of the projected revenues are expected to be generated by...
NEW YORK-"One of the humbling things about this business is that, for three out of four years, we are unapproachable and obnoxious, but in the fourth year we have to raise money so we grovel."That is how Ronald White, a partner in Argo Global...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission again extended the buildout time on the so-called Goodman/Chan licenses until current litigation can be resolved.In a July 31 ruling, the FCC said Goodman/Chan licensees must build out their licenses within four months of the ruling being published in the...
NEW YORK-Cantel AT&T's Pay As You Go prepaid cellular and paging services, launched nationwide in May in Canada, is using prepaid technology and customer support services from Boston Communications Group Inc., Woburn, Mass.In just under two months since the service was inaugurated, Rogers Cantel...
NEW YORK-After significantly reducing the size and price of its offering, ICO Global Communications Ltd., London, went public July 31, selling 10 million common stock shares at $12 each.Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York, lead managed the initial public offering, which had...
CHICAGO-Prepaid cellular subscribers in Western Europe exceeded the 10 million mark during the first quarter of 1998, while the United States isn't expected to reach that milestone until late 2000, according to a recent report from Globalnet Communications.The U.S. introduction of the "1998 Global...
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-As the International Telecommunication Union wound up its meeting in South Korea July 24 to consider 15 third-generation wireless proposals, Telecom Analysis Systems convened a media briefing to evaluate the need for this technology."2G is barely rolled out, and a lot of...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it was contracted by Finnish operator Kuopio Telephone Co. to provide a complete 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network that initially will cover Kuopio and Varkaus in eastern Finland.KTC plans to market cost-efficient mobile services to families with...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to approve service rules for using the public- safety spectrum in the 746-806 MHz band. This spectrum currently is used for analog television channels 63, 64, 68 and 69, but is slated to be turned over...
Dobson Communications Corp. signed an agreement to acquire Sygnet Wireless Inc., which has been looking for a buyer since April.The agreement will expand Dobson's wireless footprint to include Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Dobson's wireless networks already cover Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, California...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said the effect of the Asian currency crisis has become increasingly noticeable in the company's net sales, which-varying from country to country and excluding China-decreased by 27 percent in that region.In China, Ericsson's single largest market, there continued to be strong...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Internet networking company Cisco Systems Inc. last week signed a definitive agreement to acquire Summa Four Inc., a provider of programmable switches.Cisco said Summa Four's open standards-based programmable switches will allow it to offer value-added telephony applications to new and existing service...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to extend the compliance date for the digital telephony wiretap act until the end of this century. This extension gets law enforcement off the back of the telecommunications industry but does not bode well for a permanent solution.The...
WASHINGTON-Taking advantage of a recent court decision that the Federal Communications Commission re-examine its pay-phone compensation scheme, the Personal Communications Industry Association continues to urge the FCC to institute a caller-pays or coin-in-the-box scheme for pay-phone compensation rather than the current carrier-pays scheme. A...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said the FBI arrested a San Diego teenager on charges of fraudulently creating unauthorized voice mail boxes and paging accounts on PageNet's system.PageNet's Systems Integrity Group had conducted an investigation of its own for several months on Kenneth San Nicolas, 18,...
ST. LOUIS-Ameren Corp. and CellNet Data Systems Inc. jointly unveiled Ameren Abacus, an energy information service that give operations managers energy-consumption information on production processes, equipment, facilities and other commercial and industrial endpoints.CellNet's wireless technology monitors the consumption in the energy network and provides...
RALEIGH, N.C.-The 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games announced Platinum sponsor Ericsson Inc. will supply mobile phones, two-way radios and telephone handsets for the Games.The '99 Games, June 26 to July 4, will bring nearly 7,000 athletes from 150 countries to North Carolina's Triangle...
