PETAH TIKVA, Israel-Team Telecom International and its Brazilian representative, Construtel Projetos e Contrucoes Ltda., have been selected to provide a B-band operator in Brazil with its network management solution for wireless networks.TTI's Netrac suite of applications, which includes advanced fault, configuration and performance management,...
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The Cellular 9-1-1 Education Task Force last week recognized California Highway Patrol dispatchers during Public Safety Telecommunicator Week.The task force is dedicated to educating wireless phone users about the responsible use of 911 systems."Each day hundreds of calls are made to 911, including...
IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc.'s Communications Terminals Division and United States Cellular Corp. announced they will work together in an advertising program to promote a prepaid wireless service called TalkTracker.U S Cellular's TalkTracker program offers an NEC cellular phone and prepaid wireless service without a...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. installed a fraud detection system for Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc., announced the company.Subscriber Computing said Microcell is the first North American operator to implement its new FraudWatch Pro system, which combats a variety of fraudulent activity...
NEW YORK-In its five-year history, Sales Staffers International Inc., Andover, Mass., has carved an unusual niche in the broader market of outsourced services for large corporations.Companies like AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., GTE Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. deploy its staff of veteran sales people...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. reported a first-quarter net income of $212.1 million, or 49 cents per share, which reflects a 27-percent drop from its net income for the comparable period last year, listed as $290 million, or 67 cents per share.Much of the loss...
DENVER-U S West Inc. said it hopes to finish the split of its two companies, U S West Communications Inc. and MediaOne Group, by mid-June after clearing all major legal and regulatory hurdles.The Securities and Exchange Commission has completed its review of the company's...
A California software company has introduced an object-based server that captures, processes and manages distributed events and transactions across disparate computer and network systems.Softwire Corp. of Larkspur, Calif., already has installed the server, called ObjectSwitch, into Caribbean operator France Caraibe Mobile's network, CS Telco...
BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems announced its JetEye PC infrared serial adapter will be bundled with NEC America Inc.'s Beacon Data Pager.JetEye will allow a PC to exchange data with the Beacon pager through an integrated infrared port, the company said.Extended Systems provides distributed and mobile...
PARIS-Bouygues Telecom, a French Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network operator, selected Northern Telecom Ltd. to supply radio equipment in its fourth-phase network expansion. The contract is valued at more than $122 million.Nortel will install several hundred radio sites in the southwest,...
California-based paging carrier/reseller Power Page L.L.C. and its marketing arm, Wireless Marketing Inc.-profiled last June in RCR for its uncommon practice of enlisting independent marketing associates to help it acquire customers-declared bankruptcy April 2.Rod Kahn, president and chief executive of Power Page and president...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth, joining a growing chorus of critics, has charged the Democratic-led agency with subordinating the interests of rural and low-income universal service recipients to connecting schools, libraries and rural-health care facilities to the Internet by 2000.Rural and low-income "universal...
ASHLAND, Ken.-RAM Technologies announced it has acquired American Answering Service of Charleston, W.Va."We look forward to providing American Answering Service's customers with state-of-the-art computerized messaging service, a wide variety of messaging options and the largest paging coverage available," said Mark Baldock, president and chief...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. entered into a multimillion-dollar, royalty-bearing Code Division Multiple Access subscriber license agreement with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. of Japan.Qualcomm will grant Casio a license to manufacture and sell wireless subscriber products based on its Interim Standard-95 CDMA standard for cellular, personal...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia invested $200 million cash in Teledesic L.L.C., the "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications venture of primary investors Craig McCaw and Bill Gates.Alwaleed, a billionaire nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahad, said, "I'm attracted to Teledesic...
Unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. have subpoenaed the Federal Communications Commission for information omitted from the reorganization plan approved last month by several creditor-vendors, the FCC and the Justice Department.Unsecured creditors believe knowledge of private portions of the secured lenders term sheet is...
IRVINE, Calif.-Personal communications services provider Amica Wireless Phone Service Inc. plans to launch service this year in Illinois and Iowa complete with a customer-care and billing system provided by Subscriber Computing Inc.Amica is a wholly owned subsidiary of C- and F-block licensee BRK Wireless....
WASHINGTON-The paging industry's battle against pay-phone deregulation has picked up support from an unlikely source in Congress.Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a leading opponent of federal pre-emption of local antenna-siting regulation, has introduced legislation to force pay-phone operators to make change for calls costing more...
CARPINTERIA, Calif.-PulsePoint Communications' shareholders approved the company's name change from Digital Sound Corp. to PulsePoint, re-elected its board of directors and authorized a reverse stock split of 1: 4.The company expects its common stock to start trading on a post-reverse-split basis on or about April...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.The premise-based system, designed to capitalize on advantages of the Time Division Multiple Access standard, offers companies a single-phone, single-number system that...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Norway's mobile communications network operator NetCom GSM of Oslo awarded Siemens AG a contract valued at $21.8 million to expand and modernize its base stations in southern Norway.Siemens Public Communication Networks Group plans to upgrade the base stations in NetCom's Global System...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp.'s A and K shares were split in half last week, in accordance with the resolution passed at the company's general meeting. Nokia plans to release its first-quarter results April 24.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-Precision Systems Inc.'s auditors, Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., expressed concern about the company's ability to continue, citing recurring losses from operations and cash-flow problems, said the company.Precision Systems said it has taken steps to improve its cash flows and cash positioning, including...
It was designed to be a way to compete against Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology, but instead the joint venture between Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. and American Paging Inc. has dissolved into a lawsuit and counter lawsuit.In the most recent round of feuding, American Paging...
