Motorola Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with Latin American paging provider Alfa-Bip of Mexico to provide infrastructure for a nationwide expansion of its paging services. Under the terms of the agreement, Alfa-Bip agreed to buy Motorola's Nucleus one-way paging transmitters. Alfa-Bip is...
Qualcomm Inc. announced a joint agreement with AirTouch Cellular, U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. for the supply of Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access digital Q phone and QCP series handsets. The agreement, valued at $250 million, is a continuation...
NEW YORK-Rumors of analog's death are premature, according to a group of former IBM Corp. executives who have joined with other industry veterans to form a new company to exploit high-speed analog transmission, first over plain old copper wire and later over the airwaves.Innovative...
ATLANTA-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group made up of Time Division Multiple Access technology supporters including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced a migratable solution to IMT-2000 technology called UWC-136. UWCC said the solution meets the high-speed data application requirements the International Telecommunications Union,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp. announced it received contracts from competitive local exchange carrier WinStar Communications Inc. valued at $2.8 million.Shipments of Spectrum II and other digital microwave radios in varying capacities and frequencies of 18 GHz, 23 GHz and 38 GHz are scheduled...
The Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association's 1998 convention has come and gone. This gives PCS '98 convention planners six months to try to one-up this show. It gives P.R. flacks five months to take a break before again hounding reporters to schedule "interviews" with "top...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is taking steps to solve both the millennium-bug problem and inconsistencies that exist between radio-frequency services applications rules by issuing a notice of proposed rule making that will consolidate and streamline the filing of electronic applications.At its Feb. 19 open...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to address three regulatory issues surrounding calling party pays, calling on the agency to "step up and deal with the anti-consumer problems that force each subscriber to see every cellular call as a...
WASHINGTON-A wireless anti-fraud bill is headed to the White House for President Clinton's signature, following House passage last week of legislation that will deny drug dealers, terrorists and other criminals a favorite tool and effectively kill the so-called emulation business in the United States.The...
DALLAS-Chatham Technologies Inc., Dallas, announced Feb. 23 it signed a letter of intent to acquire Innovation Inc., a Bothell, Wash., manufacturer of base stations for the wireless industry.Chatham was formed last year through acquisitions and strategic partnerships with eight custom electronic equipment enclosure manufacturers...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp.'s Cellemetry data division announced it signed a joint-license agreement with HighwayMaster Corp.'s HighwayMaster Communications Inc. to share wireless data application patents.Patents for BellSouth's Cellemetry service and HighwayMaster's product will be shared to accelerate the expansion of future wireless data applications. BellSouth plans...
A commercial mobile radio service provider in Puerto Rico filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to appeal universal service rules established by the Federal Communications Commission.Celpage Inc. contends the FCC's universal service rules are not in line...
Competition from personal communications services providers has impacted the bottom line of many cellular carriers, although the overall health of the cellular industry remains strong, say some analysts.One sign that the cellular carriers are financially healthy is that several carriers have had enough cash...
ATLANTA-Cellcom of Wisconsin selected Northern Telecom Inc. to supply Code Division Multiple Access cellular and personal communications services network infrastructure equipment and services under a five-year, $42 million supply agreement, announced Nortel.The deal includes CDMA digital networks for seven F-band PCS markets in Wisconsin...
ATLANTA-While it's evident most of the world's standards bodies will adopt some form of Code Division Multiple Access technology for next- generation systems, the CDMA Development Group said it is concerned about the fragmented versions of the technology that could be adopted around the...
Traditionally, relationships among paging resellers have been characterized more by fierce competition rather than by open communication. But one California reseller hopes to change that by spearheading a campaign to create a national trade group for paging resellers."Our industry has come of age and...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Corp., Bethesda, Md., reported year-end results that showed increased subscribers, revenues and losses.In related developments, Bradley Sparks, chief financial officer, said during a Feb. 26 teleconference that the company had secured additional borrowing capabilities totaling $1.45 billion, more than enough for its...
Price Communications Corp. announced Feb. 25 its board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to 500,000 shares of the company's common stock in the open market or in private transactions. Price Communications, headquartered in New York, provides cellular services covering a population of...
WASHINGTON-Despite recent Federal Communications Commission allusions to a prompt public notice detailing changes to its C-block personal communications services financial restructuring order, such a notice probably will not be released for weeks-perhaps months-and the election date for any of its options won't be until...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said it signed a $38 million contract to expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in Jahra and Kuwait City, Kuwait.The expansion project for Mobile Telecommunications Co. will improve in-building coverage and increase its network capacity...
WASHINGTON-With the auction of local multipoint distribution service scarcely a week old, the battle lines for leadership have been drawn between WNP Communications and McCaw/Nextel-backed Nextband Communications, with wireless local loop player WinStar LMDS L.L.C. in close pursuit. On the other hand, some initial...
Lightbridge Inc. successfully petitioned the California Public Utilities Commission to overturn a long-standing rule that forbids California wireless carriers to share customer information.The new ruling, said Lightbridge, allows wireless carriers immediately to begin sharing negative customer-credit data. Lightbridge petitioned the CPUC to overturn the...
MIAMI-Let's Talk Cellular & Wireless Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cellular Warehouse, a privately held retail operation based in Atlanta, for about $20 million in cash and 900,000 shares of common stock, said Let's Talk Cellular.The transaction represents an equity value of...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-AirTouch Paging said it entered into an agreement with Liberty Cellular Inc., dba Kansas Cellular, to provide its paging services in Kansas.Kansas Cellular is building a one-way FLEX paging network using much of its existing cellular infrastructure. Under terms of the agreement,...
