CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. reported a net loss of $121.5 million, or $2.01 per share, for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with a net gain of $16.7 million, or 27 cents per share, in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.Net revenues...
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. said it closed a previously announced series O and Q preferred shares exchange offer.The offer was for preferred holders to exchange a total of $22.3 million of series O and Q preferred stock for new series R and S preferred...
STAMFORD, Conn.-International Telecommunications Data Systems Inc. introduced its next generation of billing, customer care and management information solutions, including a new authentication-key management system.The new solutions are designed for the HP/Unix server platform environment, using an Oracle Corp. database. Information is accessible through a...
MELVILLE, N.Y.-Interantenna-AMC, based in Moscow, has selected and installed the In-Touch II paging billing and management system from In-Touch Management Systems Inc., said the company.The installation, In-Touch's first in Russia, includes the company's Operator Dispatch System, which will help reduce Interantenna's equipment and operating...
CERRITOS, Calif.-Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. said it teamed up with the American Association of Retired Persons, Retired Senior Volunteer Persons and a host of celebrities and local dignitaries to fight telemarketing fraud in Southern California.L.A. Cellular subsidized this week's two-day program at the...
DALLAS-Ivory Coast's Telecel International has deployed its Global System for Mobile communications network using cellular infrastructure from Celcore, a division of DSC Communications Corp., said DSC.Telecel International, based in New Canaan, Conn., operates and manages cellular systems throughout Africa, including Burundi, Central African Republic,...
With technology advancing at lightning speed and telecommunications becoming a powerful engine of the global economy, the International Telecommunication Union has found itself learning to cope in a brave new world where private-sector politics are replacing nation-state diplomacy as the driving force in worldwide...
MONTVALE, N.J.-Next Wireless plans to become Geotek Communications Inc.'s first nationwide distributor of its mobile business services, announced the companies. Next Wireless plans to broaden its product line during the next several years to include Geotek's vehicle tracking, radio dispatch, cellular and data communications...
WASHINGTON-A House of Representatives bill that would tighten the rules surrounding small-business bankruptcy filings could have an effect on wireless operators-particularly those new services entering a competitive marketplace-if competition and/or lack of capitalization forces them into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection or if they take...
NEW YORK-It keeps going and going and going, but it isn't a rabbit or a battery.It's a miniature version of the methanol-powered fuel cells used to run rocket ships. Robert G. Hockaday, inventor of the patented Hockaday Micro-Fuel Cell, promises it will give wireless...
Members of Congress are putting some heat on the Federal Communications Commission to resolve pending C-block personal communications services reconsideration petitions dealing with financial restructuring options this week to give licensees enough time to consider their options, due Feb. 26 at the FCC .The...
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Bell Atlantic Mobile announced it is providing wireless technology to People's Cab, allowing it to accept credit cards for payment of cab fares via Cellular Digital Packet Data technology."Until now, we weren't able to accept credit cards because our drivers could not get...
BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs Inc. announced Everything Wireless, a Cellular Works company, will distribute the CellPort universal, hands-free car kit, according to an agreement signed by the two.Everything Wireless sells wireless phones and accessories through its customer catalog, World Wide Web site and in the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said initial results from field trials with two new cellular operators show that its ClearSite receiver front-end subsystem reduces dropped calls and interference, fills in coverage gaps and improves overall voice quality. The tests involved five base stations.One operator, located in...
LONDON-Moody's Investors Service has assigned long-term ratings of Baa1 to the proposed $1 billion and $650 million bond issues of Cable & Wireless Communications, which will provide integrated telecommunications services in the United Kingdom.Owned 52.6 percent by Cable & Wireless plc, C&WC was created...
WASHINGTON-A year-end survey conducted by the Telecommunications Resellers Association revealed that 90 percent of respondents who sought to resell personal communications services were barred from doing so by carriers, and that number rose to 100 percent for those respondents who want to resell specialized...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-CommNet Cellular Inc. announced it has closed the merger with AV Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of The Blackstone Group's Blackstone Capital Partners II Merchant Banking Fund L.P.AV purchased an 87-percent interest in CommNet for about $142 million of new equity. The transaction is...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Anritsu Co. announced it received a contract from Qualcomm Inc. to develop, manufacture and market a custom test instrument to perform radio communication analysis on telephones for use on Globalstar satellite communications systems.The MT8803G, used to test Globalstar phones, will be developed at...
Ameritel Communications Inc., a wireless reseller owned by USCI Inc., has quickly and quietly become a weighty presence in the resale industry. The company, which began last year with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, now estimates it supports about 40,000.At the end of the third...
RICHMOND, England-Powertel Inc. plans to use new additions to the ADC Metrica family of network performance management tools for its personal communications services network, ADC Metrica announced.The PCS carrier plans to use Metrica/GDS to monitor cell, route and switch performance, and Metrica/Web to download...
TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems announced that Metamora Telephone Co. of Metamora, Ill., selected its digital FM Cubed transmission technology to offer paging services for the company's customers.SpaceCom, which provides satellite paging transmission for a number of the country's largest paging carriers, said smaller paging operators...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products Sector said it deployed the first SmartZone OmniLink very-wide-area two-way radio communications system for Western Resources, an electric and gas utility company based in Topeka, Kan.SmartZone OmniLink is a private trunking solution that uses distributed call processing architecture...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Pontiac and Stateville Correctional Centers in Illinois each installed Motorola Inc.'s new Smartnet trunked radio system to improve the speed and quality of communication at the prisons, Motorola announced.The Motorola 800 MHz Smartnet system was designed to penetrate the concrete and steel...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-Amidst complaints from European Union member states about high interconnection tariffs applied between fixed and mobile phone operators, the European Commission announced it has opened an inquiry into the cost of phone calls in Europe."We see a range of hugely different tariffs involving...
