ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group signed a contract to expand a cellular network in Brazil operated by Telecomunicacoes de Parana S.A.The agreement, which Motorola values at $132 million, calls for Motorola to deploy an Advanced Mobile Phone Service network to cover Telepar's...
Power Page L.L.C., an emerging paging carrier and reseller in Los Angeles, is not only giving away free pagers to acquire new customers, but is soliciting the help of all other Americans to do so too.In a half-hour informercial aired in 27 markets across...
RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN1 Brightpoint Inc. 259.88%2 Tellabs Inc. 169.96%3 Specialty Teleconstructors 150.00%4 ADC Telecommunications Inc. 149.00%5 WinStar Communications, Inc. 132.53%6 ...
Consolidation as a means to expansion has been the tradition in the wireless industry. Look no further than Craig McCaw, amassing a wireless fortune one cellular license at a time.Each merger, each alliance, each buyout, has been greeted with surprise, then understanding, and finally,...
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. launched seven satellites on a proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.The satellites are part of a 66-satellite wireless personal telecommunications network designed to permit any type of telephone transmission worldwide including voice, data, fax and paging. The first five...
Lucent Technologies Inc., the equipment division spun off by AT&T Corp. last year, and Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V., one of the world's largest electronic companies, announced plans to combine their consumer phone equipment operations in a joint venture sure to create the largest phone...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated with the Denver Summit...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. has revealed a plan to build, launch and operate a satellite-based video and data network aimed at going head-to-head with the Bill Gates/Craig McCaw-backed Teledesic Corp. Paperwork filed at the Federal Communications Commission June 13 asked permission to compete against Teledesic on...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The wireless infrastructure market grew 63 percent to $5.3 billion last year, driven largely by the increased spending of personal communications services companies, according to research compiled by Dataquest Inc. in its report "Personal Communications Services and Equipment Market Share."PCS spending increased...
WASHINGTON-TRW Inc. and Motorola Inc. asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. in connection with alleged lobbying violations aimed at securing industry, congressional and Clinton administration support for a global pocket phone satellite license."MCHI has on its own, and in...
L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to supply a Digital Cellular System 1800 network in Denmark for Telia Mobile AB. Ericsson values the first phase of the project at $49 million, with options for deliveries totaling $152 million, said the company. Bo Stokholm, vice president...
Originally aimed at the on-the-go businessman, the paging industry is now aiming its product toward a new set of users-the on-the-go teen-ager.Studies show that the young adult market is the fastest-growing user group in the industry. According to a study conducted by Motorola Inc.,...
NEW YORK-Iridium World Communications Ltd., which plans to launch a satellite-based global telephone and paging service, went public June 10, raising $240 million in an offering of 12 million shares of Class A common stock at $20 per share.Iridium plans to begin offering service...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Conxus Communications Inc. completed a $35 million private equity placement to fund continued network buildout of its narrowband personal communications services network.Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. served as placement agent for the offering, and Chase Capital Partners was lead investor along with current...
The privatization of Brazil's cellular telephone industry appears to have moved forward in recent weeks with the announcement of the sale of the country's first B-band concession.But while one Brazilian analyst's reaction to the announcement was: "Everything's on track," a number of other Brazil watchers...
Benbow PCS Ventures Inc., of which Arch Communications Group Inc. owns 49.9 percent, plans to acquire Page Call Inc., allowing Benbow to compete nationwide in narrowband personal communications services.Eureka, Calif.-based Benbow, owner of two regional NPCS licenses, signed a definitive agreement to purchase the...
Southern California's emergence as a burgeoning wireless hub was reinforced when yet another new telecom company, Kokusai Communications Systems Inc., opened its world headquarters last month in San Diego.Kokusai Communications is the newest subsidiary of Kokusai Electric Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based manufacturer of wireless...
NEC Corp.'s Wireless Message Terminals division recently reduced its sales staff, an action the company and some carriers say reflects the paging industry's changing structure."We're changing internally to better address the way the market is changing," said Beth Anderson, manager of marketing communications for...
SINGAPORE-An air of triumph permeated last week's second annual CDMA World Congress as the supporters of Code Division Multiple Access celebrated the past year's network launches, announced a unified branding plan and prepared to enter the next millennium with a platform for advanced wireless...
Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group and Coral Systems Inc. reached an agreement to allow Motorola to offer its customers Coral Systems' FraudBuster fraud management system as part of its IN2 Solution Center.FraudBuster is designed to detect and manage fraud in multiple wireless systems, said...
GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. has signed a contract for its wireless prepaid calling service with Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, which will offer the service to more than 1 million consumers in a 31-county area in the two states. Cellular One's offering...
NEW YORK-Competition from personal communications services companies in the United States is proving to be good news for wireless carriers and their stocks, David A. Freedman, managing director of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., New York, said June 4."If you look at a graph...
New lawsuit filed on Motorola patentsMotorola Inc. last week filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego federal court, claiming all of Qualcomm's wireless phones violate Motorola patents.The infringement claims are against Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access Q phone, five...
