INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. signed a letter of intent with Nokia Corp. and extended an alliance with L.M. Ericsson to distribute wireless phones in the United States.Under terms of the agreement with Nokia, Brightpoint will become the sole authorized distributor of Nokia wireless phones in the...
It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking economic growth with them.Beginning with the devaluation of the Thai baht in July, currency values have spiraled downward by as...
NEW YORK-The Wireless Alliance L.L.C. is testing a dual-mode service that would allow callers to dial one phone number to reach customers on either their cellular or personal communications services handsets.Under the plan, incoming calls will "group ring" both phones. If neither is answered,...
CHICAGO-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. assigned a BBB rating to Aerial Communications Inc.'s $100 million proposed offering of 10-year series B zero coupon notes.The notes are unconditionally guaranteed by Aerial parent Telephone and Data Systems Inc.; the guarantee is a senior unsecured obligation...
CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless phone distributor CellStar Corp. completed a $135 million multiple currency revolving credit facility, giving it the ability to borrow in various currencies for meeting capital needs and growth plans, the company said.The new facility, arranged by Chase Securities Inc., has a term...
CTIA clarifies role in standardizationDear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept. 22 edition that CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) was presenting a specific commercial implementation to TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) for...
SEOUL-It was only fitting that the future of Code Division Multiple Access technology was discussed in South Korea at the 2nd CDMA International Conference.Since SK Telecom launched the country's first CDMA system in January 1996, South Korea now has five CDMA operators and about...
Could this be the year for wireless data?Although proponents of wireless data are no doubt tired of being asked that question, some announcements this week certainly have to cause their hearts to race, if just a little.Lucent Technologies Inc. and NEO Networks, and Sun...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. announced it has licensed its Spyglass Prism content conversion technology to Nokia Telecommunications.The Prism technology answers needs of wireless users browsing the Web, said Spyglass. It is a server-based solution that reduces the time required to access Web sites by converting...
OCTOBER27-28 Telecommunications Law and Regulation Fundamentals: Your Roadmap to Opportunities, Options and Obstacles in this New Era, by Government Institutes. Arlington, Va. (301) 921-2345.27-28 Wireless Local Loop-Asean '97 Summit, by IBC Asia Ltd. Shangri-La's Edsa Plaza Hotel, Manila, Philippines. (65) 732-1970.27-28 Electromagnetic Compatibility Wireless Forum,...
OCTOBER20-21 Wireless Business Telephone Systems Seminar, by Alexander Resources. Dallas. (800) 948-8225.20-22 Discovering the Value of LMDS, by Shorecliff Communications International and RCR Publications Inc. ANA Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 608-9641.22 Wireless Developer Workshop, by Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants Inc. Farmington Hills, Mich. (517)...
United States Cellular Corp. was once again the cash cow in Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s family of wireless businesses during the third quarter.USCC's net income increased 38.6 percent to $36.2 million, or 42 cents per share, from $26.1 million, or 30 cents per...
Espoo, FINLAND-The Quadrant Consortium, which is comprised of British Telecommunications plc, Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and TRW, has been authorized by the British government to begin work on the specification and definition of a new national digital radio service for use by the country's...
NEW YORK-Established and new entrants to the wireless handset manufacturing sector are sitting pretty on the crest of a wave of growing worldwide demand, said participants in the NatWest Securities Corp. "Global Mobile Handset Conference."Handset sales could reach 250 million units in 2000 compared...
Personal communications services operators Western Wireless and Aerial Communications Inc. each launched a service last week that will allow subscribers to receive e-mail messages using their PCS phones.Western Wireless customers using the company's @Stream e-mail service can have messages sent directly to the phone's...
Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne's Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers. Nokia values the arrangement at more than $30 million. Nokia agreed to supply its high-capacity DX200 mobile switching equipment, tropicalized...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia introduced a new handset for the Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 standard, called the Nokia 550, which it touts as the smallest and lightest NMT 450 phone in the market.The phone features a large graphic display with scalable font size and one-touch voice...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced its new Time Division Multiple Access IS-136 wireless handset, called the Nokia 2160i, will be equipped with a Nokia-developed enhanced full rate vocoder.The EFR ACELP vocoder delivers enhanced digital voice quality, the company said, and has been chosen as the...
Clearnet Communications Inc. launched its Mike enhanced specialized mobile radio network in Ottawa-Hull. The Ottawa-Hull, Ontario, network covers nearly 1 million people in the region-on the Ontario-Quebec border-including Aylmer, Barrhaven, Chelsea, Cumberland, Gatineau, Gloucester, Kanata, Manotick, Nepean, Orleans, St. Onge, Stittsville and Vanier as...
Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000)1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,0002 NEC Corp. $41,174,0003 Motorola Inc. $27,973,0004 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,0005 Ericsson...
Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000)1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,0002 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,0003 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,1524 NEC Corp. $718,0005 Nokia...
Espoo, FINLAND-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Unwired Planet Inc. will work together to define a common protocol for wireless data technologies. The initial proposal to consolidate the technologies was presented at the Mobile Data Initiative earlier this year in Munich.The purpose of...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it supports a proposed consolidation of wireless data technologies into a license-free and platform-independent protocol.The purpose of the Wireless Application Protocol is to expand the usage of wireless data by providing a de facto platform for developing new value-added services....
Editor's note: On the previous page are five charts ranking major telecommunications vendors according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenues from 1995 to 1996, percentage change in income from 1995 to 1996 and two-year total return on investment.Nordby International Inc. of Boulder, Colo.,...
