NEW YORK-In a public offering scheduled for late this month, Italy's Treasury Ministry will sell its remaining 35.7 percent stake in Telecom Italia, the government agency announced Oct. 5.The company's profits for the first seven months of 1997 totaled more than $1 billion, largely...
More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn't found any takers, despite the growing success of iDEN-user Nextel Communications Inc."There's a lot of interest in the technology," insisted David Kurt, manager of public...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Triton PCS formed a joint venture agreement that will expand AT&T's digital coverage in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, the Washington-Baltimore corridor and Georgia.The agreement calls for Triton to obtain financing and build out a Time Division Multiple Access...
NEW YORK-Borrowing a tag line from a recently released report of the Paging Leadership Association, industry representatives and analysts say there is "no grim reaper for the beeper."The association, comprised of the 13 companies that represent 73 percent of the United States paging market,...
One of the more significant developments in the paging industry this year was the announced merger between ProNet Inc. and Metrocall Inc., expected to create the second largest paging carrier in the country.Of the many ramifications this mating will likely have, one in particular...
Despite the fact most private-radio attention is aimed at certain 800 MHz and 900 MHz operations and the industrial radio arena, 220 MHz to 222 MHz service is up and running, and its expansion channels soon will be up for auction.And it is that...
BellSouth Mobility named Scott Stone, Jack Landham, Rick Rudden and Terry D. Newberry to management positions for Alabama and northwest Florida. Stone, who was named director of finance, joined the company in 1992 as a business operations manager for BellSouth Cellular. Landham, the company's...
Pssst. Hey, did anyone know that the wireless industry has a problem with fraud? If you didn't, it's because it's taken seven years for carriers and manufacturers to talk frankly and openly about cloning, RF fingerprinting and subscription fraud in front of the press...
VANCOUVER, B.C.-Clearnet Communications Inc. said it officially launched Clearnet PCS, its personal communications services network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology operating in the 1.9 GHz range.The company is the second1.9 GHz PCS provider to launch service in Canada. Microcell Telecommunications Inc. turned...
ORLANDO, Fla.-For the first time in seven years, Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, was able to say, "We've turned the corner on fraud."Addressing some 700 attendees of the Wireless Fraud '97 conference here last Tuesday, Wheeler compared the industry's victory...
The whisper on Wall Street is turning into a roar.Suddenly, telecom stocks are "hot" again, springing back to life in recent weeks following a painful and prolonged two-year slump.Telecom stocks-Wall Street darlings during the early 1990s-had been taking something of a beating the past...
At an unprecedented gathering earlier this month, a number of prominent specialized mobile radio equipment suppliers temporarily set aside competitive interests to draft a historic action plan. Their goal: selecting a single enhanced analog standard for the SMR industry."It is absolutely critical that this happens...
Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. won a contract to provide propagation analysis equipment to Qualcomm Inc. for international distribution of personal communications services and cellular systems. Berkeley values the arrangement at $750,000. The company also won a contract to design a 2.3 GHz wireless local...
BALTIMORE-Statistics have shown that some 70 percent of calls made to 911 operators have nothing to do with life-or-death situations. People have been trained to call the number to gain immediate access to someone who may or may not be able to help. Although...
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...
Mobil Rom, a consortium led by France Telecom Group, launched Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular services in Romania.Called Dialog GSM, the service already is in high demand, according to foreign press.France Telecom owns a 51-percent stake in Mobil Rom, which received one...
BALTIMORE-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno praised the National Emergency Number Association for its 911 service in Miami during her 15-year stint there as a prosecutor. Her congratulations also included NENA's implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act during the last seven years.Part of the...
Cell-Loc Inc. will develop and market Cellocate, a network-based call location technology for cellular equipment providers and wireless carriers in the United States.The company, made up of several wireless communications veterans, formed in 1995 to create a patented automatic location identification technology in response...
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...
Lincoln, Neb.-based encryption-technology and two-way radio manufacturer Transcrypt International Inc. submitted a $34 million letter of intent June 12 to assume the assets and certain liabilities of two-way radio manufacturer E.F. Johnson Co. A definitive acquisition agreement should move forward within several weeks.Transcrypt, which...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Ericsson Inc. settled one of several lawsuits pending between the two companies.The agreement, filed June 6 in federal court, resolves the patent infringement lawsuit Qualcomm filed against Ericsson in March.For the seven-month term of the agreement, Ericsson and its affiliates...
Stratus Computer Inc. and IEX Corp. have developed a joint solution for local number portability that features IEX's Nexus Service Control Point software running on Stratus' Continuum fault-tolerant software.The company's LNP solution will allow local telephone wireless and wireline customers to retain their existing...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, last week signaled his opposition to Justice Department antitrust nominee Joel Klein and added to growing congressional concern about how he will scrutinize telecommunications mergers allowed under the 1996 telecom act."The telecom act...
In a number of "hot" markets around the country, a tidal wave of demand for new personal communications services is swamping some companies' customer service departments-forcing scores of would-be customers to spend as much as an hour on hold as they try to activate...
