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WASHINGTON-The pack leaders haven’t changed much during the last week of bidding in the Federal Communications Commission’s local multipoint distribution services auction. The top 10 companies remain the same, although …

Ericsson forms office mobility unit ATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace. Ericsson said the …

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 …

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 …

TRANSCRYPT INTERNATIONAL Transcrypt International Inc. named Craig Huffaker senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. Huffaker’s 20 years of financial management experience include 12 years as CFO for …

WASHINGTON-While wireless local loop technology is taking off in such countries as South Africa, Great Britain, India and China, the United States continues to lag behind in deploying what could …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. is rumored to be at an advanced stage in negotiations to acquire Teleport Communications Group Inc., the first and largest competitive local exchange carrier in the country. …

WASHINGTON-As key House and Senate GOP lawmakers probe whether licenses valued at more than $1 billion were given away to Teledesic Corp. and Teligent Corp. as part of a back-room …

ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for building and enhancing strategic partnerships and …

NEW YORK-Teligent Inc. went public Nov. 21 with a 5.5 million-share initial public offering of common stock priced at $21.50 per share, near the high end of the expected $19-$22 …

NEW YORK-Point-to-multipoint equipment should be available in quantity by mid-1998, bringing the bandwidth on demand promise of last-mile wireless “fiber” closer to widespread deployment. “Where the heck did this market …

NEW YORK-Teligent Inc. hopes to celebrate Thanksgiving in a major way, assuming its plans to hit the public capital markets big time before month’s end are realized. The Vienna, Va., …

Northern Telecom Ltd. won a $780 million contract with Teligent Corp. and offered to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Broadband Networks Inc. on a fully …

WinStar Communications Inc. last week announced it signed agreements with Siemens Telecom Networks and Broadband Networks Inc., which will allow WinStar to supply digital multipoint local network systems for deployment …

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. acquired 16 additional 38 GHz licenses, increasing its bandwidth in four of the top 50 U.S. markets, said the company. The Federal Communications Commission granted WinStar …

Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000) 1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,000 2 NEC Corp. $41,174,000 3 Motorola Inc. $27,973,000 4 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,000 5 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone …

Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000) 1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,000 2 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,000 3 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,152 4 NEC Corp. $718,000 5 Nokia Corp. $654,460 6 …

NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission granted four additional 38 GHz licenses to Winstar Communications Inc., covering Las Vegas, Honolulu, Mobile, Ala., and Denver. The company filed for the licenses before …

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 …

1996 1995 Rank/Company Name % Change Revenues (000) Revenues (000) 1 DSP Communications Inc. 117.53% $88,899 $40,867 2 Qualcomm Inc. 110.51% $813,850 $386,612 3 WinStar Communications Inc. 104.35% $68,048 $33,300 …

RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN 1 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 Andrew Corp. 128.50% …

Editor’s note: Following are five charts ranking major telecommunications carriers according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenue from 1995 to 1996, percentage change in net income from 1995 …

Ericsson Inc. announced it supplied equipment and services to Airadigm Communications Inc. for its Einstein personal communications services network in Appleton, Wis. The network uses Global System for Mobile communications …

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. announced an offering of $450 million of debt securities in a 144A institutional private placement. There is no equity associated with the offering. The offer includes …

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. signed agreements to acquire 47 additional 38 GHz licenses and associated business operations. The licenses open new markets for the company as well as expanding its …