[C13.] Global Crossing and Equant in Talks Global Crossing, the upstart communications carrier, has recently entered discussions to acquire Equant, which controls perhaps the world's most geographically extensive communications network, people close to the talks said.
Interwave Communications is expected to announce today that it has signed a five-year contract to supply wireless network equipment to the Telstra Corporation, Australia's largest mobile communications company, people close to the company said yesterday.
A Los Angeles investment firm that specializes in corporate turnarounds is likely to make an offer this week for Global Crossing, the beleaguered communications company, people close to the two companies said yesterday.
A crewless Russian rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite crashed close to the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's main space launching facility, Russian and Kazakh news agencies reported.
Telecom provider Verizon Communications may be close to announcing plans to deploy wireless networking "hotspots" at its pay phones in some areas.
An RF splitter excites both antennas; therefore, the mission is designed such that no communications are required close to 90° from the spin axis due to the interferometer effect from the two antennas.
Position communications staff members close to leaders.
Over the past few years at its New York headquarters, the News Corporation has slowly purged executives, including Peter Chernin, the former president, and Gary Ginsberg, the top communications adviser, who were close to Rupert Murdoch and seen as stabilizing influences on him and a counterweight to his conservative politics.
Late Saturday night, Verizon offered concessions that would allow the unions to organize more easily in the company's fast-growing wireless division, a central bargaining issue that could have a substantial effect on labor relations in the entire wireless communications industry, said people close to the talks.
Most communications officers were deployed close to the disaster epicenter: to the field, to the nearest country office, or to a combination of both.
