fundraiser --
The "LCC" in what is now LCC International, Inc. originally stood for
"Lunayach Communications Consultants." After a succession of
corporate name changes, the LCC is not now an abbreviation, but is
part of the legal corporate name.
This information can be found on LCC's website, buried on page 7 of
its 2004 corporate brochure. There, in very, very small print are the
following excerpts from a summary of LCC's corporate chronology:
"Lunayach Communications Consultants is founded on April 29, 1093."
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"Lunayach Communications Consultants becomes LCC Incorporated."
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"The Company's name changes to LCC International, Inc."
LCC.com: Corporate Brochure
http://www.lcc.com/collateral/LCC%202004%20Corp%20Brochure.pdf
(This is a PDF file, which requires Adobe Reader to access. In the
unlikely event that you do not have Adobe Reader installed on your
computer, you can get a free download here:
Adobe Reader: Download
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
In is unclear what the source of the term/name "Lunayach" is, although
I will speculate that it may be the original surname of the company's
cofounder, Rajendra Singh. I base this speculation on two things.
First, "Lunayach" gets only about 15 distinct hits on a simple Google
search on the term, so there aren't many possibilities. Second, one
of those very few hits is the website of a Turkish University
containing the following citation in an academic paper:
R.S. Lunayach, ?Performance of a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
System with Long Period and Short Period Code Sequences,? IEEE
Transactions on Communications, vol. COM-31, no. 3, pp. 412-419, March
1983.
Koc University: Sunay and Tekinay: Multimedia CDMA Systems - REFERENCES
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~osunay/papers/tutorial/Gcom98-ref.html
Note that the topic of the paper is related closely to the original
business of LCC; that is, consulting on wireless telephone technology.
And, note that the first two initials of the author are "R.S." and
that the paper was published in an American electrical engineering
journal in 1983.
Whether or not Rajendra Singh and R.S. Lunayach are the same person,
we do know definitively that the first incarnation of LCC
International, Inc. was Lunayach Communications Consultants.
Additional Information:
Although I expect that you are familiar with the site, here is a link
to the home page of LCC International, Inc., which can link you to
much information about the company:
LCC International, Inc.
http://www.lcc.com/
Search Strategy:
This information was surprisingly hard to find, and I tried many
different Google searches before I happened on the one that led me to
the information, which was this:
"lcc inc OR incorporated" 1983
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22LCC%2C+inc+OR+incorporated%22+1983
Since a simple search using the terms "lcc international" results in
thousands of hits, my previous searches were designed to gradually
narrow down the results to those that relate directly to the company's
history. I had discovered that the company was founded in 1983 and
that its name at the time it went public in 1996 was "LCC,
Incorporated." I surmised (correctly, as it turned out) that this
combination of terms might best lead me to a reference to the original
of "LCC."
I am confident that this is the information you are seeking, and I
happy to have been able to provide it promptly.
markj-ga |
