LISLE, Ill.-Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Tellabs Inc. announced it has acquired all of the outstanding share capital of Steinbrecher Corp., a Burlington, Mass.-based provider of...
Fujian Posts and Telecommunications Administration of China will trial Motorola Inc.'s fixed wireless telephone system using Fujitsu Ltd.'s switching system, announced Motorola's Wireless Access...
NEW YORK-The urge to merge struck again with an Easter weekend announcement that AirTouch Communications Inc. would pay about $1.65 billion to buy the...
NEW YORK-Three-sixty Communications Co. and Alltell Mobile Communications Inc. announced a signed agreement for a joint marketing and technology alliance in the Carolinas and...
After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was...
President Clinton late Friday appointed U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor the new Secretary of Commerce. Kantor replaces Ron Brown who was buried last week...
PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it is offering TalkDial voice-activated dialing service to its Philadelphia tri-state region customers.The company said customers will be able...
Investment bankers expect to see more vertical marriages this year withing the wireless industry family, rather than the entrance of non-traditional players into the...
Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and Darien Telephone Co. announced that TDS' Camden Telephone Co. affiliate of St. Mary's, Ga., has acquired controlling interest...
Linda Noda Hobbs has been named president of The National Dispatch Center Inc. Hobbs will oversee all aspects of NDC's day-to-day operations, including implementation...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced three senior officers have purchased more than a half million shares of the company's stock in a private transaction.Mark Dunaway,...
Prepaid cellular represents a huge opportunity for carriers, as demonstrated by the flood of prepaid services inundating the marketplace. More significantly, however, prepaid cellular...
The quartet of three regional Bell operating companies and one former Bell announced two brand names it will use coast-to-coast in its personal communications...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has given the wireless community in general, and the public-safety arena in particular, an extra-long comment period to ponder the...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar worldwide subscriber equipment license with Nippondenso Co. Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer and worldwide automotive...
Repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling cellular phones is the business of ReCellular Inc.The company brings phones sent in by carriers, dealers and other clients...
WASHINGTON-A report in the May issue of Epidemiology cast doubt on whether pocket telephones pose fatal health consequences for consumers in the short run,...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number of subscribers...
Telemac Cellular Corp.'s cellular debit phone is a product of carriers' wish lists for the ideal prepaid service, said company President Scott McGregor. The...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Trimble Navigation Ltd. was awarded a follow-on contract of up to $5 million over a three-year period by Glenayre Technologies to provide Global...
WASHINGTON-It appears that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the Personal Communications Industry Association agree on the basic tenets of the industry's future participation...
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm a "videot." There is no such thing as too much television. My personality-when split into its definitive sectors-reflects the...
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of class A common shares...
