OXFORD, United Kingdom-"Mobile Phones-Is There A Health Risk?" was the title of a conference held mid-October in London. "Mobile phones-Is there a health risk?"...
TOKYO-Some public-use halls in Japan next year will be allowed to use jamming devices-an illegal practice under present laws-to shut out noisy beeps, electronic...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Romances don't always last forever. Mostly they decay gracefully at the close of a seemingly predetermined life cycle. Sometimes they blossom into...
Wireless local loop (WLL), originally defined as providing a local loop facility without wires, over the past few years has become synonymous with the...
MINNEAPOLIS, United States-Yoshio Utsumi was elected secretary-general and Roberto Blois deputy secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union.The two replace Pekka Tarjanne and Henry Chasia,...
Germany-based Mannesmann A.G. and Italy's Olivetti last week announced they will launch a joint-venture company, Mannesmann euro.map, to provide cross-border voice and data services...
Nortel Networks Inc. announced it entered an alliance with Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd. to collaborate on wideband Code Division Multiple Access market development,...
Royal Philips Electronics and Lucent Technologies Inc. last week said they will dissolve the consumer communications joint venture they established just more than one...
EDISON, N.J.-AAT Communications Corp. will manage the marketing and collocation activities for Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s network of 1,200 towers located along its more...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning turnabout, the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission late last week terminated negotiations with Pocket Communications Inc. debtors and called...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. declared itself the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, as the company's mobile phone net sales increased by 94 percent to...
A trial early next year could decide whether L.M. Ericsson owns key patents to Interim Standard-95 technology.Ericsson and Qualcomm Inc. are set to go...
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Networks Inc. sold the second-largest initial public offering in history Oct. 22, raising $18.4 billion as its stock began trading...
WASHINGTON-The Land Mobile Communications Council has set up new criteria for monitoring interference in the shared business pools."It is something we need to do...
NEW YORK-Satellite Survey Systems Ltd., a Dallas company with roots in oil and gas exploration, has added another notch in its diversification belt by...
MCLEAN, Va. and BEACHWOOD, Ohio-LCC International Inc. and Allen Telecom Inc. decided not to swap LCC's test and measurement equipment and related software analysis...
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. said Lucent Technologies Inc. now is its exclusive network infrastructure supplier after replacement of eight switches and more than 1,200...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced the formation of a new business organization, Telematics Information Systems, that plans to leverage the company's technologies related to the...
NEW YORK-After a flurry of announced mergers and acquisitions earlier this year, amid booming stock and high-yield bond markets, the deal flow has slowed...
LAGOS, Nigeria-The federal government of Nigeria began advertising in October, soliciting bids for majority control of state-run companies, including Nigeria Telecommunications.Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, the...
The recent stock market volatility has created uncertainty among investors, leading to a rather steep slide in wireless stock value, say financial analysts following...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-ReadyCom Inc. said it completed development of its two-way wireless voice messaging technology and is lining up carriers and distribution partners to...
