SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc., Qualcomm Inc.'s spun-off wireless communications carrier, announced that one of its operating companies, OzPhone Pty. Ltd., has acquired two...
WASHINGTON-Last week's annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ended with a blueprint-but not a bold solution-for containing a worsening global...
The 15th Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union kicks off today in Minneapolis, a meeting whose focus on internal governance and strategic planning...
WASHINGTON-The Boeing Co. was fined $10 million as part of an agreement with the State Department covering improper information transfers to Russian and Ukraine...
SpectraLink Corp., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that provides wireless telephone systems for the workplace, introduced its Link 3000 Wireless Telephone System.The company's systems, which...
Changing times are requiring some infrastructure vendors to reorganize their businesses and better align themselves with their customers.Siemens AG of Germany is the latest...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said the Justice Department has made initial queries regarding Nextel Communications Inc.'s request to lift a 1994 antitrust...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it plans to launch guaranteed messaging service in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia and Utah and expand current coverage in Florida as...
While the debate around third-generation wireless technology to date has focused on which air interface to incorporate into the standard, leading wireless vendors brought...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless Global Mobile said it reached 3.1 million customers representing a year-over-year customer growth rate of 45 percent.The company said it had...
WASHINGTON-James Sasser, a former Tennessee senator hired by developer Franklin Haney to work on the Portals deal before becoming U.S. ambassador to China, denied...
NEW YORK-Swisscom A.G., Switzerland's government-owned telecommunications carrier, went public Oct. 5, raising about $5.5 billion in a 22 million-share offering of stock priced at...
Electronic Data Systems said it signed a five-year systems management agreement with Motorola Inc., under which EDS will manage the technology infrastructure for Motorola's...
NEW YORK-The share price for Swisscom's partial privatization initial public offering was expected to be set during the week of Oct. 4.The Swiss government...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Unwired Planet Inc. released its UP.Link Platform Version 3.1 with Wireless Markup Language support at PCS '98.The platform, which includes the UP.Link Server...
To the Editor: Back in June of 1992 my company, LMR Systems Inc., asked the Federal Communications Commission's permission to build private land mobile radio...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it plans to eliminate its trading division during the fourth quarter in an effort to emphasize relationships with wireless equipment manufacturers...
Sprint Corp. hopes to raise about $604 billion from its initial public offering for Sprint PCS.The Kansas City, Mo.-based long-distance carrier has filed its...
WASHINGTON-A confluence of factors are converging that may force the Federal Communications Commission to relax the commercial wireless 45 megahertz spectrum cap, an antitrust...
The campaigning efforts in Washington, D.C., are set to heat up within the next few months as the International Telecommunication Union enters the decision-making...
NEW YORK-CellStar Corp., Carrollton, Texas, announced a significant slide in net income for the third quarter ended Aug. 31, to $2.4 million from $16.2...
CHS Electronics Inc., an international distributor of microcomputer products, announced an agreement to purchase BrightStar Corp., a start-up wholesale distributor of cellular phones and...
VANCOUVER-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced the Vancouver launch of its the Mike personal communications services network in the greater Vancouver area.Mike offers all the benefits...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The public stock markets may be a bit shaky for now, but "there never has been more private capital available," David Golden, co-director...
