Last month marked the first anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission's revised radio-frequency radiation guidelines. Those guidelines constituted the first major overhaul of RF...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Globecomm Systems Inc. acquired an 18.75-percent interest in McKibben Communications, a privately held Los Angeles-based company providing global TV program origination and distribution...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Liberal government has been forced to abandon plans to fully privatize Telstra Corp. in the face of a threatened revolt by...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. was awarded a contract to supply a turnkey 1900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Pinpoint Communications, which...
NEW YORK-By incorporating Silicon Germanium into its components for wireless handsets, CommQuest Technologies, Encinitas, Calif., announced Sept. 14 it has advanced significantly toward its...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc completed its $1.75 billion cash acquisition of MCI Corp.'s U.S.-based Internet business, including its Internet backbone services, about 1,000 specialist...
Applied Cellular Technology Inc.'s board of directors approved a strategic plan aimed at growing its earnings per share by 20 percent that calls for...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. entered the fraud-detection and prevention market with its new product offering called SuperSleuth, which combines neural network-based technologies with more traditional...
NEW YORK-Orbcomm USA L.P., Dulles, Va., a provider of low-earth-orbit satellite-based data and messaging communications, announced Sept. 10 it has signed reseller agreements with...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry this week is preparing to argue before a federal appeals court in Oklahoma City that the Federal Communications Commission's rules requiring...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard vowed to support telecommunications development in Africa, a continent with emerging markets that is looking to wireless technology...
Is anyone else in the industry weary of the debate over the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994?Finally admitting that you can't...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Powertel Inc. launched wireless personal communications services in Chattanooga, Tenn., expanding its market to 27 metropolitan areas and major highway corridors throughout 12...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in moves that will largely wipe out the huge wireless backlog and automate future licensing, dismissed 50,000 multiple address system...
The global market for in-vehicle intelligent transportation systems is expected to grow from $1 billion today to more than $18 billion annually during the...
Recent developments in Japan suggest standards leaders there realize they must deal with the cdma2000 third-generation proposal.
Japan's standards body, the Association of Radio Businesses...
Extending desktop personal computer information to mobile phones has become a point of differentiation for several wireless companies of late, and Paragon Software plans...
BANGALORE, India-State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) last year announced its plans to give private cellular operators in New Delhi and Mumbai a run...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Northern Telecom Ltd. recently was awarded a contract valued at more than $40 million to provide equipment for the third expansion of Chunghwa...
WASHINGTON-A Kansas state law creating the Kansas Universal Service Fund discriminates against wireless carriers and should be pre-empted, the wireless industry told the Federal...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Mobile Phones announced the Telecoil-a hearing-aid compatible accessory designed to provide improved communications for the hearing impaired.The new product works with Nokia...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. changed its name to OmniAmerica Inc. and now trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under a new ticker symbol, XMIT....
NEW YORK-Following the successful launch in eight initial target markets, WinStar Communications Inc. announced plans to expand its accounts sales initiative to 15 major...