Resistance to unsightly towers has prompted many wireless carriers to site their antennas on existing structures such as buildings and water towers to reduce...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. have agreed to work together in technical trials of a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. lawyer Thomas Cullen, attempting to convince U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last Friday to accept the dispatch giant's request to...
Are today's high-tech firms so different from companies of the Industrial Age as to make classic antitrust analysis archaic and no longer applicable?Top antitrust...
WASHINGTON-In the public forum, Nextel Communications Inc. speaks earnestly of a brave new wireless world in which it could compete more favorably against AT&T...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. became the first Global System for Mobile communications carrier to eliminate long-distance and roaming charges on GSM networks in...
NEW YORK-Orbcomm Global L.P., Dulles, Va., announced March 1 that Conatel, the Venezuelan government regulatory agency, has granted operating and frequency licenses to Telecomunicaciones...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Several technology companies announced they have created an alliance to develop an interface connecting consumer and small-business appliances to Internet services, called the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre's Wireless Access Group and Golden Eagle Credit Corp. have teamed to lease pagers directly to the end user.The new leasing arrangement...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. last week signed agreements with LottoNet and Yahoo!, furthering its goal to provide various Internet-based information services to its paging subscribers.LottoNet...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced a new service plan for business customers that combines the use of multiple customers to provide a consistent and...
WASHINGTON-Let the lobbying begin.Now that the Federal Communications Commission has decided to think some more about its position on whether to auction private wireless...
Intelligent roaming is guaranteed to change the face of the wireless industry, and smaller carriers that have built their businesses on making money from...
WASHINGTON-The fallout over alleged technology transfers, increasingly testing the mettle of fledgling mobile satellite firms, has prompted new bills to aid the U.S. space...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS announced short messaging service is available to its wireless customers. All Sprint PCS customers who have voice mail have the...
WHEATON, Md.-A recent report from Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. examines the reasons why Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Sector lost market share to Nokia Corp.,...
WASHINGTON-If the inside-the-beltway crowd thinks the issue of antenna siting is slowing down-or perhaps going away altogether-they should have attended a telecommunications forum on...
Helsinki-based Sonera Group plc, Finland's largest telecommunications carrier, plans a $1.1 billion issue of medium term notes to help finance its expansion plans.The partially...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS engineers have developed standard specifications that enable interoperability between two major components of wireless networks-mobile switching centers and base station...
NEW YORK-Vodafone Group plc, based in Berkshire, England, announced it signed up its 10 millionth proportionate customer March 1.Vodafone, which is acquiring AirTouch Communications...
Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace.Most segments seem to...
NEW YORK-Venture capitalists are beating a path to the door of those who would build a better mousetrap for the burgeoning telecommunications/wireless sector, according...
Royal Philips Electronics launched a hostile bid Friday to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of VLSI Technology Inc. after VLSI declined to...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., among others, have joined to create a standard that will allow users to access...
