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...
WASHINGTON-Telecommunications networks are expected to pass the coming of the new millennium without catching the dreaded millennium bug, said a group representing local exchange...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service has changed to stable from negative its outlook on $279 million in Ba1-rated debt securities issued by SK Telecom Co....
SAN DIEGO-Pegaso PCS, the Mexican operating company of Leap Wireless International Inc., last week launched its first market in Tijuana, Mexico.The company plans to...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced it changed the accounting for its acquisition of Coral Systems Inc. in November 1997. The restatement results in an increase...
TOKYO-Anticipating the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) scheduled March decision regarding key characteristics for the third-generation cellular, IMT-2000, Japanese carriers are mounting efforts to be...
Sources close to International Telecommunication Union activity on third-generation technology say standards likely will not be set during the 31 March meeting in Brazil.The...
