STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. announced it signed a contract with German operator Deutsche Telekom MobilNet to implement General Packet Radio Service into T-Mobil's Global System for...
MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network affiliate, announced it has begun providing commercial wireless service to customers in six markets...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. and Tritel Communications Inc. announced they signed a $300 million agreement for Ericsson to supply Time Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment...
SAN CARLOS, Calif.-The United Illuminating Co. Inc. and CellNet Data Systems Inc. announced a memorandum of understanding to provide network meter-reading services to 312,000...
WASHINGTON-Support continued to mount last week for flexible rules that would give wireless carriers options for contributing to the federal Universal Service Fund and...
JACKSON, Miss.-Cellular South said it launched a digital wireless network in Jackson, Miss., to complement its existing wireless system serving other areas in Mississippi.Cellular...
BEIJING-Chinese officials may be close to deciding how to split up China Telecom, the government-run telecommunications company.Chinese newspapers last week reported that a plan...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is drafting legislation to shift the burden of the forbearance test in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 from the industry to...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. today introduced the Qualcomm Thin Phone featuring an ultra-thin design with an internal battery that supports up to 10 hours of...
WASHINGTON-The first Federal Communications Commission employee to be detailed to a congressional office, Mark Rubin, will be working on issues of more interest to...
SALT LAKE CITY-AT&T Corp. has established a fund for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee Anne Sleater, who remains in critical condition after being wounded...
ARLINGTON, Texas-FWT Inc. announced it released Chief Executive Officer Douglas A. Standley and other executives as part of significant operational and management changes in...
LONDON-The GSM Association said it believes the number of Global System for Mobile communications subscribers worldwide for 1998 will number 135 million."We believe that...
NEW YORK-Home Wireless Networks, a Norcross, Ga., company in which Lucent Technologies Inc. has invested, Friday announced the commercial availability of a wireless home/office...
NEW YORK-With more than 7,700 transactions valued at $1.2 trillion announced, the domestic mergers and acquisitions market for 1998 crushed by 84 percent its...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Global Corp. unveiled a new initiative to maximize resources and capital, focus on consolidation, reduce operating costs and divest non-core assets. The...
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Isotel Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of DSP Communications Inc., announced it was awarded a contract to supply IS-130A/IS-135 software to Lucent...
NEW YORK-Using funds from a bank credit facility, Metrocall Inc., Alexandria, Va., paid $16.2 million to buy back all outstanding shares of its Series...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS announced it has entered an agreement with Iridium North America to be the exclusive provider of Iridium satellite voice services...
LONDON-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced that in the fourth quarter of 1998, its worldwide operations added a record 212,664 net new cellular subscribers. Throughout...
NEW YORK-Significant progress has been made toward the still unrealized goal of full minority participation in the telecommunications industry, according to speakers at the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has revised the fourth-quarter order increase for its cellular products segment to 17 percent from the 13 percent increase...
The Supreme Court declined to hear appeals by three Baby Bells challenging the 1996 telecom act's requirement that local competition precede Baby Bell entry...
After the embarrassing $1 license sales in the Wireless Communication Service auction two years ago and the C-block personal communications services bankruptcies, some began...
