Western Wireless Corp. said it is adding customers to its wireless local loop service in Regent, N.D., even though customers cannot receive phone calls...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. wireless industry, responding to the global proliferation of media coverage of mobile phone health concerns and to Internet-savvy activists, is leading an...
TanzaniaInmarsat announced Tanzania became its 85th member country. Adolar B. Mapunda, managing director of the Tanzanian Telecommunications Co. Ltd., signed the Inmarsat Operating Agreement...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry could be headed for an unexpected headache caused by the dreaded millennium bug. Insurance companies are telling wireless carriers they need...
After years of slowly gathering the needed partnerships with cellular operators across the country, Cellemetry L.L.C. today can offer its cellular control channel transmission...
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...
