WASHINGTON-Rep. George Gekas (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law, last week said the schools and libraries Internet program...
WASHINGTON-The wireless 911 bill, once assumed a sure bet for congressional approval this year, has hit snags over liability, privacy and other issues that...
Swedish sub-system and component supplier Arkivator agreed to acquire 64 percent of the shares of LGP Telecom Inc., a subsidiary of Stockholm-based LGP Telecom...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. said Philips Consumer Communications has licensed the UP.Browser microbrowser software for its line of Global System for Mobile communications wireless...
Speculation circulated last week that MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. were in merger talks, following published reports that linked the two companies.Neither company...
WASHINGTON-The North American Numbering Council said resellers that receive more than 1,000 numbers from an original assignee must report their usage to the North...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles began technical testing of SnapTrack Inc.'s enhanced global positioning system location technology.The goal of the trial is to consider future applications...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Mobicom Corp. said they are working together to build and deliver wireless handsets to China's Global System...
HIGHLANDS, N.J.-The Wireless Information Networks Laboratory at Rutgers University commemorated Sept. 30 its 10th birthday and the centennial anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's historic first,...
Bankrupt C-block licensee General Wireless Inc. has satisfied too much of its reorganization plan for the Federal Communications Commission to appeal it, a Texas...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. announced a corporate restructuring to speed up growth and said it will refocus its business on value-added solutions for the Internet. This...
WASHINGTON-Twenty-three organizations representing a broad cross section of American industry blasted an American Mobile Telecommunications Association proposal to auction a big chunk of the...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week vetoed an appropriations bill that fosters antenna siting in Rock Creek Park and on other federal property in the nation's...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS announced its business customers now can select a new Nationwide Team Option for team-based calling from any Sprint PCS phone...
The wireless guys aren't the only ones nagging the GOP-led Congress for liability protection against trial lawyers. The insurance, automobile, pharmaceutical, retail, chemical, tobacco...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Six cellular phone companies, including a consortium led by South Africa's MTN, have been prequalified by Kenya's Communications Commission to bid for...
Alcatel's recollection of 1995, the year of the last Telecom show, was of GSM coverage being patchy in most European countries, with network designers...
TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing...
TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services.According to the announcement,...
The biggest challenge for wireless operators during the next four years most likely will be obtaining additional spectrum, according to Keith Radousky, director of...
On 30 March 1999, the Indian government declared its New Telecom Policy (NTP), recognizing that building a world-class integrated telecom infrastructure is a major...
