PARIS-Nortel Networks said it will deploy a General Packet Radio Service trial in selected areas of Paris for French operator Bouygues Telecom, the companies...
WASHINGTON-Efforts are under way in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission to protect wireless heart monitors and other medical telemetry devices from interference.This...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sharp Corp. agreed to standardize specifications for stacked chip scale packages, a multiple memory module for...
WASHINGTON-In another salvo in the war to reform the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee,...
United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc said it will buy Control Data Systems Inc., a software company based in Arden Hills, Minn., for $340 million. The...
WASHINGTON-National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving last week reiterated the administration's opposition to Department of Defense spectrum priority bills, but sidestepped the...
WASHINGTON-A new study, "Prepaid Cellular/PCS in Latin America: Market Potential and Business Strategies," compiled by The Strategis Group, Washington, D.C., reports prepaid cellular/personal communications service...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. said it has been accepted as a member of the new Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia, an initiative to encourage technological...
NYON, Switzerland-Europe's two paging industry trade associations, the European Public Paging Association and the ERMES MoU Association, announced they have merged, presenting a united...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Teledesic L.L.C. has completed a major launch contract with Lockheed Martin and signed a system agreement with Motorola Inc. to build Teledesic's satellite...
WASHINGTON-Just days before going to trial last month, high-level Justice Department officials may have overruled government antitrust lawyers who appeared ready to make a...
The echoes of MCI WorldCom Inc.'s proposed acquisition of SkyTel Communications Inc. continue to ring loudly throughout the industry, as two other paging companies...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. said it registered the Internet domain name "CellEase.com" and will begin taking orders immediately for prepaid cellular phones, CellEase...
LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc. said it signed a memorandum of understanding with lead plaintiffs' counsel to settle the pending stockholder class-action lawsuits against the...
The wireless handset market has proven that a strong brand name doesn't guarantee success.
Sony Electronics Inc. announced last week it is pulling out of...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has agreed to resell its paging and messaging services for a five-year period to Sprint Corp.According to the agreement,...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. announced its Wireless Fiber service will be made commercially available in buildings owned by Boston Properties Inc.Under terms of the...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. introduced its Integrators Alliance Program, offered to system integrators and value-added resellers interested in the wireless data market.The program was...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it is deploying Lightbridge Inc.'s FraudBuster fraud detection software."FraudBuster will alert us when wireless accounts show a pattern of...
Although they believe the future growth of the paging industry lies in advanced messaging, paging carriers continue to search out new ways to attract...
Portugal Telecom announced the consortium, Medi Telecom, won the second Global System for Mobile communications license in Morocco.The Medi Telecom consortium, led by Telefonica...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. has agreed to market its middleware product offerings in conjunction with Internet Image Inc.'s TargetLink remote software deployment technology. Together,...
PARAMUS, N.J.-Following closely on the heels of its launch in Washington, D.C., Nextlink Communications Inc. launched commercial service for small- and medium-sized businesses in...
