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...
Early word from the Clinton administration is it supports the World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Istanbul next spring. Is the White House serious...
WASHINGTON-Even as the National Capital Planning Commission was voting to further delay the siting of two Bell Atlantic Mobile towers in Rock Creek Park,...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. expanded its Fraud Management product offering by adding two new products-Sleuth and Integrity+, said the company. Sleuth is a software system...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-American Wireless announced it purchased Cellular Networks Inc. of Seattle, expanding its activation, fulfillment and distribution services for Nextel Communications Inc. and...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-"Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" asked Alan Shark, president of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, at the group's annual leadership...
Asia-Pacific countries are beginning to emerge from the severe economic problems that have gripped them for two years, and mobile phone carriers are finding...
