NEW YORK-All eyes are on Omnipoint Corp., which one investment banker has likened to a poster child for personal communications services.What will be the...
WASHINGTON-Paging Network Inc., the nation's top paging carrier, said the Federal Communications Commission should condition any approval of the $57 billion merger between SBC...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Friday shored up rules for auctioning 16,000 paging licenses later this year and announced it will not take action...
SAN CARLOS, Calif.-CellNet Data Systems Inc. said it successfully demonstrated with the City of Burlingame, Calif., its wireless network solution, which enables parking meters...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced OfficeMax Inc. will sell its advanced messaging products and services.OfficeMax operates more than 860 stores in 360 markets throughout 49...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc.'s Advanced Wireless Integration Group introduced two new services-the Jackpot Casino Monitoring System and Delivery-Mate automatic dispatch service.The casino service allows casino...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced a first quarter net loss of $5.7 million, or 59 cents per share, compared with $3.8 million, or 41.5 cents...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility Inc. announced it will offer General Magic Inc.'s Portico voice recognition-based virtual personal assistant to its customers through a four-month limited deployment,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has developed the first in a family of new chipsets and system software solutions to support future cdma2000 products....
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and U S West Communications Inc. announced a 12-month, $120 million agreement for U S West to purchase Qualcomm Code Division...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it has delivered the first Bluetooth Development Kit, which it said will enable early Bluetooth adopters to more quickly and...
WASHINGTON-The fallout of last week's Federal Communications Commission decision on solving the dead-zone problem saw the chairman's office denouncing the industry's response and consumers...
FRANKLIN, Tenn.-Having survived a March 6 car crash that nearly killed him, country singer George Jones pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and having...
NEW YORK-The $5 billion Internet backbone upgrade that Teleglobe Communications Corp., Reston, Va., announced last week is intended to meet the growing cross-border data...
MONTREAL-The GSM Alliance and Nortel Networks announced they completed North America's first third-generation wireless telephone call using a wideband Code Division Multiple Access trial...
CHICAGO-The North American GSM Alliance said 3.6 million customers across the United States and Canada use Global System for Mobile communications wireless phones."More than...
Latin AmericaAccording to The Strategis Group, privatization in Latin America is driving fixed-line growth as privatized operators build out networks to meet license requirements,...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Iridium L.L.C. announced it has filled two recently vacated management positions by electing senior vice president Leo Mondale its new chief financial officer...
WASHINGTON-The Land Mobile Communications Council asked the Federal Communications Commission to give commenters an extra month in answering the many questions raised in a...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's re-auction of 161 local multipoint distribution service licenses closed last week with bids totaling $45 million."I'm extremely pleased with the...
Microsoft Corp. gave some legitimacy to the wireless Internet access arena last week with its $600 million investment in Nextel Communications Inc. and an...
WASHINGTON-Mid-sized incumbent local exchange carriers with wireless subsidiaries got some powerful help last week when 16 lawmakers urged the Federal Communications Commission to forbear...
