Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced a massive restructuring plan last week that includes cutting 55 percent of its work force-a full 700 positions-and completely dismantling...
WASHINGTON-Sources say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has prepared a letter for President Bush that will stop just short of opposing the transfer of military...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Kazakhstan carrier Altel has awarded Motorola Inc.'s telecom solutions sector a contract to upgrade its existing nationwide analog system to a home...
Suddenly, the balance of power in official Washington has swung to The Outlyer.Who could've predicted Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) would become such an unabashed...
WASHINGTON-Aides to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) last week sent out conflicting signals on whether the two lawmakers will follow...
As technologies continue to advance and third-generation becomes more imminent, the mobile phone may be moving back into the place it began-the car.An increasingly...
In a complicated stock and cash transaction, Motient Corp. last week acquired Internet software company Rare Medium Group, a move that will bolster Motient's...
LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment...
WASHINGTON-The nominees for the Federal Communications Commission had a "walk in the park" as they appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee last week, while...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. added 86,174 wireless subscribers during the first quarter of 2001, bringing the wireless operator's customer base to...
WASHINGTON-The lawyer representing rural carriers hoping that a federal appeals court will overturn the enhanced 911 mandate because of the deletion of a cost-recovery...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last week said he only partially agreed with an exhortation by the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication...
CHICAGO-Centerpost Corp. and Infotriever Inc. announced an alliance to combine and co-market their technologies in order to offer businesses a new communication product.Centerpost, which...
The General Accounting Office said a new procurement program established by the Department of Defense to ensure that new weapons systems do not interfere...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that could lead to the eventual end of analog cellular service, a move that could hurt telematics and...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association late Friday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reallocate spectrum assigned to struggling mobile satellite firms to cellular...
LAS VEGAS-For an industry obsessed about the future, to the point where it often forgets to tackle the issues of today, Cingular's Wireless Alliances...
DALLAS-Among the ever-present winds of Eastern Texas, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week hosted a somewhat intimate Wireless Agenda 2001 conference that...
Citing the slowdown in the U.S. economy and market conditions, personal digital assistant stalwart Palm Inc. and Extended Systems Inc., which provides mobile information...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Intel Corp. and British Telecommunications plc's BTexact Technologies and BT Wireless businesses said they will work together to develop applications and services...
While seven-digit numbers are usually reserved for a company's bottom line or telephone number, the seven digits in 6,219,694are of extra importance to Canadian-based...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry may be an unwitting accomplice to mass-scale looting of an African mineral used in mobile-phone capacitors, a situation some believe is...
Just days before embarking on an unprecedented merger under concurrent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, Metrocall Inc. pulled out of its deal with WebLink Wireless...
With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country's second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to...
