DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said it is seeking bankruptcy court approval to begin an auction process to sell the business as a going concern.Orbcomm...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's placed its "B+" corporate credit and "B" senior unsecured debt ratings on Pinnacle Holdings Inc. along with the company on...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. stands to gain licenses covering about 2.4 million people, the company announced, due to deal with American Wireless License...
WASHINGTON-After 31 years, he's been there and done that.Now it is time for Mark E. Crosby, president of the Industrial Telecommunications Association, to leave...
Deutsche Telekom AG's $35 billion proposal to buy U.S. GSM operators VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Powertel Inc. has been delayed as DT and VoiceStream...
High-speed wireless data access provider Metricom Inc. posted a fourth-quarter loss and said it will postpone the introduction of its Ricochet data network in...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. debuted a new company tagline, "We connect with you," supported by consumer and business-to-business advertising campaigns. The company said the tagline...
NEW YORK-The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a formal investigation of Lucent Technologies Inc. for possible fraudulent accounting practices, The Wall Street Journal...
WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell last week signaled he will not get in the way of President Bush's plan to overhaul the schools...
So far, the question has been: Who drives the traffic?Do content providers for the wireless Internet push user traffic for wireless carriers, increasing their revenue...
In an attempt to expand their customer bases, some wireless operators have taken to rolling out wireless local loop-type services allowing customers to pay...
WASHINGTON-A California appeals court on Thursday told a lower court it must deny a petition from two California mobile-phone carriers that claimed they could...
WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell initially expects to focus on the internal workings of the commission rather than on regulatory initiatives, according to an aide."I...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is losing its most conservative member, although Harold Furchtgott-Roth does not expect his departure to leave the the newly named...
SnapTrack Inc. and SignalSoft Corp. have officially agreed to combine their resources and jointly market and deliver location-based applications and systems.SnapTrack, a subsidiary of...
In a move to transform itself into the chief platform enabler among software developers and carriers, Qualcomm Inc. has developed an open, CDMA-based technology...
WASHINGTON-A Georgia man last week filed lawsuit against mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and others, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. The mobile-phone-cancer...
ATLANTA-BulletIN.net, a provider of two-way wireless Internet connectivity for wireless carriers, announced it will deliver its wireless messaging products to China Systems Corp.'s network...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Sprint PCS increased its share of the consumer wireless telephone service market, according to a report on consumer wireless phone service by...
TOKYO-Japan's largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo Inc., is expected to set prices for the sale of new shares early next week, according to Reuters....
HELSINKI, Finland-After nearly two years of work, Finland's Ministry of Interior launched its fully working Virve network based on the Terrestrial Trunked Radio System...
SALT LAKE CITY-Verizon Wireless introduced it Mobile Messenger two-way text-messaging service to customers in Salt Lake City.Verizon Wireless explained there was no need for...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson signed an agreement with Sigma for sales and support of the trial version of Ericsson's R520 handset, the company's first GPRS telephones...
