TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like …
For more than six months the mobile satellite industry has been trying to polish its image after the well-publicized failure of Iridium L.L.C. tarnished the reputation of all those involved …
Florida awarded ComNet-Ericsson a contract to upgrade and enhance the state’s partially completed law enforcement radio system, much to the chagrin of Motorola Inc., which supplied the original system. ComNet-Ericsson …
LOS ANGELES-Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. are donating 100 pre-programmed digital wireless phones and free airtime to eight domestic violence prevention programs in the Los Angeles area as part of …
NEW YORK-New Skies Satellites N.V., a commercial spinoff of Intelsat, became a publicly traded company Oct. 4 when it sold 28.5 million American Depositary Shares priced at $9 each. The …
WASHINGTON-Attempts by the wireless industry to reach a collocation agreement with a historic preservation group hit a few bumps last week when members of the historic preservation community questioned language …
A hue and cry went up among Clinton-Gore Democratics and political pundits when it surfaced that NBC and Fox would not carry the first debate between GOP and Democratic presidential …
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.-Shorecliff Communications Inc. announced the finalists for the Tower and Site Development Industry’s Annual Excellence in Business Awards, to be given out at a dinner and ceremony …
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices will collaborate to develop an architecture for AMD’s Flash memory devices and TI’s digital signal processors-based Open Multimedia Application Platform. TI said the …
NEW YORK-Holding a cell phone while driving got the boot Oct. 3 in Suffolk County, a large and populous jurisdiction on Long Island, part of New York state. The county …
BEIJING-Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile-phone operator by total subscriber numbers, is set to take a 2-percent stake in China Mobile (Hong Kong), the listed subsidiary of parent China Mobile Telecommunications …
NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless added 806,000 new customers during the third quarter of this year, a 35-percent increase in net additions compared with third quarter results last year from the combined …
DALLAS-T-Speed Broadband Communications launched its high-speed wireless Internet access service in Dallas/Fort Worth, the company announced. The company said it is targeting small and medium-sized businesses, and it already has …
Vyyo Inc. and Proxim Inc. announced they will work together to bring wireless broadband connectivity to multidwelling units. Under terms of the agreement, Vyyo said it will supply its multichannel …
WASHINGTON-As the unlikely union of labor and business leaders ratcheted up pressure last week to kill legislation that would nix Deutsche Telekom AG’s $50.7 billion purchase of VoiceStream Wireless Corp., …
HONG KONG-China Mobile Hong Kong is buying seven mobile-phone networks from China Mobile Communications, its parent company, for about US$33 billion. China Mobile Hong Kong will sell US$2.5 billion of …
Leap Wireless International Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire PCS licenses in Eugene, Ore., and Fort Collins and Greeley, Colo., from American Wireless License Group L.L.C. The licenses, covering …
Position clarified Dear Editor: In the article, “EDGE: The People’s Choice,” (Sept. 25, page 55 by Sheila Mickool, president of the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium) I am quoted as saying …
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. launched WebMagic, a wireless Internet product that allows its cellular phone customers to access the Internet and receive e-mail messages. Dobson said the service will be …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sanyo Fisher Co., a division of Sanyo North America Corp., reported plans for an alliance to accelerate commercialization of mobile Internet services over Lucent …
