HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said France Telecom agreed to sell approximately 24.9 million shares of Crown Castle common stock through Salomon Smith Barney Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in …
MADRID-Telefonica denied reports that a virus is getting into the mobile phones of its customers and sending rude messages about the company to phone screens. U.S. computer specialists reported a …
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., installed and launched systems enabling prepaid services for more than 1 million subscribers of Chilean mobile operator Telefonica Movil Chile. …
HELSINKI, Finland-Singapore wireless operator M1 demonstrated a General Packet Radio Service packet data call over its live network using Nokia Corp.’s GPRS technology. “While other operators are only starting to …
BUCHAREST, Romania-Harris Corp. said it completed field trials of its ClearBurst 28 GHz broadband wireless access microwave radio in Bucharest. The system is being used for high-speed data communications by …
Hong Kong Transcrypt International Inc. signed an agreement with Union Communications of Hong Kong for the exclusive distribution of all of Transcrypt’s voice security and signaling products in Hong Kong, …
ATLANTA-Digital Microwave Corp.’s Altium broadband fixed wireless access products passed the European Telecommunications Standards Institute qualification tests and now conform to European telecommunications standards for 155-Megabit per second wireless solutions …
UTRECHT, Netherlands-Mobile messaging provider CMG Telecommunications and Mirapoint Inc., an Internet messaging infrastructure provider, are working together to provide mobile operators the ability to offer their subscribers Internet messaging capabilities. …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. unveiled its Totem Vantage network planning tool, designed to enable the fast deployment of third-generation networks. The company said the in-house developed tool is the first to …
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. said Telinor Television S.A. de C.V., a Mexican wireless pay-TV company, will begin field trials of new technology for business data transmission services. ADC will integrate its …
TERADYON, Israel-Surf Communications Solutions Ltd. unveiled a software product that enables wireless equipment manufacturers to provide converged internetworking solutions for their network service provider customers. According to Surf, the new …
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. completed the sale of its Chilean wireless venture, Smartcom PCS, to Spanish utility company Endesa S.A. Leap received $300 million in cash and notes subject …
SOMERSET, N.J.-Scantron Services Group said it will use Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc.’s MobileDispatch and wireless technology to help it reduce the response time of technicians by as much as …
Tektronix Tektronix Inc. launched a new Global System for Mobile communications cell analysis product, the Cell Analyzer, which combines the key functions of the Actix Abis Analyzer with Tektronix’s K1205 …
WASHINGTON-A House appropriations subcommittee last week slashed administration-proposed budgets for the Federal Communications Committee and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, prompting criticism from Democrats who want funding restored for …
NEW YORK-UbiquiTel Inc., the Bala Cynwyd, Pa., affiliate of Sprint PCS, went public June 7 with an offering of 12.5 million shares priced at $8 each. The carrier reduced the …
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. said the Federal Communications Commission approved its WCS Wired Access Points equipment. The company now has FCC approval for all equipment being deployed using both the …
Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group plans to unveil today a digital signal processor system-on-a-chip family for next-generation wireless and Internet networks that provides significant channel density improvements. The product family, …
HERNDON, Va.-LifeMinders.com, a direct marketing infrastructure company, named Air2Web as a distributor of its personalization technology and content to wireless users under an application service provider model.
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. and Adaptive Broadband Corp. agreed to integrate LHS’ billing and customer-care software with Adaptive Broadband’s AB-Access fixed wireless broadband products to offer various levels of customer billing, …
