HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp.’s subsidiary, Crown Castle Australia Ltd., signed a definitive agreement to purchase about 700 wireless communications towers from Cable & Wireless Optus for $135 million, including an …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Several former executives of Microsoft Corp. and McCaw Cellular have joined other wireless industry pioneers to form Ignition Corp., a holding company designed to fund, mentor and help build …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-HiQ, an information technology and management consultancy company, has developed a new Wireless Application Protocol service for L.M. Ericsson’s product unit in California. The new service will be included …
NEW YORK-The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., met March 7 to begin consideration of approximately 250 formal comments about its controversial proposal to eliminate accounting for mergers as pooling …
After spending 10 years and $5.8 billion building and launching a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites to provide mobile voice and paging services worldwide, Iridium L.L.C. is facing a new …
WASHINGTON-While the Senate appears ready to pass China trade legislation sent to Congress by President Clinton last week, the administration lacks the votes in the House to pass a measure …
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc.’s subsidiary, Brightpoint Philippines Inc., signed an agreement with Nokia Corp. to distribute Nokia’s digital multimedia terminal, the Nokia Mediamaster digital receiver decoder, for use in interactive multimedia systems. …
NEW YORK-Despite all the cheerleading about the new economy as a global village, the best bets for investments in telecommunications, the Internet and electronic commerce reside in the United States, …
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said it conducted another exchange of debt for common stock, this time reducing its debt load by $135 million. The company issued 10 million shares …
REDMOND, Wash.-Apex Inc., a server console management and switching technology provider, and Cybex Computer Products Corp., a provider of network hardware used to manage servers and data centers, have signed …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Software.com Inc. announced it will acquire @mobile.com Inc. for about $400 million in a stock transaction. @mobile.com is a wireless Internet application service provider offering wireless instant messaging …
Financial analysts are beginning to conservatively incorporate potential wireless data revenues into their valuations of wireless carriers, and many are looking to the future, realizing wireless operators should be evaluated …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service assigned a B3 rating to SpectraSite Holdings Inc. for its pending issue of senior notes and senior discount notes due 2010 with estimated gross proceeds of …
While most wireless companies are looking toward consolidation in the one-way paging market, Scout Electromedia is looking toward overlooked markets to broaden its appeal. Scout Electromedia, a term the company …
BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. announced its partnership with DSET Corp., a supplier of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the telecommunications industry, through the company’s Alliance Program. According to SCC, the Alliance …
DESERT SPRINGS, Calif.-Riverbed Technologies Inc., which has now merged with Aether Systems Inc., announced its ScoutWeb product is now commercially available. ScoutWeb is part of the company’s ScoutWare product line …
WEST MELBOURNE, Fla.-Relm Wireless Corp., a manufacturer of wireless communications equipment, reached an understanding with Simmonds Capital Ltd. on terms for the purchase of certain wireless communication assets owned by …
Did the fast-paced ’90s trickle over into the new millennium leaving you a little low on personal bandwidth space? Combining technology with a human touch, quixi Inc. claims to have …
ATLANTA-Two Atlanta-based companies, Preferred Networks Inc. and Definition 6 Inc., have partnered to offer a group messaging module that will allow PNI customers to create, manage and send pages to …
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-PhoneOnline.com, a software development and services company, and w-Trade Technologies have joined the Phone.com Alliance Program. PhoneOnline.com joined as an application developer, while w-Trade joined as a data applications …
