WASHINGTON-President Clinton and other administration officials met with high-tech, security and civil-liberty representatives at the White House last Tuesday to address the recent wave of cyber attacks. The attacks come …
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. reported its mobile communications business unit received a five-year extension for satellite services supporting the Federal Aviation Administration’s space-based aircraft navigation system. The extension expands the previously …
Driven by the collision of wireless and the Internet, wireless e-commerce represents the single most powerful market disrupter of this decade. It will entice new “virtual” operators that will help …
WASHINGTON-In another move in the litigative trench warfare that is the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, the federal government on Thursday filed a notice of appeal to preserve its rights …
HONG KONG-Pacific Century CyberWorks, the Asian Internet company vying for a tie-up with Cable & Wireless HKT, raised more than $1 billion through a share placement. The funds could help …
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. released its new Wireline-Wireless Mailbox, which enables customers to have one integrated voice mailbox for their home and cellular phones. The service, initially available in Atlanta, allows customers …
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it doubled its prepaid wireless subscriber base, reaching 2 million subscribers, in less than 12 months. The company attributed the increase to its expanded …
BOSTON-AT&T Wireless and the Boston Celtics have teamed up for a new promotional relationship featuring Celtics legend Bill Russell. In addition to featuring the Hall-of-Famer in print, radio and point-of-sale …
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc., a provider of prepaid services to wireless carriers in North and South America, is offering a discounted wireless prepaid solution to new members of the …
WASHINGTON-Yet another federal appeals court has been brought into the debacle known as the personal communications services C-block. Bankrupt PCS operator NextWave Telecom Inc. filed on Feb. 11 a petition …
NEW YORK-In a Valentine’s Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had partnered to provide fixed wireless voice …
Tantau Software International Inc. unveiled an open mobile e-commerce platform, built specifically for the enterprise customer, that bypasses the typical constraints placed by carriers and operators on access to mobile …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Symbian initiative unveiled several new product enhancements through deals announced at the Symbian Developers Conference. An agreement with Communication Intelligence Corp. added the company’s Jot handwriting recognition …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced it received a purchase order for 27 of its SuperFilter Systems from an unnamed cellular service provider, increasing its backlog to 56 systems and …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. said forecasted orders for a product in its single carrier amplifier line have been delayed until later this year and will result in lower-than-expected revenues and earnings …
MADISON, Wis.-Sprint PCS launched service in the Madison, Wis., area as part of a nationwide network expansion covering more than 4,000 cities. As part of the launch, the company is …
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens Information and Communication Network unveiled its strategy for next-generation enterprise Internet Protocol communications. The Siemens Enterprise Convergence Architecture, called HiPath, enables a company’s existing voice and data infrastructures …
In the competitive wireless industry, carriers are faced with an almost impossible task: bringing more customers in the door through attractive marketing programs while at the same time addressing the …
BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. announced an aggressive deployment schedule for its Phase I wireless 911 service with more than 1,000 public safety answering points scheduled for deployment in 18 states …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Rural and underserved markets quickly are becoming integral, strategic components of international telecommunications expansion, because reaching the 4 billion people worldwide still without access to telephone services poses …
