Increasing its advertising efforts during the fourth quarter, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. added 440,000 subscribers the last three months of 1999, ending the year with about 12 million subscribers. The …
WASHINGTON-Peter Angelos, the powerful Baltimore lawyer who has successfully litigated against the tobacco industry, asbestos manufacturers and others in personal injury cases, is looking into the mobile phone health issue. …
LUTHERVILLE, Md.-Hoping to more accurately describe the services it provides, Americom has changed its name to Americom Wireless Services. The company announced that the name change is a continuation of …
Wireless carriers and Wall Street are excited about the huge revenue potential advertising via mobile phones could bring in the future, but just how to offer it to customers is …
WASHINGTON-The American Mobile Telecommunications Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to change its rules as to when incumbents in the upper 800 MHz band can be paid for relocation …
NEW YORK-Toronto-based 724 Solutions Inc., which permits banks to offer their services over wireless devices, made a blockbuster debut on Nasdaq Jan. 28. Its 6-million share initial public offering sold …
WASHINGTON-FreeSpace Communications and the Industrial Telecommunications Association are at it again. The two parties are each urging the Federal Communications Commission to let them have access to the guard bands …
An Illinois Congressman has asked the U.S. General Accounting Office to probe the Federal Communications Commission’s procedures in granting Nextel Communications Inc. enhanced specialized mobile radio licenses in the last …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-MBO Wireless Inc. placed a follow-up infrastructure equipment order with AirNet Communications Corp. valued at $1 million. The equipment, used for MBO’s Global System for Mobile communications system in …
TEMPE, Ariz.-Micrologic Research released a study that said the cdmaOne market is growing more rapidly than Global System for Mobile communications, while the Bluetooth market is expected to grow more …
NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc. is bringing high-tech to high-rises. The company unveiled Broadband Plus, a dedicated, high-speed, high-capacity broadband network to serve New York City’s Silicon Alley. Winstar claims it …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its MSM3000 chipset and high-speed packet data software solution is featured in handsets developed by several Japanese manufacturers for the 64 kilobits per second, high-speed packet …
ATLANTA-Powertel Inc., Atlanta, has introduced an online bill payment system for its personal communications services customers who access its Web site. The site permits Powertel subscribers to view their last …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced its stockholders have approved an increase of authorized shares of common stock from 100 million shares to 200 million shares at a special stockholder meeting Jan. …
NEW YORK-Despite continuing paging and satellite sector laggards, Motorola Inc. maintained significant forward momentum in the last quarter of 1999. Earnings rose by 233 percent to $514 million, or 82 …
The business case for cdmaOne operators to migrate to 1XRTT technology is a no-brainer since carriers will have the luxury of doubling their voice capacity and experimenting with high-speed data …
MEXICO CITY-Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. announced its subsidiary, Globalstar de Mexico, began offering the satellite phone service on a limited basis to users in Mexico. Initially, service will be sold through …
NEW YORK-Communications companies dominated merger and acquisition activity in 1999, accounting for $304.8 billion in transactions and 21.5 percent of the dollar amount of deals whose dollar values were disclosed. …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. reported revenues of $9.9 billion for its first fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, vs. $9.84 billion a year ago. The company also reported net income …
New sales records of all kinds were set during last year’s fourth quarter, reinforcing the importance of the last three months of the year for the wireless industry. “In the …
