WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.’s efforts to keep its 90 wireless licenses despite a cancellation notice from the Federal Communications Commission moved to court last week, as Bankruptcy Judge …
Dear Editor: The PCS slamming was rather tacky when it appeared on the cover of RCR and then has become quite old in issue after issue, but accepted by your …
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), attempting to play off GOP tax-cut and anti-big-government campaign themes, said he will push legislation this year to kill the telecom excise tax, …
WASHINGTON -“We started on our one-yard line and we drove down the field, but now we don’t want to settle for a field goal,” said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the …
Two-way operators hope new technology aids capacity constraints. Traditional small two-way radio operators are hoping new technology can ease their capacity problems and offer more integrated services to their customers. …
SkyTel, an MCI WorldCom company, announced it will add new paging protocol technology to its network to make it compatible with the next generation of ReFLEX two-way pagers. Today, two-way …
The Supreme Court rejected last Tuesday a petition filed by William Thomas and several other Web site owners challenging fees that are charged for registering and renewing Internet domain names. …
WASHINGTON-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is pressing the White House to include funding for mobile phone-cancer research in the president’s fiscal 2001 budget proposal. President Clinton is expected to submit his …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. will cut hundreds of jobs as a result of selling its mobile-phone division to Japanese vendor Kyocera Corp., the company said. Qualcomm is transferring employees from its …
SAN RAMON, Calif.-How can California-based U.S. Wireless Corp. help traffic congestion in Virginia? By supplying its location-enhanced digital traffic and congestion information to the Virginia Department of Transportation as part …
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens announced an agreement with Phone.com Inc. that will allow commercial deployment of Wireless Application Protocol-based services by more than 10 wireless operators in Europe and Asia. Siemens said …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc., Sarasota, Fla., raised $369 million Jan. 18 in a secondary stock sale of 9 million shares priced at $41 each. Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown was lead …
GIVATAYIM, Israel-Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. announced it signed a $20 million blanket purchase order with its principal global marketing partner, Global Wireless Holdings Inc. The order calls for infrastructure and …
HONG KONG-The Hong Kong Telecommunications Authority awarded five fixed-wireless licenses and 12 licenses for long-distance services via satellite, opening further telecommunications competition. The five fixed-wireless license holders pledged a total …
It is a generally accepted fact that today’s dollar doesn’t buy as much as it used to, but in the case of wireless airtime, it may actually buy more. “Since …
WASHINGTON-Policy-makers need to address the issue of building access if competition is to fully develop, said William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as he laid out his vision …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration on Jan. 14 relaxed rules restricting the export of encryption products to allow them to be sold to nongovernmental entities after a one-time review. Encryption is technology …
Attention to wireless security concerns emerged as the de facto theme of this year’s RSA Security Conference in San Jose, Calif., where several internationally recognized corporate security software firms stated …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net, a San Jose, Calif. wireless applications service provider whose common stock trades on the American Stock Exchange, has secured an institutional investor’s pledge for $10 million through …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it received $13.67 million in new equity financing from Nevis Capital Management Inc., an investment management firm based in Baltimore. Under terms of the financing, Conductus …
