NEPTUNE, N.J.-Centennial Cellular Corp. acquired a 70-percent interest in All America Cables and Radio Inc. in the Dominican Republic for $25 million, the company announced. The remaining 30-percent interest is …
WASHINGTON-With the exception of some very large carriers in some very large markets, cellular carriers today are not starved for spectrum capacity, but they expect to be in the future. …
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced a contract renewal for prepaid wireless services with Canadian carrier Rogers AT&T Wireless. “We are pleased to continue our relationship with Rogers AT&T Wireless,” …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. signed a $225 million contract to provide its AB-Access fixed wireless equipment to Telecom Wireless Corp., a Colorado-based broadband wireless access provider. AB-Access is a last-mile …
WASHINGTON-Several years after their requests originally were turned down because they were filed on paper instead of electronically, a number of specialized mobile radio operators have been granted wide-area licenses. …
The harmonious relationship between wireless technology and the Internet is making monumental advances in communication, but the rate at which consumers are taking advantage of both is lagging a little …
WASHINGTON-A working group of the Federal Communications Commission currently is devising a plan that would create a new licensing bureau within the FCC by combining the licensing functions of all …
NEW YORK-A new Internal Revenue Service regulation to implement a 3-percent federal excise tax on prepaid calling cards and services went into effect Jan. 7. Known as T.D. 8855, it …
REDMOND, Wash.-GTE Wireless announced it has selected InfoSpace.com Inc. to provide a wireless Internet services platform that GTE mobile phone users can access from both their mobile phones and personal …
Handsets from Nokia Corp. and Code Division Multiple Access technology dominated the U.S. cellular and personal communications services industry in 1999, while international powerhouse L.M. Ericsson struggled to keep its …
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. this week filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and appointed wireless data industry analyst Andrew Seybold to its board of …
WASHINGTON-With the legal and regulatory actions behind them, creditors for bankrupt Geotek Communications Inc. now must decide what to do with a bundle of major-market specialized mobile radio licenses it …
Geoworks Corp. last week unveiled a licensing program to collect royalties on a user-interface method employed by the Wireless Application Protocol and Wireless Markup Language for which it says it …
Judge Hardin needs our positive thoughts. As he tries to make some sense out of the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, Hardin will find himself in the middle of some …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-UbiquiTel Holdings Inc., a member of the Sprint PCS Network, said it expanded its service area in an agreement with Sprint PCS. The deal calls for UbiquiTel to …
WASHINGTON-A Clinton administration telecom grant program under attack by key House Republicans has changed its name and recommitted itself to helping minorities, rural communities and other underserved entities. The National …
Research In Motion Ltd. last week received a $25 million investment from Nortel Networks and an order for more than 2,000 BlackBerry handheld devices in the next three months from …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said the Korean Industrial Property Office, Korea’s patent agency, upheld the validity of 46 of 49 claims of Qualcomm’s patent to CDMA technology. The patent describes Qualcomm’s …
TROY, Mich.-General Motors said it selected Bell Atlantic Mobile and GTE Wireless to establish a nationwide wireless network to expand OnStar’s portfolio of in-vehicle services to include personal calling and …
Besides being an American war hero, Senate Commerce Committee chairman, a powerful campaign finance reform voice, a credible GOP presidential contender and-until recently-the darling of the mainstream press, John McCain …
