NEW YORK-GTE Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles R. Lee and Bell Atlantic Corp. Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg designated six executives to fill key positions upon the completion …
NEW YORK-The average person does not use latitude and longitude to determine or describe where he or she is and neither, for that matter, do pilots of private aircraft. Lee …
GENEVA-Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest supplier of natural gas, is completing the final stages of a $100 million trunked radio network built to service gas drilling towns located in one …
LOS GATOS, Calif.-FusionOne Inc. said it will make its Internet Sync wireless synchronization service available to customers of Novatel Wireless Inc., which makes the Minstrel family of wireless modems for …
NEW YORK-Landline replacement, the Holy Grail of wireless telephony, received a boost from an array of forces unleashed simultaneously into the communications environment. This is not a high-stakes game of …
NEW YORK-A key component of the IMT-2000 global wireless third-generation standard that the International Telecommunication Union evaluated this month comes from the kind of small, entrepreneurial company whose voice is …
Wireless data and electronic-commerce applications should become increasingly popular in the future, with users trading stocks, comparison shopping and making travel arrangements all via wireless devices. However, for such transactions …
TOKYO-Phone.com Inc. said Japanese carrier DDI Corp. will soon launch a wireless Internet access service based on the UP.Link Server Suite on a Personal Digital Communications network. In April, DDI …
While most tower companies have been focusing their attention on the domestic market, Crown Castle International Corp. has cast its net overseas. Crown, through its Crown Castle UK Ltd. subsidiary, …
WASHINGTON-Competition in the local loop does not need to come from wireline competitive local exchange carriers, it can come from wireless carriers, a high-level executive told the Senate communications subcommittee …
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. introduced its new subsidiary, star*home, which will enable wireless carriers to offer to their roaming and visiting customers access to a variety of data and communication …
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Cisco Systems Inc. and Software.com, a developer of carrier-scale Internet infrastructure applications, announced a joint-venture initiative the companies said will jump start the convergence of Internet Protocol networks …
TOKYO-Chubu Telemessage Inc., a beeper carrier based in the Nagoya metropolitan area of central Japan, will shut down its business by March 2000. The carrier’s subscribers-109,000 at the end of …
WASHINGTON-As the Clinton administration scrambles to strike a deal on China membership in the World Trade Organization before the start of a global trade conference later this month in Seattle, …
WELLINGTON, New Zealand-The cellular operators in New Zealand have released their third-quarter subscribers figures. Telecom New Zealand, owned 25-percent by Bell Atlantic Corp., reported 760,800 as of Sept. 30, while …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Bell Labs has developed a single-chip digital signal processor that operates at 100 MHz using only 1 volt of power, the company said. Typical system-on-a-chip …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it will provide travel information to wireless devices by adding content from Worldspan, an online travel reservation system, to the Mobile Internet Exchange communications platform. The …
ORLANDO, Fla.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. introduced a new version of its MobileMax fleet management communications service for the transportation industry. MobileMax2 adds new features such as automatic check calls, dispatching, …
HELSINKI-Nokia Networks, the infrastructure arm of Nokia Corp., said it and Mitsubishi Electric initiated interoperability testing between their products and solutions supporting the Wireless Application Protocol 1.1. The intent of …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter, ended Sept. 30, of $143 million, an increase of 44 percent from the previous year’s third-quarter revenues of $99.4 million. The …
