ATLANTA-Southern LINC said its customer base increased 50 percent in less than a year, from 100,000 customers in October 1998 to 150,000 customers presently. Since 1996, Southern LINC, the digital …
Bell Atlantic Mobile purchased six 10-megahertz personal communications services licenses from Rivgam Communications L.L.C. to increase voice capacity and prepare for the onslaught of high-speed data applications. The cellular operator …
Transcrypt Transcrypt International Inc. said its EFJohnson subsidiary launched a new line of mobile and portable radios designed to operate on Motorola Inc.’s Smartnet and SmartZone systems in the 800 …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to consider rules for the deployment of enhanced 911 automatic location identification technologies. The rules will come at an FCC Open Meeting …
That personal digital assistants have attracted the attention of the wireless industry is evident in the many announcements made last week targeting the popular devices. AvantGo Inc. announced it has …
LONDON-Orange plc in its results for the first half of 1999, ended June 30, said its loss before tax dropped 35 percent to $52.2 million (
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications said it will supply a temporary Global System for Mobile communications digital network in New Orleans during the Personal Communications Industry Association’s Personal Communications Showcase ’99 …
WASHINGTON-Sprint Corp. was forced last month to clarify its position on the use of number pooling as a way to preserve telephone numbers after many in the wireless industry believed …
Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. have tentatively agreed to again extend terms of a temporary restraining order banning Nextel from proposing its own reorganization plan to NextWave’s …
Craig McCaw and his crew at NextLink knew what they were doing, even if the rest of the world wasn’t as sure. Long characterized as a competitive local exchange carrier, …
NEW YORK-When David Finkelstein looks up at the heavens and ahead to the future, he sees low-earth-orbit satellites as galactic warriors fighting to control suburban sprawl on Earth and provide …
LA JOLLA, Calif.-NeoPoint Inc. said it has begun volume shipments of the NeoPoint 1000 smart phone to Sprint PCS, which will market the handset as the Sprint PCS NP1000. Sanford …
NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P., shifting focus from a development company to an operating company, named a new senior operating team in preparation for its impending commercial launch. The low-earth-orbit satellite carrier …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. signed an agreement under which Symmetricom will acquire HP’s Communications Synchronization business, said the companies. The business, part of HP’s Santa Clara, Calif., …
SAN FRANCISCO-Continued growth of the Internet and continued deregulation are fueling the tremendous change in the telecommunications equipment market, said Sutro & Co. in its newly issued research report. Sutro’s …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-SiRF Technology Inc. announced an alliance with location technology product and services provider Integrated Data Communications. The two companies plan to develop complementary product offerings that will enable …
WASHINGTON-A standards subcommittee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions plans to create a new working group to develop standards for fixed-access solutions. The Standards Committee T1’s Technical Subcommittee for …
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that designs, manufactures and sells broadband data …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-BroadVision Inc. announced CellMania.com was the fastest e-commerce site to launch using BroadVision’s One-To-One Business Commerce software. Time to market for CellMania.com took seven weeks. “The BroadVision One-To-One …
Convinced that wireless growth was significantly outpacing its own estimates, Lehman Brothers Inc. last week dramatically upped its long-term forecast for the wireless industry and upgraded a number of wireless …
