SAN DIEGO and MONTERREY, Mexico-Leap Wireless International Inc. and its Mexican joint venture, Pegaso PCS, announced Pegaso will launch service in Monterrey, Mexico. Monterrey is the third Mexican major market …
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp., working in cooperation with Italian companies Site SpA, Teli SpA, Convert Italia SpA and ETS srl, said it will provide a TETRA professional mobile radio network to Arma …
Every day does not produce news about the 3G standards process; it just seems that way. The basic reason, as Jimmy Durante once succinctly put it: “Everybody wants to get …
WARWICK, United Kingdom-Castle Transmission International, the U.K. subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp., said it is working in cooperation with One 2 One on plans for a mobile network in …
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Iridium L.L.C.’s recent financial restructuring and voluntary bankruptcy filing are not expected to have a financial impact on Iridium Africa, said Iridium Africa’s chief operating officer, Thomas Alabakis. …
PHOENIX-AG Communications Systems and Milwaukee-based Industar Digital PCS said they signed an agreement enabling Industar to offer the Roameo wireless office phone system to its business customers. Industar and AGCS …
DALLAS-Illinois PCS, an affiliate of Sprint Corp., will provide personal communications services under the Sprint PCS brand name using cdmaOne technology in central Illinois and the Quad Cities, including Davenport …
Motorola Inc. announced it filed a lawsuit in federal court in Miami to stop ICT International Cellular Telephone in Florida and Fred Posada from importing and selling unauthorized Motorola two-way …
WASHINGTON-President Clinton was questioned under oath last week by the independent counsel investigating alleged influence peddling and campaign finance violations against Labor Secretary Alexis Herman in connection with her role …
Concerned about the risks associated with aggressively pushing traditional prepaid service, Sprint PCS last week unveiled its own version of prepaid service that allows customers to monitor their spending with …
MELBOURNE, Australia-Someone is just settling into a film or play, conversing intimately in a restaurant or addressing the ball at the first hole-and a mobile phone ring interrupts. While usually …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. announced several Japanese manufacturers have licensed its UP.Browser microbrowser to include in upcoming wireless phones. The manufacturers include NEC, Casio Inc., Kyocera, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony, Denso, …
TOKYO-Since last year, Japan’s three Personal Handyphone System carriers have provided location services. This year, such services are expected to gain more accuracy because some carriers and venders are launching …
When Eric Doggett took the helm of Glenayre Technologies Inc. three months ago, he found himself captain of a ship lost at sea. A slowdown in the global paging infrastructure …
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said the Jiangsu GuoXin Radio Paging Co. in Nanjing City, China, awarded it a $3.8 million expansion contract for a FLEX paging network.
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said it signed an agreement with GE Harris Railway Electronics L.L.C. to add satellite-based data transmission capabilities to its Pinpoint Locomotive Tracking System.
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp., Bellevue, Wash., said it will pay approximately $195 million to buy rural service area licenses covering about 520,000 people in Arkansas, Texas and Utah from K.O. …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Mannesmann VDO AG announced a strategic alliance to cooperate in developing integrated in-car communications and information systems and applications. The companies said they plan …
NEW YORK-Deutsche Telekom, which bought England’s One-2-One last month, considers its 10-percent stake in Sprint Corp. too minuscule a toehold in the burgeoning and beckoning American market, company executives said …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Digifone, an Irish Global System for Mobile communications carrier, announced the first service in Ireland that allows customers to access Internet information via mobile phones. The service, called …
