ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced Omnipoint Communications Inc. President George Schmitt was elected chairman of the PCIA board of directors. Formerly the association’s treasurer, Schmitt succeeds Metrocall Corp. …
WASHINGTON-In a move that could aide future wireless technological development, Congress is pushing a bipartisan bill that would permanently extend the research and development tax credit. The bill, introduced by …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has licensed Custom Netcenter from Netscape, a subsidiary of America Online, to develop a portal designed to serve as the Internet start page …
WASHINGTON-At the end of round 22, the re-auction of 161 local multipoint distribution service licenses was still going strong with 64 new bids. McLeod USA Inc. is the most active …
“The rate of growth in wireless and for telecommunications in general means people are looking for new and more ways to connect, so this will be a good investment, even …
NEW YORK-“We are our own unit, and we do not think our way of running the business will be affected by the merger,” Massimo Arciulo, director of strategic and financial …
LONDON-Hongkong Telecom announced a total of 403 staff members joined the company’s voluntary exit program. A total of $49 million will be paid as ex-gratia payments and leaving service benefits. …
LONDON-Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd. reported its mobile service revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31 were $751.6 million, down 3 percent from the previous year. The company recorded a net …
WASHINGTON-The recent rash of violent events-highlighting both the life-saving capabilities and limitations of wireless technology-will serve as a powerful backdrop to this Wednesday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on 911 wireless …
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Motorola Inc.’s Worldwide Information Network Services group announced the U.S. General Services Administration awarded it a contract for Iridium L.L.C. products and services. The contract is in addition to …
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-In response to the recent shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., California Gov. Gray Davis and Nancy Hobbs, executive vice president of AirTouch Cellular, California region, announced …
MONTEREY, Calif.-Aeris Communications Inc. said its MicroBurst technology now covers the whole of North America and is ready for commercial service. At the WirelessDeveloper ’99 conference last week, Aeris announced …
MONTEREY, Calif.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. and SmartServe Online Inc. said they plan to combine resources to provide brokerage houses and their customers with wireless stock trading and secure wireless access to …
WASHINGTON-At a time when all the rage on Wall Street is about the Internet, a CEO of a major wireless company contends wireless is bigger. Speaking at a luncheon sponsored …
GENEVA-As any one of the tens of thousands of visitors who thronged the halls of February’s GSM World Congress knows, the latest word in GSM services is Wireless Application Protocol …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is crafting conditions by which the merger between SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. can be approved. “Some problems cannot simply be solved by conditions but …
WASHINGTON-GTE Corp. filed a transfer of control application with the Federal Communications Commission in an effort to acquire Ameritech Corp.’s wireless properties in the Chicago, St. Louis and central Illinois …
American Mobile Satellite Corp. introduced a service called eLink, a two-way wireless messaging application with integrated personal information manager functions. Using a modified version of the RIM 950 pager from …
SAN DIEGO (AP)-Disgruntled employees are suing Qualcomm Inc., demanding potentially millions of dollars in stock options. The class-action lawsuit filed last week demands that unvested stock options for workers in …
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. said it has completed the sale of its cellular division, InterCel, to Public Service Cellular, a unit of Public Service Telephone Co. of Reynolds, Ga. The …
