MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra has conducted preliminary trials of its new Nortel Networks-designed CDMA mobile network amid nagging disquiet and confusion in some rural quarters about the closure of the analog network. …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed the re-auction of 356 PCS licenses in the United States. Licenses had to be re-auctioned after several of the original bidders were unable …
DENVER, United States-Canada’s telecom market saw major changes recently as its four smallest telecom companies agreed to merge into one company and Bell Canada formed a strategic partnership with U.S.-based …
SAO PAULO, Brazil-A little more than one year after auctioning B-band cellular licenses and less than a year after the Telebras privatization, the Brazilian government already is dealing with agreements …
Capping a string of negative developments leading up to its first-quarter earnings report that showed a net loss of US$505 million, Iridium announced Edward Staiano-the company’s vice chairman, chief executive …
DENVER, United States-Students at a high school used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their suburban school while two gunmen terrorized students and …
TOKYO- To preserve more resources for its new business objectives and recover a balance between a currently too-heavy workforce and a shrinking beeper business, NTT DoCoMo announced it is restructuring …
MELBOURNE, Australia-A steady growth in demand for trunked land mobile services (TLMS) has forced the Australian Communications Authority to auction the last two blocks of five channels in Melbourne. “We’ve …
Australia The Australian Communications Authority said it will complete its PCS auction of 800 MHz and 1.8 MHz spectrum, with the final 800 MHz lot covering Central Australia to be …
China China Telecom granted U.S.-based Cwill Telecommunications’ smart antenna technology a digital Network Access License to connect its wireless PCS-band technology for WLL to China Telecom’s phone system anywhere in …
DENVER, United States-Arch Communications Group won the battle to acquire MobileMedia Communications, following approval by a U.S. bankruptcy court. The combination of MobileMedia and Arch will create the second-largest paging …
Gabon Gabon has issued a tender for two licenses to provide GSM 900 service. The application deadline was 30 April, with the licenses scheduled to be issued at the end …
CHICAGO-SBC Communications Inc. introduced its Cellular One Digital Edge Right Rate minute packs that eliminate long-distance charges for calls placed from Cellular One’s home coverage area in Chicago, north central …
BAL HARBOUR, Fla.-Let the lobbying wars begin. The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium is stepping up efforts to promote Time Division Multiple Access technology around the world following the CDMA Development …
DENVER-Columbine High School students last week used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their Littleton, Colo., school while two gunmen terrorized students and …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s recent adoption of truth-in-billing practices was endorsed by the Clinton administration before the vote was taken and it appears many of the administration’s suggestions were incorporated …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has qualified 90 bidders to compete in the re-auction of 161 local multipoint distribution services licenses on April 27. Seven LMDS licenses were removed from the …
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile said it will sell Inet’s Spider Cellular Digital Packet Data modem for use with Bell Atlantic Mobile’s AirBridge wireless data service. Mobile users can slide the …
WASHINGTON-China reportedly is backpedaling on market-opening telecom trade commitments that the Clinton administration believed were agreed to during Premier Zhu Rongji’s visit here recently. Robert Cassidy, assistant U.S. trade representative, …
BAL HARBOUR, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. says it is on track to fix network capacity problems associated with high demand for the digital one-rate service by June. “We have a …
