WASHINGTON-The fallout over alleged technology transfers, increasingly testing the mettle of fledgling mobile satellite firms, has prompted new bills to aid the U.S. space launch industry and to ban satellite …
Intelligent roaming is guaranteed to change the face of the wireless industry, and smaller carriers that have built their businesses on making money from roaming better pay attention, say experts. …
WASHINGTON-Let the lobbying begin. Now that the Federal Communications Commission has decided to think some more about its position on whether to auction private wireless spectrum, lobbyists are gearing up …
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced a new service plan for business customers that combines the use of multiple customers to provide a consistent and predictable wireless plan costing 10 cents …
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. last week signed agreements with LottoNet and Yahoo!, furthering its goal to provide various Internet-based information services to its paging subscribers. LottoNet is an Internet-based lottery information …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre’s Wireless Access Group and Golden Eagle Credit Corp. have teamed to lease pagers directly to the end user. The new leasing arrangement will allow more companies to …
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Several technology companies announced they have created an alliance to develop an interface connecting consumer and small-business appliances to Internet services, called the Open Service Gateway specification. Its backers …
NEW YORK-Orbcomm Global L.P., Dulles, Va., announced March 1 that Conatel, the Venezuelan government regulatory agency, has granted operating and frequency licenses to Telecomunicaciones de Caracas, the exclusive provider of …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. became the first Global System for Mobile communications carrier to eliminate long-distance and roaming charges on GSM networks in the United States and Canada. The …
WASHINGTON-In the public forum, Nextel Communications Inc. speaks earnestly of a brave new wireless world in which it could compete more favorably against AT&T Corp., Sprint Corp. and others if …
Are today’s high-tech firms so different from companies of the Industrial Age as to make classic antitrust analysis archaic and no longer applicable? Top antitrust minds, like Federal Trade Commission …
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. lawyer Thomas Cullen, attempting to convince U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last Friday to accept the dispatch giant’s request to vacate a 1995 antitrust consent decree, …
TOKYO-NEC Corp. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. have agreed to work together in technical trials of a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system with the Telephone Organization of Thailand. …
MIAMI-WinStar Communications Inc. announced it is now offering its service to businesses in Miami. WinStar’s network uses high-frequency radio waves. The company said it will offer local phone service, long-distance, …
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. submitted an application on behalf of the selling stockholders to the Securities Exchange Commission to withdraw the selling stockholders’ secondary stock offering of 3.35 million shares. The …
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Level One Communications Inc., Sacramento, Calif., has agreed to be acquired by Intel Corp. in a $2.2 billion stock swap that is expected to close by mid-year. “The transaction …
LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc. announced the city of Anderson, Ind., awarded its EF Johnson division based in Waseca, Minn., a $1.3 million contract to provide a city-wide radio communication system …
Italy’s stock market regulatory agency Consob has ruled Olivetti Spa’s revised hostile takeover bid of Telecom Italia can take place, severely hampering the latter company’s efforts to block the endeavor. …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is reviewing potential candidates to succeed National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving, who is expected to leave his post by year’s end. One prospect, Greg …
Based on first-quarter operating results projections, Iridium L.L.C. likely will fall short of the revenue and subscriber addition targets stipulated in its bank loan agreements, and the company said it …
