WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is drafting legislation to shift the burden of the forbearance test in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 from the industry to the Federal Communications Commission. This legislation …
Just as paging carriers look to two-way paging as a means of differentiation into the next millennium, so do paging manufacturers. In the past, a one-way pager was pretty much …
BEIJING-Chinese officials may be close to deciding how to split up China Telecom, the government-run telecommunications company. Chinese newspapers last week reported that a plan to split the company into …
JACKSON, Miss.-Cellular South said it launched a digital wireless network in Jackson, Miss., to complement its existing wireless system serving other areas in Mississippi. Cellular South said it is leveraging …
After years of slowly gathering the needed partnerships with cellular operators across the country, Cellemetry L.L.C. today can offer its cellular control channel transmission technology across more than 90 percent …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry could be headed for an unexpected headache caused by the dreaded millennium bug. Insurance companies are telling wireless carriers they need additional liability insurance to cover lawsuits …
Tanzania Inmarsat announced Tanzania became its 85th member country. Adolar B. Mapunda, managing director of the Tanzanian Telecommunications Co. Ltd., signed the Inmarsat Operating Agreement at the International Maritime Organization’s …
WASHINGTON-The U.S. wireless industry, responding to the global proliferation of media coverage of mobile phone health concerns and to Internet-savvy activists, is leading an effort to create a worldwide information-sharing …
Western Wireless Corp. said it is adding customers to its wireless local loop service in Regent, N.D., even though customers cannot receive phone calls because of a dispute with the …
On Monday, it’s Vodafone-AirTouch. Wednesday, it’s SBC-Comcast. Friday must mean BellSouth. (Actually, it’s Thursday as I write this so if anything has happened to BellSouth, I should be on Wall …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-VoiceStream Wireless announced it is seeking collocation candidates on its personal communications services sites in the Denver trading area; Salt Lake City market (including Boise, Idaho); El Paso, Texas-Albuquerque, …
In a rapidly consolidating wireless industry, the list of available cellular carriers last week got shorter by two. After entertaining bids from at least two suitors, including Bell Atlantic Corp., …
Chief Executive Officer: Chris Gent Chairman: Sam Ginn Deal value: $97 per share Combined current market capitalization: $100 billion Equity split: about 50-50 Terms: AirTouch shareholders receive firve new ordinary …
Companies already are feeling the pinch from Brazil’s falling currency, which, at RCR press time, had lost about 20 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since Brazil’s central …
OSLO, Norway-The Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications Odd Einar Dorum and the Swedish Minister of Industry Bjorn Rosengren have signed a letter of intent to merge Norway’s Telenor and …
NEW YORK-Olivetti S.P.A. and Mannesmann AG announced they increased to $80 per share the cash tender offer made by Kensington Acquisition Sub Inc. for all the outstanding shares of common …
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced that it mutually agreed with Amplidyne Inc. not to proceed with Microwave Power’s proposed acquisition of Amplidyne.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Strategis Group projected the number of people who use cellular service will increase from 285 million today, to 700 million by 2003, leaving the world’s mobile satellite service …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry, increasingly beset with new local, state and federal taxes, is hoping to capitalize on the GOP-led Congress’ plans to parlay unexpectedly massive federal surpluses into a big …
Sprint Corp.’s PCS Group added about 830,000 subscribers during the fourth quarter, positioning itself to top the industry in customers additions for the second consecutive quarter. Though most carriers are …
