Three personal communications services licensees last week agreed to consent decrees with the U.S. Department of Justice concerning alleged collusion during the Federal Communications Commission’s 1996 D-, E- and F-block …
NEW YORK-Nickel cadmium batteries, long the mainstay of rechargeable power sources for wireless phones, are fading fast into handset history. Today, nickel metal hydride batteries are emerging at the top …
FREEHOLD, N.J.-BAP Acquisition Corp., which in July signed a definitive agreement to buy Bell Atlantic Corp.’s paging assets, has agreed to merge with Paging Partners Corp. Under terms of the …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-ICO Global Communications announced an agreement with American Management Systems in which the latter will provide ICO a fully automated billing service to reduce activation time. The system will …
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Metrica, a business unit of ADC Telecommunications Inc., said it won a contract to manage Omnipoint Communications’ network performance using Metrica/NPR. The system will manage performance statistics collected from …
In their effort to promote profitable growth vs. growth at all costs, paging carriers have watched their net subscriber additions fall incrementally over the last several quarters, most notably from …
ITA The Industrial Telecommunications Association said it appointed Laura Leigh Smith executive director, government relations. She formerly was deputy division chief (legal) in the public safety and private wireless division …
Rural Cellular Corp. Rural Cellular’s revenues increased 103 percent to $34 million from $16.8 million during last year’s third quarter. Net loss for the quarter totaled $4.5 million, or 50 …
PENSACOLA, Fla.-BellSouth Mobility Inc. launched personal communications services in northwest Florida, including Panama City, Tallahassee, Gainesville, Ocala and Tampa. The company’s licenses in northwest Florida include Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa …
While Iridium L.L.C. continues work to improve the technical prowess of its low-earth-orbit satellite-based global phone service, the company also must turn its attention to its global sales and marketing …
WASHINGTON-Franklin Haney, a Tennessee developer closely tied to Vice President Gore and a central figure in Portals investigations, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of …
NEW YORK-Hellenic Tele-communications Organization S.A., a multiservice carrier headquartered in Athens, went public Nov. 2 with a 43.8 million-share stock sale that raised $1.1 billion. Salomon Smith Barney and Credit …
Analysts say the launch of Iridium L.L.C.’s mobile satellite service has positioned Globalstar L.L.P. to be a low-cost provider when it offers service around 2000. After losing 12 satellites in …
NEW YORK-Conventional wisdom may hold that scale is superior when it comes to carriers and miniaturization is most desirable when it comes to handsets. However, neither attribute necessarily implies long-term …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it and Swedish operator Telia will conduct further trials of business communication services, providing Global System for Mobile communications wireless connectivity over Internet Protocol-based enterprise networks. …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced expansion contracts with Singapore Telecom and Chongqing Telecom and the Hebei PT in China. Ericsson plans to expand SingTel Mobile’s Global System for Mobile communications network …
WASHINGTON-Well, the game is over and the fat lady has sung. But who won and what does it mean for the wireless telecommunications industry? The easy answer is that nothing …
Cellular carriers have made significant progress in their efforts to upgrade their 800 MHz analog networks to digital technology. Consumers’ appetite for digital features is demonstrated by the success of …
Aggressive digital pricing plans are quickly driving the migration of customers from analog service to digital service, say analysts. “We attribute today’s successful migration directly to rate plans combined with …
InterFigital reports net loss; revenues increase KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. reported a third-quarter net loss of $6.1 million, or 13 cents per share, compared with a net loss …
