DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. said Lucent Technologies Inc. now is its exclusive network infrastructure supplier after replacement of eight switches and more than 1,200 base stations during the past six …
NEW YORK-Poland is making an able attempt to “keep up with the Joneses,” the leading industrialized nations it joined two years ago as a member of the Organization for Economic …
WASHINGTON-In a stunning turnabout, the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission late last week terminated negotiations with Pocket Communications Inc. debtors and called for the return of all but …
Royal Philips Electronics and Lucent Technologies Inc. last week said they will dissolve the consumer communications joint venture they established just more than one year ago. At the time of …
MCLEAN, Va. and BEACHWOOD, Ohio-LCC International Inc. and Allen Telecom Inc. decided not to swap LCC’s test and measurement equipment and related software analysis tools business for the engineering, software …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. declared itself the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones, as the company’s mobile phone net sales increased by 94 percent to $2.6 million during the third quarter. …
LAGOS, Nigeria-The federal government of Nigeria began advertising in October, soliciting bids for majority control of state-run companies, including Nigeria Telecommunications. Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, the country’s military ruler, announced in …
Nortel Networks Inc. announced it entered an alliance with Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd. to collaborate on wideband Code Division Multiple Access market development, including experimental network systems, services and …
NEW YORK-Ericsson Inc., Stockholm, Sweden, reported Oct. 22 net income of 55 cents for the first nine months of 1998, up 18 percent compared with the first three quarters of …
NEW YORK-After a flurry of announced mergers and acquisitions earlier this year, amid booming stock and high-yield bond markets, the deal flow has slowed in tandem with deteriorating conditions in …
Germany-based Mannesmann A.G. and Italy’s Olivetti last week announced they will launch a joint-venture company, Mannesmann euro.map, to provide cross-border voice and data services using already-existing infrastructure in individual European …
WASHINGTON-The Land Mobile Communications Council has set up new criteria for monitoring interference in the shared business pools. “It is something we need to do to make sure the spectrum …
A trial early next year could decide whether L.M. Ericsson owns key patents to Interim Standard-95 technology. Ericsson and Qualcomm Inc. are set to go to trial in February over …
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Networks Inc. sold the second-largest initial public offering in history Oct. 22, raising $18.4 billion as its stock began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nippon …
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The International Mobile Telecommunications Association said its board of directors now is complete following the addition of the Mobile Trunked Radio Operators Association of India. “Since its creation, IMTA’s …
WASHINGTON-On the basis of high-profile, sweeping bills, wireless telecom lobbyists had a miserable time of it in the 105th Congress. But given that lobbyists operated in the Age of Scandal, …
NEW YORK-Satellite Survey Systems Ltd., a Dallas company with roots in oil and gas exploration, has added another notch in its diversification belt by helping wireless companies pinpoint tower locations …
EDISON, N.J.-AAT Communications Corp. will manage the marketing and collocation activities for Union Pacific Railroad Co.’s network of 1,200 towers located along its more 36,000 miles of railroad, under a …
Microcell Telecommunications Inc. said it completed the final phase of its 1998 expansion in Canada with the launch of Fido personal communications services in London, Ontario. The PCS service, operating …
SAO PAULO-BellSouth Corp. announced late last week that its BCP S.A. cellular operation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has wiped out its 1.8 million-person waiting list for cellular service, signing on …
