WASHINGTON-International Mobile Telecommunications Association President Alan Shark urged Malaysian telecommunications officials to adopt a flexible approach in wireless equipment standard requirements instead of restricting the types of technologies that can …
Austria Kyro Corp.’s Tecnomen Group announced Mobilkom Austria selected it to supply a new messaging system for Mobilkom’s Global System for Mobile communications network expansion. The new system will add …
IBM Corp.’s Microelectronics Division last week introduced its first standard, high-volume chip based on the company’s silicon germanium manufacturing process. The company said the new standard chips can be used …
PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has sold its major trading area license and operations in Hawaii to Sprint Corp.-a deal that PrimeCo says has been in the works for nearly 15 …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS introduced a handset with a built-in mouse, manufactured by Denso Wireless Systems America, and a headset from Plantronics Inc. The Sprint PCS Touchpoint handset has a …
Count one less player in the specialized mobile radio game. As of Oct. 18, Geotek Communications Inc. will be but a memory of yet another start-up with a good idea …
DENVER-Under the direction of its new chief executive-Osmo Hautanen, formerly of Philips Consumer Communications and Nokia Corp.-start-up firm Formus Communications Inc. has made steady progress in its mission in the …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said personal communications services is a facilities-based competitor to wireline services. However, in an order rejecting BellSouth Corp.’s application to offer long-distance service in …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed an agreement valued at $49 million with Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan to upgrade the operator’s Advanced Mobile Phone Service wireless network. Chunghwa plans to install base …
L.M. Ericsson last week spelled out details of its new strategic direction, which includes an increased focus on Internet technologies to piggyback on its established position in the wireless and …
ATLANTA-Eric Ensor has resigned as president of BellSouth Mobility DCS, BellSouth Corp.’s Global System for Mobile communications operation, effective Oct. 31. Ensor will become president and chief operating officer of …
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Networks Inc. plans to raise $18.4 billion when its 545,000-share initial public offering begins trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Oct. 22. The carrier, which does …
ORLANDO, Fla.-To paraphrase a Bell Atlantic commercial, “wild things are happening” in dispatch radio, according to speakers at the recent PCS ’98 show. Just outside the spotlight, which is focused …
HOUSTON-Crown Transmissions International, the United Kingdom subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp., purchased Millennium Communications Ltd. for about $15.5 million. Millennium will become an operating division of CTI, focused on …
An article in the Oct. 5 issue of RCR should have indicated Sprint PCS expects to raise $604 million with its initial public offering. Also, due to incorrect information supplied …
An open letter praising the UWCC To the Editor: I feel compelled to write a letter of congratulations to the entire UWCC organization. It is the first time in my …
Sources indicate Ericsson Inc. may be preparing to enter the cdmaOne handset business. Ericsson, the only major vendor that has yet to license Interim Standard-95 technology from Qualcomm Inc., has …
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry, while failing to get the digital wiretap grandfather date statutorily changed, appears to have been successful in getting written assurances included in the end-of-the-year spending bill that …
Gerard J. Waldron, a communications attorney and former Democratic counsel to the House telecommunications subcommittee, is being prominently mentioned as the leading candidate to succeed John Nakahata as chief of …
Italy’s Communications Minister Antonio Maccanico was reported in foreign press as saying the country may engage in yet another auction for a fourth mobile phone license, possibly before the end …
