WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) abruptly tabled his E911 federal-land antenna-siting bill last week after controversy erupted over local zoning rights and liability, effectively killing the legislation for …
SONY Sony Electronics’ Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides …
BELLSOUTH BellSouth Corp. appointed Nancy Humphries vice president of investor relations. For the past seven years, Humphries served as executive director of investor relations for BellSouth, responsible for communicating the …
Paging carriers are showing signs that they have taken to heart analysts’ warnings that information services must be customizable and have real value in order to convince customers to pay …
LONDON-Orange plc said it will offer the equivalent of any competitor’s digital package on its network under a new program called the Orange Value Promise. The U.K.-based operator has studied …
For months now, my buddy Mike Houghton and the North American GSM Alliance have been scratching their heads trying to figure out how Qualcomm, Lucent and the CDMA crowd have …
British Telecommunications plc announced plans to acquire a 23.49 percent stake in South Korean mobile operator LG Telecom. The company said it will spend about $392.1 million for the stake. …
NEW YORK-Long Distance International Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., announced Oct. 1 a merger with Stockholm-based NETnet International S.A. that will add 90,000 business customers to LDI’s portfolio in Europe, of …
WASHINGTON-Pekka Tarjanne, outgoing secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, predicted last week a family of third-generation wireless standards will emerge by year’s end and that family will include a …
ATLANTA-Intellivoice Communications Inc. announced its EasyDial voice-activated dialing technology will be available to wireless carriers on a service bureau basis through an arrangement with Premiere Technologies Inc. The agreement will …
NEW YORK-Concerns are mounting that recent deliberations by federal government leaders in China could lead to a lock-out of foreign investors from its telecommunications services market. “China has quietly issued …
BEACHWOOD, Ohio-Allen Telecom Inc. and LCC International Inc. announced they formed an agreement in which LCC will swap its test and measurement equipment and related software analysis tools business for …
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Powertel Inc. announced it launched personal communications services in Nashville, Tenn. The Nashville market, covering more than 1.2 million people, includes Brentwood, Bellevue, Cool Springs, Cross Plains, Dickson, Franklin, …
WASHINGTON-Factors such as new wireless local loop licensing, reduced equipment costs and increasing acceptance of wireless as an alternative to wireline communications will contribute to the WLL market growing 50 …
Wireless intelligent network deployments remain slow in the United States as mobile phone carriers have focused on building out digital networks and spending money on switching and radio-frequency infrastructure. That …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is at a “watershed point,” and is now beginning to compete in earnest with wireline telephony, said Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. The …
ORLANDO, Fla.-Carriers in the Asia-Pacific are beginning to re-evaluate their choice of digital technology, opening a new door for Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple Access in the region, said officials …
As an industry, we are all too aware of the fundamental changes in our business. The days of high average revenue per minute of use, phenomenal subscriber growth numbers, low …
Competition is changing the customer satisfaction landscape in wireless markets, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ 1998 U.S. Wireless Customer Satisfaction Study. Carriers who previously led in customer satisfaction changed …
