WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard vowed to support telecommunications development in Africa, a continent with emerging markets that is looking to wireless technology to leapfrog into the 21st century. …
BELLEVUE, Washington-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. launched commercial services on its new metropolitan area network in Seattle and the surrounding areas, following an eight-week service test by more than 20 business. …
CTIA Christopher Putala joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association as vice president for congressional affairs. Putala worked for nine years with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide variety of …
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Liberal government has been forced to abandon plans to fully privatize Telstra Corp. in the face of a threatened revolt by members of its coalition partner, the …
Nextel 220 License Acquisition Co. and Intek License Acquisition Corp. appear to be in a fierce bidding battle for licenses in the 220 MHz (220-222 MHz) band. Nextel had expected …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. partnered with Yokogawa Digital Computer Corp. for the Japanese company to develop a diagnostics solution for Qualcomm’s fifth-generation MSM3000 Interim Standard 95-B baseband modem chipset. YDC plans …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-U.S. chip manufacturers endorsed a compromise legislative plan regarding Year 2000 disclosure issues that provides liability protection to encourage businesses to share problem-solving information about Y2K problems and …
To the Editor: Federal Communications Commission Chairman William E. Kennard included in his recent, defensive letter to RCR (Aug. 24) the statement: “The commission’s overarching mandate is to act on …
NEW YORK-Following the successful launch in eight initial target markets, WinStar Communications Inc. announced plans to expand its accounts sales initiative to 15 major U.S. markets by the end of …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co. said weak orders for semiconductor capital equipment is the primary reason for a planned restructuring of its operations that would reduce its global work force by …
WASHINGTON-A Kansas state law creating the Kansas Universal Service Fund discriminates against wireless carriers and should be pre-empted, the wireless industry told the Federal Communications Commission earlier this month. For …
NEW YORK-Recent gyrations in the public capital markets have made for splashy headlines, but they are not likely to stop telecommunications mergers unless there is a prolonged and profound slump, …
NEW YORK-Orbcomm USA L.P., Dulles, Va., a provider of low-earth-orbit satellite-based data and messaging communications, announced Sept. 10 it has signed reseller agreements with three companies serving different industrial sectors. …
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Northern Telecom Ltd. recently was awarded a contract valued at more than $40 million to provide equipment for the third expansion of Chunghwa Telecom’s 900 MHz Global System for …
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. was awarded a three-year $4 million contract to supply Wireless II L.L.C. with switching and base station equipment that will provide fixed and mobile telephone service using …
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. entered the fraud-detection and prevention market with its new product offering called SuperSleuth, which combines neural network-based technologies with more traditional rules-based detection techniques to help prevent …
Northern Telecom Ltd. last week said it plans to lay off 3,500 employees, or about 4 percent of its work force. Shares of Nortel on the New York Stock Exchange …
Extending desktop personal computer information to mobile phones has become a point of differentiation for several wireless companies of late, and Paragon Software plans to introduce a new application to …
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Mobile Phones announced the Telecoil-a hearing-aid compatible accessory designed to provide improved communications for the hearing impaired. The new product works with Nokia 5100 or 6100 digital wireless …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications demonstrated its High Speed Circuit Switched Data technology on a Global System for Mobile communications network, which boosted data speeds from current 9.6 kilobits per second to …
