VENEZUELA Nokia Corp. was awarded a multi-year contract valued at up to $105 million to supply a turnkey 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Corporacion Digitel C.A. …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp.’s board of directors approved the repurchase of up to 1.5 million shares of the company’s outstanding common stock, the company said. “We believe that …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s Corp. are considering whether to downgrade about $400 million of Hyundai Semiconductor America Inc. debt because of uncertainties generated by the South …
WASHINGTON-Under even the most abnormal of normal circumstances, it usually is possible to handicap odds for passage of wireless legislation before Congress adjourns. But these are not normal times. An …
Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an antenna inside of it to fill …
A Dallas bankruptcy court approved General Wireless Inc.’s reorganization plan early last week, only to have a federal district court effectively stay the ruling on Thursday in response to a …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to acquire Advanced Computer Communication, a California-based vendor of remote access and internetworking products, for about $285 million in cash. The purchase is congruent with …
PETAH TIKVA, Israel-ECI Telecom Ltd. and Tadiran Telecommunications Ltd. signed an agreement in principle to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction, pending a definitive agreement the companies expect to execute by …
Sorry Microsoft Corp., but analyst firm Strategy Analytics predicts the handheld device market in the future will not be dominated by any single standard. “Microsoft will not dominate this category …
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it will begin charging new customers for the CNN Interactive news service. Current subscribers receive the service free. The announcement came as the two companies disclosed …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications said it sponsored the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Executive Lock-Up, to air locally during the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. Business executives were “arrested” and locked up …
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-Northern Telecom Ltd. recently has won six contracts in Central and Eastern Europe, and has established a strong market presence there, the company announced at the sixth annual …
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Novatel Wireless Inc. said it started shipping its Sage Wireless IP (Internet Protocol) modem, a self-powered, external wireless modem that provides users a communications device that works with …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it conducted a demonstration of its High Speed Circuit Switched Data technology on a Global System for Mobile communications test network. The test included applications such …
Globecomm Systems Inc. said its board of directors authorized a stock repurchase of up to $2 million of its outstanding common stock, representing about 450,000 shares, or about 4.9 percent …
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Metromedia International Group Inc. announced its Baltcom Plus joint venture now is implementing the high-speed FLEX protocol paging on a nationwide basis in Latvia. The company said FLEX …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group said its technology was used to complete the first interoperator Code Division Multiple Access soft handoff across international boundaries. The handoff was between …
Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an intelligent network messaging solution designed to bring messaging mainstream, said the company. The solution makes use of information in network databases to enable a service …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts valued at $38.8 million to replace another vendor’s existing cellular Global System for Mobile communications networks and to expand …
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. and Compaq Inc. announced Slovak mobile carrier EuroTel Bratislava is migrating its customer base to the upgraded version of LHS’ Business Support and Control System. Compaq is …
