JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it is offering a prepaid alphanumeric paging package in addition to its prepaid numeric paging product launched last fall. Prepaid alpha paging allows subscribers to …
The emergence of personal communications services providers is putting the often-tenuous relationship between carriers and resellers to the test in more ways than one. PCS once was viewed as the …
CHICAGO-B-Side Carriers L.P., operating as MobiLink, and Ranger Wireless Solutions announced that Ranger acquired most of the assets and contracts of MobiLink for an undisclosed amount. Ranger Wireless Solutions is …
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Qualcomm do Brasil S.A., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., announced a new Qualcomm phone manufacturing facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with initial manufacturing capacity of about 300,000 phones …
WASHINGTON-A petition by three trade associations representing railroads, utilities and the petroleum industry is being criticized soundly by other frequency coordinators, which claim the request for a separate “public service …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week convened the third annual wireless number portability forum to discuss ways to implement wireless number portability before the June 30 deadline. Portability facilitates …
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. announced it no longer is pursuing its initial public offering due to unfavorable market conditions. Pinnacle provides wireless communications rental tower space in the southeastern United …
SAO PAULO-Telefonica del Peru ordered the first phase of a digital cellular network expansion from Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group designed to extend service beyond the capital city of Lima …
LONDON-Orange plc introduced a one-number service called Every Phone that allows Orange customers’ phone numbers to follow them with a call-forwarding system. Orange’s Talkplan customers can call 330 from their …
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they will jointly develop and market enhancements to Nortel’s Companion Microcellular system, a digital wireless private branch exchange, to deliver Wireless …
WASHINGTON-In late spring, as federal regulators, wireless carriers and state and local officials neared the end of nearly one year of negotiations-culminating earlier this month with a highly publicized antenna-siting …
WASHINGTON-Finishing guidelines to facilitate antenna sitings on park property, The National Park Service stopped short of presuming that antennas can be sited without harming NPS lands. Instead, NPS decided each …
Well, it is August in the Nation’s Capital and like almost everyone else (we’ll get to that in a moment), Bureau Chief Jeffrey Silva, who usually occupies this space, is …
The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.’s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging, in which all major paging players …
Watching a cellular handset manufacturer that was once on top of the market exit from the U.S. handset business has broken Mal Gurian’s heart. The one-time president of Oki telecom, …
The industry’s first cellular phone manufacturer has become another casualty of the highly competitive handset business. Oki Telecom Inc. has ceased manufacturing, sales and marketing all mobile phones in the …
NEW YORK-NightFire Software Inc., Berkeley, Calif., debuted NetServ Express, which it said is “the first packaged software solution to automate the telecommunications service supply chain and simplify the order management …
SAN DIEGO-National Dispatch Center Inc. announced U S West selected it to provide operator dispatch service to U S West alphanumeric paging and personal communications services subscribers. U S West …
Motorola Inc.’s Mexican offices reported one of its employees was killed last weekend in Juarez, Mexico, the apparent victim of an ongoing drug war in the region that has left …
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it published a new performance guideline for cellular Time Division Multiple Access and personal communications services networks. Interim Standard-727, or “TDMA Cellular/PCS-Radio Interface-Minimum Performance …
