The U.S. State Department suspended work July 27 on an international project aimed at launching communications satellite-carrying rockets from a floating launch pad near the equator, fearing American technology secrets …
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. and Colombian paging provider Espectracom signed a roaming agreement to extend PageMart’s South American reach to Colombia, said PageMart. Roaming service is expected to begin early next …
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement to purchase all the outstanding shares of Positron Fiber Systems Corp. for about $200 million, the companies said. The merger advances Reltec’s …
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp.’s board of directors authorized a common stock split in the form of a 100-percent dividend payable Aug. 31 to shareholders of record Aug. 17. “Investors have …
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Powertel Inc. said it will use Lightbridge Inc.’s FraudBuster service to detect and prevent technical and subscription fraud. FraudBuster is a UNIX-based software product designed to identify wireless usage …
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission it should not delay the rollout of wireless number portability despite the industry’s claims it isn’t technically possible to …
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced its PageWriter 2000 two-way pager will have access to Internet-based information services through the PocketGenie software application developed by WolfeTech Corp. The agreement follows a …
WASHINGTON-Saying he was responding to constituent complaints about non-itemized billing, Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) recently introduced legislation requiring all commercial mobile radio service providers to itemize customer bills. This itemization …
WASHINGTON-An agreement between GTE Corp. and AirTouch Paging, signed earlier this month, is a good example of how the telecommunications industry can work with “regulatory guidance but without regulatory fiat,” …
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will give up to two months of free airtime to customers who buy one-way numeric pagers in August at some 17,500 7-Eleven stores nationwide. 7-Eleven …
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced a two-way messaging service it said will allow customers to receive and create e-mails and pages from one device. The company also said it will create …
NEW YORK-Two California-based wireless industry companies, Boatracs Inc. and Ora Electronics, have joined several dozen other small-cap public corporations enrolled in the new “Seal of Best Practices in Investor Relations” …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its results for the second quarter were the strongest quarterly results in its 16-year history as a public company. InterDigital’s reported net income …
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. said it will provide its second-generation, point-to-multipoint AIReach Broadband equipment to WinStar Communications Inc. for its broadband fixed wireless network. The multiyear agreement calls for …
HighwayMaster Communications Inc. stock fell 50 percent to $1 the day after its board of directors and management expressed disappointment at the company’s operating results. The company’s second-quarter earnings results, …
NEW YORK-Due to orchestrated criminal activity involving illegally obtained subscriber identity module cards, Omnipoint Corp. discounted nearly $10 million-all overseas roaming revenues-its Omnipoint Communications Services L.L.C. subsidiary earned last quarter. …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry has been asked to help the Federal Communications Commission reduce a three-inch thick backlog of work yet to be completed by the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. At …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Transcrypt International’s E.F. Johnson products division celebrated its 75th year of manufacturing radio equipment at a reception for its customers at the National Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials Conference. …
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. introduced its third-generation Time Division Multiple Access baseband processor chipsets. According to DSP, the D5203 chipsets are compliant with Interim Standard-136A requirements. Volume production is expected …
CELWAVE Celwave introduced a new antenna and amplifier. The Celwave Optimizer, a log periodic dipole antenna, has continuous adjustment of electrical downtilt with the turn of a dial. With an …
