BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. said costs associated with further development and deployment of its FraudBuster product were higher than expected, which contributed to a 69-percent drop in net income, from $898,000, …
Safety and security may be becoming a smaller factor for wireless subscribers. Fewer than half of respondents to an IDC/Link survey of current users reported they used their phone primarily …
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) last week accused the Federal Communications Commission of concocting a bogus national security issue to avoid attracting public attention to internal negotiations with …
WASHINGTON-The proposed marriage between Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. was met with skepticism from Washington telecommunications policy makers, most of whom do not believe the companies’ claims that the …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said it plans to auction spectrum in the 47 GHz band to be used primarily for fixed, point-to-multipoint services delivered through the deployment of …
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. announced its results for the second quarter, which was highlighted by the proposed merger with Ameritech Corp., as well as robust wireless subscriber growth. SBC’s subsidiaries …
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. reported record second-quarter operating results for 360
CARPINTERIA, Calif.-PulsePoint Communications said market trials of its unified messaging solution, conducted by GTE Corp. and Concord Technologies, showed the service appeals to 62 percent of small office/home office users …
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. added approximately 25,000 net personal communications services subscribers during the second quarter to close the first six months of 1998 with about 181,000 total subscribers. Average …
Meeting its planned mid-1998 launch deadline, General Magic Inc. began commercial rollout of its Portico virtual assistant service July 30 through a network of nationwide resellers. Portico, formerly code-named Serengeti, …
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission that it wanted to examine the annual budgets of the regional number portability administrators to ensure these entities …
PLANO, Texas-Paging Network Inc. announced it will outsource its product inventory management and logistics management, including warehousing and customer fulfillment processing, to enterprise customer management solution provider Centrobe, an EDS …
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced an aggressive rollout schedule for its facilities-based ReFLEX 25 guaranteed messaging service, with commercial service planned for areas of 15 additional states in August as well …
Wynd Communications Corp. recently introduced a wireless communications service designed to put deaf and hard of hearing people on equal footing with the hearing community. The WyndTell service uses Research …
Cramming, slamming, telemarketing, annoying … Anymore when my home phone rings I am ready to repel, poised to protect. As a result, I recently had a conversation that went something …
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced its billing and customer care system was chosen as Telecom Italia Mobile’s international telecom billing solution. As a member of the Telecom Italia Group, TIM is …
WASHINGTON-Franklin Haney, the embattled Tennessee developer, will testify Tuesday before the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations. Congressional and Justice Department investigators are probing whether the 20-year, $400 million …
WASHINGTON-TeleCorp PCS Inc. last week announced it closed a deal that will give it $525 million in senior secured credit facilities with a group of financial institutions led by Chase …
NEW YORK-Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent begun with publishing industry-related cases dating back to 1926, the Internal Revenue Service has determined a cellular provider must amortize, or spread out over …
LOS GATOS, Calif.-ARM Ltd. announced it will support the newly formed Symbian joint venture recently created by L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and Psion. Symbian was established to create …
