NEW YORK-At least four class-action shareholder lawsuits were filed between June 25 and July 1 against Premiere Technologies Inc., an Atlanta-based company that provides enhanced services to paging and other …
NEW YORK-Citing “the weak state of the new issues public market,” Orbcomm Corp., Herndon, Va., announced July 2 it decided to postpone indefinitely its planned initial public offering of 7.6 …
WASHINGTON-When the Galaxy IV satellite went berserk in May and left most paging carriers and their customers holding the bag, the Federal Communications Commission said the Network Reliability and Interoperability …
NEW CANAAN, Conn.-New York investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe agreed to buy Centennial Cellular Corp., and merge the rural cellular provider with CCW Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation …
Mobile & Fixed Wireless Networks and Services Seminar July 6-7 Alexander Resources. Marriott Courtyard Crystal City, Washington, D.C. (800) 948-8225 or (972) 818-8225. Signalling System 7 and Intelligent Networks July …
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week urged the FBI to revise its definition of key words in rules implementing the digital wiretap act. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association asked the FBI …
Now that the nation’s top wireless carrier and its second-largest cable TV company have announced plans to merge, industry watchers are speculating about how the companies might converge their networks. …
WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card …
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS now is offering its customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia lower rates with more packaged minutes than before. BellSouth, which is celebrating its second …
NEW YORK-As the telecommunications marketplace expands, billing and customer-care companies are ramping up efforts to carve out niches and compete against each other for dominance. “Fueled by changes in customer …
DALLAS-NEC America Inc. announced it selected Preferred Paging and Wireless as a mail-order supplier for the Beacon Data Pager, a wireless personal digital assistant with full alphanumeric messaging capabilities. The …
Comsat Corp. announced it completed the sale of Comsat RSI Inc. to a subsidiary of TBG Industries Inc. for $116.5 million. CRSI designs, manufactures and integrates earth stations and wireless …
The larger players in the paging industry have bellied up to the consolidation table and, with fork and knife in hand, are poised to dig in. Still digesting its acquisition …
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the first phase of its site management business sale to OmniAmerica Inc. In the first of two transactions, Arch sold its communications …
DALLAS-Panafon, a mobile operator in Greece, awarded Aethos Communication Systems a $1.6 million contract to increase capacity of its prepaid platform to accommodate 300,000 subscribers. This is the second upgrade …
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will resell Conxus Communications Inc.’s Pocketalk voice paging services in the Philadelphia area. Pocketalk is based on Motorola Inc.’s FLEX technology. TSR said …
More than one person in the wireless industry has referred to the government’s auction of C-block personal communications services licenses as a bad dream. Now, it seems, the Federal Communications …
FWT Inc. announced its first installation of the PowerMount antenna system on anything other than an electrical transmission tower-this one inside the legs of a Shell Oil Co. sign at …
FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Communications Corp. announced it launched a prepaid paging service package called The MobileComm 6-Pak, which includes a numeric pager, six months of local service, activation fee and …
Could Japan, America’s venerable trade nemesis, be the key to future global economic stability generally and the wireless revolution specifically? Without doubt. The Clinton administration believes it has Japan over …
