The shakeout continues. NextWave Telecom Inc.-which had the potential to be the nation’s largest PCS operator-followed two of its C-block counterparts last week and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. …
NORCROSS, Ga.-Ameritel Communications Inc. obtained a $20 million credit facility, consisting of both revolving and term loans, with Foothill Capital Corp., a Norwest company, according to USCI Inc. “Our customer …
CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. announced plans to acquire from GTE Wireless Inc. the controlling interest in the partnership that manages the cellular licenses serving the Jacksonville and Wilmington, N.C., areas …
ENCINITAS, Calif.-Truly Telecommunications Co. Ltd. plans to design and produce its first Global System for Mobile communications handset in cooperation with Telecom Technology Centre in Hong Kong, under a multimillion-dollar …
Jeffrey L. Fuller resigned as president and chief executive officer of Transcrypt International Inc., following the company’s battery of recent problems. The company’s chairman, John T. Connor, was named interim …
NEW YORK-Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Montreal, scaled back but proceeded June 9 with its first stock sale in the United States. The carrier sold 6.75 million subordinated voting shares, down …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced InterDigital Technology Corp. entered into a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Toshiba Corp. For an upfront payment of …
WASHINGTON-Labor Secretary Alexis Herman last week again denied allegations of influence peddling and related campaign-finance violations that are being investigated by an independent counsel. Herman is accused of using her …
ATLANTA-Harris Corp. said it will demonstrate its new Access Device 2000 at Supercomm this week in Atlanta. The work force wireless/ wireline tool combines field work force connectivity with ease …
NEW YORK-Stet Hellas Telecommunications S.A., a Greece-based wireless carrier owned 20 percent by Bell Atlantic Corp., went public June 3 through an equity offering by a holding company. Bell Atlantic …
Boulder, Colo., is set to become a test bed for recently licensed Local Multipoint Distribution Services systems under the direction of the National Wireless Electronic Systems Testbed. N-WEST is a …
NEW YORK-Wireless telephony providers are hemorrhaging revenues from organized activity by criminals drawn to the low risk and easy money of subscription fraud. Thieves are exploiting a particularly lucrative window …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled today to rule on a Personal Communications Industry Association petition to forbear from enforcing mandatory wireless resale rules. The FCC has given few clues …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week went on the offensive to put in place a technical standard that will allow carriers to alert subscribers of an impending natural disaster …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has petitioned a federal appeals court here to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision in April to eliminate equal employment opportunity rules governing telecommunications licensees. Though it …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. acquired the remaining interest in GE Mobile Communications, a joint venture of Ericsson and General Electric Co. The companies formed the joint venture in 1989 to manufacture …
Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have formed an alliance to jointly develop next-generation digital signal processing technology, a move that is expected to jump-start third-generation mobile phone technology. Motorola’s …
WASHINGTON-Telecom mergers, traditionally seen as threatening by organized labor, have become major platforms for unions and civil-rights groups to push their agendas and try to leverage concessions. As the Communications …
WASHINGTON-CTIA last week at its fourth annual Cellular Telephone Industry Association Foundation Achievement Awards Dinner paid tribute to Dennis F. Strigl, Newt Gingrich and the 50 winners of its Vita …
