WASHINGTON-A request for additional spectrum for private wireless users is receiving considerable flack from amateur radio users. The petition by the Land Mobile Communications Council is a ridiculous request, said …
FORT WORTH, Texas-Progressive Concepts Inc. and Japan Radio Co. Ltd. launched a prepaid wireless program, branded InSync, in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, market. InSync prepaid cards with local, long-distance, roaming …
HONG KONG-Lucent Technologies Inc. appointed Scott K. Erickson vice president of its Wireless Networks Group for the Asia-Pacific region, effective immediately. Erickson’s responsibilities in his new position include developing market …
By 2005, mobile location services will reach all 148 million wireless subscribers in North America, according to a study by Ovum, an independent telecommunications and information technology analyst firm. Ovum …
BURLINGTON, Mass.-KPN Telecom, a national telecommunications operator in the Netherlands, formerly named PTT Telecom, said it selected software and services from Lightbridge Inc. in a proactive initiative to help the …
Omnipoint Communications Inc. signed its 50th international roaming agreement with Mobilkom Austria AG. The personal communications services provider subsequently entered into a roaming deal in the Slovak Republic with Global …
WASHINGTON-President Clinton, pointing to the recent satellite failure that disabled millions of pagers, has taken steps to protect against unconventional threats to telecom networks and other critical infrastructure throughout the …
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Wireless Data Division introduced a new monthly flat-rate pricing system for unlimited wireless data transfer on its Cellular Digital Packet Data network. The company offers two …
Bell Atlantic Mobile added 55,000 digital cellular subscribers in March alone, not in the first quarter as indicated in a story on page 24 in the May 18 issue of …
Wireless carriers that bill for services through local phone companies may be affected by cramming, the latest consumer billing scam to hit the telecommunications industry. Cramming is when customers are …
WASHINGTON-The federal government is expected Thursday to ask a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Baltimore to extend the so-called drop-dead date on the personal communications services licenses awarded to Pocket Communications …
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. announced it plans to acquire all of the membership interest in Koll Telecommunication Services L.L.C. Published industry reports state that LCC’s tower-ownership subsidiary, Microcell Management Inc., …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is “quickly approaching the chicken-and-egg question” with respect to how the agency should respond to explosive competition in the wireless industry, FCC Commissioner Michael Powell told …
WASHINGTON-In two unrelated developments that could reignite the debate over whether wireless technology poses health risks, a new Swedish survey has found possible links between mobile phones and illness symptoms, …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Thursday announced it would hold off until June 8 an anticipated decision on a request by the Personal Communications Industry Association that certain rules, including …
WASHINGTON-Paging service providers that want the Federal Communications Commission to institute a coin-in-the-box mechanism for toll-free calls placed at pay phones may have a tough time convincing the major players …
NEW YORK-Instead of viewing paging as a dying industry, wireless telephony providers should recognize it as a service enhancement and growth catalyst, said Andrew Weisheit, vice president of the carrier …
SALEM, N.J.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. provided 60 wireless phones to Public Service Electric & Gas earlier this month for a nuclear emergency response test. The phones essentially replaced landline communications …
BUCHAREST, Romania-Northern Telecom Ltd. signed a three-year supply agreement with MobilFon S.A. to expand the carrier’s nationwide Global System for Mobile communications network in Romania, called Connex GSM. The agreement …
Corsair Communications Inc. said it completed installing its PhonePrint system for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in its Pittsburgh market. AT&T Wireless already had the fraud-prevention system installed in its New …
