NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. agreed to purchase from private investors 14.9 percent of Advanced Radio Telecom Corp.’s outstanding common stock, which is about 3.3 million shares, said WinStar. WinStar will …
NEW YORK-Orbcomm Corp. of Herndon, Va., filed for a public offering to raise capital to repay Orbcomm Global L.P., which has financed the start-up low-earth-orbit satellite data communications venture so …
WARSAW, Poland-The GSM MoU Association and Japan’s largest wireless communications operator, NTT DoCoMo, have signed an agreement regarding the development of third-generation mobile phone technology. The GSM MoU believes the …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and the Industrial Telecommunications Association have signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow ITA to be the first contact on interference complaints for private wireless …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts, valued at about $105 million, by China’s Hunan Posts and Telecommunications to expand Global System for Mobile communications networks …
WASHINGTON-Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.), chairwoman of the House Science subcommittee on technology, is pressing the Clinton administration for support to prevent U.S. companies from being unfairly muscled out of the …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. launched paging service through its Global Messaging Gateway, a newly installed satellite uplink facility located in Stockton, Calif. Metrocall now handles about 250 million pages per month, …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week did some house-cleaning on the local multipoint distribution service auction by adopting partitioning and disaggregation rules that give LMDS licensees the same flexibility that …
NEW YORK-Orange plc outshined the other major mobile network providers in the United Kingdom, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 1998 U.K. Mobile Customer Satisfaction Study. Orange’s overall satisfaction …
“We are on the verge of completing a massive system that has been 10 years in the making,” remarked Dr. Edward Staiano, vice chairman and chief executive officer of Iridium …
China L.M. Ericsson signed four Global System for Mobile communications contracts in China, which the company values at a total of $756 million. Ericsson will expand existing GSM networks in …
NEW YORK-Transco Research Corp., a provider of prepaid cellular and wireline calling cards, is at the center of a federal investigation into stock pickers who accept money from the companies …
DENVER-Heather Forsgren Weaver has joined the staff of RCR as a reporter in the Washington, D.C., bureau. She most recently worked for Washington Telecom Week, an Inside Washington publication covering …
A ruling from a federal bankruptcy court in Dallas may have set a dangerous precedent for the Federal Communications Commission and further muddied the waters for C-block personal communications services …
Globalstar L.P.’s original service providers have until the end of today to decide if they want to take up Loral Space & Communications’ recent offer to buy a portion of …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard told Congress last week that public-safety wireless systems are at risk of succumbing to the Year 2000 computer bug, a problem that will cost …
NEW YORK-Transcrypt International Inc. last week saw its stock trading suspended on Nasdaq, and the company’s independent auditor resigned. Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. resigned as Transcrypt’s independent auditor, effective April …
The European wireless community has been reasonably successful at being able to feel superior to its U.S. counterparts. Europe has a unified digital standard. It offers short message services. It …
NEW YORK-France Telecom Inc. is putting the finishing touches on elaborate preparations that began three years ago for France 98, the month-long World Cup soccer tournament coming up this summer. …
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it entered into a strategic partnership with Forbes Inc. to offer wireless information services from Forbes Digital Media to PageNet subscribers. The information service-Forbes Online Business …
