ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week challenged unexplained regulatory fee increases, claiming the fees will hinder competition between wireless and wireline services. PCIA argued the Federal Communications Commission …
NORMAN, Okla.-Follow-up research examining the interaction between cardiac pacemakers and certain wireless phones found that an adverse interaction only occurred when the devices were less than three inches apart from …
Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held software-development company based in Munich, Germany. Optimay, which will become a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies International, develops software products …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced the company’s second roaming partnership in Lebanon, with Libancell. Omnipoint also initiated its second roaming partnership in Russia with MTS Moscow. The first Russian …
Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Corp. last week became one of the first C-block licensees to select options from the Federal Communications Commission’s license rules. Omnipoint said it elected to …
NEW YORK-Triton PCS Inc., a startup Time Division Multiple Access carrier based in Malvern, Pa., was expected to sell privately late last week its first debt issue, which comprises $300 …
ESPOO, Finland-Tecnomen announced it signed a contract valued at about $2 million with Chinese operator Tianjin Toll Telecommunications Bureau to expand the capacity of its Global System for Mobile communications …
Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said start-up costs associated with its personal communications services business, Aerial Communications Inc., reduced cash flow and operating income during the first quarter, while United …
Last week, conservative wordsmith and Baltimore Orioles baseball fan George Will cheered the recent federal appeals court decision to throw out FCC broadcast equal employment opportunity rules put on the …
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. announced it has acquired the tower assets of Tower Industrial Park, which is based in the Cleveland area. Major tenants include Ameritech Corp., AT&T …
SAN ANTONIO, Texas-SBC Communications Inc. added 112,000 wireless subscribers during this year’s first quarter-and 919,000 during the past 12 months-bringing its total number of domestic wireless subscribers to 5.6 million. …
WASHINGTON-A group that claims mobile phone transmitters pose a public health risk last week asked a federal appeals court in New York to stay the Federal Communications Commission’s implementation of …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in a long-awaited and far-reaching policy call, is expected to rule within weeks on wireless resale policy for the future. The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is about …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. completed the sale of its Microwave Networks Division located in Minnesota to Tadiran Ltd. California Microwave received about $31.5 million at the time of closing, with …
NEW YORK-SCC Communications Corp., a Boulder, Colo., provider of emergency call services to wireline and wireless carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission its intention to go public. …
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. selected actress Jamie Lee Curtis to be the “voice of VoiceStream,” representing the company’s personal communications services products throughout 1998. Curtis will appear in Western Wireless’ …
Signaling the beginning of a global partnership, Telecom Italia said it will pay $2 billion for minority interests in Cable & Wireless plc’s international businesses. “I am pleased to welcome …
ROME-Three consortia have submitted bids for Italy’s third mobile phone license, due to be awarded mid-year. Two of the bids were expected for some time. Picienne-a consortium led by the …
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) said the privatization of the International Maritime Satellite Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization being negotiated by the Clinton administration may be …
NEW YORK-Consorcio Ecuatoriano de Telecommunicaciones S.A., Ecuador’s largest cellular carrier, announced last week it had scrapped plans to go public. Instead, the Quito-based company said it will seek to meet …
