DENVER-Satellink Paging L.L.C., a subsidiary of Satellink Communications Inc., has acquired Premier Paging of New Orleans Inc., announced Daniels & Associates, a Denver-based investment banking and financial services company that …
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. reported a net loss of $205 million for the quarter ended March 31, which the company said is consistent with its expectations. The consortium is developing a global …
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Although the Asian currency crisis likely will result in making both handsets and financing more difficult and costly to obtain, wireless subscriber growth and revenues will continually expand until …
WASHINGTON-A federal bankruptcy judge in Baltimore last week ordered the Federal Communications Commission to surrender to unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. information intentionally omitted from the company’s reorganization plan …
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’ …
