Mexico Grupo Iusacell inaugurated its new Code Division Multiple Access network with a phone call by the company’s president, Fulvio del Valle, from its headquarters in Mexico City to a …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a wireless local loop contract with Estonia Telephone Co. Ltd., valued at $18 million. The contract includes turnkey deliveries of Ericsson’s RAS 1000 …
Imagine a reseller being able to offer paging services to thousands of customers while only paying a carrier for one cap code. Stop imagining. WireLink Communication Inc.-a small pager manufacturer …
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. announced it has acquired or signed agreements to acquire 17 additional 38 GHz licenses covering 33 channels in 13 metropolitan markets across the United States. The …
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. said it launched the Comcast International Roaming service to provide business customers with communications services in 70 countries. Customers use their existing wireless number, which …
oseph B. Cahill Crain’s Chicago Business CHICAGO-As economies from South Korea to Indonesia convulse, China has become the last line of defense in Asia for Motorola Inc. The importance of …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late last week was close to approving a new plan to relax conservative parts of its C-block personal communications services debt-restructuring rules and to extend the …
Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will have spent two weeks on the road before he returns home to Washington, D.C. Wheeler was scheduled to spend the …
CANNES, France-Comverse Network Systems Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Comverse Technology Inc., said it is developing a new set of mobile unified messaging applications for the Global System for …
Cambridge Positioning Systems, a Cambridge, United Kingdom-based company, last week introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications location system at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The company …
WASHINGTON-The war of words between the wireless industry and law enforcement over the time frame and requirements of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is becoming more strident as …
Advanced Management Program for Telecom Executives: Leveraging the Value Chain in the Competitive Environment February 22-27 The Division of Executive & Management Development at Southern Methodist University. SMU Cox School …
American Radio Systems Corp. completed its consent solicitation of its 11.38 percent cumulative exchangeable preferred stock with the majority of the stockholders giving the requested consent, ARS announced. ARS entered …
Consumers in Cincinnati for the first time will be able to purchase local, long-distance, personal communications, Internet and satellite TV service from one provider and receive their charges on one …
Bulgaria’s Post and Telecommunications Committee announced that the buyer of state-owned Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. will receive a Global System for Mobile communications license. The agency said it hopes to begin …
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-ReadyCom Inc. launched its Responder portable two-way voicemail service in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, said the company. ReadyCom said it has been conducting a …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and DeTeMobil of Bonn, Germany, said they are planning to offer Pegasos-QEDesign, a wireless network planning and deployment software suite for multiple technologies, including Code Division Multiple …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Susan Ness said last week’s ruling on the marketing of customer information by paging, cellular and telephone companies will benefit Baby Bells and their subsidiaries more …
In 1983, there were about 40 cellular cell sites in the Los Angeles area, with just a few hundred countrywide. Early subscribers lined up to pay whatever the price was …
Competition is a mainstay of the wireless industry. While the first decade of cellular service was marked with duopoly service where each carrier could do a poor job and still …
