WASHINGTON-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume last week predicted “widespread boycotts” of major wireless firms that are found to have poor records of hiring and promoting African Americans. The Economic Reciprocity Initiative, …
WASHINGTON-Some familiar heavy hitters have applied for a berth at the Feb. 18 start of the local multipoint distribution service auction, including Wall Street’s Mario Gabelli and Cablevision’s Robert Dolan; …
To the Editor: As an African-American and CEO of United Calling Network Inc., a licensed California public utility and a competitive access provider maintaining our own switches provided by Lucent …
Ike Kim, president and chief executive officer of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Standard Telecom America Inc., died Feb. 2 in San Diego. A service was held Feb. 5 at Duggans Chapel …
Motorola Inc. announced that it will use and distribute the full family of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java platform technologies, according to a licensing agreement the two entered. Under the terms …
WASHINGTON-A lobbying campaign is underway to kill anti-cloning legislation and cast it as an industry-orchestrated effort to monopolize the cellular phone extension business. “CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) has sponsored …
NEW YORK-Digital Lightwave Inc., a Clearwater, Fla., manufacturer of telecommunications network performance measurement technology, is the subject of at least three shareholder lawsuits filed late last month. Digital Lightwave, which …
NEW YORK-Who’s minding the store? When it comes to security analysts following newly public high-technology companies, the answer could well be no one. “More than half of all publicly traded …
BOSTON-U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern announced that Germaine Matos of the Dominican Republic was sentenced Feb. 3, by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, to two years in prison for …
BOULDER, Co.-CellPort Labs Inc. announced the third-generation version of its in-vehicle wireless data connectivity solution called C/P Connect. The new version of the platform pre-integrates a global positioning system receiver …
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cincinnati Bell Wireless plan to team up to provide personal communications services in two urban Ohio markets, according to a joint venture between their …
Safety has long been a selling point for the wireless industry and customers historically have pointed to safety as a primary reason for purchasing a wireless phone. Now several automobile …
WASHINGTON-In the FBI’s Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement implementation report, submitted Jan. 26 to Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) for review, the dates for actual CALEA hardware and software rollout remain …
Forecasting, Planning & Managing Technology February 9-11 Technology Futures Inc. Renaissance Hotel, Austin, Texas. Call Diane Sanso at (800) 835-3887. Western Communications Forum ’98 February 9-12 International Engineering Consortium. Hotel …
Affordable Message Center announced a new pricing plan and a new e-mail service to complement its Simplicity e-mail service. The AMC One Rate Pricing charges resellers for usage without requiring …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, which now projects $30 billion from spectrum auctions during the next decade despite free-falling license prices, plans to seek legislation from Congress this year to sell 36 …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission ruled last week that a personal communications services operator cannot necessarily be considered a facilities-based local competitor when determining whether a regional Bell telephone company can …
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its wireless messaging group has activated a dual-mode narrowband personal communications services system in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the foundation of a nationwide InFLEXion/ReFLEX25 network …
WASHINGTON-In an effort to clear his name and to retain his personal communications services C- and F-block licenses, Quentin Breen, principal of Westel Samoa Inc. and Westel L.P., asked a …
KIRKLAND, Wash.-A commercial transportation service that operates a fleet of 500 vehicles in metropolitan New York adopted AT&T PocketNet service as its dispatch and communications platform, announced AT&T Wireless Services …
