Geotek Communications Inc. announced its plans to restructure corporate assets and management structure to focus resources on its operations in the United States. Geotek said it has reached agreements to …
NIXA, Mo.-Citing shareholder concerns over recent weakness in its share price, Applied Cellular Technology Inc. says it will not continue negotiations about its unsolicited offer to merge with Able Telcom …
WASHINGTON-Although a broadband wireless pricing survey performed by BT Alex. Brown Research came up with no definitive trend-all up, all down or all the same-it did find that high-end subscribers …
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. is rumored to be at an advanced stage in negotiations to acquire Teleport Communications Group Inc., the first and largest competitive local exchange carrier in the country. …
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it signed a technology and product engineering and test site support agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The new agreement will cover Samsung’s …
PHOENIX-TekNow Inc., which markets advanced wireless messaging systems to replace existing paging terminal equipment, announced Metrocall Inc. bought its platform of integrated messaging solutions. The platform includes TekNow’s PhenX TK4000 …
Teledesic Corp. announced Craig McCaw will return to his former post as chief executive officer of the company, where he will share the position with Steve Hooper, a longtime associate …
DETROIT-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services network in Detroit, using infrastructure equipment supplied and installed by Lucent Technologies Inc. The new system has …
NEW YORK-A year after enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995-designed to prevent frivolous shareholder lawsuits-the caliber of the federal cases brought is improving, but the overall …
SAN DIEGO-Nigerian Starcomms Ltd., a privately licensed wireless local loop operator, has agreed to provide service to the Lagos area of Nigeria using a $40 million cdmaOne system supplied by …
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee said a law partner of Peter Knight, lobbyist for Portals developer Franklin Haney and former Clinton-Gore campaign manager, told the panel the $1 million Haney paid …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard, under fire from Capitol Hill, last week defended a compromise with the Clinton administration to protect U.S. spy satellite frequencies by shifting around spectrum …
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will acquire Ipsilon Networking Inc., a company that develops open Internet Protocol routing platforms, in a $120 million transaction. Nokia has held a minority interest …
PHILADELPHIA-Grupo Iusacell, Bell Atlantic Corp.’s communications venture in Mexico, plans to launch Mexico’s first Code Division Multiple Access network as part of a $200 million upgrade beginning in Mexico City …
GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is preparing by beginning to build network …
A new company led by former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. executive Michael Buhrmann has developed a client-server operating platform designed to let wireless carriers segment their customer base by offering …
Geoworks announced a significant evolution to its GEOS operating system that will allow handset manufacturers to quickly produce a range of low-end to high-end smart phones. Consumer electronics giant Mitsubishi …
WASHINGTON-Russian authorities were expected to drop espionage charges against Qualcomm Inc.’s Richard Bliss over the weekend and free the 29-year-old field technician to return to the United States. Sens. Barbara …
Dear Editor: Mr. Jeffrey Silva’s “Little LEO’s fail to secure spectrum” (Dec. 1, p.1) is one-sided and incorrect. The first line stated that the “United States failed once again to …
ClearComm L.P. is courting Siemens AG to provide equipment and finance the C-block personal communications services winner’s Puerto Rican network, but the licensee still has to clear two major hurdles …
