Personal communications services operators Western Wireless and Aerial Communications Inc. each launched a service last week that will allow subscribers to receive e-mail messages using their PCS phones. Western Wireless …
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has expanded its distribution arrangement with Eckerd Drug Stores Inc. for its paging products and services to be offered in an additional 1,126 locations-up from …
BETHESDA, Md.-Delta Air Lines selected Comsat Mobile Communications to provide satellite communications services to its passengers and its cockpit crews on all international flights. According to a three-year contract between …
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NEW YORK-Expanding an offering available to corporate customers for the last year, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced its PocketNet service, which allows Internet access from analog cellular phones, …
DULUTH, Ga.-Astronet Corp., a Mitsubishi Electric America company, said it has completed its move from Lake Mary, Florida, to Duluth, Ga. By moving to Georgia, Astronet was able to consolidate …
PITTSBURGH-The Associated Group Inc. announced its board of directors approved a two-for-one stock split of the company’s class A and B common stock. The split will be effected in the …
TORONTO-Architel Systems Corp. will license its Automatic Service Activation Program to GTE Data Services Inc. under an agreement valued at $7 million in the first 18 months. The perpetual license …
WASHINGTON-President Clinton’s four picks for the Federal Communications Commission won approval by the Senate Commerce Committee last week, and there were new indications that the nomination of William Kennard for …
NEW YORK-In a public offering scheduled for late this month, Italy’s Treasury Ministry will sell its remaining 35.7 percent stake in Telecom Italia, the government agency announced Oct. 5. The …
DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Network Services Inc. and Western Wireless Corp. announced a joint venture formed to expand personal communications services throughout Iowa. Called Iowa Wireless Services L.P., the venture is …
Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne’s Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers. Nokia values the arrangement at more …
PHOENIX-AG Communication Systems announced it delivered to Illuminet its INgage Service Order Activation software for local number portability, which allows customers to keep their current phone number when changing phone …
More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn’t found any takers, despite the growing success of iDEN-user Nextel Communications …
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a five-year deal calling for IBS to provide Lucent’s Business Communications Systems division with statement processing services. Lucent …
WASHINGTON-Rather than voting publicly on the pending public-safety allocation item announced on the sunshine agenda, Federal Communications Commissioners last Thursday chose to spend their last open meeting together patting each …
WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee last week approved a bill to crack down on radio scanner interception of wireless communications and mobile phone identification numbers. The panel passed the Wireless Telephone …
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-Global One announced it chose International Billing Services as its statement processing services provider for card products. Global One-a joint venture of Deutsche Telekom AG, France Telecom …
MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa.-Gemplus Corp. and Far Point Consulting together introduced a smart card-based electronic gift certificate application for the retail market. The product, which was developed by Far Point using Gemplus …
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia introduced a new handset for the Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 standard, called the Nokia 550, which it touts as the smallest and lightest NMT 450 phone in the …
