To those Europeans who scoff at Americans and their (too) many wireless standards choices, we now have a response: FLEX. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has decided not to deploy personal …
STAMFORD, Conn.-A.P.-Dialing the wrong number landed Archie Tarantino in jail. Trying to dial a drug dealer’s pager Friday morning, he instead beeped a cop, who took an order for two …
WASHINGTON-The World Trade Organization telecom pact could put the United States at a disadvantage with major trading partners and should be subject to legislation, some lawmakers said last week. The …
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Teledesic Corp. won a license from the Federal Communications Commission to provide two-way telecommunications services using a network of low-earth-orbit satellites, and the International Bureau issued an order authorizing …
John Walier will manage customer sales accounts in Glenayre Western Multiplex’s northeast region. He will focus on customers of the company’s wireless interconnect products, primarily the Lynx family of spread …
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reversed course in narrowband personal communications services, resolving not to deploy services using the personal Air Communications Technology advanced paging protocol. AT&T Wireless said it still …
WASHINGTON-Outgoing Overseas Private Investment Corp. President Ruth Harkin last week picked up bipartisan support from a congressional panel that is under pressure from some lawmakers to cut off the agency’s …
NEW YORK-The New York State Public Service Commission approved March 20 the merger of Nynex Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. As a condition, state regulators required Nynex to spend $500 …
WASHINGTON-A University of Maryland economics professor who assisted the Federal Communications Commission in setting up parameters for simultaneous, multiple-round spectrum auctions, such as that conducted for C-block personal communications services …
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reached a definitive agreement with Comcast Corp. to acquire a previously issued and outstanding option covering 25 million Nextel shares. Terms of the repurchase transaction call …
LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications Inc. launched its Einstein personal communications services network in Appleton, Wis., and will open its first retail store for Appleton in May. The company said it …
ST. LOUIS-Southwestern Bell Wireless, a division of SBC Communications Inc., expanded its Missouri cellular airtime rates into Arkansas. The company said its customers can place and receive local cellular calls …
WASHINGTON-Mary Beth Richards, deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau, will receive the 1997 Eugene C. Bowler Award for excellence in public service April 29 at the …
One clear strategy in marketing wireless phones to consumers is keep it simple. The phone is not just a business tool but an easy, fun device that keeps you in …
MANILA, Philippines-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract with Pilipino Telephone Corp. to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access network in the Philippines. Lucent values the contract at $23 …
WASHINGTON-The Land Mobile Communications Council has weighed in as a group in favor of transferring 60 megahertz of “long-unused prime spectrum from the television broadcast allocation” in UHF channels 60-69 …
WASHINGTON-In a March 12 letter to Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) asked that an “immediate ruling requiring newly manufactured cellular phones to select the strongest …
SEOUL, South Korea-Korea Mobile Telecom reported strong growth in both its cellular and paging businesses in 1996, in addition to good interconnection revenue. According to KMT President Dr. Jung Uck …
BOSTON-A former Cellular One Boston employee pleaded guilty in federal court to a cellular phone cloning scam operated in 1995. Edward S. Herd Jr., of Boston, pleaded guilty to a …
When confronted with the question of why there is no radio frequency radiation bioeffects research after four years and $15 million, embattled Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George Carlo …
