WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones. The controversy surfaced …
IRVINE, Calif.-Wireless messaging services as well as online capabilities are accessible via television, using Cue Network Corp.’s UniversalMessage system in conjunction with UniView, by Curtis Mathes Corp., announced Cue. UniView …
Editor’s Note: RCR compiled this list of International Cellular Markets based on information supplied by Washington, D.C.-based Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and the Office of Telecommunications, U.S. Department …
Exports of telecommunications equipment increased 5 percent during the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 1995, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association. However, the …
House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Field’s (R-Tex.) swan song is squelched. Though the telecom reform bill he helped craft is the biggest feather in his congressional cap, Fields on a …
Nokia Corp. announced it will introduce the Nokia 9000 Communicator into the U.S., Canadian and Latin American markets in the second half of 1997. The product began shipping in Europe …
Nextel Communications launched a fully digital communications service in Chicago, Milwaukee and other large cities in Illinois, Wisconsin and northern Indiana. Features of the new PowerFone service include digital cellular …
An association that stresses its “technology-neutral” position has formed to give entrepreneurial-block spectrum licensees a platform for unity and fill the gap left by North American Wireless Inc. NAWI is …
SAN FRANCISCO-Natural Microsystems Corp. announced an enhanced version of the TX2000, a high performance communications processor, in an effort to integrate the core SS7 technology gained in its recent acquisition …
WASHINGTON-Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. told federal regulators last week it has more than $650 million in financial commitments to operate the Ellipso global pocket telephone satellite system. In January 1995, …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division has signed a network upgrade agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile. The arrangement, valued at $53 million, will include the deployment …
Italy plans to issue a tender for a third mobile phone operator this fall, announced the government, which recently passed a bill establishing the guidelines for the tender. A license …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission shifted into damage control last week after two officials contradicted each other over whether candidates for the Telecommunications Development Fund board were vetted by the White …
THATCHAM, England-Paragon Software Ltd. announced a new version of its FoneMail software that supports short messaging service across Global System for Mobile communications networks. FoneMail provides two-way messaging capability for …
WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with …
FCC Chairman Reed Hundt is off the hook or should I say off the leash. John Dingell (D-Mich.), a hurricane-like force even when not House Commerce Committee chairman, struck his …
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Corp. announced yesterday it had affirmed its speculative-grade CCC- ratings on $2.4 billion of outstanding debt issued by Nextel Communications Inc., Rutherford, N.J. The New York-based …
WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission’s local competition and interconnection order in hopes of killing, or at least …
Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August. Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of scorched emptiness. T.E. Lawrence-“Lawrence of …
