WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave’s 38 GHz licenses until WinStar acquires the company next year. …
Could the obstacle-plagued auction that took forever to start be near its end? It seems so, although a part of me believes the C-block auction for personal communications services will …
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and lobbying shift that sources attribute to …
WASHINGTON-A terse, two-line order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the Federal Communications Commission the go-ahead it needed to begin the July 3 …
NEW YORK-Gaetano Rainone, who purchased 100 of the 4 million common stock shares ProNet Inc. sold at $25 each May 31, has sued the paging company, charging it misled investors. …
Casio PhoneMate Inc. has introduced a new product that combines an answering machine with Pager Link, a device that automatically calls a user’s pager whenever a new message is received …
WASHINGTON-Of the 89 winners of C-block personal communications services licenses last May, only four were singled out by seven other entities who seek to have the Federal Communications Commission either …
Don Winters has been named vice president of business development at Coral Systems Inc. Winters will be responsible for all business development efforts, including Coral’s partnership with Cincinnati Bell Information …
NEW YORK-The investment community is taking a second, less optimistic look at paging, at least in the near term, given ProNet Inc.’s recently announced troubles-the latest unwelcome news in this …
WASHINGTON-The National Paging and Personal Communications Association is leading an effort to challenge new rules that tighten financial requirements for small business bidders in the D, E and F block …
NEW YORK-Korea Mobile Telecommunications Group went public June 27 with a $338 million offering of American Depository Shares trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The initial public offering of …
WASHINGTON-As expected, Los Angeles specialized mobile radio operator James Kay, with whom the Federal Communications Commission has had a running dispute over 152 licenses since 1994, has petitioned the agency …
Eurotel Praha s.r.o., Bell Atlantic Corp.’s cellular provider in the Czech Republic, has launched commercial Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in that country. The service covers 43 percent …
WAYNE, N.J.-GEC-Marconi Systems has agreed to acquire Hazeltine Corp. from ESCO Electronics Corp., subject to government approval. Hazeltine makes intelligent base station antennas for the cellular, specialized mobile radio, enhanced …
Ralph Haller, former Wireless Telecommunications Bureau deputy chief and chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Private Radio Bureau, has been a private citizen for almost a month now, following his …
“Plain vanilla” value-added services won’t help new wireless operators distinguish themselves from established carriers, said Sandra Goeken Martis, former chairwoman of In-Flight Phone International. Goeken Martis resigned from the air-to-ground …
WASHINGTON-In what the U.S. Secret Service said is the largest seizure of stolen cellular telephone numbers ever in the United States, the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force arrested Abraham …
If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless operators are obligated to pass the …
Ericsson Inc. is prepared to go head-to-head with a strong U.S. alliance in hopes of striking an early position in the U.S. low-tier equipment market. Ericsson’s new product, the SuperCordless …
Bob Foosaner, Nextel Communications Inc.’s regulatory vice president, said something funny to me when we bumped into each other at a recent association regulatory conclave. Apparently, Bob had noticed that …
