WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt last week accused House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Fields (R-Texas) of trying to pin a nonexistent pagers-for-the-homeless proposal on the agency to drive a …
On the same day last week, the nation was a painful witness to high technology’s fork in the road. In some remote hills of spacious Montana, federal agents picked up …
RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $118.9 million, or 62 cents per share, for the fourth quarter 1995, compared with $102.1 million, or 61 cents per share, …
NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced that Microsoft Corp. has purchased $25 million of its preferred stock. The sale of $50 million to $60 million in Mtel Cumulative Convertible Accruing …
Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless services to jump start the lagging …
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. has renamed its Paging Products Group the Messaging Systems Products Group. The headquarters for MSPG will be in Fort Worth, Texas, where Motorola has advanced messaging …
DALLAS-Air Communications Inc. is offering an automatic personal identification number security solution for its all-in-one AirCommunicator cellular telephone. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced the phone last fall. It uses …
NEW YORK-With a push from the new federal telecommunications deregulation law, SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group announced April 1 the first merger ever between two Baby Bells. In …
MCI Communications Corp. surprised the industry when it opted not to participate in the 1994 government auction of new wireless licenses. But while MCI’s competitors were giving billions of dollars …
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. launched itself into the public equity market last Thursday with an initial public offering of more than 112 million shares of common stock priced at $27 …
MILAN, Italy-Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has reached three new international roaming agreements with Cellnet of the United Kingdom, Airtel Moviles of Spain and Turk Cell of Turkey. The new …
DALLAS-Hewlett-Packard Co. is combining the core competencies of its test measurement and computer systems businesses to provide a new Total Customer Management solution for wireless carriers. TCM combines customer and …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is believed to be leaning toward radio frequency radiation exposure guidelines that incorporate Environmental Protection Agency recommendations, a policy shift the wireless telecommunications industry and others …
“The Internet is the killer app!” declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps ’95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas. He was …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has said Japan will consider opening its personal handyphone system equipment market, a potential breakthrough for American wireless suppliers. Last week’s announcement came as the United States …
The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, …
Two types of brands are expected to emerge as PCS PrimeCo L.P. prepares to announce the product-centered brand name for its personal communications services, as well as a brand to …
NEW YORK-TCSI Corp., a California-based software company serving wireline and wireless carriers, sold 3.45 million shares of its common stock March 27 at a price of $28 per share. TCSI …
An Internet message posted by the private-radio advocate group SMR WON last month was in keeping with its hard-nosed, grassroots campaign to oppose any auctioning of occupied spectrum in the …
Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. is open for CDMA business in South Korea. AirTouch Communications Inc., 11 percent owner and lead technical partner in Shinsegi, said the cellular venture launched Code Division …
