Subscriber Identity Module cards are making their debut in the United States as important tools to help personal communications service carriers penetrate the market. SIM cards contain all the subscriber-related …
MARCH 25-27 Wireless ’96, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Dallas Convention Center, Dallas. Call Mary Claire Murphy at (202) 785-0081. 25-29 Third Annual Portable by Design Conference and Exposition. …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed to auction toll-free 888 telephone numbers, a potential hot-button issue for Congress that could hurt paging operators in the near term and pocket telephone …
U S West Inc.’s board of directors has declared a regular, quarterly dividend of 54 cents per share on the common stock of U S West Communications Group. U S …
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Eighty-two percent of business cellular subscribers want a single wireless handset that can be used as an office phone indoors and as a mobile phone outdoors, concludes a two-year …
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Media Group announced U S West Cellular will adopt the AirTouch name before the companies’ domestic cellular units merge. U S West …
One of the most important issues facing all wireless carriers is how to achieve rapid deployment of new networks and overcome local opposition to multiple facilities in areas where existing …
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The …
WASHINGTON-Jackson, Miss.-based Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. will have to wait a while longer to learn if it is liable for a $33 million payment for the pioneer’s preference narrowband personal …
NEW YORK-Recent blips of volatility in the stock and bond markets are no cause for alarm for wireless companies planning to tap the public capital markets this spring, Wall Street …
SEOUL, Korea-Korea has made yet another policy reversal over its award of personal communications services franchises, while remaining firm about completing the licensing process by the end of June. Three …
WASHINGTON-U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor warned that World Trade Organization telecommunications talks will collapse unless more countries agree to open their markets, a development that could complicate efforts to ease …
CHICAGO-RCR Publications Inc. has named David Jern northern sales manager. Jern has approximately 20 years of experience in advertising sales and marketing. In 1994, he established Jern Media International, a …
L.M. Ericsson announced it has won a contract from Telecel to provide Digital Cross Connect for Portugal’s Global System for Mobile communications network. The DXX Digital Cross Connect system will …
LOS ANGELES-Intek Diversified Corp. of Los Angeles, Simmonds Capital Ltd. of Toronto and Surrey, England-based Securicor Group plc announced they have signed a letter of intent to combine parts of …
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc., Hughes Network Systems Inc. and Pacific Communications Sciences Inc. completed field trials using circuit-switched Cellular Digital Packet Data technology. CS-CDPD allows CDPD users to transmit packet data …
WASHINGTON-In a move that could chill other potential bidders, Sprint Corp. has taken itself out of the running for a multiyear federal government wireless provision contract that could be worth …
NEW YORK-In the short run in the U.S. analog cellular phone equipment market, Nokia Corp. and, to a lesser extent, L.M. Ericsson, have gained ground on industry giant Motorola Inc. …
L.M. Ericsson has announced its new stock of Global System for Mobile communications phones designed to offer greater choice and flexibility to the consumer. The new family comprises the GH338 …
WASHINGTON-Congress passed a one-week funding extension late last week that averts a third shutdown of the Federal Communications Commission, giving Republicans and Democrats a chance this week to consider a …
