Having grown weary of competing in the increasingly commoditized market for analog cellular telephones, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc. is retrenching and restructuring its phone division in hopes of making …
WASHINGTON-While enforcing rules to move microwave users off new broadband spectrum, federal regulators have proposed letting commercial carriers offer wireless local loop and other fixed services. The extent to which …
Although cellular penetration remains low in Peru, the government may license at least one additional operator in 1996. Peru currently has two cellular operators, Tele 2000 and Compania Peruana de …
NEW YORK-The financial services industry is developing new kinds of snapshots for a clearer picture of paging companies’ underlying strengths and weaknesses in the brave new world of increased competition. …
Pockets of wireless local loop operations and fixed cellular services are emerging throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Small-scale operations and field trials are underway in Argentina, Belize, Brazil, the …
The Cellular One Group intends to expand the scope of the Cellular One brand name to paging, local and long-distance service, and will offer licensing to B-side cellular carriers, personal …
WASHINGTON-After more than 30 rounds of bidding, it looks like the current auction of 900 MHz specialized mobile radio spectrum may be entering the home stretch. Because of competitive reasons, …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission fared better than expected in the current temporary funding bill that lasts through March 15, but the head of the agency predicts there will be big …
Authentix Inc., a new Calif.-based company, said it developed a fraud detection method aimed at stopping bandits who clone phones and then roam. Current fraud fighting tools detect invalid mobile …
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public offering of senior discount notes due 2008 with an …
WASHINGTON-Licensees of 220 MHz private land mobile radio services finally got the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission to relocate their authorized base stations to a previously unauthorized site inside …
NEW YORK-Wall Street gave Omnipoint Corp. a resounding welcome Friday, buying seven million shares of an initial public offering of common stock that opened the trading day on Nasdaq at …
After Bill Clinton ended one of his rare news conferences before leaving to visit the U.S. troops in Bosnia a couple weeks ago, CBS White House correspondent Bill Platte observed …
WASHINGTON-Where mobile satellite service policymaking is concerned, federal regulators are not promoting the friendly skies. Far from it. Competition is the name of the game at the Federal Communications Commission. …
ORLANDO-Motorola Inc.’s Wireless Data Group business unit, AirMobile Software Products, announced it has extended AirMobile wireless software for Lotus cc: Mail and AirMobile wireless software for Lotus Notes to the …
A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world. Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to …
WASHINGTON-The specter of private radio spectrum auctions, frequency coordination consolidation and the kickoff of refarming in frequency bands below 512 MHz are giving users and dealers alike much to consider …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Three American companies are working through the U.S. Embassy in Ireland to determine how an Irish long-distance company won the country’s second cellular wireless telephone license last fall. Motorola …
L.M. Ericsson announced its subsidiary, Ericsson Australia Pty. Ltd., has signed a contract to install a switching system for 4,000 mobile telephones in Rangoon, Burma’s capital. Ericsson said it will …
