PLAYA DEL REY, Calif.-PortaCom Wireless Inc. said it is in negotiations with equipment manufacturers for the cellular phone network it intends to build in Vietnam. PortaCom was formerly Extreme Technologies …
Pittencrieff Communications Inc. is seeking federal action regarding a 1995 Texas state law requiring the company and other commercial mobile radio service providers to pay an assessment of $75 million. …
AT&T Corp. formally named Alex Mandl president and chief operating officer of the new AT&T and a member of the company’s board of directors. Mandl has headed the company’s long-distance …
GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has purchased infrastructure equipment from Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to construct a prototype advanced messaging system in Atlanta and Boston. “The purchase …
Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it has received a contract from L’Office National des Postes et Telecommunications, the government-led telecommunications company in Morocco, to provide paging infrastructure equipment and installation services. …
IRVINE, Calif.-Cox California PCS Inc. announced it has acquired a site for its personal communications services network operations control center. Located in the Irvine Business Center in Irvine, Calif., the …
NEW YORK – With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on an upward trajectory in competitive urban …
JANUARY 22-23 Liberalization and Privatization of International Telecommunications: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Competitive Market, by The Adam Smith Institute. Inter-Continental Hotel, Geneva. 44-171-490-3774. 22-24 Technology Forecasting for the …
Memphis, Tenn.-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent for a secondary underwriting with Barron Chase Securities of Boca Raton, Fla. Chadmoore said the offering, …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, one of the government agencies GOP lawmakers beat up on much of 1995, could be brought to its knees this year if stalled budget talks collapse …
Bell Atlantic International, through its 42 percent investment in Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., is in the heart of negotiations with the Mexican government regarding Iusacell’s license to operate a …
MILAN, Italy-Richard Lockwood has been named vice president and regional manager of the European and Asia/Pacific wireless operations for Bell Atlantic International Wireless. Lockwood assumes operational responsibilities for the company’s …
A U.S. battery manufacturer has announced it will produce lithium ion batteries for wireless telecommunications devices, delving into a market previously dominated by Japanese companies such as Sony Battery and …
BRUSSELS-L.M. Ericsson filed a complaint with the European Union, charging that Austria’s award of a GSM license to international consortium Oe-Call is unfair. Oe-Call is lead by Deutsche Telecom AG …
Two divisions in AT&T Corp.’s systems and technology company last week unveiled a communications system the company said will provide customers wireless phone access in the office or on a …
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-A billboard put up in mid December by Alltel Mobile Communications Inc. caused quite a stir in Little Rock, Ark., as motorists along Interstate 30 dialed 911 on …
Specialized aftermarket products and new marketing strategies have kept the decline in U.S. cellular telephone sales from affecting accessory product sales, according to several cellular accessory manufacturers and distributors. There …
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers say a petition calling for unrestricted access to 911 telephone service would perpetuate fraud and impair public safety responsiveness, but concede some cellular systems block access to emergency …
