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 …
Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is expected to be first to offer commercial personal communications services in Canada, launching in at least two cities by September, predicts the Yankee Group, a Boston-based …
Rules. It seems as soon as we enter this world, we’re forced to comply with a blanket set of rules that someone else has decided for us. You can’t have …
WASHINGTON-While the Clinton administration is pledging stricter enforcement of trade pacts involving telecommunications and other business sectors, the future relationship between the United States and Japan has been left uncertain …
WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to …
WASHINGTON-Former Rep. Mike Synar (D-Okla.), who had been named to head the U.S. delegation to the International Telecommunications Union’s World Radiocommunications Conference ’95 meeting on mobile satellite communications, died from …
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Washington/Baltimore Cellular L.P.-doing business as Cellular One-alleging that the company is attempting to levy increased interconnection fees on its subscribers in violation …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. announced Dennis Foster will become president and chief executive officer of Sprint Cellular and Frank Reed will become nonmanagement chairman of the unit after its expected …
Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group was a victim of its own success during the last five months of 1995. A variety of factors caused significant delays in the shipments of …
Rural Cellular Corp. hopes to raise about $30 million in an initial public offering of common stock that could occur as early as this month. The IPO would make the …
LAS VEGAS-A group of California entrepreneurs have invented a robot to program phones in the retail environment. “With only brief training, a nontechnical retail employee can program any phone in …
The cellular industry has taken numerous steps to package cellular for the mass consumer retail market, but a small gap remains between the industry’s effort and the complicated process to …
“It’s always behooved people to be the little person, able to sit back and see which technologies are most appropriate and have the longest shelf life.” -Edward Snook, a C-block …
