KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Telecommunications Venture is expected to announce in the next two weeks its choice of equipment vendors for its personal communications services network. Northern Telecom Ltd., AT&T Corp. …
WASHINGTON-Stores are crowded. Literature is disappearing. Customer service is forced to beef up. Product is in short supply. The holidays are around the corner. Overwhelming success is a double-edged sword. …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s first-ever auction of 900 MHz specialized mobile radio spectrum is set to enter its third week of daily, one-round bidding, and there is no indication that …
WASHINGTON-A government plan for personal communications services licensees to share microwave relocation costs has received qualified support from both carriers and fixed users, while providing the two warring factions a …
It’s the morning after. The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview …
RCR Publications Inc. has named Elizabeth Voisen Mooney its New York bureau chief, and hired veteran wireless journalist Debra Wayne in its Washington, D.C., office. Mooney will be responsible for …
Zues Phonstuff has introduced its Always-in-Touch unit, a device that plugs into a home or office phone line and notifies a pager of a call when the phone user is …
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said GTE Telephone Operations will include PageNet’s paging products in GTE’s paging portfolio. GTE expects to begin offering numeric and alphanumeric paging services in the first quarter …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Equipment manufacturer L.M. Ericsson and Omnipoint Corp. have signed an agreement valued at $250 million for Ericsson to supply Omnipoint with Interim Standard-661 and PCS 1900 network equipment and …
It’s hard to tell whether the first session of the 104th Congress is winding down or whether Washington is just all wound up. The GOP-led Congress was scrambling to pass …
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday was expected to propose industry-crafted reforms governing interconnection compensation arrangements between commercial mobile radio service providers and local exchange companies, and put the proposed …
WASHINGTON-In a bold speech with profound and far-reaching policy implications, new Federal Communications Commission Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Michele Farquhar said she will pursue policies to help wireless carriers compete …
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. made a $25 million loan to personal communications services hopeful U.S. AirWaves Inc., according to an interview with MCI’s President Gerald Taylor published by Dow Jones Investor …
WASHINGTON-House and Senate conferees agreed on key wireless provisions in the telecommunications reform bill last week, but with several controversial issues still unresolved and time running out this session it …
Large markets in Latin America are serving as test beds for a range of digital cellular and personal communications services standards, according to a study from Pyramid Research Inc. The …
Lured by a chance to swim in the next wave of wireless telephony and reeled in by entrepreneurs casting about for financial support, some big fish from Korea are jumping …
A federal case against a Kentucky man accused of creating cellular extension phones is expected to go to trial in what may be the first U.S. criminal case attacking the …
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s two-year-old proceeding involving Los Angeles specialized mobile radio operator James A. Kay Jr. has escalated to the point where Kay’s attorneys are expected to reply today …
Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has launched its Global System for Mobile communications cellular network in Italy, competing with government-controlled Telecom Italia Mobile SpA for the first time. In March …
Comsearch announced it was awarded a contract from MRCB Telecommunications Sdn Bnd to license Comsearch microwave design engineering software. The software, called Interconnect, is being used to support the design, …
