WASHINGTON-Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, having failed to win support for switched wireless resale at an oversight hearing he chaired earlier this month, might pursue the issue as a member of …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will be a less exciting place after Andrew C. Barrett leaves early next year. No more of those probing-sometimes direct, sometimes drifting-colloquies with FCC staff or …
VIENNA, Austria-The licensing process for Austria’s second digital wireless phone system has been put on hold temporarily due to the government crisis in that country. Six bidders met the Oct. …
AT&T Corp. announced new executives to head the three companies resulting from the split of AT&T announced a month ago by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Allen. Allen will …
AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. announced they will begin combining their domestic cellular operations Nov. 1, initially by using the same support services. The companies will continue …
Globalstar L.P. has landed three separate agreements to deliver mobile satellite service in 18 African nations. The company expects its global roaming services will benefit intercontinental travelers and rural fixed-site …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati last week stayed the entrepreneur block auction for broadband personal communications services licenses after Radiofone Inc., a cellular operator …
American Personal Communications has cracked a deal with Baltimore Gas & Electric that will allow APC to put full-sector antenna configurations on electric transmission towers. The relationship could help APC …
While some microwave incumbents are being unreasonable, others are negotiating fairly, reaching agreements and making plans to move their microwave links from the 2 GHz spectrum, according to telecom and …
While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far …
GENEVA – AT&T Network Systems Inc. introduced its AT&T AirLoop digital wireless loop system that connects central offices to homes or businesses using fixed wireless equipment rather than the traditional …
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. is marketing a new roaming service, infoRoam, which allows paging subscribers to change their coverage area on a short-term basis using an interactive voice response platform, announced the …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Hutchison Telephone Co. Ltd. launched what it says is the world’s first commercial Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone system in Hong Kong. Hutchison plans to migrate …
Before 1995, people with a moderate to total hearing loss couldn’t carry on an ordinary phone conversation, according to Jo Waldron, co-inventor of the Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System. Today, …
ATLANTA-GTE Telecommunications Services and IBM Corp. have introduced a service for managing usage and billing information generated by cellular roaming users. The number of roamers has grown, said GTE, and …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt directed the wireless telecommunications industry to develop a plan by next week to address interference from European-designed digital pocket telephones to hearing aids. Hundt, …
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. introduced its FLEX chip set, which it will license to semiconductor manufacturers, who in turn will sell the set to customers wanting to build FLEX-based products. …
BATON ROUGE, La.-Eatelcorp Inc. will partner with Mercury Cellular and Paging of Lake Charles, La., and contract assistance from Louisiana State University to conduct a trial of AT&T Network Systems …
SNET Cellular Inc. awarded AT&T Network Systems Inc. a contract valued at $35 million to supply and install an Autoplex System 1000 for SNET in its Rhode Island and the …
WASHINGTON-Clinton Watson, the alleged inventor of a software program that created the counterfeit “lifetime” phone, was convicted on three counts of cellular telephone fraud by a U.S. District Court trial …
