WASHINGTON – Bell Atlantic Mobile President Dennis Strigl predicts that wireless data will account for a greater proportion of system operators’ business in coming years, but cautioned industry against over …
Editor’s note: After only a little more than a year as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Reed Hundt has spearheaded some of the most dramatic changes ever for the …
IRVINE, Calif. – The CDMA Development Group said it has created a new working division to head up issues in personal communications services based on Code Division Multiple Access technology. …
GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One of Washington D.C./Baltimore announced a new service that enables customers to make and receive calls using a single telephone number from up to three cellular phones. The …
LONDON – Cable & Wireless plc said it will eliminate 2,500 positions at its Mercury Communications Ltd. subsidiary by March in an attempt to become more competitive and increase shareholders’ …
LYNCHBURG, Va.-Ericsson GE Communications Inc. said it has received an order from Oklahoma Gas and Electric for a systemwide 800 MHz Enhanced Digital Access Communications System network. The network will …
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. has declared a three-for-two split of the company’s common stock to be effected in the form of a 50 percent stock dividend that will be distributed …
Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract for more than $10 million to expand the narrowband advanced mobile phone service in the Dominican Republic. The contract with …
An international cellular operator and a U.S. paging equipment provider have cellular and paging service up and running in Bulgaria, despite the former Eastern bloc government’s sluggish efforts to privatize …
A “hip-pocket receptionist” is how Bell Atlantic Mobile describes its new ContactLine II service, a personal communications cellular device that allows customers to receive calls however, whenever and wherever they …
Cellular One of Ohio and Michigan announced Lindsay Notwell has been appointed director of wireless data, heading up this new department. Notwell will be responsible for building and managing the …
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.- Dr. Donald Schilling has resigned as president and chief executive officer of InterDigital Communications Corp. to pursue other interests. William Doyle, executive vice president, has been …
Cellular One in the Washington, D.C., area has suspended roaming services temporarily in New York City while the company tackles an enormous cellular cloning problem. Cellular fraud has been a …
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association has formed the Wireless Resale Council, a TRA advisory committee designed to guide industry policy and provide members with information on wireless service resale. TRA Director …
SAN FRANCISCO- The California Public Utilities Commission awarded five groups $38,613 for their advocacy in a CPUC decision last April that allowed AT&T Corp. to acquire McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. …
WASHINGTON-Sparks are flying weeks before public comments are due at the Federal Communications Commission on applications from six firms seeking licenses to operate global pocket-phone satellite systems. “I think that …
BOULDER, Colo.-Engineers have completed a month-long test of the Global System for Mobile communications standard at 1.8 GHz as part of an assessment for the U.S. wireless industry entering the …
Hail the birth of broadband PCS! Hail more competition in the marketplace! And hail to what likely will be continued growth for the wireless industry! But while the industry revels …
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.-John “Jack” Goeken announced his resignation as chairman and chief executive officer at In-Flight Phone Corp., the air-to-ground telecommunications service he founded in 1989. “Now that most of …
