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Sprint broke with the wireless industry in stating it did not need more spectrum for 3G services, while AT&T moved to acquire Vanguard Cellular … 18 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives...

Sprint restructure plans progress in move to allow cable split, while Enron moves forward on IoT plans … 18 years ago this week. Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from...

SK Telecom announces trio of MoUs tapping into LTE network experience South Korean telecom provider SK Telecom said it has signed memorandum of understandings at this week’s Mobile World Congress event with a trio of partners in a move to expand network advances. Those partners...

SK Telecom | January 14, 2011 | Press Release SEOUL, Jan 14, 2011 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Thursday that it has offloaded its entire 29.3 percent stake in Mongolia's second-largest mobile carrier to Mongolian...

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.The “twenty-teens” will begin my third decade in the telecom industry. In the past 17 years, there...

A developer of wireless enterprise solutions claims it has combined the advantages of paging and mobile phones into one service that can be accessed with a smartphone.Onset Technology is targeting the healthcare field with the latest enhancement of its METAmessage Advanced Paging Solution. The...

Two companies with lengthy wireless histories have merged into one entity that is geared to tackle the machine-to-machine market.Velocita Wireless L.L.C. and SkyTel are launching their new business plan this week. Velocita was formerly owned by Sprint Nextel Corp. and SkyTel was formed 20...

The companies listed below represent the largest independent national and regional tower companies in the United States for the second quarter of 2008. American Tower and Crown Castle continue to dominate the U.S. tower industry. American Tower remains the largest tower company in the country,...

Bell Industries Inc. has finally gotten SkyTel off its plate. Velocita Wireless L.L.C. bought the division for $7.5 million, paying $3 million in closing, $3 million in 30 days and $1.5 million in deferred payments over the next year. SkyTel offers paging, messaging and...

Bell Industries Inc. said it would sell an undisclosed chunk of 2.5 GHz spectrum to Sprint Nextel Corp. for $13.5 million, pending approval by the Federal Communication Commission. FCC approval is expected prior to the deal's closing in 45 to 90 days, according to...

BURLINGTON, Mass.-ParkMagic is partnering with Verizon's SkyTel to allow users to pay municipal parking fees with their phones.The Ireland-based company announced the U.S. debut of its mobile parking service, which uses an in-car display to alert city officials that the user has paid for...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Verizon Communications Inc. is selling off a paging and wireless telemetry unit that it acquired when it purchased the former MCI Inc. earlier this year.Bell Industries Inc. agreed to purchase Verizon Communications' subsidiary SkyTel Corp., which provides paging, telemetry, two-way messaging and...

CLINTON, Miss.-SkyTel, a unit of MCI Inc., launched a vehicle-tracking device targeted at parents of teenage drivers.The SkyTel SkyGuard device, which is about the size of a bar of soap and connects to the car's power source, uses wireless and global positioning system technologies...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-U.S. Wireless Online and Air2Lan have entered an agreement to merge. The companies said the transaction will create one of the largest wireless Internet broadband companies in the nation. As part of the deal, Air2Lan will receive restricted shares of US Wireless Online...

Metrocall Holdings Inc. and Arch Wireless Inc.-the nation's two remaining independent paging and messaging carriers-announced a major plan to merge operations in an effort to forestall massive revenue declines as well as safeguard against the rapidly growing threat from the mobile-phone industry.If approved, the...

WASHINGTON-The General Services Administration Wednesday removed MCI/WorldCom from the exclusion list, allowing the company, which is emerging from bankruptcy after an accounting scandal, to again compete and be awarded government contracts."Over the past months, MCI and its employees have taken extensive steps to ensure...

WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc., which is doing business under the name MCI, named five independent directors to its board late last month.Laurence Harris is a partner at the law firm of Patton Boggs L.L.C. Harris was an executive of Teligent Inc., a fixed wireless startup that...

WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...

WASHINGTON-After settling with the federal government and admitting to more than $11 billion in accounting misdeeds, WorldCom Inc., parent to SkyTel Paging and recipient of a contract to build a private mobile-phone system in Baghdad, now must face the wrath of the states.Oklahoma filed...

WASHINGTON-Long before WorldCom Inc. admitted to billions in accounting fraud, it was trying to become a major wireless carrier by reselling service from Verizon Wireless. As part of that scheme, Verizon Wireless resold some of WorldCom's telecommunications services.Then the tech bubble burst, and WorldCom...

WASHINGTON-WorldCom Inc. said Monday that its suspension from doing business with the government could cost the company as much as $137 million by 2005.In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, WorldCom-now doing business as MCI-gave two different scenarios. One has it resuming...

WASHINGTON-The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of WorldCom Inc. on Wednesday approved the company's settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission."It represents additional validation of all the positive steps the company has taken over the past year to both put its house in order and...

WASHINGTON-The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of WorldCom Inc., parent of SkyTel paging, delayed by two weeks the telecom giant's confirmation hearing. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez's decision followed a decision by the General Services Administration to debar WorldCom, doing business as MCI, from future government...

A recently completed Federal Communications Commission paging spectrum auction generated about $2.4 million for a total of 2,832 licenses, numbers that come nowhere near the billions spent on other wireless spectrum auctions in recent years, but results that provide further evidence of the still-active...