Worldcom

DENVER, United States-With services already up and running in the Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Sprint said it filed a series of applications with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), …

WASHINGTON-While the Communications Workers of America succeeded in winning concessions that make it easier to organize wireless workers at Verizon Communications-the nation’s largest mobile phone and local telephone company-the prospect …

Pinnacle Holdings reversed itself last week on an announcement it made earlier this month that it planned to pursue opportunities in the colocation facility business. Long a renter of space …

WorldCom Inc. moved one step closer to officially jumping into the wireless broadband game by filing last week its first round of applications with the Federal Communications Commission to offer …

NEW YORK-Merger prospects tend to have a significant impact on a company’s share price, although the degree of that influence can be difficult to precisely identify. The second-largest domestic personal …

Enticed by the tremendous expected demand for wireless broadband services, Loop Technologies Inc., based in Ridgeland, Miss., soon will offer high-speed data-only service in several major cities around the country. …

The Federal Communications Commission has extended by 45 days the deadline by which carriers must report their telephone number utilization. A coalition of telecommunications trade associations had urged the FCC …

Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission. Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers’ networks, while carriers battled …

WASHINGTON-Deutsche Telekom AG, after announcing its intent to buy VoiceStream Wireless Corp. , spent last week trying to kill an appropriations bill rider that could kill the deal and others …

Nextel Communications Inc. added more than 677,000 new proportionate subscribers during the second quarter, giving the company approximately 6.2 million global subscribers, the company said. The company’s growing subscriber base …

WASHINGTON-The high-flying mobile-phone industry-poised to pick up its 100 millionth subscriber this week-could soon find itself in the throes of a major consumer backlash. Complaints about mobile-phone service-including dropped calls, …

NEW ORLEANS-Sprint Corp.’s Broadband Wireless Group and WorldCom Inc. revealed the first details of the Breckenridge Agreement, a document established to ensure the cooperation of wireless broadband carriers building systems …

NEW ORLEANS-A sense of urgency surrounded attendees of the Wireless Communications Association’s “Xtreme Wireless” conference in New Orleans last week as it became clear the marketplace is ready-but still waiting-for …

It’s Rummage Sale season. If one man’s junk is another man’s treasure, the insurance, health-care and financial industries should find some great bargains in today’s wireless world-basically used names and …

Let the bidding frenzy begin. Possibilities are blowing open now that Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. ended their $115 billion merger plans and reports of suitors for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. …

WASHINGTON-As Congress raises national security concerns about global telecom mergers, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.-the Japanese parent company of arguably the world’s top mobile-phone Internet operator-confirmed last week the FBI …

As regulators seemingly around the world wrestled the life out of the Sprint-WorldCom merger last week and everyone and their brother speculated about who now might partner with whom as …

WASHINGTON-An uncertain wireless industry realignment could be in store as a result of Justice Department’s rejection last week of the WorldCom Inc.-Sprint Corp. merger and new legislation forbidding foreign government …

Stripped to its essence, you have to wonder whether euro pride had anything to do with European Commission antitrust chief Mario Monti’s heartburn over the WorldCom-Sprint merger he helped kill. …

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit to block the US$129 billion merger between WorldCom and Sprint, the second- and third-largest U.S. long-distance telecom carriers, respectively. The lawsuit, combined with …

Not many 44-year-olds can put on their resum, that they built a nationwide wireless business from the ground up with a capital infrastructure budget larger than the Boston freeway project. …

Europe is embarking on a third-generation license auction frenzy the rest of this year, and operators are not happy about it. Since the United Kingdom raked in a whopping $35 …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday approved the transfer of GTE Corp.’s communications licenses to Bell Atlantic Corp. contingent on 25 conditions, including putting some wireless properties into a trust …

WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America will make unionization of wireless workers a priority when negotiations begin in two weeks on a new collective bargaining agreement with Bell Atlantic Corp., a …

WASHINGTON-When fanfare over the American delegation’s victory in securing global frequency bands for third-generation mobile-phone service subsides, the United States and the wireless industry will face implementation challenges at home …