Telecom

WASHINGTON-The House GOP strategy to reach out to voters this election year by repealing a 4.3 cents gasoline tax hike and underwriting forgone federal revenue by auctioning 35 megahertz of …

MUNICH-Siemens AG won contracts worth $64.7 million from the Iridium mobile phone network. Siemens said that Motorola Inc., which founded and leads the Iridium project, placed an order for 12 …

NEW YORK-ProNet Inc., one of the top 10 paging companies in the country, planned to sell concurrent stock and bond issues as early as last Friday. The common stock offering …

PortaCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Los Angeles-based Asian American Telecommunications Corp. PortaCom said it will issue a total of 25.5 million common …

WASHINGTON-DCR Communications has changed its name to Pocket Communications Inc. The Washington, D.C.-based firm, which walked away from the C-block spectrum auctions with personal communications services licenses for 43 markets, …

effrey Si;va Grumbling in private wireless land. The word is the refarming item that was anticipated for vote this month is being pushed back until fall, which could delay further …