Telecom

Positioning itself for the impending rush on broadband personal communications services licenses, The PCS Group, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm, has formed to offer one-stop assistance to entrepreneurs in this emerging …

WASHINGTON-With huge sums of money expected to be bid on broadband personal communications services licenses later this year, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted a get-tough policy on auction fraud. …

While it is significant that William Kennard, general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, is one of only a handful of African Americans to make it into government’s upper echelon, …

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed comments with federal regulators opposing Ameritech’s new telephone numbering plan for Illinois. CTIA said the new area code plan is anticompetitive and discriminatory …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, facing intensified criticism from industry and Congress, has set up a task force to help it decide the fate of thousands of specialized mobile radio applications …

RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. and American Mobile Systems Inc. have entered into an agreement to merge operations, Nextel said. Plans call for the entire, fully-diluted equity interest in AMS to …