WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic lawmakers last week lambasted Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plan to add broadcast auction language to debt ceiling legislation, a reaction...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected a petition to review mandatory relocation of public-safety entities from personal communications services frequencies to perceived lesser-quality...
COLUMBUS-Ameritech Cellular Services is combating cellular fraud by requiring all of its customers to use a personal identification number.Company spokeswoman Ellen Butler said cloning...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association urged the Federal Communications Commission last week to lift the freeze on paging applications, saying small carriers will suffer...
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) slammed the Federal Communications Commission last week for saying it cannot implement the telecommunications bill without adequate...
WEST POINT, Ga.-InterQuest Inc. announced it is offering a new service that allows wireless carriers to offer unregistered roamers in their market to complete...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services and Ameritech Cellular Services have signed an intercarrier agreement that allows each carrier's Cellular...
NEW YORK-American Portable Telecom Inc., the fifth largest licensee of personal communications services in the United States, registered Feb. 20 with the Securities and...
Eighty percent of major U.S. cellular carriers employ Systems/Link Corp.'s RoamEx product to fight cellular fraud, but until now the decade-old Jackson, N.J., company...
Cellular theft: A cellular phone is stolen from a legitimate customer and used before the theft can be reported.Subscription fraud: This type of counterfeiting occurs when...
"We will offer a clear alternative...*from the long-distance industry that for years has raised prices in lock step, pocketing savings they could pass on...
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-Signal Communications Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to purchase three Motorola Inc. service facilities in south Florida and the related...
WASHINGTON-Are the prices being paid for C-block broadband personal communications services licenses getting to be too rich for even the richest blood? If the...
NEW YORK-Arch Communications Group Inc. plans a $200 million bond issue, which received a B3 rating Feb. 22 from Moody's Investors Service, according to...
NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a wholesaler of one-way paging airtime, last Friday expected to launch its initial public offering of 3.3 million shares of...
PITTSBURGH-AT&T Wireless Services announced its customers in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio now have access to the AT&T CellCard, a smart...
Some big-city markets saw a decrease in cloning fraud last year after implementing personal identification numbers, but the effort hasn't beat the bandits. Cloning...
Sprint Spectrum L.P. denies any discord among its member companies, despite revisions to the venture's original plans to launch cable telephony with its wireless...
PHOENIX-The U.S. District Court in Phoenix ordered One Line Cellular and Cell Phone Extensions to permanently discontinue altering, transferring, emulating or manipulating electronic serial...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced three contracts for paging infrastructure equipment in China from Hunan Post and Telecommunication Administration, the...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International, has teamed with Canadian partners to launch PageMart Canada Ltd., a new nationwide Canadian paging...
