DENVER-American Digital Communications Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all stock of Pagers Plus Cellular Inc. of Walnut Creek,...
Western Wireless Corp. said aloha to Honolulu's wireless communications market by offering consumers yet another way to communicate-via a personal communications services handset.The Bellevue,...
NEW YORK-Strong investor demand for a debt offering by Arch Communications Group Inc. prompted the company to raise the amount issued to $275 million...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it will acquire the assets of Satellite Paging and Message Network under a definitive purchase agreement reached between the companies.The...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Inter-Tel Inc. announced they have signed a development, supply and license agreement for telephone switching equipment for wireless local loop...
I've looked everywhere-the dictionary ... the thesaurus ... Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ... Harry Newton's telecom opus. And I just can't find it. I can't...
Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible...
Open Development Corp. introduced a network-based prepaid cellular service it says will increase revenue for cellular service providers between 15 percent and 30 percent.Prepaid...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has a $30 million contract to deploy a digital cellular phone network for PT Telkomsel in Indonesia.The Global...
MARCH6-7 PCS Seminars for ITCs Only, U.S. Intelco Wireless. Doubletree Grand Hotel, Bloomington, Minn. (360) 493-6241.6-7 Re-engineering Billing Systems in the Telecommunications Industry, by...
Sprint Cellular Co. and United States Cellular Corp. completed an agreement to exchange controlling interests in cellular licenses in Kansas and Ohio. Under the...
NEW YORK-Two major credit rating agencies have issued alerts about Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. securities following the company's Feb. 22 release of disappointing year-end...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., whose subsidiary NextWave Personal Communications Inc. is bidding in the C-block personal communications services auction, wants to pin the Federal Communications...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging and American Paging Inc. have signed an agreement for the companies to conduct a joint test of the digital, spread-spectrum, two-way...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all of Parkway Paging Inc.'s stock. Metrocall said the total purchase...
NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in...
WASHINGTON-TheUnited States Telephone Association last week attacked the Federal Communications Commission's interim wireless-wireline interconnection proposal, calling the plan misguided and the cellular industry's campaign...
Roy Neel, president of the United States Telephone Association, offered reporters last week what he believed to be a keen insight.He recounted an anecdote...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's new application freeze has created a major rift in the paging industry, the second major wireless sector to feel the...
MONTVALE, N.J.-In a role reversal for the high-tech communications revolution, 27 million blue-collar workers nationwide are targeted as the early adopters for Geotek Communications...
Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks,...