PARK RIDGE, N.J.-The Hertz Corp. car rental company announced the rollout of a system that uses wireless technology to improve the speed and accuracy...
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. and RWE Telliance AG announced they have executed a memorandum of understanding to merge their German public access mobile radio...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is set to intervene shortly in a Democratic Party power struggle for leadership of the new Telecommunications Development Fund, a potentially...
NEW YORK-While wireless and wireline carriers assess and respond to the effects of the 1996 Telecom Reform Act on their business, the Federal Communications...
WASHINGTON-Capitol Hill insiders once again are playing the name game, this time regarding who will be nominated to replace former Federal Communications Commissioner Andrew...
Consolidation in the cellular industry is galloping ahead-now spurred faster by the 1996 Telecom Reform Act-but toward an uncertain future.The ten largest cellular carriers...
SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Company Inc. announced an agreement with Authentix Network Inc. to form a strategic alliance that will grant CTS rights to jointly...
The C-block auction isn't just for large companies-not if your strategic goal is the 53,000 pops of McAlester, Okla.That's the site of Oklahoma's most...
APRIL14-16 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Grand Kempinski, Dallas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.16-18 Universal Wireless Communications International...
OKLAHOMA CITY-A lawsuit stemming from the rural service area lotteries of the late 1980s was resolved recently when United States Cellular Corp. won a...
President Clinton late Friday appointed U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor the new Secretary of Commerce. Kantor replaces Ron Brown who was buried last week...
Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and Darien Telephone Co. announced that TDS' Camden Telephone Co. affiliate of St. Mary's, Ga., has acquired controlling interest...
Investment bankers expect to see more vertical marriages this year withing the wireless industry family, rather than the entrance of non-traditional players into the...
PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it is offering TalkDial voice-activated dialing service to its Philadelphia tri-state region customers.The company said customers will be able...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced three senior officers have purchased more than a half million shares of the company's stock in a private transaction.Mark Dunaway,...
After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was...
NEW YORK-Three-sixty Communications Co. and Alltell Mobile Communications Inc. announced a signed agreement for a joint marketing and technology alliance in the Carolinas and...
NEW YORK-The urge to merge struck again with an Easter weekend announcement that AirTouch Communications Inc. would pay about $1.65 billion to buy the...
Fujian Posts and Telecommunications Administration of China will trial Motorola Inc.'s fixed wireless telephone system using Fujitsu Ltd.'s switching system, announced Motorola's Wireless Access...
Prepaid cellular represents a huge opportunity for carriers, as demonstrated by the flood of prepaid services inundating the marketplace. More significantly, however, prepaid cellular...
WASHINGTON-If a newly released notice of proposed rulemaking is adopted, private and commercial wireless telecommunications carriers will be subject to no change in their...
Linda Noda Hobbs has been named president of The National Dispatch Center Inc. Hobbs will oversee all aspects of NDC's day-to-day operations, including implementation...
NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced that Microsoft Corp. has purchased $25 million of its preferred stock. The sale of $50 million to $60...
