If demand for dual-band handsets can be measured by vendor contracts, carriers must only now be finalizing plans for multi-frequency roaming.The industry's most prolific...
KELOWNA, British Columbia-Globus Cellular & User Protection Ltd. said it will investigate the specific absorption rate levels of cellular phone and antenna products available...
NEW YORK-Stephen Katz, chief executive officer of Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc., has assumed day-to-day direction of operations for the Seattle-based provider of cellular...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest Hollings (R-S.C.), in what amounts to a showdown with the Clinton administration, is mounting a campaign to condition Senate confirmation of U.S....
NEW YORK-Global telecommunications deregulation may be auspicious, but on behalf of bondholders, Moody's Investors Service Inc. remains suspicious.A day before negotiators at the World...
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. completed customer tests of its personal communications services receiver front-end. The company said the goal of the test was...
Several low-earth-orbit satellite systems will have initial launches this year, marking the beginning of services that a Washington, D.C., consulting firm says "will fill...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said Merrill Lynch & Company is a market maker for the company's stock. Merrill Lynch will be responsible for...
The Personal Communications Industry Association has decided to contract out for more "been there, done that" expertise to help forward its wireless agenda on...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet signed an agreement to allow members of its Procurement Consortium to obtain antenna infrastructure from Celwave at volume prices. Cellular, personal communications...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it delivered a tower-mountable filter subsystem to Lucent Technologies Inc. for testing by Bell Labs.It is the second delivery under...
Western Wireless Corp. added 51,500 wireless subscribers during the fourth quarter, for a total of 359,700 subscribers. Of the more than 51,000 new subscribers,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology has requested comments from Qualcomm Inc. as to what action the OET should recommend to...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Group will expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in the United Arab Emirates for Etisalat.The...
CINCINNATI-GTE Wireless launched its personal communications services network in the Cincinnati major trading area, which covers greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. The network uses...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, bowing to congressional and wireless industry pressure, scaled back a budget-driven proposal to raise $3 billion this year from the...
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc. said it will allow wireless competitors to lease space on several of its tower sites in Alabama, Texas, Indiana, Florida, Ohio,...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Personal communications services provider Powertel Inc. launched its Huntsville, Ala., market. The company said it is the 16th market up since it...
Having problems?Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants to fill the GOP vacancy at Federal Communications Commission with Michael Powell, chief of staff...
WASHINGTON-Negotiators in Geneva appeared poised to reach a free trade agreement on telecommunications services by Saturday's midnight deadline, despite infighting in Congress and indications...
