WINNIPEG, Manitoba-MTS Mobility, a wireless service provider in Manitoba, Canada, signed a four-year supply agreement with Northern Telecom Ltd. for Interim Standard 95 Code...
LONDON-Standard & Poor's Inc. assigned a double `B' long-term corporate credit rating to Polish cellular operator Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa. The ratings firm said it...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Intercel Inc. said effective July 1 it will change its corporate name to Powertel Inc., the name used for its personal communications...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group signed a contract to expand a cellular network in Brazil operated by Telecomunicacoes de Parana S.A.The agreement,...
Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. won a contract to provide propagation analysis equipment to Qualcomm Inc. for international distribution of personal communications services and cellular...
DALLAS-Motorola Inc. won a contract from First International Telecom, a nationwide paging operator in Taiwan, to provide its Wireless Messaging System paging network infrastructure....
NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Ameritel Communications Inc., said it successfully sold its paging services over the QVC television program in the first...
Editor's note: On the previous page are five charts ranking major telecommunications vendors according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenues from 1995 to...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said World Technology Corp., Irvine, Calif., will be the first service provider to offer personal number services to consumers...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Wuhan Research Institute established a joint venture company in China to develop, manufacture and market synchronous digital hierarchy transport network...
NEW YORK-Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Montreal, was expected to place privately last week a 10-year note issue of about $150 million to help finance...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it supports a proposed consolidation of wireless data technologies into a license-free and platform-independent protocol.The purpose of the Wireless Application...
HELSINKI, Finland-China Unicom Shanghai Branch designated Nokia Telecommunications the main base station subsystem supplier for the third phase of its Global System for Mobile...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. and D&E Communications said they intend to form an operating partnership in the central Pennsylvania region.Together the companies will...
The PCS companies now proposing that the Federal Communications Commission change the rules to allow them to stay in business are proposing options that...
WASHINGTON-With last week's House vote supporting presidential renewal of most-favored-nation trading status for China, the focus shifts to Hong Kong-and its huge wireless-driven telecom...
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined the wireless industry in fighting back White House and congressional budgeteer efforts to add spectrum fees...
NEWTON, Mass.-Personal communications services providers must prevail in the consumer market in order to be successful, said a report issued by Business Research Group.PCS...
Startel, a wireless network operator in Chile, launched digital service on its network using Interim Standard 136 Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service technology provided...
Roberto Catalan, president of Argentina's communications commission, known as CNC (Comision Nacional de Comunicaciones), recently completed a United States road show designed to attract...
