NEW YORK-Telecommunications carriers are experiencing and causing a lot of taxing questions related to how they are defined-and therefore treated-by tax departments in state...
The consolidation of C-block personal communications services license holders has begun earlier than expected as five licensees have combined to form one partnership.Aer Force...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind...
Editor's note: Following are five charts ranking major telecommunications carriers according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenue from 1995 to 1996, percentage change...
BUFFALO-Sprint Spectrum L.P. officially launched its personal communications services network in western New York. The service in Buffalo completes the initial phase of construction...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has shipped more than 6 million Mobile Station Modem chips to Code Division Multiple Access handset manufacturers worldwide.Qualcomm's ASCI...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Authentix Network Inc. introduced its Intelligent Agent Technology, a fraud-prevention tool that can communicate with any fraud prevention or detection system including profiler...
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched its personal communications services network branded Sprint PCS in the Twin Cities area. Minneapolis and St. Paul mark...
Consolidation as a means to expansion has been the tradition in the wireless industry. Look no further than Craig McCaw, amassing a wireless fortune...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. launched a multimillion dollar national advertising campaign to help build brand identity for its Code Division Multiple Access subscriber products.The initial...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee last week rejected spectrum fees and toll-free telephone number auctions, but embraced lease fees for private wireless licensees in budget...
Globe Telecom selected Nokia Corp. to supply infrastructure equipment and wireless local loop subscriber terminals for a fixed telephone project in the Philippines. Nokia's...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said its Voice Touch voice-activated dialing service is available to its digital cellular customers nationwide. The service, which allows customers...
SINGAPORE-Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson are submitting a statement to the Association of Radio Industries and Business, the Japanese standardization body, backing the proposal...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. reached a definitive agreement to sell the Fort Myers, Fla., metropolitan statistical area that it acquired during its recent purchase...
Lucent Technologies Inc., the equipment division spun off by AT&T Corp. last year, and Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V., one of the world's largest electronic...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. filed a registration statement for a public offering of 1.8 million shares of common stock to be sold by the company and...
Boston Communications Group Inc. reached an agreement with RadioShack to jointly distribute wireless prepaid services. "RadioShack displays a strong commitment toward wireless prepaid services,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's delay in compiling a telecom diversity report could foreclose future female and minority bidding credits because of new anti-affirmative action...
Nearly two years after Airtel Movil SA became the second Global System for Mobile communications licensee in Spain, the company and its competitor, Telefonica...
MANCHESTER, N.H.-Summa Four Inc. said it intends to work with Dialogic Corp. on co-development and co-marketing initiatives. Dialogic manufactures high-performance computer telephony components.Under the...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group broke ground on its manufacturing headquarters in Swindon, United Kingdom, announced the company.The $116 million facility will...
BALTIMORE-Statistics have shown that some 70 percent of calls made to 911 operators have nothing to do with life-or-death situations. People have been trained...
William A. Wilson, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Arch Communications Group Inc., resigned his position to accept a position at another...