Mobil Rom, a consortium led by France Telecom Group, launched Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular services in Romania.Called Dialog GSM, the service...
HERNDON, Va.-Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. and Comsat RSI Plexsys Wireless Systems formed a purchase agreement and product development alliance.Terms of the agreement call...
WASHINGTON-Following a nearly two-year-old presidential memorandum, a notice of inquiry and several industry forums held earlier this year, the General Services Administration instituted rules...
BALTIMORE-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno praised the National Emergency Number Association for its 911 service in Miami during her 15-year stint there as a...
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...
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. launched seven satellites on a proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.The satellites are part of a 66-satellite wireless personal...
NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications carriers have placed high hopes on high-yield debt to help finance their early and intensive capital needs, and the junk bond...
NEW YORK-Notable by its absence amid the current merger mania in telecommunications is convergence across industry lines between transmission and content providers, according to...
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...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. granted Haitai Electronics Co. Ltd. of Seoul, Korea, a royalty-bearing license to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access subscriber products...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. won a contract to install a nationwide high-speed paging network in Taiwan for ChungHwa Telecom, Taiwan's national communications company. Glenayre...
NEW YORK-McCaw International Inc., Seattle, plans to exchange for publicly traded debt securities about $461.5 million in 10-year, 13 percent senior discount notes it...
SALEM, Ore.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. awarded a contract to Supra Products Inc. to install the TRACcess key control and electronic access management system at...
WASHINGTON-TRW Inc. and Motorola Inc. asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. in connection with alleged lobbying violations aimed at...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The wireless infrastructure market grew 63 percent to $5.3 billion last year, driven largely by the increased spending of personal communications services...
JACKSON, Miss.-Mtel Latin America Inc., a subsidiary of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., signed an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of the Argentina-based paging...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration aggressively lobbied Congress last week for most-favored-nation trading status with wireless export-rich China, with officials warning that doing otherwise could destabilize...
BRISTOL, England-Orange plc is introducing a number of communications services packages that address multiple user groups.The new services, which will be available within the...
BEIJING-Northern Telecom Ltd. was awarded a contract from the Tianjin Posts and Telecommunications Administration to increase the capacity of its existing Global System for...
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.-Wireless reseller DCN Wireless signed a definitive agreement with NextWave Telecom Inc. to resell 600 million minutes of personal communications services airtime...
DENVER-Intercell Corp. announced a preliminary agreement to sell its wholly owned subsidiaries, Intercell Wireless Corp. and Cellular Magnetics Inc., for a combined cash and...
WASHINGTON-A bipartisan bill introduced late last week by Reps. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), if passed, could bring competition to the international...
NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Wireless Communications Centers Inc., will install sales and customer service centers in high-traffic retail locations in Atlanta, Phoenix,...
