WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee approved expanded spectrum auction legislation last week amid an uproar over signs the bill falls well short of the five-year,...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Conxus Communications Inc. completed a $35 million private equity placement to fund continued network buildout of its narrowband personal communications services network.Donaldson Lufkin...
Benbow PCS Ventures Inc., of which Arch Communications Group Inc. owns 49.9 percent, plans to acquire Page Call Inc., allowing Benbow to compete nationwide...
BOULDER, Colo.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it has entered final negotiations with SCC Communications Corp., which would make SCC the primary vendor to deploy...
BOSTON-People are still slow to adopt wireless mobile data services, the Yankee Group reported. In fact, there has been no significant increase in the...
Now that many personal communications services providers are operating in several cities, most are advertising better call clarity than users received with cellular analog...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
BALTIMORE-Major investor and creditor Pacific Eagle Investments Ltd. has pledged another $5 million infusion to Pocket Communications Inc. to keep the C-block personal communications...
NEW YORK-Bulking up for the coming battle of the Titans, Excel Communications Inc. announced it planned to acquire Telco Communications Group Inc. for about...
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...
NEW YORK-Teligent Corp. is the new name for Associated Communications L.L.C., a company established last year as a broadband wireless competitive local exchange carrier,...
Originally aimed at the on-the-go businessman, the paging industry is now aiming its product toward a new set of users-the on-the-go teen-ager.Studies show that...
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...
NEW YORK-In an attempt to raise funds for a worldwide, low-earth-orbit satellite-based digital telecom system, Globalstar L.P. announced plans to sell $200 million of...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. recently signed contracts with PT Ratelindo, an Indonesian telecom operator, to expand its fixed wireless telephone network in Jakarta.According...
Editor's Note: The cities listed here represent U.S. cellular markets 21 through 40, ranked by total number of subscribers in each metropolitan statistical area.Most carriers...
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...
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...
