NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it has launched a high capacity fixed cellular network in BoliviaDuring the next three years, the network could...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission decided early Oct. 16 to move forward with refarming implementation as planned for Oct. 17,...
Espoo, FINLAND-The Quadrant Consortium, which is comprised of British Telecommunications plc, Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and TRW, has been authorized by the British government...
WASHINGTON-Most of the wireless industry still has not seen the entire Federal Communications Commission report to Congress on spectrum auctions, released Oct. 9, but...
KANSAS CITY-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced the availability of dual-band phones to customers nationwide. The new phones will allow customers to roam on analog cellular...
NEW YORK-Transcrypt International Inc., a Lincoln, Neb., designer and manufacturer of information security products for land mobile radio telephony, last Wednesday sold an add-on...
Beating other U.S. personal communications services carriers to the punch, Western Wireless Corp. announced Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd.'s intention to invest about $248...
DALLAS-Mobile Systems International announced it received a contract to supply software and services to Indian network operator Escotel Mobile Communications Pvt. Ltd.MSI plans to...
NEW YORK-Nextel Communications Inc., the largest 800 MHz enhanced specialized mobile radio carrier in the country, plans to sell $500 million in 10-year debt.Moody's...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it will join with Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc., Northern Telecom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. to speed up the...
What impact will the four nominees to the Federal Communications Commission have on a wireless industry struggling with a myriad of issues whose resolution...
WASHINGTON-In a surprisingly candid admission, the head of the cellular industry's cancer research project said he will leave the six-year, $28 million program in...
The personal communications services industry saw its second top management change in less than a month as Pacific Bell named John Polumbo president and...
NEW YORK-Vulcan Ventures Inc., the investment organization chaired by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen, announced Oct. 14 it would increase its stake in...
COLUMBIA, Md.-Tecore Inc. has developed a scalable mobile switching center that it says will allow personal communications services license holders to implement a variety...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. introduced a new freeware program called PageLauncher, designed to work with Internet browsers to enable users to launch alphanumeric messages directly...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week was dotting the "i's" and crossing "t's" on forms for qualified bidders and their upfront payments to participate...
NIXA, Mo.-Applied Cellular Technology Inc. announced it completed the conversion of $4.8 million in redeemable preferred shares.In consideration, Applied Cellular will issue 650,000 shares...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-RAM Mobile Data L.P. announced its RAMfirst Interactive Paging Service, which uses the Research In Motion Inter@ctive Pager, now is available to Connecticut...
NEW YORK-Competition, as intended, is causing the telecommunications pie to enlarge. But it also is creating numerous consolidation plays among carriers as they strive...
Affordable Message Center, a wireless reseller based in New York, introduced a bundled package service plan to its wireless and wireline wholesale customers that...
NEW YORK-Established and new entrants to the wireless handset manufacturing sector are sitting pretty on the crest of a wave of growing worldwide demand,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a royalty-bearing license agreement with Hitachi Ltd. of Japan, which grants Hitachi a license to manufacture and sell subscriber products...
NEW YORK-To get a sense of where the narrowband personal communications services industry is headed in the United States, picture this: The presidents of American...
