RALEIGH, N.C.-The state of North Carolina completed the first phase of the installation of a statewide public-safety mobile data network provided by Motorola Inc.The...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.'s board of directors authorized the company to repurchase up to $1 billion of its common and preferred stock.AirTouch said it...
WASHINGTON-Fourteen subsidiaries of Dallas-based General Wireless Inc., the third-ranked bidder at the C-block personal communications services auction last year, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
TAMPA, Fla.-BellSouth Cellular Corp. said it plans to launch its Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services network early next year in the Tampa...
WASHINGTON-Federal telecom regulators, under fire from Congress, have proposed allocating more spectrum for little low-earth-orbit mobile satellites even though such a move may prove...
It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. announced last week the Ronald T. LeMay will return to the company as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.LeMay...
SEATTLE-Some 1,900 wireless data professionals gathered in Seattle last week to determine what future their long-struggling industry might have at Wireless APPS '97.In this...
LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry...
Following intense negotiations with the United Kingdom's mobile phone operators, the country's telecommunications regulator extended to Jan. 1, 1999, its number portability requirement for...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service assigned a low-tier speculative grade rating of Caa1 to Telesystem International Wireless Inc.'s planned issue of $167 million in 10-year...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced it published a new interim standard protocol called Intersystem Operations Support for the IS-136 Digital Control Channel.The document recommends...
NEW YORK-Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago, said Oct. 21 it had filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering $400...
WASHINGTON-As the end of the first session of the 105th Congress nears, the wireless telecom industry is left hanging with key policy issues unresolved.In...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced that it signed a contract to provide a high-speed paging network in the Heilongjiang province of China for its Posts...
SEATTLE-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it signed a licensing agreement with Unwired Planet Inc. at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless APPS '97 conference last...
OAK BROOK, Ill.-Airport Cellular, a retail store located at Chicago's O'Hare Airport International Terminal 5, will become the first retail outlet to sell GTE...
NEW YORK-Matav Rt., the telecommunications carrier that controls more than 60 percent of the Hungarian cellular market, plans to become a publicly traded company...
NEW YORK-Dublin-based Esat Telecom Group plc, a minority owner of Ireland's second cellular carrier, is scheduled to price for sale Nov. 6 an offering...
WASHINGTON-The Senate last week confirmed Bill Kennard as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and approved three other agency nominees, but immediately put the...
NEW YORK-QuickPhone, a subsidiary of Florida-based UC'NWIN, said it won a contract to supply prepaid wireless products to Genovese Pharmacies throughout the northeastern United...
