PARIS-Sony Corp. joined the UMTS Alliance in support of its proposed next generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System wireless standard, which combines key elements of...
What, you haven't had enough paparazzi already?Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods and the man who might have been father-in-law to the late Princess...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Northern Telecom Inc. introduced an integrated text messaging system that simultaneously sends text to both wireless and wireline text-message compatible phones.Nortel demonstrated the...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has reached an agreement in principle to provide pagers and paging services to more than 660 OfficeMax Inc. retail...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. now covers the entire South American continent after signing a service license agreement with Damos SudAmerica S.A.Orbcomm, a provider of...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has signed an agreement with Nicaragua's telecommunications service provider, Jamar S.A. of C.V. to expand its international roaming footprint...
Western Wireless Corp. filed a complaint against GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. Inc. seeking an order compelling GTE to implement arbitrated interconnection agreement rates between...
ATLANTA-Powertel Inc. launched its Global System for Mobile communications personal communications services network in Atlanta, bringing to 22 the number of metropolitan areas and...
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee, claiming its probe of the Federal Communications Commission's relocation to The Portals is being deliberately thwarted, is considering subpoenaing the...
LOS ANGELES-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced the launch of its personal communications services wireless network in Los Angeles, using Lucent Technologies Inc.' Code Division Multiple...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. announced a common stock split in the form of a 25-percent stock dividend payable Dec. 22 to all shareholders of...
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched its PrimeTravel service, which allows subscribers to roam throughout the nation using dual-mode/dual-band handsets manufactured by Sony Corp.The company...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS is offering its customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia the Nokia 9000 Communicator, a digital wireless handset capable...
DALLAS-MCI Communications Corp. announced the completion of its new dispatch system that uses wireless technology to send technicians to customer sites.The new system, called...
DALLAS-SpaceCom Systems said it plans to install an additional geographically diverse uplink system at the Dallas-Fort Worth Teleport so its customers can achieve a...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Tower L.P. announced yesterday that New York-based Veronis, Suhler and Associates Inc. has agreed to invest $60 million in the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Saying "profitability is not satisfactory," the Business Area Infocom Systems division of L.M. Ericsson plans to lay off another 10,000 employees worldwide in...
WASHINGTON-As key House and Senate GOP lawmakers probe whether licenses valued at more than $1 billion were given away to Teledesic Corp. and Teligent...
ATLANTA-Digital Transmission Systems Inc., a telecommunications equipment maker, recently announced that it received a $5.4 million order from a national wireless carrier.The order, which...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. unveiled its first product in the DataRover family of handheld communications devices.The DataRover 840 is a handheld computer, weighing 18...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-GTE Wireless plans to launch an 800 MHz digital cellular phone system in San Diego using the cdmaOne infrastructure equipment supplied by...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-The city of Hialeah, Fla., approved the $6.4 million purchase of a trunked, two-way public-safety radio system from Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 21 through 40 largest personal communications services operators in the United States. Since many carriers have not...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Angellcom said it began shipping its new line of alphanumeric and numeric pagers.The Platinum is a four-line alphanumeric unit available in nine...
Cupertino, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. announced an agreement to develop and supply Interim Standard-95 baseband processor chipsets for Kyocera Corp.'s dual-mode handsets.Connected through simple interfaces...
