BALTIMORE-Statistics have shown that some 70 percent of calls made to 911 operators have nothing to do with life-or-death situations. People have been trained...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Personal communications services provider Powertel Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCel Inc., launched commercial PCS service last week in Gainesville, Fla.Allen...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. reached a definitive agreement to sell the Fort Myers, Fla., metropolitan statistical area that it acquired during its recent purchase...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. made its Voice Dial service available to all of its subscribers. Voice Dial allows customers to speak the names...
SINGAPORE-Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson are submitting a statement to the Association of Radio Industries and Business, the Japanese standardization body, backing the proposal...
NEW YORK-Iridium World Communications Ltd., which plans to launch a satellite-based global telephone and paging service, went public June 10, raising $240 million in...
NEW YORK-To help build out its personal communications services network, InterCel Inc., a West Point, Ga., cellular carrier with PCS licenses, announced June 10...
NEW ORLEANS-The integration of wireline and wireless capabilities into the local loop "may not happen the way we all envision it," said John Woodward,...
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...
Telecommunications Techniques Corp. and Clear Communications Corp. formed an alliance to jointly market customer network management, intelligent surveillance and testing solutions for competitive access...
WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler said last week that antenna siting disputes will be tied up in litigation for years if federal...
The privatization of Brazil's cellular telephone industry appears to have moved forward in recent weeks with the announcement of the sale of the country's...
Flashback to 1987. Walrus moustache twitching, the editor stormed down the hall to the MIS director's office, shouting, "Get this $#@#!* thing out of...
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...
BOSTON-AT&T Corp. Chairman Robert Allen responded to rumors of a possible merger of SBC Communications Corp. and AT&T by saying the company would never...
CLEVELAND, Ohio-Reltec Corp. reached an agreement to acquire GPT Ltd.'s Ballynahinch manufacturing operation located in Country Down, Northern Ireland.The operation specializes in electrical manufacturing...
SINGAPORE-Qualcomm Inc. has signed an agreement with Rostov Electrosviaz of Rostov, Russia, to supply $5.8 million in 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access fixed...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Ericsson Inc. settled one of several lawsuits pending between the two companies.The agreement, filed June 6 in federal court, resolves...
Narrowband personal communications services companies have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to have their license payments deferred along with those of broadband C- and...
LONDON-Lockheed Martin's Space & Strategic Missiles Sector and Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications said they have formed a joint venture company designed to...
