A $1 billion capital infusion from Bill Gates' Microsoft Corp. will help cable giant Comcast Corp. accelerate construction of a fiber-optic cable network to...
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...
Lincoln, Neb.-based encryption-technology and two-way radio manufacturer Transcrypt International Inc. submitted a $34 million letter of intent June 12 to assume the assets and...
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...
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-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...
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...
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...
JACKSON, Miss.-Mtel Latin America Inc., a subsidiary of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., signed an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of the Argentina-based paging...
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...
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...
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...
BEIJING-Northern Telecom Ltd. was awarded a contract from the Tianjin Posts and Telecommunications Administration to increase the capacity of its existing Global System for...
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...
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...
Now that many personal communications services providers are operating in several cities, most are advertising better call clarity than users received with cellular analog...
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...
Western Wireless Corp. said things are running smoothly in Hawaii since it launched the nation's second personal communications services network there more than one...
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-The Federal Communications Commission granted MobileMedia Corp.'s request to stay the hearing initiated by the FCC to evaluate whether the company is...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
