WASHINGTON-Clinton administration telecom adviser Larry Irving said last week there will continue to be strong support for huge deregulatory and tax carve-outs for the...
NEW YORK-Taxes generally may be one of life's two certainties, but there is plenty of ambiguity surrounding the application of specific Internal Revenue Service...
ArrayComm Inc. announced the opening of a liaison office in New Delhi, India, to serve a growing interest in its proprietary IntelliCell processing technology...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it completed its purchase of the remaining shares in its partnership with American Personal Communications to make the...
SBC Communications Inc. and Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. last week executed a definitive agreement to merge in a $4.4 billion stock transaction.San Antonio,...
NEW YORK-The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration made several specific recommendations for future actions regarding highway safety in its recent report.Today, only the...
NEW YORK-Noting there is inadequate data available about the impact of cellular phone use on car crashes, a federal agency nevertheless said cell phone...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced its subsidiary, Hughes Software Systems, has signed a nonexclusive agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc. to build solutions around...
Paging industry veteran George Perrin, founder of Paging Network Inc., announced his retirement last week, effective Jan. 31-ending a 17-year reign as head of...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-In-Stat, a market research company serving the semiconductor and communications market, predicts that revenues from paging integrated circuits will peak at $511.3 million...
BOSTON-American Tower Systems Corp., a subsidiary of American Radio Systems Corp., announced it agreed to sell $80 million in a private placement of its...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS has launched international roaming with nine European Global System for Mobile communications operators enabling BellSouth's customers to use their smart cards...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-After introducing the architecture for the Wireless Application Protocol last September, collaborators L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Unwired Planet Inc....
Software developer US/Intelicom stands poised to capitalize on prepaid wireless, an industry segment some analysts expect to grow rapidly during the next few years....
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association said it asked the Federal Communication Commission to require wireless carriers to offer automatic roaming agreements on a nondiscriminatory basis.TRA...
CULVER CITY, Calif.-UStel Inc. announced that its new proprietary, in-house billing service began operation after nine months of development and parallel testing.The company's chief...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp., New York, announced it will acquire Teleport Communications Group in a stock swap transaction valued at about $12 billion, based on...
CHICAGO-SourceOne Wireless Inc. has expanded its ForeverPage service to include alpha paging subscribers. The new Calling Party Pays now allows alphanumeric subscribers to receive...
LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. said it completed its acquisition of ConQuest Telecommunications Services Corp., following "overwhelming approval by shareholders of both companies."Under the terms...
WASHINGTON-C-block personal communications service licensees will have an additional seven weeks to file with the Federal Communications Commission their choice-if any-of the four financial...
CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Inc. and Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. signed an agreement to conduct a six-month program to test an integrated solution for managing customer...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to perform value-added logistics services like receiving, kit preparation and packaging for Conxus Communications Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-State Department officials last week told Qualcomm Inc. that Russian authorities will not require technician Richard Bliss to return to Russia to face espionage...
