OLYMPIA, Wash.-Frontier Corp. used Illuminet's local number portability service to activate 200 live ported telephone numbers in the Northeast region on March 31, said...
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced a series of interest rate swaps on its 13.5-percent senior notes due Dec. 15, 2002, and also completed...
WASHINGTON-The paging industry's battle against pay-phone deregulation has picked up support from an unlikely source in Congress.Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a leading opponent of...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced the latest addition to its line of digital phones, the Sony CM-S110SPR, which is manufactured by Qualcomm Personal...
ASHLAND, Ken.-RAM Technologies announced it has acquired American Answering Service of Charleston, W.Va."We look forward to providing American Answering Service's customers with state-of-the-art computerized...
NEW YORK-Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., announced the company is considering its options, including selling some or all of its assets.The company, a...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc. of San Diego announced it has merged with a Virginia-based wireless infrastructure development firm, Entel Technologies Inc.The merger will increase...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will provide Tele Danmark a full turnkey solution for a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network in...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Norway's mobile communications network operator NetCom GSM of Oslo awarded Siemens AG a contract valued at $21.8 million to expand and modernize...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.The premise-based...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-InfoCellular Inc. entered into a joint marketing agreement with Onyx Technologies L.L.C. to market the companies' combined product, Info4Score, which is designed to...
Nextel CommunicationsKevin Gleason was hired at Nextel Communications Inc. as Indiana General Manager and Sherri Cobb joined the company as market branch manager for...
Unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. have subpoenaed the Federal Communications Commission for information omitted from the reorganization plan approved last month by several...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia invested $200 million cash in Teledesic L.L.C., the "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications venture of...
Nextel Communications Inc. dealers have filed a putative class-action lawsuit against the enhanced specialized mobile radio operator in a San Diego court, claiming Nextel...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. confirmed the general manager of its Sao Paulo, Brazil, operation was murdered earlier this month. Funeral services for Ricardo Periera were...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected blow to government efforts to foster diversity in the fast-growing telecommunications industry, a federal appeals court here last week repealed some...
Wireless carrier advertising trends may have turned a corner during last year's winter holiday season. Many industry experts believe carriers are beginning to spread...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Postal Service and UniSite Inc. are planning a major rollout of huge flagpole antennas in the East and Midwest, a development representing...
As the popularity and penetration of wireless communications spreads throughout North America, wireless carriers increasingly will use mass-market retail outlets and their own direct...
WASHINGTON-In a move that could reignite the debate over the wireless industry's responsibility to physically challenged Americans, a Colorado-based maker of a device enabling...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported revenues during the first quarter of $327 million, a 196-percent increase compared with revenues of $110.7 million for the...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced that its first Rapid Deployment Vehicle was deployed and is operating in China's Sichuan Province.The deployment...
