WASHINGTON-Hughes Electronics Co., under fire in Congress for heavy-handed lobbying on satellite exports to China, again is pushing the Clinton administration to relicense a...
WASHINGTON-The House approved high-tech securities reform litigation that would create uniform national standards for class action shareholder lawsuits and keep such cases in federal...
August 3-5Institute for International Research. The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco. (888) 670-8200.Wireless Data ConferenceAugust 5-6International Communications for Management. Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago. (312) 540-3010.RAWCON '98: August...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. added approximately 25,000 net personal communications services subscribers during the second quarter to close the first six months of 1998...
CARPINTERIA, Calif.-PulsePoint Communications said market trials of its unified messaging solution, conducted by GTE Corp. and Concord Technologies, showed the service appeals to 62...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it was contracted by Finnish operator Kuopio Telephone Co. to provide a complete 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications...
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-As the International Telecommunication Union wound up its meeting in South Korea July 24 to consider 15 third-generation wireless proposals, Telecom Analysis...
CHICAGO-Prepaid cellular subscribers in Western Europe exceeded the 10 million mark during the first quarter of 1998, while the United States isn't expected to...
NEW YORK-After significantly reducing the size and price of its offering, ICO Global Communications Ltd., London, went public July 31, selling 10 million common...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden Corp. announced it released a four-line alphanumeric pager called the ALP 9094 Contaq IV, which features 40-message storage capability and can...
Total paging subscribers will reach 68.9 million by year-end 2002, according to The Strategis Group report, "The State of the U.S. Paging Industry: 1998."Of that...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-Evolving Systems Inc. announced a contract with an unnamed major carrier to provide comprehensive wireless local number portability systems.During the first phase of...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it signed a three-year framework agreement with the Wind consortium, which recently won Italy's third mobile cellular license. The agreement...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to approve service rules for using the public- safety spectrum in the 746-806 MHz band. This...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. announced its results for the second quarter, which was highlighted by the proposed merger with Ameritech Corp., as well as...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said it plans to auction spectrum in the 47 GHz band to be used primarily for fixed, point-to-multipoint...
WASHINGTON-The proposed marriage between Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. was met with skepticism from Washington telecommunications policy makers, most of whom do not...
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) last week accused the Federal Communications Commission of concocting a bogus national security issue to avoid attracting...
Safety and security may be becoming a smaller factor for wireless subscribers. Fewer than half of respondents to an IDC/Link survey of current users...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. said costs associated with further development and deployment of its FraudBuster product were higher than expected, which contributed to a 69-percent...
rain's Chicago BusinessCHICAGO-Motorola Inc. has quietly exited the business of making programmable computer chips used in consumer electronics and other products.Late last week, a...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-With $18 million in order bookings during the second quarter, Microwave Power Devices Inc.'s backlog reached a record high of about $100 million,...
