SnapTrack Inc., together with U S West Wireless, last week staged a live demonstration of its location technology designed to meet phase II requirements...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it is offering a prepaid alphanumeric paging package in addition to its prepaid numeric paging product launched last fall.Prepaid...
The emergence of personal communications services providers is putting the often-tenuous relationship between carriers and resellers to the test in more ways than one.PCS...
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement to purchase all the outstanding shares of Positron Fiber Systems Corp. for about $200 million, the...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission it should not delay the rollout of wireless number portability despite the industry's...
NEW YORK-Convergys Corp. scaled back and sold an initial public offering Aug. 12 that is the prelude to its spinoff from Cincinnati Bell Inc.Convergys...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced its PageWriter 2000 two-way pager will have access to Internet-based information services through the PocketGenie software application developed by...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp.'s board of directors authorized a common stock split in the form of a 100-percent dividend payable Aug. 31 to shareholders...
NEW YORK-Saying Teletrac Inc. faces "numerous competitive alternatives" to its wireless location services for commercial vehicles, Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered speculative grade ratings...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS is offering two new wireless products for international business travelers-Bosch's World 718 Mobile Phone and DCS Fax Mailbox service.Bosch's world phone...
Though the International Telecommunication Union is months away from reaching a consensus on third-generation standards, European and Japanese governments are revealing plans to auction...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. and Colombian paging provider Espectracom signed a roaming agreement to extend PageMart's South American reach to Colombia, said PageMart. Roaming service...
LONDON-The European Commission approved the formation of Symbian, a joint venture launched in June between Psion Software plc, L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and, eventually,...
The government of Peru and telecommunications company Telefonica del Peru earlier this month agreed to end the company's monopoly on conventional telephone service, according...
The U.S. State Department suspended work July 27 on an international project aimed at launching communications satellite-carrying rockets from a floating launch pad near...
NEW YORK-The DDI Cellular Group, parent company of eight regional Japanese cellular carriers with a total of 4.4 million customers, has selected the INfusion...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it published a new performance guideline for cellular Time Division Multiple Access and personal communications services networks.Interim Standard-727,...
Lucent Technologies Business Communications Systems said it plans to develop aggressively the company's U.S. network of 1,000 authorized dealers, distributors and value-added resellers, aiming...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. said it signed a co-marketing agreement with Fujitsu Software Corp. to promote its new Premion Information Service through Fujitsu's ByeDesk Link...
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies has teamed with Hewlett-Packard Co. to provide a turnkey solution for in-line production testing of Code Division Multiple Access and Global...
While many of its second-tier cellular counterparts have been acquired during the last year in an increasingly consolidated industry, Greensboro, N.C.-based Vanguard Cellular Systems...
