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...
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...
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-Saying Teletrac Inc. faces "numerous competitive alternatives" to its wireless location services for commercial vehicles, Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered speculative grade ratings...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.'s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging,...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Powertel Inc. said it will use Lightbridge Inc.'s FraudBuster service to detect and prevent technical and subscription fraud.FraudBuster is a UNIX-based software product...
WASHINGTON-Saying he was responding to constituent complaints about non-itemized billing, Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) recently introduced legislation requiring all commercial mobile radio service providers...
WASHINGTON-An agreement between GTE Corp. and AirTouch Paging, signed earlier this month, is a good example of how the telecommunications industry can work with...
NEW YORK-NightFire Software Inc., Berkeley, Calif., debuted NetServ Express, which it said is "the first packaged software solution to automate the telecommunications service supply...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said its results for the second quarter were the strongest quarterly results in its 16-year history as a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The industry's first cellular phone manufacturer has become another casualty of the highly competitive handset business. Oki Telecom Inc. has ceased manufacturing, sales and...
NEW YORK-Two California-based wireless industry companies, Boatracs Inc. and Ora Electronics, have joined several dozen other small-cap public corporations enrolled in the new "Seal...
