Eloquent and elaborate quotes with references to Winston Churchill, the 1969 presidential inauguration and the devil himself spewed forth from press releases last Wednesday...
MILAN, Italy-Omnitel Pronto Italia plans to test Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless Internet technology on its Global System for Mobile communications network.The new services from...
PLAINVIEW, N.Y.-RTS Wireless Inc. and The Traffic Station Group L.L.C. announced a strategic alliance that will deliver real-time traffic reports to digital wireless phone...
The battle among South Korea's five mobile phone carriers has become so intense that the Ministry of Information and Communication has prodded the carriers...
IBM Corp. last week introduced a new process for building high-speed transistors that could translate into smaller wireless phones.The process, called silicon-on-insulator, places a...
The high bids placed for Brazil's eight A-band cellular companies late last month may cause some consortia members to rethink their positions.Reports already indicate...
NEW YORK-Amid a broader trend of increasing mergers and decreasing initial public offerings among information technology, communications and media companies, carriers seized both options...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission again extended the buildout time on the so-called Goodman/Chan licenses until current litigation can be resolved.In a July 31 ruling,...
NEW YORK-Cantel AT&T's Pay As You Go prepaid cellular and paging services, launched nationwide in May in Canada, is using prepaid technology and customer...
The first half of this year has produced several landscape-changing events in the wireless industry. If completed, the proposed mergers between SBC Communications Inc....
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Symbio Systems Inc., a worldwide consulting and systems-integration provider, selected Lightbridge Inc. to provide local customer support for its FraudBuster clients in Taiwan,...
Joining a slew of other industry captains abandoning ship for various reasons, Ericsson Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Bo Hedfors last week decided...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and wireless operator Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH began a live trial of adaptive antenna technology-both downlink and uplink-on Mannesmann's Global System for...
IsraelSamsung Electronics Co. Ltd. used the code-generation technology in Jerusalem-based Emultek Ltd.'s Rapid Plus software suite to build a fully functional Code Division Multiple...
LONDON-London Underground Ltd. selected the CityLink Telecommunications consortium to replace and manage its communications network in a private finance initiative project valued at more...
NEW YORK-Celumovil S.A., Bogota, Colombia, plans to raise $680 million by a private debt sale and a revolving bank loan to refinance outstanding debt...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating CellStar Corp.'s compliance with federal securities laws, and the handset distributor said it believes the inquiry is...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry last week again urged the Federal Communications Commission to extend the digital wiretap act compliance date to Oct. 25, 2000, instead...
Paging Network Inc.'s Internet gateway experienced sporadic outages over a space of 30 hours late last month, during which customers nationwide were unable to...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data announced it offers frame-relay connectivity to its nationwide Intelligent Wireless NetworkSM."For companies that already have frame relay, our company is...
