The ability to access information anytime, anywhere quickly is becoming the most-touted benefit of wireless communications devices, a characteristic that could continue into the...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. was awarded a three-year $4 million contract to supply Wireless II L.L.C. with switching and base station equipment that will provide...
CTIAChristopher Putala joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association as vice president for congressional affairs. Putala worked for nine years with the Senate Judiciary Committee...
BELLEVUE, Washington-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. launched commercial services on its new metropolitan area network in Seattle and the surrounding areas, following an eight-week service...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-U.S. chip manufacturers endorsed a compromise legislative plan regarding Year 2000 disclosure issues that provides liability protection to encourage businesses to share...
LONDON-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said the sale of its 48-percent interest in Ritabell of Estonia to an affiliate company, NetCom Systems A.B., for $55...
WASHINGTON-It is becoming quite obvious that the key word on antenna-siting disputes is cooperation. In two situations last week, cooperation led to successful results...
CHICAGO-Ameritech Cellular Services and IBM Corp. announced they have agreed that IBM will offer Ameritech's wireless data communications as part of IBM customers' systems...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Corp. launched a comprehensive branding campaign featuring a new logo, redesigned collateral materials and a more coordinated communications approach that will be...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced it gave its Network Services Division a new name-PNI Access Services-effective immediately."The name change ... better reflects the broader scope...
UltraTek, a Torrance, Calif.-based telecommunications equipment research company, has filed patent applications for a global wireless telecommunications system that would turn commercial airplanes into...
BEDFORD, Mass.-PinPoint Corp. unveiled 3D-iD, its real-time wireless asset-tracking and personnel-management system using location techniques similar to those used by the global positioning system...
Maitland, Fla.-based Phoenix Wireless Group Inc. this month announced the company is taking its software-defined telecommunications products in a new direction.A four-year-old company that...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The SuperSession on the second day of the Personal Communications Showcase '98, "Connect to Competition, the Business of Success," will feature keynote speaker...
CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. announced a cost-cutting restructuring program that eliminates about 10 percent of its global work force, affecting approximately 120 full-time employees. In...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. partnered with Yokogawa Digital Computer Corp. for the Japanese company to develop a diagnostics solution for Qualcomm's fifth-generation MSM3000 Interim Standard...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Liberal government has been forced to abandon plans to fully privatize Telstra Corp. in the face of a threatened revolt by...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Powertel Inc. launched wireless personal communications services in Chattanooga, Tenn., expanding its market to 27 metropolitan areas and major highway corridors throughout 12...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. was awarded a contract to supply a turnkey 1900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Pinpoint Communications, which...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc completed its $1.75 billion cash acquisition of MCI Corp.'s U.S.-based Internet business, including its Internet backbone services, about 1,000 specialist...
The wireless industry currently uses many different customer-retention strategies and retention campaigns, including win-back teams, welcome calls, competitive rate plans and loyalty programs. However,...
SKOKIE, Ill.-Cellular Wholesalers Inc. said it partnered with wireless accessories manufacturer Direct Power Plus to sell and market batteries and cigarette lighter adaptors under...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Silverlake Communications Inc., a wireless messaging software provider, announced it has entered a reseller agreement with Arch Communications Group Inc.Under terms of the...
