Paging carriers are showing signs that they have taken to heart analysts' warnings that information services must be customizable and have real value in...
BELLSOUTHBellSouth Corp. appointed Nancy Humphries vice president of investor relations. For the past seven years, Humphries served as executive director of investor relations for...
SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset....
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. launched the Nettech Developer Program, a support program for mobile application developers.The program offers developer partners-such as systems integrators, corporate...
WASHINGTON-Boeing Co.'s Sea Launch program has received the go-ahead from the Department of State for a proposed launch early next year, Boeing announced last...
Motorola Inc.'s recently formed Internet and Connectivity Services Division introduced a new application programming language that allows consumers to access the Internet using their...
WASHINGTON-Like the communications industries it regulates, the Federal Communications Commission is converging.Last Thursday, FCC Chairman William Kennard announced the FCC would reform itself along...
NEW YORK-The share price for Swisscom's partial privatization initial public offering was expected to be set during the week of Oct. 4.The Swiss government...
The campaigning efforts in Washington, D.C., are set to heat up within the next few months as the International Telecommunication Union enters the decision-making...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Unwired Planet Inc. released its UP.Link Platform Version 3.1 with Wireless Markup Language support at PCS '98.The platform, which includes the UP.Link Server...
CHICAGO-USN Communications Inc. launched cellular services in Midwest markets, where the competitive local exchange carrier already offers local and long-distance services.Small and medium-sized businesses...
CHS Electronics Inc., an international distributor of microcomputer products, announced an agreement to purchase BrightStar Corp., a start-up wholesale distributor of cellular phones and...
ORLANDO, Fla.-L.M. Ericsson launched an open wireless intelligent network platform, called Jambala, initially available to Time Division Multiple Access Interim Standard 136 providers.Jambala is...
WASHINGTON-For all of the grumbling that some in the communications industry do about the Federal Communications Commission, what would happen if it didn't exist?...
VANCOUVER-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced the Vancouver launch of its the Mike personal communications services network in the greater Vancouver area.Mike offers all the benefits...
NEW YORK-CellStar Corp., Carrollton, Texas, announced a significant slide in net income for the third quarter ended Aug. 31, to $2.4 million from $16.2...
NEW YORK-Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt accused Corporate America of "manipulation" and "illusion" when accounting for certain costs."In the zeal to satisfy...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. contracted Brite Voice Systems to expand its prepaid calling capacity to support the personal communications services carrier's expansion into new...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the second phase in selling its site management business to OmniAmerica Inc.The three-part transaction is valued...
WASHINGTON-On the same day that the House Commerce Committee was voting to delay the auction of licenses for the general wireless communication service (GWCS),...
ORLANDO, Fla.-The public stock markets may be a bit shaky for now, but "there never has been more private capital available," David Golden, co-director...
Electronic Data Systems said it signed a five-year systems management agreement with Motorola Inc., under which EDS will manage the technology infrastructure for Motorola's...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it plans to eliminate its trading division during the fourth quarter in an effort to emphasize relationships with wireless equipment manufacturers...
WASHINGTON-A confluence of factors are converging that may force the Federal Communications Commission to relax the commercial wireless 45 megahertz spectrum cap, an antitrust...
