ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced that Lucent Technologies Inc. joined the nearly 1,300 members of PCIA.Headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., Lucent designs,...
SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp., a provider of wireless intelligent network services for enhanced 911, asked the Federal Communications Commission to condition the mergers of SBC Communications...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Company announced it completed the repurchase of 3,500,000 shares authorized by its board of directors.The repurchased shares are also retired, leaving...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in actions designed to foster domestic and global competition, last week proposed allocating spectrum for fixed wireless access and approved...
WASHINGTON-A majority of the board of directors of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week signed a letter to Bill Kennard, Federal Communications Commission...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-The number of cellular and personal communications services subscribers in Southeast Asia will grow from more than 8.5 million this year to more...
WASHINGTON-Oral argument in the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission's 1996 radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines has been postponed until February or March.The case, Cellular...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it signed a multiyear contract with United States Realty & Investment Co., New York, to provide antenna-site management for some...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department's denial of Nextel Communications Inc.'s request to modify a 1994 antitrust consent decree kept the nation's top dispatch radio operator from...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-In an agreement with IBM's software group, Motorola Worldwide Data Solutions Division said it now will be able to offer IBM's eNetwork Emulator...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced it was awarded an estimated $39 million consignment order to supply highly linear, single channel, cellular Code Division...
WASHINGTON-Did the Federal Communications Commission's further notice of proposed rule making on implementing the digital wiretap act show the industry interim standard is deficient,...
LITTLE ROCK-Alltel Corp. announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Aliant Communications Inc. in a deal valued at $1.5 billion.Under terms...
A Utah state representative plans to introduce legislation next year that would ban the use of wireless phones while driving.Rep. Ralph Becker said his...
LISLE, Ill.-Indian mobile network operator BPL-US West Cellular Ltd. said it again selected Tellabs' MartisDXX managed transport network solution for the expansion of its...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced its broadband Code Division Multiple Access wireless local loop field trial with Pioneer Holdings L.L.C. and North...
SEATTLE-Go to any trade show where mobile phone operators congregate, and you will hear grumbling about how AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Isotel Research Ltd., a Calgary, Canada-based developer of call-processing software and Java-based products and...
DENVER-SpectraSite Communications Inc., a provider of site and tower development services, said it acquired certain tower assets of Airadigm Communications Inc., a provider of...
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. has joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Anadigics manufacturers gallium arsenide integrated circuits for high-volume communications applications, such as mobile phones.
NEW YORK-MapInfo Corp., Troy, N.Y., agreed to acquire On Target Mapping, a Pittsburgh, Pa., provider of mapping data solutions for telecommunications companies, including AT&T...
WASHINGTON-Paging Network Inc. was expected last week to complete the last of 13 interconnection agreements with Bell Atlantic Corp."We are pleased that PageNet and...
After months of aggressive buildout-beginning in late June with the Texas launch-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its two-way, ReFLEX 25-based narrowband personal communications services network...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vienna Systems, a privately held Internet Protocol telephony company of Kanata, Ontario, for about $90...
