ALEXANDRIA, Va.-ICO Global Communications announced an agreement with American Management Systems in which the latter will provide ICO a fully automated billing service to...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-The creators of the PalmPilot handheld computer announced they have secured funding to create a new company, Handspring Inc., which will develop...
ORLANDO, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said its FraudX product is commercially available.FraudX, the company's second-generation wireless fraud detection system, addresses fraud in both home...
Information Storage Devices Inc., San Jose, Calif., introduced a single-chip, fully integrated voice storage solution designed for digital cellular handsets.The ISD5008 eliminates external analog...
Chesapeake MicrowaveChesapeake Microwave Technologies Inc. introduced a 50-watt personal communications services Global System for Mobile communications amplifier and a 30-watt DCS GSM amplifier. The...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc., a provider of chipsets, software and intellectual property to the wireless industry, said it received investments from two venture capital...
NEW YORK-Nickel cadmium batteries, long the mainstay of rechargeable power sources for wireless phones, are fading fast into handset history.Today, nickel metal hydride batteries...
Collocation has evolved from something wireless carriers used to resist to something they do as a matter of course. The idea of collocation increasingly...
NEWBURY, Berskshire, England-Vodafone Group plc said it purchased from BellSouth New Zealand the national New Zealand GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) cellular network...
In their effort to promote profitable growth vs. growth at all costs, paging carriers have watched their net subscriber additions fall incrementally over the...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it combined its Wireless Infrastructure Division with its Communication Systems Division to form the new Wireless Systems Division.The combined unit...
BEIJING-Six wireless operators with 11 networks is the daunting choice offered to Hong Kong's techno-savvy consumers.The mobile phone scene here is a lot brighter...
It's been more than a year since Glenayre Technologies Inc. first announced its intention to divest the Western Multiplex microwave business unit, yet the...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. said it entered an agreement with Intelligent Information Inc. to resell III's personalized information services. TSR is branding the...
WASHINGTON-While this week's election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course...
FREEHOLD, N.J.-BAP Acquisition Corp., which in July signed a definitive agreement to buy Bell Atlantic Corp.'s paging assets, has agreed to merge with Paging...
SEATTLE-Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp. made good on their promise to converge the computing and wireless industries when they announced the formation of WirelessKnowledge...
United KingdomCellPoint Systems AB and its partner Wasp International of South Africa demonstrated a Global System for Mobile communications phone positioning system at the...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Metrica, a business unit of ADC Telecommunications Inc., said it won a contract to manage Omnipoint Communications' network performance using Metrica/NPR.The system will...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment rose to $55.6 billion at the close of third quarter, an 11-percent...
That the Clinton administration hasn't said all that much since the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections is instructive. For one thing, who can say...
BOSTON-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. announced more than 2.3 million Global System for Mobile communications customers exist in the United States and Canada."GSM's...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced a new platform for Global System for Mobile communications handsets.The platform, which is slightly larger than a business...
Alltel Corp. said it acquired Armstrong Cellular Inc.'s 15-percent interest in a network the two companies operate in Charleston, W.Va. Alltel now has 100...
HOUSTON-Equiva Services L.L.C., an affiliate of Shell, and TruePosition Inc. signed an agreement to jointly develop and market location-based services and applications using the...