NEW YORK-Consorcio Ecuatoriano de Telecommunicaciones S.A., Ecuador's largest cellular carrier, announced last week it had scrapped plans to go public.Instead, the Quito-based company said...
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) said the privatization of the International Maritime Satellite Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization being negotiated...
ROME-Three consortia have submitted bids for Italy's third mobile phone license, due to be awarded mid-year.Two of the bids were expected for some time....
Signaling the beginning of a global partnership, Telecom Italia said it will pay $2 billion for minority interests in Cable & Wireless plc's international...
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. selected actress Jamie Lee Curtis to be the "voice of VoiceStream," representing the company's personal communications services products throughout 1998.Curtis...
NEW YORK-SCC Communications Corp., a Boulder, Colo., provider of emergency call services to wireline and wireless carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange...
After years of delays and controversy, the Italian Ministry of Communications began accepting bids for the country's third mobile phone license last week.The ministry...
The torrents of spring are up upon Bill Kennard.Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for all of four months, stands at the vortex...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-LGC Wireless received patent approval for its LGCell distributed antenna system, which allows cellular and personal communications services carriers to provide in-building...
The Federal Communications Commission's International Bureau granted low-earth-orbit licenses to four companies, authorizing them to operate non-voice, non-geostationary mobile satellite systems, also known as...
WASHINGTON-In two new probes that could intensify scrutiny of President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, the Justice Department is investigating sworn allegations that Hillary Rodham...
NEW YORK-Cellular and personal communications services carrier Western Wireless Corp., Issaquah, Wash., announced that its two largest investors planned to sell 10 million shares...
Magellan Systems Corp., a maker of consumer-oriented Global Positioning System and navigation devices, said it will release its Global Satellite Communicator 100 late next...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. introduced MagicTalk, the intelligent voice user interface platform for its integrated voice and data network, code named "Serengeti."Based on a...
FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp., dba MobileComm, announced it is building a new paging network in North and South Carolina.MobileComm said the new system is...
STOCKHOLM-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it will merge its combined Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and digital cellular system 1800 MHz license...
This year's financial outlook appears gloomy for Motorola Inc., which released poor first-quarter results last week and told analysts this quarter's results won't look...
NEW YORK-NEC Corp. announced it signed an agreement with ERA Technology Ltd. of the United Kingdom that established a joint-venture company to design and...
NEW YORK-Cellnet, a U.K. mobile phone network operator, has placed a contract with Nokia Telecommunications to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network....
COLUMBUS, Ohio-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. estimated first-quarter revenues will be about $40 million, and earnings per fully diluted share are anticipated to reflect a loss...
LONFON-Orange plc, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Orange Communications Ltd., said it submitted a bid for the third mobile phone license in the Republic...
In response to a dispute between Redstone Network Services Ltd. and Vodafone Group plc, the U.K.'s Office of Telecommunications released a consultative document on...
Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C's latest quarterly survey of U.S. mobile phone prices indicates the pricing wars may be over.
The Atlanta-based company said pricing decreased since...
