MELVILLE, N.Y.-Northeast Digital Networks Inc. announced it signed a letter of intent with All Points Telecom Inc., which plans to purchase 80 percent of...
WASHINGTON-The first Federal Communications Commission employee to be detailed to a congressional office, Mark Rubin, will be working on issues of more interest to...
On Monday, it's Vodafone-AirTouch. Wednesday, it's SBC-Comcast. Friday must mean BellSouth.(Actually, it's Thursday as I write this so if anything has happened to BellSouth,...
SALT LAKE CITY-AT&T Corp. has established a fund for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee Anne Sleater, who remains in critical condition after being wounded...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, invoking powerful references to the World Trade Organization, competition and convergence, last week said the European Commission's response to U.S. concerns...
Chief Executive Officer: Chris GentChairman: Sam GinnDeal value: $97 per shareCombined current market capitalization: $100 billionEquity split: about 50-50Terms: AirTouch shareholders receive firve new ordinary Vodafone shares, or 0.5 of...
NEW YORK-Using funds from a bank credit facility, Metrocall Inc., Alexandria, Va., paid $16.2 million to buy back all outstanding shares of its Series...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry could be headed for an unexpected headache caused by the dreaded millennium bug. Insurance companies are telling wireless carriers they need...
DUBLIN, Ohio-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell substantially all of its assets to AT&T Corp. for up to...
NEW YORK-Significant progress has been made toward the still unrealized goal of full minority participation in the telecommunications industry, according to speakers at the...
Sprint Corp.'s PCS Group added about 830,000 subscribers during the fourth quarter, positioning itself to top the industry in customers additions for the second...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility.The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a "groundbreaking...
NEW YORK-With more than 7,700 transactions valued at $1.2 trillion announced, the domestic mergers and acquisitions market for 1998 crushed by 84 percent its...
ARLINGTON, Texas-FWT Inc. announced it released Chief Executive Officer Douglas A. Standley and other executives as part of significant operational and management changes in...
The Supreme Court declined to hear appeals by three Baby Bells challenging the 1996 telecom act's requirement that local competition precede Baby Bell entry...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Global Corp. unveiled a new initiative to maximize resources and capital, focus on consolidation, reduce operating costs and divest non-core assets. The...
Research In Motion Ltd. introduced a wireless e-mail solution, called BlackBerry, designed to allow Microsoft Exchange users mobile access to their desktop e-mail.BlackBerry is...
The Australian Communications Authority has decided to require pre-selection for calls originating on a fixed network and terminating on a mobile network.The ACA, which...
OSLO, Norway-The Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications Odd Einar Dorum and the Swedish Minister of Industry Bjorn Rosengren have signed a letter of...
After years of slowly gathering the needed partnerships with cellular operators across the country, Cellemetry L.L.C. today can offer its cellular control channel transmission...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. wireless industry, responding to the global proliferation of media coverage of mobile phone health concerns and to Internet-savvy activists, is leading an...
WASHINGTON-As parties in the never-ending fight over the implementation of the digital wiretap act prepare to file reply comments this week with the Federal...
After the embarrassing $1 license sales in the Wireless Communication Service auction two years ago and the C-block personal communications services bankruptcies, some began...
