WASHINGTON-Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), chairman of the Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, has introduced legislation to speed up Federal Communications Commission review of telecom mergers.Two deals...
NEW YORK-Deloitte Consulting announced it has developed an evaluation system to help telecommunications carriers and equipment vendors think like portfolio managers before jumping at...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week formally opposed a bill to relax export restrictions on encryption products. Encryption is scrambling technology used to keep electronic...
STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. said it received its third contract from Entel PCS in Chile to provide Global System for Mobile communications 1900 MHz network equipment...
WASHINGTON-When children squabble about whether one is being nice to the other, a parent often must render a judgment about the situation. When members...
MIAMI-WinStar Communications Inc. announced it is now offering its service to businesses in Miami. WinStar's network uses high-frequency radio waves.The company said it will...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. have agreed to work together in technical trials of a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. lawyer Thomas Cullen, attempting to convince U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last Friday to accept the dispatch giant's request to...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., among others, have joined to create a standard that will allow users to access...
Royal Philips Electronics launched a hostile bid Friday to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of VLSI Technology Inc. after VLSI declined to...
NEW YORK-Venture capitalists are beating a path to the door of those who would build a better mousetrap for the burgeoning telecommunications/wireless sector, according...
Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace.Most segments seem to...
NEW YORK-Vodafone Group plc, based in Berkshire, England, announced it signed up its 10 millionth proportionate customer March 1.Vodafone, which is acquiring AirTouch Communications...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS engineers have developed standard specifications that enable interoperability between two major components of wireless networks-mobile switching centers and base station...
Helsinki-based Sonera Group plc, Finland's largest telecommunications carrier, plans a $1.1 billion issue of medium term notes to help finance its expansion plans.The partially...
WASHINGTON-If the inside-the-beltway crowd thinks the issue of antenna siting is slowing down-or perhaps going away altogether-they should have attended a telecommunications forum on...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is reviewing potential candidates to succeed National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving, who is expected to leave his post...
WHEATON, Md.-A recent report from Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. examines the reasons why Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Sector lost market share to Nokia Corp.,...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre's Wireless Access Group and Golden Eagle Credit Corp. have teamed to lease pagers directly to the end user.The new leasing arrangement...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Several technology companies announced they have created an alliance to develop an interface connecting consumer and small-business appliances to Internet services, called the...
NEW YORK-Orbcomm Global L.P., Dulles, Va., announced March 1 that Conatel, the Venezuelan government regulatory agency, has granted operating and frequency licenses to Telecomunicaciones...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. became the first Global System for Mobile communications carrier to eliminate long-distance and roaming charges on GSM networks in...
WASHINGTON-In the public forum, Nextel Communications Inc. speaks earnestly of a brave new wireless world in which it could compete more favorably against AT&T...
Are today's high-tech firms so different from companies of the Industrial Age as to make classic antitrust analysis archaic and no longer applicable?Top antitrust...
