MONTREAL-The GSM Alliance and Nortel Networks announced they completed North America's first third-generation wireless telephone call using a wideband Code Division Multiple Access trial...
WASHINGTON-The fallout of last week's Federal Communications Commission decision on solving the dead-zone problem saw the chairman's office denouncing the industry's response and consumers...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has developed the first in a family of new chipsets and system software solutions to support future cdma2000 products....
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc.'s Advanced Wireless Integration Group introduced two new services-the Jackpot Casino Monitoring System and Delivery-Mate automatic dispatch service.The casino service allows casino...
SAN CARLOS, Calif.-CellNet Data Systems Inc. said it successfully demonstrated with the City of Burlingame, Calif., its wireless network solution, which enables parking meters...
NEW YORK-All eyes are on Omnipoint Corp., which one investment banker has likened to a poster child for personal communications services.What will be the...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks announced it is selling manufacturing plants and cutting 1,000 jobs as part of a restructuring plan intended to make the company more...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., a provider of billing and related information systems to telecommunications carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a...
NEW YORK-A class action lawsuit was filed last week by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. subscribers frustrated by dropped calls, busy signals and other indications...
SAN DIEGO-Canada's Bell Mobility announced it will begin formally testing the Revolv service from Wireless Knowledge L.L.C., the joint venture created by Microsoft Corp....
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said the U.S. Justice Department has reviewed L.M. Ericsson's pending acquisition of the company's infrastructure division and the two company's intellectual-property-right...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson and Telular Corp. formalized an agreement for worldwide product development and marketing of the Telular Time Division Multiple Access fixed cellular terminals.Under...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice has reminded the computer industry that, notwithstanding a recent appeals court ruling, restrictions on the export of encryption technology still...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it has joined forces with online trading company eBay to create a wireless person-to-person online trading service that will...
WASHINGTON-Everyone who makes a phone call-either wireless or wireline-soon could see a tax cut if Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has his way.Last week, Tauzin,...
At last Wednesday's hearing on wireless 911 legislation, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) made special note of a front-page Washington Post story published that day...
NEW YORK-Electric Fuel Corp. said it now is selling its Zinc-Air disposable batteries for cellular phones through the company's Web site.The Motorola Inc. MicroTAC...
WASHINGTON-A new treaty to curb bribery of public officials should help U.S. wireless firms become more competitive in the emerging global telecom marketplace.The accord,...
WASHINGTON-The leaders of the four telecommunications trade associations, which are suing the Department of Justice over implementation of the digital wiretap act, met with...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced worldwide cdmaOne subscribers totaled 28.5 million at the end of March, a one-year increase of 309 percent.The...
ATLANTA-Cellemetry L.L.C. announced an agreement that will extend its Cellemetry Data Services throughout the 17-state area covered by Western Wireless Corp.With the agreement, Cellemetry...
IRVINE, Calif.-STM Wireless Inc. said Bolivia's sole long-distance provider, Entel S.A., awarded STM a $5.4 million contract to supply 550 solar-powered subscriber earth station...
NEW YORK-Executives of Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., announced initiatives May 5 designed to advance outsourcing of computing at the enterprise level by...
