COLLEGE PARK, Md.-Tim Ayers, former vice president for communications at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will join North Light Communications group to launch a...
NEW YORK-Venture-capital investments in the telecom/wireless sector during the first quarter of this year reached $734 million, more than double the total during the...
WASHINGTON-Geotek Communications Inc. is moving forward to win creditor and bankruptcy court approval of a final plan of liquidation and is planning for contingencies...
NEW YORK-AirGate PCS Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate headquartered in Atlanta, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public through an...
PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Corp. said it exercised its right to increase its ownership interest in Omnitel Pronto Italia to 23.1 percent.Bell Atlantic, which was an...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association has published a new interim standard, Wireless Authentication Enhancements Descriptions, TIA/EIA/IS-778.The document presents a recommended plan for implementing authentication...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. acquired AT&T's Puerto Rico personal communications services license, said the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed."Wireless growth in...
LISLE, Ill.-As recently as a year ago, investors feared Tellabs Inc.'s flagship telephone network-management system-long considered the industry Cadillac-was on its way to becoming...
Another U.S. mobile phone carrier has announced definitive plans to commercially launch Internet access during the fourth quarter.Code Division Multiple Access operator Sprint PCS...
ORANGE, Calif.-World Wide Wireless Network Inc., a provider of high-speed business connectivity in Southern California, expanded its wireless network to include 13 points of...
ATLANTA-World Access Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Comm/Net Holding Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Enhanced Communications Corp., Comm/Net Services Corp. and...
PHOENIX-AG Communication Systems, a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies Inc., completed an agreement it signed in August 1997 with Rogers Cantel Inc. to jointly market...
FRANKFURT, Germany-LHS Group Inc. announced licensing agreements with Retevision Movil S.A., Barcelona, Spain, and Telecom Personal Argentina.Retevision Movil selected LHS and joint venture Norsistemas/Endesa/Telesoft...
Liberty Media Group's announcement last week that it plans to acquire The Associated Group Inc. would give Liberty, the Tele-Communications Inc. offshoot traditionally focused...
DAPHNE, Ala.-Communitronics of America Inc. announced it has completed integrating Data Paging Inc. into the company, following its acquisition in December.Communitronics is a paging...
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced it plans to work with Korea Telecom Freetel to develop a standards-based Internet and corporate service platform based on Microsoft...
BETHESDA, Md.-Mobeo Inc. announced it signed a software license agreement with Comstar Inc., under which Comstar may market the mobeo 1.0 interactive stock quote...
SWINDON, U.K.-Motorola Inc. said it achieved the world's first voice call over Global System for Mobile communications connected Internet Protocol technology.Motorola gave the demonstration...
MONTREAL-Microcell Telecommunications Inc. said it closed a debt transaction that raised about $150 million from the issue of 12-percent senior discount notes due 2009...
MIAMI-MasTec Inc. announced it filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering 2 million shares of common stock for use...
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. officially adopted Marconi Communications' corporate name, logo, signage and letterhead, said Marconi, establishing a North American operator for the United Kingdom-based company.In...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced a subscriber line interface circuit chip that operates on 3.3 volts of power, thereby reducing power consumption...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net announced the release of InfoXtra II, a new wireless information service that delivers news, financial updates, lifestyle information and other information...
