Bell Atlantic Mobile has ventured into a collaborative effort with Phone.com Inc. and Motorola Inc. to use Wireless Application Protocol technology to enable over-the-air...
WASHINGTON-What began this spring as a congressional effort to restructure the Federal Communications Commission in the post-telecom act era could end up as a...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $6.15 billion, an 8.5-percent increase from the $5.66 billion reported for second-quarter...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that on July 7 the company entered...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Deutsche Telekom AG is rumored to have entered an $11.75 billion bid to acquire British mobile phone company One2One, according to a Reuters...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it has secured $7.5 million in private equity financing from CIBC Capital Partners.The funding is part of a larger...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week applauded a new Federal Communications Commission's ruling that Ameritech Corp.'s imposition of local number portability end-user charges...
BETHESDA, Md.-Astrolink L.L.C. and partners Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, TRW and Telespazio closed an equity investment of $900 million in cash that will allow...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Qualcomm Inc. signed an agreement valued at about $400 million calling for Sprint to purchase Qualcomm's new Internet-capable Thin...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments, Dallas, announced July 20 earnings per share of 92 cents for the second quarter, a dramatic 163-percent increase from the year-ago quarter....
The popularity of prepaid wireless services has skyrocketed in the United States, but carriers are experiencing a not-so-pleasant side effect- high churn-and many are...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp.'s U.K. subsidiary, Castle Transmission International Ltd., increased its revolving senior credit facility to $236 million.The bank syndicate led by Credit...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink.net announced a strategic partnership in which paging reseller Positive Communications will market Datalink.net's information services suite to its 320,000 subscribers.The partnership...
President Clinton last week signed legislation giving wireless and other high-tech firms limited protection against lawsuits for year-2000 computer problems. The issue threatened to...
With so many competitors vying for the business of telecommunications customers, carriers are finding that keeping old customers is sometimes harder than finding new...
Poor Tom Daschle.First, the Senate minority leader from South Dakota is handily rebuffed by the GOP in a high-profile fight over managed health-care reform....
NEW ORLEANS-At the CA World conference, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced a technology development partnership with Computer Associates International Inc. and cStar Technologies Inc.The...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Telcordia Technologies Inc. signed what it said is its biggest international agreement to date with South Africa's incumbent telecommunications carrier Telkom.Telcordia will...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. opened a new customer care call center in its Memphis, Tenn., market, said the company.The 46,000-square-foot facility provides customer service...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems and AlliedSignal said they entered into a cooperative agreement to test the effectiveness of using a two-way...
BOULDER, Colo.-SpectraLink Corp. reported revenues for the three months ended June 30 of $10.5 million, an increase from the $8.4 million reported for second-quarter...
WASHINGTON-A wild flurry of lobbying on telecom appropriations bills late last week ended with Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) withdrawing an amendment to relax the...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. was dealt a major blow last week by the Federal Communications Commission, which told the nation's top dispatch operator it cannot...
