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...
LOS ANGELES-Wynd Communications Inc. revealed plans to develop a service enhancement of its two-way paging service for the deaf so customers may receive movie...
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...
NEW YORK-Telphia Inc., a San Francisco-based collector and marketer of wireless network and marketing data, said July 19 it raised $2.2 million in private...
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...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $150 million contract from VoCall Communications Corp. to provide the company a virtual private network...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc.'s second-quarter earnings results showed a net loss of $25.3 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $11.7 million, or 29...
Two weeks after the ouster of L.M. Ericsson's President and Chief Executive Officer Sven-Christer Nilsson, the company revealed in its second quarter earnings report...
With so many competitors vying for the business of telecommunications customers, carriers are finding that keeping old customers is sometimes harder than finding new...
LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc. announced Orange plc Group has launched the Wildfire virtual personal assistant in the United Kingdom.In conjunction with the launch, Orange...
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...
CALGARY, Alberta-Tokyo-based Sokkia Co. Ltd., a provider of optical surveying instruments, and Calgary-based NovAtel Inc., developer of global positioning system technology, signed an agreement...
AMSTERDAM-Philips Electronics NV released its second-quarter results, reporting a 28-percent drop in net earnings. The Dutch group posted net income of $288 million, down...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. released second-quarter earnings results for the period ended June 30, reporting a $1.25 loss per share and subscriber additions of...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. said its wireless business added 305,000 net wireless subscribers during the second quarter, including 167,000 personal communications services subscribers in...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
JERUSALEM-Hutchison Whampoa is considering listing its Israeli mobile phone unit, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., in London or on the Nasdaq National Market to secure...
