WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week rejected a telecommunications industry proposal to use a product-line approach to make telecom products accessible to the estimated...
NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P. announced it launched four more low-earth-orbit satellites on July 10, bringing the total number of satellites in orbit to 28.The four...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association is expanding the membership of its Wireless Broadband Alliance to any person or entity, including partnerships and corporations,...
Second-quarter subscriber growth in the U.K. mobile-phone market exceeded analysts' expectations as prepaid services continue to provide a growth engine for the industry."The market...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it agreed to provide a variety of value-added services to Telerj Celular S.A. and Telest Celular S.A., two wireless operators...
ATLANTA-Crown Castle International Corp. and BellSouth Corp. reached a preliminary agreement that calls for BellSouth to sublease the unused space on its 773 personal...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-A new study compiled by research and consulting firm Ovum reports that although voice traffic will continue to dominate the communications market, the...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week signed an executive order to create a new advisory group to help the government protect against threats to telecommunications systems...
Alltel Corp. said it signed an integration agreement with Intecom Systems under which Alltel Information Systems will fully integrate Intecom's applications into its customer-care...
WASHINGTON-FCC Commissioner Michael Powell warned members of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council last week the millennium bug was a special problem that requires...
NEW YORK-All bidders for the United Kingdom's One-2-One have reportedly dropped out, so Cable & Wireless plc and MediaOne Group, which own the personal...
WASHINGTON-New allegations surfaced last week that the Federal Communications Commission is giving Nextel Communications Inc. preferential treatment, claims that come on the coattails of...
Investors didn't flinch when Nextel Communications Inc. announced shifts in upper management last week. The company's largest investor, cellular industry pioneer Craig McCaw, is...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Ericsson Inc. selected Natural MicroSystems' products and services for the first integrated wireless network that enables carriers to combine dispatch and group communications...
NEW YORK-BellSouth Corp. said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has ranked it the top telecommunications company for the second straight...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-USA.NET Inc. has joined the Phone.com Inc. Alliances Program with plans to offer a new Web-based e-mail service for UP.Browser-enabled phones.With more...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject petitions on how to structure spectrum sharing between satellite earth stations...
Third-generation technology standards groups say they accept the tri-mode Code Division Multiple Access standard recommended by mobile-phone operators worldwide.The 3G Partnership Project 2, a...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed moving wireless heart monitors to two different sets of spectrum blocks where the devices would be primary users.The...
NEW YORK-The government of Portugal said its sale of a 13.5-percent equity stake in Portugal Telecom plc and an associated share rights issue raised...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced the launch of its 100th international roaming agreement through the inauguration of service with Portuguese operator TMN."Presently our...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire 192 towers located in the South from Triton PCS, an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate.The...
WASHINGTON-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's (D-S.D.) move to pre-empt the planning commission here from deciding on Bell Atlantic Mobile's Rock Creek Park tower applications...
