NEW YORK-Heading into a scorcher of an Independence Day holiday, American stock markets closed in record-setting territory, thereby heating up the prospects for wireless...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Paging Network do Brasil S.A. acquired rival paging carrier Powernet in a cash deal valued at about $5 million.The deal adds 46,000...
ALBANY, N.Y.-The Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer of control of various licenses for wireless spectrum owned by CAI Wireless Systems Inc. to MCI...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. acquired six towers in Baltimore, Md., in two separate transactions, said the company.The towers were acquired from Blanton...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has allied with Sanmina Corp. to build network equipment supporting the ongoing national rollout of Metricom's 128 kilobits-per-+second Ricochet wireless...
The U.S. Department of Justice cleared the planned global venture between AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc, said AT&T. In July 1998, AT&T and...
NEW YORK-Telecom Eireann raised about $4.3 billion and erased 10 percent of Ireland's national debt with its initial public offering, which was priced July...
WASHINGTON-Four members of the Senate Commerce Committee have introduced legislation to require all federal agencies to be located in buildings with access to competitive...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. said it selected LinkShare Corp. as a Web affiliate partner to help it attract new subscribers for the Portico virtual...
WASHINGTON-Efforts are under way in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission to protect wireless heart monitors and other medical telemetry devices from interference.This...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sharp Corp. agreed to standardize specifications for stacked chip scale packages, a multiple memory module for...
WASHINGTON-In another salvo in the war to reform the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee,...
United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc said it will buy Control Data Systems Inc., a software company based in Arden Hills, Minn., for $340 million. The...
WASHINGTON-The digital divide between those who do and those who don't have access to the Internet persists even as the number of Americans connected...
WASHINGTON-Admitting the disabilities provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are arcane, but saying the "impact is huge," the Federal Communications Commission this week...
NEW YORK-Motorola Credit Corp. has sold $500 million of euro-denominated bonds paying 6.75 percent interest in order to raise capital for lending money to...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-A start-up company called @Motion Inc. announced plans to create an Internet voice portal server to link wireless networks with Internet portals.The...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Nokia Wireless Software Solutions and Spyglass Inc. said they have entered into a distribution agreement that empowers Spyglass to license the Nokia Wireless...
WASHINGTON-The United States and Japan have reached an agreement over the procurement of telecommunications equipment by Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., U.S. Trade...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded an $18 million contract to expand Telefonica del Peru's Code Division Multiple Access cellular network,...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. gained ground in Japan recently, having signed agreements to incorporate its UP.Link Server Suite in wireless networks there.Two Japanese cellular...
GTE Wireless Inc. is taking Qualcomm Inc. to federal court, claiming the handset manufacturer violated its patent by incorporating certain roaming technology in mobile...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. said it completed the movement of its product testing to a new expanded test floor."This expansion gives us the...
