CHICAGO-The North American GSM Alliance elected VoiceStream Wireless President Bob Stapleton the group's new chairman.Stapleton served as president of Western Wireless Corp. from 1992...
LA PAZ, Bolivia-The Government of Bolivia's Superintendent of Telecommunications, Guido Loayza, is accepting international bids for a 20-year concessionary contract for the provision of...
LONDON-British Telecommunications plc said it will acquire for $5 billion Securicor's 40-percent shareholding in BT Cellnet, the United Kingdom's second-largest cellular operator-behind Vodafone AirTouch...
CHATSWORTH, Calif.-Intellicell Corp. signed an agreement to merge with Cellular Wholesalers Inc., a privately held wholesale distributor of wireless phone products.Under terms of the...
LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has agreed to acquire 16 10-channel 900 MHz wide-area licenses from American Wireless Network Inc.Chadmoore will assume...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Satellite Services Inc. announced it completed agreements under which AirTouch Cellular, Airstar Communications, GMPCS Personal Communications, O'Gara Satellite Systems and The Wireless...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation announced the winners of its 1999 Leadership Awards, to be held at a reception at PCS '99...
TeleCorp PCSTeleCorp PCS Inc. hired Raul Burgos as vice president and general manager of its Puerto Rican operations. He most recently served as general...
HELSINKI-Primatel, the new Global System for Mobile communications 1800 mobile operator in Hungary, selected Nokia Corp. to supply its GSM 1800/GSM 900 network, said...
WASHINGTON-Associations representing private wireless users do not see a need for the petition, filed late Friday by the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, urging the...
CoherentThe Coherent original equipment manufacturer division of Tellabs launched a complete design verification kit for its CEC-128 Integrated Echo Canceller multichip module. The kit...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Rural Cellular Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $38.2 million, more than double the $17.7 million in revenues...
WASHINGTON-The pace of technological change-rapid and frenzied-will have an impact on regulation, and in turn, how regulation impacts the wireless industry in the next...
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. posted overall results for the second quarter, ended June 30, showing a 6.2-percent increase in total revenues to $215...
Gore 2000 lists ex-Clinton Commerce official Jonathan Sallet (MCI WorldCom chief policy counsel, husband of former FCC spokeswoman Susan Lewis Sallet and son-in-law of...
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. said it signed contracts with three branches of China United Telecommunications Corp. in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shanghai to deliver a range of...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The five founding companies of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group-Ericsson Inc., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp. and Toshiba Corp.-announced the release...
Computer Associates International Inc. introduced a new wireless application infrastructure designed to give companies the ability to introduce corporate applications to mobile workers.The system...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans ruled largely in favor of the Federal Communications Commission late Friday in...
Phone.com Inc.'s Unwired Universe conference attracted about 1,100 attendees from 29 countries, twice the number expected by conference planners.The conference was designed to act...
Lucent Technologies Inc. last week launched a new venture to deliver operations support system products designed to help carriers better manage their networks and...
RESTON, Va.-Craig McCaw and his family exercised their options to purchase 15 million shares of Nextel Communications Inc. common stock, according to the company.Nextel...
The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group of more than 100 Time Division Multiple Access and Wireless Intelligent Network vendors and operators, appointed Sheila...
Western Wireless Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $136.6 million, an increase from the $98.4 million reported the same...
