NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. said it received a spectrum grant for Hamburg and Cologne, Germany. The company paid a nominal license fee for these...
WASHINGTON-Congressional offices and one senator are planning to fight a Justice Department proposal that would allow law enforcement to enter people's homes and disable...
WASHINGTON-Three consumer groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block AT&T Corp.'s planned acquisition of MediaOne.The Consumers Union,...
AT&T Corp. reportedly is revisiting the idea of issuing tracking stock for its cable and wireless businesses.The Street.com reported last week AT&T consulted with...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Matsushita Electric/Panasonic, SanDisk and Toshiba Corp. introduced a secure digital memory card that can support numerous new consumer products and enable mass...
Everywhere you look it seems wireless companies are declaring bankruptcy. Iridium, NextWave and Metro PCS all are trying to beat their way through the...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Tele-communications Industry Association said it published a new standard, "Mobile Center-Base Station Interface for Public Wireless Communications Systems."The standard is organized into...
German telecom operator Mannesmann AG said it executed its option rights on shares of Italian mobile operator Omnitel, raising its stake in the company...
WASHINGTON-A plan from the U.S. Department of Transportation to institute a nationwide three-digit number for traffic information may be derailed by a call from...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. said it licensed its Spyglass Prism product to Seiko Epson for use with a new wireless device specifically designed to target...
WASHINGTON-Geotek Communications Inc. creditors blasted the proposed antitrust settlement between the Justice Department and Nextel Comm-unications Inc., while government lawyers continued to fight to...
SEATTLE-Tegic Communications and Optimay GmbH, a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies Inc., announced they signed a licensing agreement that allows Optimay to integrate the Chinese...
WARSAW-Poland only received two bids by the Aug. 23 preliminary bid deadline for a 25-percent to 35-percent stake in government-controlled Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA), according...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Proxi-Net Inc., gaining access to the company's ProxiWare Server and ProxiWeb microbrowser.Puma said...
WASHINGTON-Qualcomm Inc. and Richard Bliss, a former employee temporarily imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges in 1997, have reached an out-of-court settlement to end...
Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group charged Research In Motion Ltd. with patent infringement on RIM two-way messaging devices.The Glenayre division said it filed...
WASHINGTON-Experts from the world's leading wireless telecom standards bodies last week pledged cooperation on third-generation mobile phone technology, number portability, electromagnetic compatibility, fixed wireless...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-The government late Friday was granted a last-minute emergency stay in its appeal against the bankruptcy reorganization of NextWave Personal Communications Inc.,...
VANCOUVER-Telos Engineering said it successfully deployed its digital cellular telecommunications system for ICOM-Liberia, the first cellular provider in Liberia. The contract, valued at $1...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Cellular announced prepaid customers who purchase talk time in standard denominations of $30, $50 or $100, now will have six months rather...
Just three months after entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Conxus Communications Inc. Friday abruptly shut off its entire network and ceased all operations, leaving...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. and Towercom L.L.C. announced a joint venture to develop new towers for carrier collocation.Under terms of the partnership,...
ATLANTA-Satyam Enterprises Ltd., a regional partner of LHS Group Inc., said Global System for Mobile communications operator Fascel Ltd. in Gujarat, India, selected LHS'...
