WASHINGTON-The most powerful telecommunications policy members of the House of Representatives are questioning the process used by the Federal Communications Commission to review mergers.Rep....
Anyway you slice it, the Nextel-government-NextWave thing is weird.Nextel Communications Inc. gets government approval to go after NextWave Telecom Inc. licenses, even though NextWave...
Finnish operator Sonera Ltd. agreed to purchase 9.1 percent of GSM operator Powertel Inc. last week, giving Powertel a financial partner to pursue strategic...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Software.com said its InterMail software was licensed by Sprint PCS to provide the Internet Protocol-based communications infrastructure for Sprint PCS' wireless messaging...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said it will supply Venezuela-based carrier Telcel Cellular with its Inter@ctive 950e pager, the Spanish language version of the...
VANCOUVER-Sierra Wireless said it has begun shipping the Windows version of the AirCard 300, a Type II wireless PC Card modem for devices supporting...
WASHINGTON-Warburg, Pincus & Co. will rename its CIS Acquisition Corp. business and is restructuring its ownership details in a bid to win approval from...
Motorola Inc. said it filed counterclaims against Qualcomm Inc., the latest punitive move in a more than two-year dispute between the companies that is...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to start struggling with the definition of competition as it reviews comments submitted in its competitive...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is charging that private wireless receives a subsidy because it does not pay for its licenses. The enhanced specialized mobile radio...
According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report filed last week, the recently bankrupt Iridium L.L.C. said it proposed offering bondholders and other...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced Internet service provider RCN Corp. has become the first ISP to offer its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution to...
CI Wireless Inc., a supplier of wireless signal distribution products for wireless carriers, last week acquired Ortel Corp.'s domestic wireless assets, including certain technology...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-With a $120,000 grant from Lucent Technologies Inc., the Wireless Information Networks Laboratory of Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J., has established the Lucent Technologies...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association International's unlicensed council, created earlier this month, modified its group name and selected ADC Telecommunications, Clearwire Communications and WaveRider Communications...
The Ginger Media Group, owners of U.K.-based Virgin Radio, is collaborating with L.M. Ericsson in early trials of wireless third-generation technology that would allow...
LUTON, England-Cellular penetration in western Europe is expected to surpass 70 percent within five years, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics titled...
NEW YORK-Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Malvern, Penn., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 13 for an...
SAN FRANCISCO-Just In Time Solutions, a San Francisco provider of Internet billing and interactive customer-care software, said earlier this month it had raised $10...
SAN FRANCISCO-Charles Schwab Corp., San Francisco, plans to offer customers who trade securities more than 48 times each year access to this service over...
DALLAS-HighwayMaster Communications Inc. reported a second-quarter net income of $200,000, or 1 cent per share, compared with a net loss of $14.1 million, or...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. said plans are under way to reduce the number of employees working in its Systems Division.In addition, the company...
While Nextel Communications Inc.'s pursuit of personal communications services licenses held by bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. appears to have come to an end, the...
