After defaulting on both its $800 million senior secured credit facility and its $750 million guaranteed credit facility last week, Iridium L.L.C. filed for...
MINNEAPOLIS-The Minnesota Department of Public Safety, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Hennepin County, Metropolitan Council and the city of Minneapolis jointly announced contracts have...
BETHESDA, Md.-Omnipoint Corp. reported revenues of $89.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, more than double revenues of $42.2 million the company reported...
NEW YORK-Consumers looking to comparison shop on the Internet for wireless services and products will soon have two new choices.CellMania.com said it plans to...
AerisAeris Communications Inc. added to its senior management team, naming Peter F. Stone chief financial officer and Patricia E. Hart vice president and general...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. released its first-ever quarterly earnings report since going public in June, posting a net loss for the fiscal fourth quarter...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Corsair a patent for technology relating to PhonePrint, the company's cellular...
A Baltimore-based company called reachNET introduced a wireless messaging solution that provides a direct connection between a wireless device and the telephone teletype machines...
Analysts have long criticized operator-assisted dispatch as the weak link in the alphanumeric paging chain, citing its inherent lack of privacy and potential for...
SAN FRANCISCO-Discover Brokerage introduced a wireless investing service called TradeRunner, which uses 3Com Corp.'s Palm III and Palm IIIx personal digital assistants.The service allows...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Defense, the Electric Power Research Institute and at least 27 universities have joined forces on a 5-year, $30 million project...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Bell Atlantic Mobile announced it expanded its digital cellular service in northwest South Carolina to include the counties of Abbeville, McCormick, Greenwood, Edgefield,...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nineteen network service providers and telecommunications companies, including Amdocs, Andersen Consulting, Convergys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Portal Software and Sun Microsystems Inc., have formed...
PARIS-Paris-based France Telecom reported Aug. 12 that its consolidated revenues for the first six months of 1999 increased by 7.4 percent to $13.92 billion,...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. acquired Cambridge, Mass.-based InTouch Systems Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction, said Comverse.Comverse said it issued about 340,000 new shares to...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. acquired the business and certain net assets of Mobicall, a wholesale distributor of wireless handsets and accessory products throughout the Netherlands,...
CALGARY-Cell-Loc Inc. said it completed the first phase Code Division Multiple Access trial of the Cellocate System PCS/CDMA, after three months of testing.Results of...
LISBON, Portugal-TMN, the mobile division of Portugal Telecom, posted 1999 first-half results showing net income of $54 million, a 10-percent increase compared with the...
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. introduced lower PrimeTravelSM roaming rates and bundled long-distance services.Now, customers opting for a PrimeCoNowSM plan of 100 to 300 minutes...
DENVER-Wireless technology can play a key role in developing competition in the local telecommunications market as envisioned by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, according...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. launched its first ever cross-branding effort that unites all of RCC's wireless companies, which traditionally have not communicated a consistent...
NEW YORK-San Francisco-based World Wide Wireless Communications Inc., which has a patent pending for putting wireless network infrastructure onto computer chips, is engaged in...
Rural Cellular Corp. last week demonstrated its Phase II wireless enhanced 911 service at the International Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials show in Minneapolis.Jim...
Personal communications services carriers can be credited with spurring huge demand for wireless service, but they continue to struggle with brand awareness and perceptions...
WASHINGTON-Companies like Qualcomm Inc. that wish to enter the potentially lucrative Chinese wireless market now must wait for the United States and China to...
