That personal digital assistants have attracted the attention of the wireless industry is evident in the many announcements made last week targeting the popular...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to consider rules for the deployment of enhanced 911 automatic location identification technologies.The rules will come...
TranscryptTranscrypt International Inc. said its EFJohnson subsidiary launched a new line of mobile and portable radios designed to operate on Motorola Inc.'s Smartnet and...
Bell Atlantic Mobile purchased six 10-megahertz personal communications services licenses from Rivgam Communications L.L.C. to increase voice capacity and prepare for the onslaught of...
ATLANTA-Southern LINC said its customer base increased 50 percent in less than a year, from 100,000 customers in October 1998 to 150,000 customers presently.Since...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-BroadVision Inc. announced CellMania.com was the fastest e-commerce site to launch using BroadVision's One-To-One Business Commerce software. Time to market for CellMania.com...
Convinced that wireless growth was significantly outpacing its own estimates, Lehman Brothers Inc. last week dramatically upped its long-term forecast for the wireless industry...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Someone is just settling into a film or play, conversing intimately in a restaurant or addressing the ball at the first hole-and a...
Concerned about the risks associated with aggressively pushing traditional prepaid service, Sprint PCS last week unveiled its own version of prepaid service that allows...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton was questioned under oath last week by the independent counsel investigating alleged influence peddling and campaign finance violations against Labor Secretary Alexis...
PITTSBURGH-Crisis Center North and Bell Atlantic Mobile launched the Phone Recycling Program, which will allow BAM customers in the Pittsburgh area to recycle their...
WASHINGTON-Telesta Inc. said it will offer mobile text phone service in the United States later this year, a development that will enable hearing- and...
DALLAS-Illinois PCS, an affiliate of Sprint Corp., will provide personal communications services under the Sprint PCS brand name using cdmaOne technology in central Illinois...
PHOENIX-AG Communications Systems and Milwaukee-based Industar Digital PCS said they signed an agreement enabling Industar to offer the Roameo wireless office phone system to...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Iridium L.L.C.'s recent financial restructuring and voluntary bankruptcy filing are not expected to have a financial impact on Iridium Africa, said Iridium...
WARWICK, United Kingdom-Castle Transmission International, the U.K. subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp., said it is working in cooperation with One 2 One on...
SAN DIEGO and MONTERREY, Mexico-Leap Wireless International Inc. and its Mexican joint venture, Pegaso PCS, announced Pegaso will launch service in Monterrey, Mexico.Monterrey is...
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp., working in cooperation with Italian companies Site SpA, Teli SpA, Convert Italia SpA and ETS srl, said it will provide a TETRA...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said cdmaOne subscriber growth increased 171 percent from June 1998 to June 1999, reaching nearly 35 million global...
HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group announced it expanded automatic roaming services throughout Asia.Code Division Multiple Access operators Hutchison Telecom in Hong Kong, Japan's DDI...
BEIJING-China Unicom said Chinese regulators ordered it to kill more than 40 "irregular" joint ventures with foreign investors by the end of the month,...
NEW YORK-As the Internet accelerates the globalization of telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions among traditional and nontraditional players have eclipsed initial public offerings as the...
