SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.-Wynd Communications Inc. announced it has completed the beta testing of its AAA Emergency Roadside Service for deaf and hard of...
NEW YORK-AAPT Ltd. announced last week it awarded Samsung Electronics of South Korea a $205 million turnkey contract to design, construct, operate, maintain and...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The GSM Association said Global System for Mobile communications just broke through the 200 million customer barrier."The Asia Pacific region continues to grow...
HELSINKI-Finnish operator Sonera said its High Speed Circuit Switched Data network would be ready to begin offering services to data customers today.Handsets for the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-@mobile.com Inc. introduced its Wireless IMessenger Internet service, which extends Internet instant messaging to digital wireless phones.The company said the product is compatible...
DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Wireless Services is expanding its roaming capabilities to nine states in the Southeast, said the company.Roaming services now will be available...
LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and AT&T Corp. each acquired a 15-percent stake in Japan Telecom for a total of $1.9 billion, completing BT's strategic and...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. said Dutchtone NV of the Netherlands chose LCC to conduct its Quality of Service measurement and reporting process.The agreement calls...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc.'s Mexican operating company, Pegaso PCS, will begin launching service in Guadalajara, Jilisco, Mexico, according to the company.Guadalajara is the...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. opened an Internet-based customer service and message retrieval center called the Customer Service Lounge.From its Web site, SkyTel customers may...
LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-Com Inc. and AMP Inc. entered into a $95 million contract under which M/A-Com's OpenSky Wireless Internet Protocol network will be deployed for...
WASHINGTON-SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. agreed to include wireless issues in their proposed conditions for license transfer, said the Personal Communications Industry Association."In...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. said it is introducing services that allow customers to use two telephone numbers on one wireless handset.The first, called Appear...
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...
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,...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. said Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. selected it to help develop a wireless trading service for Schwab customers.The planned...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's trade ban against the Taliban in Afghanistan is preventing a New Jersey firm from completing construction of a wireless system in...
WASHINGTON-In what a spokeswoman for the Personal Communications Industry Association termed a "comedy of errors," the wireless industry and the Federal Communications Commission last...
DALLAS-Alltel Corp. said it selected National Telemanagement Corp.'s SmartPay billing system for its prepaid wireless product in all 174 Alltel markets."SmartPay is a simple...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Aquis Communications Group Inc. reported second-quarter financial results with a net loss of $1.7 million, or 12 cents per share, compared with a...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility Inc. signed a three-year $180 million contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand BellSouth's network in Georgia and southern Florida.Terms of the...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced Internet commerce firm BuyItNow.com L.L.C. has agreed to sell PageMart advanced messaging products and services under an exclusive agreement.
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to announce it will consider lifting the spectrum cap-the restriction that a telecom carrier can control...
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...
