WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard's decision to neither shut down nor fine an unlicensed Texas broadcaster in April-following a friendly phone call from...
SYDNEY, Australia-Australia's One.Tel Ltd. and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced an alliance to pursue business opportunities in third-generation mobile networks in the United Kingdom and...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. is introducing Mobile e-mail, a technology allowing short e-mail messages to be transmitted directly to wireless handsets."With Mobile e-mail, the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Voice-Stream Wireless Corp. launched its personal communications services system in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.The company's Global System for Mobile communications service will...
MORRISVILLE, N.C.-Tekelec announced Alcatel has selected its General Packet Radio Services testing solution, which is based on a new next-generation diagnostics platform, MGTS i3000.GPRS...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless announced several changes to its senior management staff.The company promoted Mitchell Sacks, former president and chief financial officer, to president...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Motorola Inc. announced the availability of Motorola's new StarTac ST7867 dual-band Sprint PCS phone.Later this month, Sprint PCS will...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will establish a year 2000 "war room" that will be manned from Dec. 30 through the first part of January,...
L.M. Ericsson wants to renegotiate the price it paid for Qualcomm Inc.'s infrastructure division, Qualcomm revealed in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing.Qualcomm...
DALLAS-Rent Express Communications launched its frequent traveler program for North Americans who travel overseas regularly and need a mobile phone while abroad.The program costs...
DENVER-Newly formed UltraRF, the former semiconductor division of Spectrian Corp., announced a new amplifier integration technology, in addition to details of its focus as...
NEW YORK-Telecommunications companies pay insufficient attention to revenue leaks, possibly due to the misconception that these hidden losses have a minor impact on their...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s largest affiliate, TeleCorp PCS Inc., raised $184 million last Tuesday from its initial public offering.TeleCorp priced its IPO offering of...
The International Vision Calls Foundation, based in Toronto, has launched its "Phones for Sight" program, an initiative calling on wireless phone consumers and vendors...
Speculation continues that AT&T Corp. will unveil plans to issue a separate tracking stock to trace its wireless business, which has grown significantly since...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. launched a direct sales effort over the Internet of its pdQ smart phone-the combined phone and pen-based organizer based on Code...
WASHINGTON-Before Congress left town, two members lent their support to allocate spectrum for private wireless use.The private wireless industry has been urging the Federal...
Roberto Colaninno, chairman and chief executive of Telecom Italia, formally abandoned the financial restructuring plan he announced in September. The boards of Olivetti and...
