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...
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,...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. struck deals with two different content providers to add Internet services to its MyPhone portal service-Traffic Station Inc. and Data...
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...
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...
LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc is pushing forward with details to secure its takeover efforts of Mannesmann AG, while Mannesmann is making its own preparations to...
Arch Communications Group Inc. said it will offer weather updates to paging customers through a strategic marketing relationship with The Weather Channel's weather.com Internet...
NEW YORK-Frequency Electronics Inc., Mitchell Field, N.Y., a developer of precision time and frequency-control products for communications networks, said earlier this month it has...
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...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Aquis Communications Group Inc. announced John Adiletta, founder and president, has left the company.A special committee of Aquis' board of directors consisting of...
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...
VIENNA, Austria-The first mobile data transfer trials over General Packet Radio Service in Austria have been completed by Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector and...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning turnabout, a federal appeals court in New York last week sided with the Federal Communications Commission and reversed a lower court...
WASHINGTON-MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. jointly filed with the Federal Communications Commission an application for approval of their merger.MCI WorldCom and Sprint announced...
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...
As wireless access to the Internet becomes an increasingly popular selling point for wireless carriers, a new concern arises over how carriers can offer...
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...
Dear Editor: As pointed out by Jeff Silva in his "D.C. Notes" column Nov. 9, many industry players, including the Personal Communications Industry Association, are...
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...
The International Vision Calls Foundation, based in Toronto, has launched its "Phones for Sight" program, an initiative calling on wireless phone consumers and vendors...
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...
LAS VEGAS-L.M. Ericsson introduced the R280LX quad-mode wireless phone, which covers the 800 MHz Time Division Multiple Access, 800 MHz analog and 800 MHz...
At long last, a wireless carrier has announced its intention to launch the Revolv service from Wireless Knowledge L.L.C., the joint venture Qualcomm Inc....