CURITIBA, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Inepar S/A Industria e Construcoes, a Brazilian energy and systems manufacturer, announced they formed a joint venture to supply...
WebLink Wireless Inc., formerly PageMart Wireless, announced several companies have joined its Enterprise Solutions Provider Program in the last week.The most recent addition is...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to release auction and service rules that will make 30 megahertz of spectrum available for commercial...
SAN DIEGO-Sprint PCS plans to acquire a 30.5-percent interest in Mexican wireless carrier Pegaso, said Leap Wireless International Inc., a co-founder and major shareholder...
Following months of speculation, three Japanese telecom companies announced plans to merge into one group to compete in the country's increasingly competitive telecom market....
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission expects to hold an auction for the remaining narrowband personal communications services licenses as early as next summer."At this point...
WASHINGTON-A federal judge last week approved a new antitrust settlement between the Justice Department and Nextel Communications Inc., allowing Nextel to acquire more 900...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Chinese service provider Guandong South Satellite Telecommunications Service Co. Ltd. said contracts have been signed to provide the OmniTracs mobile...
LONDON-The U.K. government said France Telecom must fully divest its holdings in Crown Castle before proceeding with its planned investment in NTL, a cable...
BALTIMORE-In what he hopes will be the first of many such appearances, Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, last week told...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said it signed a $200 million contract with Diginet Americas to further build out Diginet's fixed wireless broadband network throughout Latin America....
LONDON-ICO Global Communications said the due diligence process of Eagle River Investments L.L.C.'s investment in the company has been extended, to be completed no...
The International Telecommunication Union announced network experts who met in Geneva earlier this month agreed on six sets of specifications for IMT-2000 networks.The ITU...
OSLO, Norway-The $47 billion merger between Norway's Telenor and Sweden's Telia has been canceled. Neither the governments nor the two state telecom companies will...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices, a provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits, has been added to the Nasdaq-100 Index, effective when the market opens Dec. 20,...
LINCOLN, Neb.-EF Johnson Co. announced it received a contract from Motorola Inc. for $3.7 million to provide the mutual aid equipment for the shared...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week sent letters to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration urging that wireless...
NEWBURY, United Kingdom-Vodafone UK and Nortel Networks said they are planning a trial early next year in London of wideband Code Division Multiple Access...
Omnipoint Communications began a trial of high-speed wireless data technology using L.M. Ericsson's General Packet Radio Services solution. Ericsson's GPRS equipment is installed at...
In a deal mirroring one recently completed by Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. announced it will license the Palm operating system from Palm Computing Inc....
1994December Alain Rossman forms Libris Inc., hires two engineers to develop what eventually becomes the backbone for WAP.1995March Libris completes software prototype.1996June Libris changed...
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S., the largest of Turkey's two Global System for Mobile communications operators, is planning a $200 million debt issue to finance...
WASHINGTON-The United States Telecom Association will not lobby on behalf of wireless carriers even as it attempts to broaden its focus and include wireless...
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.-Integrated Systems Research said its new FleetTrack automatic vehicle location system is the first to offer users automatic switching from Cellular Digital...
