LONDON-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced that in the fourth quarter of 1998, its worldwide operations added a record 212,664 net new cellular subscribers. Throughout...
NEW YORK-Significant progress has been made toward the still unrealized goal of full minority participation in the telecommunications industry, according to speakers at the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has revised the fourth-quarter order increase for its cellular products segment to 17 percent from the 13 percent increase...
The Supreme Court declined to hear appeals by three Baby Bells challenging the 1996 telecom act's requirement that local competition precede Baby Bell entry...
After the embarrassing $1 license sales in the Wireless Communication Service auction two years ago and the C-block personal communications services bankruptcies, some began...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility.The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a "groundbreaking...
ATLANTA-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced it expanded its network into Atlanta and the surrounding communities.Sprint PCS said it will provide coverage on I-75 north through...
Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed a letter of intent with MCI WorldCom's prepaid services division to provide prepaid cellular services nationwide under...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced Nextel Communications Inc. extended its agreement with Brightpoint through July 1, 2001. Under the agreement, Brightpoint provides inventory management, fulfillment, returns...
Bundling continues to push forward, albeit at a slow pace.A recent Arthur Andersen survey of telecommunications companies found 66 percent of respondents offer bundled...
The reauction of C-block personal communications services spectrum is expected to be a dismal affair in March, and most small entrepreneurial businesses-which the auction...
A group of cdmaOne operators are making another push to harmonize third-generation technology and avoid a potential deadlock within the International Telecommunication Union over...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a memorandum of technology and industrial cooperation for wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology with the Ministry of Information Industry...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nextlink Communications Inc. announced it has reached an agreement to acquire WNP Communications Inc. in a combined cash and stock transaction valued at...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Communications Workers of America announced Pacific Bell Wireless employees chose the union to represent them and, under "card check" provisions negotiated last...
Paging Network Inc. announced it acquired Calabasas, Calif.-based Silverlake Communications Inc., and it has integrated the company into its Advanced Wireless Integration Group. Financial...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. announced its Price Communications Wireless subsidiary recorded 72,385 net subscriber additions in 1998, vs. 55,632 for 1997, an increase of...
A recent Federal Communications Commission notice may give some momentum to vendors offering handset-based solutions for wireless enhanced 911 compliance.The FCC has mandated that...
SEATTLE-AT&T Wireless Services announced Alaska, American, Canadian, Northwest and Southwest airlines' passengers who make or receive, during any single month, five in-flight calls via...
Geoworks Corp. announced the latest stage in its continuing transformation last week with the introduction of a consulting division called the Professional Services group.The...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, reacting for the first time to a new congressional report that concluded American satellite exports to China harmed U.S. national security,...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc., the Murray Hill, N.J., telecommunications equipment giant, gobbled up two other properties last week.In its bid to become a single-source...
NEW YORK-A company called Beatie, King & Abate L.L.P. has filed a class-action lawsuit against Lucent Technologies Inc. individually and as a successor to...
DUSSELDORF, Germany-Mannesmann AG announced it has increased its participation in Italian mobile carrier Omnitel Pronto Italia by 3.2 percent. The transaction included offering AirTouch...
