Dear Editor: What planet is Morgan O'Brien from?One can assume from Mr. O'Brien's comments made to the Radio Club of America about Nextel's virtues that...
NEW YORK-Stratos Global Corp., Toronto, has begun obtaining presale purchase agreements from customers for its new Inmarsat-M4 service, which will provide Integrated Services Digital...
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Japan's largest mobile carrier, said Dec. 2 it plans to buy a 19-percent interest in Hutchison Telephone Co....
IRVINE, Calif.-Go2 Systems Inc. has created 300 individual Web sites that allow portable communications devices to access more than 11 million Yellow Page records,...
LOUISVILLE, Colo.-AirCell Inc. said it signed a contract with Cellular One of Northeast Arizona to provide air-to-ground communications to its aviation customers in the...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it reached an agreement with the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., to continue licensing Code Division Multiple Access technology...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Siemens AG and Phone.com Inc. announced that Spain's Airtel Movil selected Siemens to provide a commercial Wireless Application Protocol platform for wireless...
Latin AmericaMillicom International Cellular S.A. said MIC Latin America recently commenced offering dial-up Internet and e-mail services to its mobile telephony customers in Bolivia,...
FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani said last week that she will remain at the Federal Communications Commission rather than run for Congress."I viewed the U.S....
Sprint PCS signed a seven-year master service agreement with Ericsson Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access equipment, though the nationwide carrier has not committed...
WASHINGTON-Gregory Rohde, President Clinton's new telecom adviser, last week said the top international telecom issue next year will be finding more spectrum for third-generation...
Adicom Wireless Inc., a Silicon Valley-based provider of wireless access equipment, plans to enter the U.S. market in the beginning of the new year,...
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners has asked to join an appeals case arguing that rules on how telecom carriers use information about...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced it is soliciting consents from the holders of its 10.63-percent senior discount notes due 2007 and its 12.75-percent senior...
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...
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...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Furthering its goal of becoming a complete communications provider, Metrocall Inc. announced an alliance with Covad Communications as the first step in providing...
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...
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-Nextel Communications Inc. late last month quietly settled a lawsuit with Charles Dascal, an ex-Miami dispatch operator who claimed Nextel Vice Chairman Morgan O'Brien...
WASHINGTON-In the continuing saga that is the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, telecom and privacy groups have appealed the technical standards the Federal...
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...
Research In Motion Ltd. announced Dell Computer Corp. will begin reselling its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution at the end of the month. BlackBerry allows...
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...
