WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's campaign to narrow the digital divide has come under attack by the American Electronics Association, the National Telephone Cooperative Association and...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp., a provider of communication sites and wireless network services, received a commitment for a new $1.2 billion credit facility to...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp. announced its fifth consecutive year of double-digit earnings growth. The company's fourth quarter adjusted earnings per diluted share increased 11.6...
SYDNEY, Australia-After four rounds and two days of bidding for Australia's 1800 MHz wireless phone licenses, the total of standing high bids was $64.4...
LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc announced it will not trade its single-A credit ratings for Mannesmann AG control by offering downgrade protection on some outstanding debt.The...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced fourth-quarter earnings, excluding one-time charges, rose from 42 cents per share in 1998 to 53 cents per share in 1999, an...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson reported 1999 pretax profit dropped 10 percent to $1.89 billion, ahead of analysts' expectations.Sales for the fourth quarter increased 25 percent...
SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. reported increased revenues for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, which included the completion of its acquisition of...
WASHINGTON-The American Mobile Telecommunications Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to change its rules as to when incumbents in the upper 800 MHz...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless announced it signed a multi-year, $24 million contract with Sprint PCS to supply Code Division Multiple Access data products to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Thanks to Bell Atlantic Mobile and Bell Labs, people with speech or hearing disabilities will be able to make digital cellular phone...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-VoiceStream Wireless Corp., Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. filed joint proxy materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week in connection...
A division, not an exclusion, of interests seems to be emerging between cellular and paging services.Business customers are keeping the paging market in check...
HOLLAND, Ohio-Sprint PCS announced it is teaming up with Virtual PC, a Holland, Ohio-based computer and software company to sell wireless services. The agreement...
Wireless carriers and Wall Street are excited about the huge revenue potential advertising via mobile phones could bring in the future, but just how...
Perhaps the greatest indicator of the wireless data industry's rise to popularity is the way paging carriers are positioning themselves in the space today.Pioneering...
WASHINGTON-Peter Angelos, the powerful Baltimore lawyer who has successfully litigated against the tobacco industry, asbestos manufacturers and others in personal injury cases, is looking...
WASHINGTON-FreeSpace Communications and the Industrial Telecommunications Association are at it again. The two parties are each urging the Federal Communications Commission to let them...
In a marked shift in strategy, Datalink.net unveiled a new business unit called Net2Wireless Turnkey Business Solutions, designed to provide business-to-business wireless extension services.Originally,...
WASHINGTON-Two attempts to stop litigation involving bankrupt wireless operator NextWave Telecom Inc. failed last week as both a federal appeals court and a bankruptcy...
Increasing its advertising efforts during the fourth quarter, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. added 440,000 subscribers the last three months of 1999, ending the year...
NEW YORK-Toronto-based 724 Solutions Inc., which permits banks to offer their services over wireless devices, made a blockbuster debut on Nasdaq Jan. 28.Its 6-million...
LUTHERVILLE, Md.-Hoping to more accurately describe the services it provides, Americom has changed its name to Americom Wireless Services.The company announced that the name...
