Cable & Wireless plc announced it is in discussions regarding a proposed merger between Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd. and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Such...
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...
United KingdomBritain-based Marconi plc announced it has sold its Network Components & Services business in Europe and China to Viasystems Group Inc. for $115...
WASHINGTON-With predictions that data-particularly e-commerce-will shape the industry's future, the big question is which enterprise network will handle the most wireless traffic in the...
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...
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...
NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification...
France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom made significant moves to part ways last week with France Telecom agreeing to purchase Deutsche Telekom's and Sprint Corp.'s...
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...
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...
Qualcomm Inc. on Friday officially asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant it spectrum in the upcoming channel 60-69 auctions.Qualcomm wants the commission to...
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...
LUFKIN, Texas-US Unwired launched service in Lufkin and Nacogdoches, Texas.US Unwired, a Sprint PCS Network Partner, currently offers service in Beaumont, Nederland, Tyler, Longview...
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. plans to enhance the capacity and reach of its existing network through a $210 million infrastructure equipment contract with Lucent...
TORONTO-Canada's telecommunications industry was shaken up with the announcement that Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. plans to distribute its 37-percent interest in Nortel Networks to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GIVATAYIM, Israel-Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. announced it signed a $20 million blanket purchase order with its principal global marketing partner, Global Wireless Holdings Inc.The...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-How can California-based U.S. Wireless Corp. help traffic congestion in Virginia? By supplying its location-enhanced digital traffic and congestion information to the...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens announced an agreement with Phone.com Inc. that will allow commercial deployment of Wireless Application Protocol-based services by more than 10 wireless operators...
