CANNES, France-Motorola Inc. and Turkish Global System for Mobile communications operator Telsim announced they signed a $1.5 billion contract calling for Motorola to provide...
Metrocall Inc. took the latest step in the paging industry's evolutionary journey last week, unveiling an acquisition, a new joint venture, a recapitalization plan...
SAN FRANCISCO-The auction for Internet domain name "wireless.com" officially closed Jan. 31, but lack of serious interest is keeping the auction open indefinitely until...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported its strongest annual operating results in the company's history for the 1999 fourth quarter and year.Net sales grew 48 percent...
Agilent Technologies Inc. acquired The Silicon Valley Networking Lab Inc., an independent, third-party test lab for the networking industry based in San Jose, Calif.Financial...
SEATTLE-AirTouch Cellular launched a new nationwide digital calling plan that eliminates roaming and long-distance charges throughout the United States.The new calling plans include a...
NEW YORK-Alamosa PCS Holdings Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate, raised $182.1 million Feb. 3 in a 10.71 million-share initial public offering priced at $17...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. emerged on Groundhog Day from its longstanding ruminations about tracking stocks and, apparently seeing no shadows, registered to take its wireless...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp., GTE Corp. and Alltel Corp. signed an agreement last week to exchange wireless interests in 13 states, eliminating the overlapping...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Bell Atlantic Mobile and TruePosition Inc. said they have completed field trials of Code Division Multiple Access location technology.The field trial...
WASHINGTON-Richard Blumenthal, the high-profile Connecticut attorney general who played key roles in successful lawsuits against Microsoft Corp. and the tobacco industry, has joined his...
CANNES, France-Several well-known firms in the Internet and wireless industries have come together to form the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum with the intent to...
I came to the wireless communications industry several years ago from the world of geographic information systems-an industry I thoroughly enjoyed because of its...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it received two new contracts to provide its NewNet OTAserver over-the-air activation and SMserver short message technologies to regional wireless...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's decision to grant Nokia Corp.-the world's largest mobile phone vendor-a four-month extension to comply with new 911 call-processing rules prompted...
CANNES, France-As European governments craft plans to grant third-generation licenses, some GSM and future UMTS carriers fear a few of the stipulations regulators are...
BEIJING-Nortel Networks said it won awards totaling $132 million to build or significantly expand Global System for Mobile communications networks in six of China's...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Omnipoint Technologies Inc. introduced Global System for Mobile communications modules for Europe supporting the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz bands.The...
WASHINGTON-Rather than granting a spectrum-cap waiver requested by Arch Communications Group Inc., the Federal Communications Commission should remove the cap altogether, said Metrocall Inc....
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc., a wireless personal communications services provider in the southeastern United States, announced its financial results for the fourth quarter, ended...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson said they have agreed to jointly develop and market a wireless technology solution supporting both Code Division Multiple...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. is having a busy start to the new millennium, announcing a new merger and adding more towers to its portfolio.The merger,...
CANNES, France-RangeStar Wireless introduced three new antennas for wireless handsets that the company said it believes will revolutionize antenna technology.RangeStar unveiled a wideband Code...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Third-Generation Partnership Project 2, a group created to speed the development of global 3G wireless standards, announced it expanded its organization to...
