French vendor Alcatel SA said it is contemplating an entrance into the U.S. mobile-phone market.The company admitted as much during a press event in...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will begin offering Internet content channels to subscribers via GoAmerica Inc.'s wireless e-mail service.The deal extends the...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced its pending merger with Paging Network Inc. has received clearance from the Department of Justice's antitrust division.It remains...
Code Division Multiple Access technology is gaining some momentum in Europe.Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they will cooperate with Hungarian Nordic Mobile...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-Referring to the failure of Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite phone service and the continued growth of OmniTracs' Internet-based satellite tracking service, a report by...
LONDON-A new study by Strategy Analytics reports that players in Western Europe's cellular handset market will survive only if they develop product lines offering...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-Jim Murrell, chairman of the North American GSM Association, could not use his Global System for Mobile communications phone last week...
ANKARA, Turkey-Italy's Telecom Italia SpA and a leading Turkish bank, Turkiye Is Bankasi AS, won a license to operate Turkey's third mobile telephone network...
SEATTLE-Lucent Technologies Inc. and TeraBeam Networks are entering into a venture to develop and deploy TeraBeam's fiberless optical networking system, which sends data through...
WorldCom Wireless became the latest-and most high-profile-company to fall victim to the climbing bids for five Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in the United...
With concerns rising over the need for enhanced security in future wireless e-commerce, several firms in both the wireless and security industries launched efforts...
MENLO PARK, Calif.-Voice-interface software provider Nuance Communications Inc. postponed its initial public offering by a day, but still managed to beat the market, closing...
Analysts covering Motorola Inc.'s stock were surprised and irritated last week after the company unexpectedly indicated wireless handset profits would face pressure the rest...
HONG KONG-China Unicom Ltd., China's No. 2 telecommunications operator, will make an initial public offering and listing of 25 percent of the company's enlarged...
WASHINGTON-Accenting its message with pastel-colored beanbag mobile phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told Capitol Hill last week that competition is king.The trade association...
NEW YORK-The crowded vendor marketplace obscures the fact that customer relationship management, though expensive, easily pays for itself in business expansion and market differentiation."Companies...
NEW YORK-Because of their relative scarcity, augmented by their growth history and potential, wireless carriers seeking financing enjoy elevated status in the eyes of...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, despite having shed many state and federal telecom regulations in recent years, is about to be swept into a bold new...
ASCOT, England-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Nokia Networks are conducting General Packet Radio Services interoperability tests between handsets using Lucent's Sceptre chipset and...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is expected to announce as early as next month a dramatic improvement to global positioning system accuracy, a move with enormous...
WASHINGTON-MCI WorldCom Inc. filed with federal authorities to sell up to $15 billion in debt securities, according to Reuters.The company, which is in the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has reduced the minimum bid amounts for the June 14 auction of 104 guard-band licenses in the 700 MHz band.The...
