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...
WASHINGTON-With prospects uncertain for securing third-generation mobile-phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next month in Turkey and apparent concerns about the Clinton administration's...
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 its pending merger with Paging Network Inc. has received clearance from the Department of Justice's antitrust division.It remains...
BERN, Switzerland-Swisscom said it is considering spinning off its mobile division to fund Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses and networks.The operator said it has...
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...
ArrayComm Inc. secured $15 million in funding last week to help accelerate the deployment of its i-Burst broadband technology, led by an investment of...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Independent Wireless One Corp., a Sprint PCS Northeast Network Partner, has contracted Lightbridge Inc.'s Retail Management System on an outsourced basis through an...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-NTCH Inc., the holding company of communications investor, Glenn Ishihara, launched its Code Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services network in Grand...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Globe Telecom, a Philippine telecommunications company, singed an agreement to expand Globe Telecom's Handyphone service, the company's Global System for...
LOS ANGELES-Lexico L.L.C., a provider of language learning services on the Internet, and Sprint PCS announced nationwide availability of Lexico's Dictionary.com on the Sprint...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding with New World Mobility to further develop third-generation mobile services in Hong Kong. A field trial...
Big business spends billions of dollars on infrastructure. No matter whether the business is an airline or a telecommunications company, the economic theory is...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. extended its infrastructure supply relationship with Orange in the United Kingdom by $316.2 million.The additional equipment to be delivered includes Global...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless communications carrier, Leap Wireless International Inc., signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding to purchase personal communications services operating licenses in Buffalo and...
Adaptive Broadband Corp. was awarded a $56 million, five-year contract to provide its AB-Access fixed wireless broadband equipment to Cybertech Wireless Inc., a privately...
ELKHART, Ind.-CTS Corp. formed a strategic relationship with Kyocera Corp. to exchange the license of patents and intellectual property with regard to the design...
DALLAS-JP Systems Inc. reported it has designed technology for the wireless exchange of vital medical data for STATmail, a provider of home health care...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular and the Wisconsin Center District announced a six-year, $2 million "title sponsorship" agreement renaming the former Milwaukee Arena the U.S. Cellular Arena.The...
BALTIMORE-ReachNET Inc. introduced an instant messaging application for Research In Motion Ltd. Inter@ctive pagers called Pulsar, which it said is compatible with existing instant...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week was rocked by two confounding controversies involving a California bill to promote hands-free devices as a precautionary measure against...
FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving...
IRVINE, Calif.-Primal, a provider of Internet-enabled customer management software to the communications industry, signed an order to provide Metrocall Inc. with its customer care...
ATISThe members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its...
