One advancement in technology can change everything. Likewise, a change in policy can turn everything topsy-turvy. Witness the Clinton administration's decision last week to...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Voice-Stream Wireless Corp. launched its Global System for Mobile communications-based personal communications services network in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., market.VoiceStream bought the infrastructure from...
LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc announced it is testing an international Wireless Application Protocol system that would allow users to access WAP-based information when roaming between...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Voice-Stream Wireless Corp. reported closing its merger with Aerial Communications Inc.As a result of the merger, Aerial shareholders will receive 0.455 of a...
GENEVA-Xircom Inc. said it has bundled software from AvantGo Inc. in its wireless modem product for the Handspring Visor organizer, allowing devices equipped with...
PLEASANTON, Calif.-Positive Communications, which provides paging and wireless messaging services, launched an e-commerce portal offering wireless products and services targeted at mobile consumers in...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Excite@Home Inc. launched a wireless portal service called Excite Mobile for customized news, directions, weather and other personal information for users of...
PARIS-Ericsson France and FinGO are working together to develop mobile Internet solutions dedicated to finance and e-brokerage services and to jointly prepare their evolution...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Rural Cellular Corp. selected GiantBear.com Inc. as its provider of Web-to-wireless information services.RCC said it would host a friendly user trial later...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. launched its Mobile Site service as a complement to its existing Mobile ASP solution. Mobile Site pulls data from a Web...
LONDON-ICO Global Communications announced the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Delaware has approved ICO's plan of reorganization.The plan and related plans of arrangement in Bermuda...
ChileNexus Telocation Systems Ltd. formed a joint-venture company in Chile to deploy communication and location services. The new company, Ubinet Telecom S.A., will offer...
MILAN, Italy-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is committing technical and business expertise in Italy to promote collaborative projects with government, industry and academia to...
WASHINGTON-As the World Radiocommunication Conference opens today in Turkey, trade and spectrum issues governing third-generation mobile-phone technology remain heavily mired in controversies that are...
BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company, finished the spinoff of its stake in telecommunications equipment supplier Nortel Networks Corp., closing a transaction valued at...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation on Tuesday night gave its Eugene C. Bowler Award to Dale Hatfield, chief of the FCC's Office of...
WASHINGTON-Wireless technology increasingly is seen as the end-all, be-all to the digital divide issue. But will it get here soon enough?The Clinton administration, through...
HAYWARD, Calif.-Certicom Corp., an encryption technology company, completed its public offering of 1.25 million common shares at $46.30 per share on the Nasdaq National...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry's push to enter the populous Chinese market got a big boost last week as several undecided Democrats and Republicans announced they...
WASHINGTON-Apparently not able to get a majority of the commission to agree with him, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard has directed staff to...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. completed its $125 million acquisition of Texas 9 Rural Service Area encompassing the towns of Brownwood, Stephenville, Hamilton and Hillsboro,...
BOSTON-Research firm Strategy Analytics said it found commuters are spending increased time in their cars and consequently are placing a high priority on personalized...
