Not many 44-year-olds can put on their resum, that they built a nationwide wireless business from the ground up with a capital infrastructure budget...
PARIS-Nortel Networks introduced a wireless data initiative and noted its commitment to the European market here last week. Included in the announcements was a...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Mesa Communications Group L.L.C. announced it acquired a 25-percent ownership stake in Centerpointe Communications L.L.C., based in Arlington, Texas.Centerpointe manages approximately 2,000...
WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission decision last week that is largely favorable to the paging industry has led one local telephone company to threaten to...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry, breaking with the public-safety community, last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap efforts to improve technical capabilities of 911-only...
LONDON-U.K. mobile carrier BT Cellnet said it launched commercial service on the world's first General Packet Radio Service network. The "always on" service will...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Portugal operator Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais signed a contract with L.M. Ericsson calling for Ericsson to upgrade Telecel's Global System for Mobile communications network...
Ellen Bork, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, recently wrote a marvelously illuminating piece for The Washington Post that captured President Clinton's Pollyanna-ish...
After months of inconsistent and negative reports that it was slipping further into financial trouble, Globalstar L.P. released a statement clarifying its future funding...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. introduced a free online billing system for most of its wireless customers, allowing them to analyze their calling patterns and...
DALLAS-WebLink Wireless Inc. announced it has begun shipping the Talkabout T900 two-way pager from Motorola Inc. this week. The company plans to ship more...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's decision last week to encourage rather than mandate band-clearing arrangements at 700 MHz could be moot if a powerful lawmaker's...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net said it is extending its MicroBurst service into six states as part of an agreement with operator Triton PCS. The MicroBurst...
DENVER-Mobile location services will be an essential element of the mobile Internet revolution, but the industry's success teeters on its ability to ensure privacy...
WASHINGTON-If nothing is done to try to conserve telephone numbers, North America will run out of area codes and later phone numbers sometime between...
NEW YORK-A senior executive of Moody's Investors Service Inc. has issued a stern warning to securities analysts that a widely used measure of financial...
ROSH HA'AIN, Israel-CT Motion Ltd., a location-based mobile Internet service developer, said it is developing its MobileMate personal portal for m-commerce services.The company said...
NEW YORK-Good news arrived last week for Handspring Inc., a Palm Inc. competitor that went public with a 10-million-share offering, which priced at $20...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. announced new application hosting and development abilities designed to allow rapid deployment of wireless Internet services using Extensible Markup...
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute's Technical Committee Special Mobile Group, which has been responsible for setting Global System for Mobile communications standards,...
WASHINGTON-A group of wireless and telecommunications executives are planning to roll out a new service they hope will lead to residential wireless broadband service...
The GSM community, which has struggled to make inroads in Latin America, was ensured access to an important market as the Brazilian government granted...
TOKYO-Japan's NTT DoCoMo is reported to be considering an entrance into the U.K. market through a tie-up with Canada's Telesystem International Wireless Inc. and...
