NEW YORK-The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., expects by early next year to complete its project to eliminate the advantageous tax treatment of...
Almost exactly one year after becoming the first wireless carrier to introduce wireless Internet service to customers, Sprint PCS has introduced a new program...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is sweeping the 800 MHz auction, winning licenses for the top 15 markets ranked by population. At the end of round...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. said it is finishing a schedule to de-orbit Iridium L.L.C.'s 66-satellite constellation after the satellite company failed to find a buyer...
MINNEAPOLIS-Netbiquity L.L.C., a start-up firm specializing in wireless application development for corporate clients, announced plans to create a wireless portal for the consumer and...
BOISE, Idaho-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group placed Version 1.1 of Extended Systems Inc.'s XTNDAccess Blue SDK on its Bluetooth Qualified Product List, ensuring its...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has partnered with SalesMountain Inc. to deliver local sale alerts and specials advertising to Metrocall messaging subscribers.Customers may receive SalesMountain's aggregated...
CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. launched SpanAmerica, a national rate plan that eliminates roaming and long-distance charges.The plan includes five combinations ranging in cost from $30...
Telus Corp. offered to acquire all the shares of Clearnet Communications Inc. for $4.48 billion, creating a daunting competitor in Canada's tight wireless market.Under...
SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp. has expanded its Programming Division to include consumer application development for mobile devices, re-naming the unit the Consumer Applications & Services...
Wireless application service provider Air2Web took a step forward in company growth this week by rolling out its Always Interactive Suite, a wireless enablement...
TORONTO-Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc., through its PowerLoc wireless location division, entered a contract with Atlanta-based Special Circuits Inc. to make SCI a provider of...
NEW DELHI, India-Ailing Indian GSM operator Koshika Telecom has decided to sell majority stakes to pay license fees to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)....
SAN DIEGO-Silicon Wave Inc., which supplies radio-frequency systems-on-a-chip for wireless and broadband communications, raised $52 million in its fourth round of financing.The financing included...
WASHINGTON-Amy Zoslov, the former chief of the auctions and industry analysis division of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, died earlier this month of cancer....
WASHINGTON-The private-wireless industry asked the Federal Communications Commission to revise its procedure for classifying systems with trunked operations.Centralized trunked (YG) systems could be converted...
CALGARY, Alberta-Air2Lan will build a nationwide broadband wireless network using Wi-Lan Inc.'s broadband access products, the companies announced.Air2Lan launched high-speed Internet access service in...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications hopes to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of its Verizon Wireless business, according to documents filed Aug. 24...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has denied a waiver application submitted by Illinois Valley Cellular RSA 2 Inc. to increase the bandwidth of two stations...
In preparation for the Personal Communications Industry Association's GlobalXChange 2000 conference Sept. 26-29 in Chicago, RCR is accepting advance vendor product announcements that will...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a $15 million contract with U.S. Cellular Corp. to supply wireless intelligent networking hardware and software for the...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-In a move designed to give its customers a higher level of focus, resources and services, Motorola Inc. created the Global Telecom...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. formed a strategic alliance with Handango Inc. under which Metrocall will provide two-way messaging capabilities to handheld computers powered by Handango's...
BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom said it plans to reorganize the company's corporate structure, transforming the Swiss telecom company into a group of operationally independent companies by...
