LONDON-Moody's Investors Service changed its rating outlook of Sonera from stable to negative. Sonera follows several other European operators in being downgraded for their...
Sprint Corp. is planning to rely more heavily on its wireless segment and Internet backbone to balance out its faltering long-distance business.The company warned...
SINGAPORE-StarHub announced it will invest another US$58.8 million to enhance its Singapore mobile network during the next few months. This will bring its investment...
Sun Microsystems Inc. officially threw its hat into the wireless Internet ring last week with a broad set of announcements unveiling a dedicated wireless...
NEW YORK-In this day of mega-mergers and high-dollar corporate buyouts, the thought of exchanging assets of similar value seems like a throw-back to our...
BERNE, Switzerland-The Federal Communications Commission of Switzerland canceled the auction of additional frequencies for mobile services based on the GSM standard. The agency accepted...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week vetoed appropriations legislation containing the 3-percent telephone tax repeal, ratcheting up a budget battle that will continue with a lame-duck...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has created a new default home page for PocketNet wireless Internet subscribers geared for teen users, with...
While wirelessly enabling various types of applications is generally the one common element among wireless application service providers, most agree that value-added services and...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. has agreed to acquire Flash Creative Management Inc., a management and technology consulting agency. The deal will add professional services to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Residents in Virginia and West Virginia will likely see an expanded PCS network after a $100 million deal between Lucent Technologies Inc....
MOSCOW-Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC), which so far has been operating an NMT 450 network, announced it is planning to start a GSM service next...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has agreed to deliver its Ricochet high-speed mobile Internet access technology to Aether Systems Inc. corporate customers.Under the deal, Aether...
NEW YORK-Mobileum, a Pleasanton, Calif., start-up, has filed for nine patents and received $45 million in first-round venture funding for its system to simplify...
BOSTON-Nortel Networks said it will conduct a 10-week trial of its new e-mobility Location Communications Service, which is designed for travelers, visitors, college students...
Oh thank heaven for Eleven-7. Election Day 2000 is here, mercifully. This presidential marathon, which has become totally corrupted by big money, cynicism and...
ATLANTA-O2wireless Solutions Inc. entered a service agreement with Broadnet, under which O2wireless will provide license application, early stage planning, radio-frequency design and technology consulting...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. released its new OmniExpress mobile communications system, a fleet management system with real-time, two-way communications and vehicle position reporting.Qualcomm said the...
NASHUA, N.H.-Spike Broadband Systems said it won two contracts in Trinidad and Tobago.Borde Communications will use Spike's fixed-wireless broadband technology to provide a broadband...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced third-quarter operating results with a net loss of $60.1 million, or 69 cents per share, compared with $47.9 million, or...
STAMFORD, Conn.-i3 Mobile Inc. launched a pilot program with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce providing customers and CIBC employees with wireless information services...
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Nortel Networks and Verizon Wireless announced today they completed a third-generation, over-the-air trial of data transmission and voice calls using cdma2000 technology.The companies...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced today it will open a new engineering design facility in Montreal.The company said the new facility will...
