NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. are in preliminary talks to merge their wireless operations, which would create the nation's second-largest...
WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush named Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to serve on his newly created Corporate Fraud Task Force."I gained...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported it is implementing a Cisco wireless local area network at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., enabling health care providers to...
TAMPA, Fla.-TSI Telecommunications Services Inc. will provide its INLink SS7-based intelligent network solution for Rural Cellular Corp.'s network.TSI said the solution provides a network...
ISTANBUL, Turkey-Turkish wireless carrier Turkcell reported adding approximately 1.1 million net subscribers during the second quarter, doubling the 511,000 net customer additions reported for...
WASHINGTON-Reps. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the House Commerce Committee, and Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, urged President George W....
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a letter of intent to supply Sonera with its Nokia D500 multiservice access platform to begin Sonera's...
DALLAS-Nortel Networks Corp. shipped its first commercial EDGE radio and base-station equipment to Cingular Wireless L.L.C., which plans to deploy the solution in several...
HELSINKI, Finland-Matsushita Communications has selected Nokia Corp.'s Series 60 software platform to be integrated into Matsushita's Symbian OS-based multimedia phones."Panasonic multimedia phones combined with...
DENVER-Qwest Communications International Inc. said it was informed by the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver that it had begun a criminal investigation of the...
ATLANTA-The Weather Channel has partnered with Nextel Communications Inc. to provide Nextel Online Internet users with wireless weather information.Nextel customers with Web-enabled wireless phones...
OTTAWA, Canada-BitFlash's mobile player will be made a standard software offering on Texas Instruments Inc.'s popular OMAP processor platform for mobile phones, the companies...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Recent financial moves by Meteor have increased speculation that the operator of Ireland's third GSM license is clearing the decks for an acquisition...
TORONTO-Airports across North America are closely watching the battle between Canada's four wireless carriers and Pearson International Airport that has left travelers with reduced...
NEW YORK-U.S. operators AT&T Wireless Services and VoiceStream Wireless are in preliminary talks to merge their wireless operations, which would create the nation's second-largest...
BUCHAREST, Romania-According to Arabian online newspaper itp.net, Kuwaiti mobile operator Wataniya contracted with Siemens for the installation of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry lawyers have petitioned a panel of federal judges here to transfer all pending brain-cancer lawsuits to U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake in...
LONDON-In spite of increasing interests in hotspots, no operator can guarantee that it is financially viable, according to a study by ARC Group."Operators should...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the House Commerce Committee, and others have directed the Federal Communications Commission to make a "detailed accounting of...
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Sprint PCS affiliate UbiquiTel Inc. said it added 15,700 net subscribers during the second quarter, in line with recently downgraded guidance, with virtually...
DALLAS-Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer unveiled the company's Mobile Workplace initiative, which he said includes systems integrators such as Hewlett-Packard Services, Accenture...
SEOUL, Korea-Lucent Technologies Inc. will supply third-generation cdma2000 technology to Korean mobile operator KTF.Under the contract, Lucent will upgrade KTF's 2G network in Korea's...
McLEAN, Va.-As the telecommunications industry tries to recover from the double blow of a Wall Street meltdown and recent accounting scandals, startup companies meeting...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless synchronization company Pumatech Inc. said Kyocera Corp. will use the company's Intellisync Lite software to synchronize e-mail, contact and calendar information...
