WASHINGTON-Public-safety officials last week told a powerful lawmaker that his bill to get Internet high-speed access to rural America using low-power TV signals could damage public safety’s efforts to get …
BRUSSELS, Belgium-The mobile subsidiaries of Belgacom and Deutsche Telekom are partnering to jointly bid for a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license in the Netherlands. The combined company, 3G Blue, will …
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court last week agreed to decide whether individuals who divulge illegally intercepted electronic communications are as liable as eavesdroppers themselves, setting a showdown between free speech and wireless …
NEW YORK-InfoWave Software Inc. will make commercially available in July its new FirstHand server software package, which give devices enabled with Wireless Application Protocol access to Microsoft Exchange information. FirstHand …
NEW YORK-Streaming multimedia via portable devices may be down the road a bit, but the image of a handheld computer or cellular phone as a photograph viewer already is moving …
FRANKFURT, Germany-WorldCom Inc. formally pulled out of the German auction for third-generation licenses. The company is the third bidder to withdraw from the process before the auction officially begins July …
The CDMA industry recently chose to standardize Qualcomm Inc.’s High Data Rate technology, but industry analysts wonder when carriers will see a big enough business case to deploy the data-only …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Singapore mobile operator M1 plan to begin field trials of third-generation wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology. Nokia said it will use the trial to evaluate …
WASHINGTON-House Republicans, making good on their pledge to downsize the Federal Communications Commission, last week took steps to cut funding, rein in merger authority and curtail lobbying and media outreach …
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc.’s Central/Eastern European subsidiary ClearWave N.V. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States for an initial public offering of ordinary …
China Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector signed two contracts to provide its Global System for Mobile communications network infrastructure in China. The first contract, with Tianjin Mobile Communications Corp., calls …
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. received final approval from the Federal Communications Commission for their $59 billion merger, forming Verizon Communications, with plans to begin trading under its …
The Federal Communications Commission gave final approval to Qwest Communications International Inc.’s acquisition of U S West Inc. after Qwest agreed to sell off its long-distance business serving a 14-state …
TUCSON, Ariz.-Sprint Corp. launched its second broadband wireless market in Tucson, Ariz. Sprint initially deployed its Broadband Direct service in Phoenix at the beginning of May. The multichannel multipoint distribution …
ABILENE, Texas-Titan Towers L.P. completed a communications facilities agreements with Equilon Enterprises L.L.C. and Motiva Enterprises L.L.C. granting Titan exclusive rights to construct communications towers, facilities and equipment on 111 …
As regulators seemingly around the world wrestled the life out of the Sprint-WorldCom merger last week and everyone and their brother speculated about who now might partner with whom as …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mobile entertainment service provider MobileEngines announced the formation of the wireless market’s first teen advisory board focused on ideas for new mobile entertainment services. John Uhran, president and …
Underwater wireless communication is not a new concept, but until recently, it was nothing more than pings, dots and dashes, that only a trained ear could decipher. Acoustic modems now …
LONDON-Sonera Zed Ltd. has agreed with Unilever and Hewlett-Packard Co. to test new mobile marketing solutions beginning in Finland this summer. “Mobile marketing is one of the areas in which …
