MONTVALE, N.J.-Next Wireless plans to become Geotek Communications Inc.’s first nationwide distributor of its mobile business services, announced the companies. Next Wireless plans to broaden its product line during the …
WASHINGTON-A House of Representatives bill that would tighten the rules surrounding small-business bankruptcy filings could have an effect on wireless operators-particularly those new services entering a competitive marketplace-if competition and/or …
NEW YORK-It keeps going and going and going, but it isn’t a rabbit or a battery. It’s a miniature version of the methanol-powered fuel cells used to run rocket ships. …
Members of Congress are putting some heat on the Federal Communications Commission to resolve pending C-block personal communications services reconsideration petitions dealing with financial restructuring options this week to give …
It is much more expensive to recapture a wireless customer who has churned than it is to keep a customer on your network, say some customer service experts. Providing good …
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Bell Atlantic Mobile announced it is providing wireless technology to People’s Cab, allowing it to accept credit cards for payment of cab fares via Cellular Digital Packet Data technology. …
BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs Inc. announced Everything Wireless, a Cellular Works company, will distribute the CellPort universal, hands-free car kit, according to an agreement signed by the two. Everything Wireless sells …
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said initial results from field trials with two new cellular operators show that its ClearSite receiver front-end subsystem reduces dropped calls and interference, fills in coverage gaps …
LONDON-Moody’s Investors Service has assigned long-term ratings of Baa1 to the proposed $1 billion and $650 million bond issues of Cable & Wireless Communications, which will provide integrated telecommunications services …
WASHINGTON-A year-end survey conducted by the Telecommunications Resellers Association revealed that 90 percent of respondents who sought to resell personal communications services were barred from doing so by carriers, and …
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-CommNet Cellular Inc. announced it has closed the merger with AV Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of The Blackstone Group’s Blackstone Capital Partners II Merchant Banking Fund L.P. AV purchased …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Anritsu Co. announced it received a contract from Qualcomm Inc. to develop, manufacture and market a custom test instrument to perform radio communication analysis on telephones for use on …
Ameritel Communications Inc., a wireless reseller owned by USCI Inc., has quickly and quietly become a weighty presence in the resale industry. The company, which began last year with fewer …
RICHMOND, England-Powertel Inc. plans to use new additions to the ADC Metrica family of network performance management tools for its personal communications services network, ADC Metrica announced. The PCS carrier …
CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. entered a definitive agreement to acquire the approximate 3.6 million outstanding shares in American Paging Inc. it doesn’t already own for more than $9 million, …
TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems announced that Metamora Telephone Co. of Metamora, Ill., selected its digital FM Cubed transmission technology to offer paging services for the company’s customers. SpaceCom, which provides satellite …
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products Sector said it deployed the first SmartZone OmniLink very-wide-area two-way radio communications system for Western Resources, an electric and gas utility company based in …
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Pontiac and Stateville Correctional Centers in Illinois each installed Motorola Inc.’s new Smartnet trunked radio system to improve the speed and quality of communication at the prisons, Motorola …
BRUSSELS, Belgium-Amidst complaints from European Union member states about high interconnection tariffs applied between fixed and mobile phone operators, the European Commission announced it has opened an inquiry into the …
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department is investigating the Federal Communications Commission’s planned Portals move, the second probe to examine whether lobbyist and former Clinton-Gore campaign manager Peter Knight got an illegal $1 …
