Coverage is king, says Iridium North America, which is aiming to help cellular and personal communications services operators offer wireless coverage anywhere in the world. Iridium L.L.C. is a Motorola …
Argentina Brightpoint Inc. is expanding its international operations with the formation of Brightpoint de Argentina S.A. and plans to establish Brightpoint France, said the company. As part of its Argentine …
The interconnection fight between paging carriers and local exchange carriers is far from over. LECs, wounded by a Federal Communications Commission Common Carrier Bureau letter denying them the right to …
While Global System for Mobile communications technology networks currently have more subscribers, technical and competitive advantages will propel Code Division Multiple Access into a market-leading position by early 2003, concludes …
WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office said last week the Federal Communications Commission will rack up $14 million in back-rental costs by the time it moves into its new Portals headquarters this …
WASHINGTON-While call blocking may be the easiest and quickest way of preventing pay-phone operators and long-distance carriers from charging excessive access fees on toll-free calls to messaging providers, all three …
Many telecommunications companies are banking on the fact that consumers want their long-distance, local, Internet, wireless and cable TV services-or some combination of these-bundled on one bill. Regional Bell operating …
NEW YORK-Until it goes public in a partial privatization planned for late this year, Telecom Finland Ltd. will not take part in merger talks with Telenor AS of Norway or …
WASHINGTON-FaciliCom International, a provider of wholesale international telecom services, announced that it completed a $300 million offering of senior notes. The notes will mature on Jan. 15, 2008, and interest …
Scott Schelle, former chief executive officer of American Personal Communications/Sprint Spectrum, and Anne Schelle, former vice president of external affairs, formed Telos Technologies L.L.C. to provide consulting services for the …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it anticipates signing up its 1-millionth subscriber this week. The company also said its personal communications services subscribers used more than 1 billion minutes …
South Koreans were eager to sign up for mobile phone service during the last few months of 1997, but some analysts speculate carriers will hit difficult times in 1998 as …
Qualcomm Inc. said it expects a reduction in second-quarter earnings from the prior quarter after two South Korean manufacturers requested a partial cancellation or postponement of Application Specific Integrated Circuits …
NEW YORK-Comsat Corp. has filed a breach of contract lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Maryland against IDB Mobile Communications Inc. seeking to collect at least $5 million for …
NEW YORK-Like Sam Ginn, its chairman and chief executive officer, AirTouch Communications Inc. is on a roll, aided by those two key components of success-good luck and good timing. Ginn …
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Communications Services Inc. secured a $750 million bank credit facility, enough to replace $516 million in existing vendor financing commitments and to cover its 1998 capital expenditure needs. …
WASHINGTON-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume last week predicted “widespread boycotts” of major wireless firms that are found to have poor records of hiring and promoting African Americans. The Economic Reciprocity Initiative, …
WASHINGTON-Some familiar heavy hitters have applied for a berth at the Feb. 18 start of the local multipoint distribution service auction, including Wall Street’s Mario Gabelli and Cablevision’s Robert Dolan; …
To the Editor: As an African-American and CEO of United Calling Network Inc., a licensed California public utility and a competitive access provider maintaining our own switches provided by Lucent …
Ike Kim, president and chief executive officer of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Standard Telecom America Inc., died Feb. 2 in San Diego. A service was held Feb. 5 at Duggans Chapel …
