Antenna placement at the new Denver International Airport is on hold until carriers can convince airport authorities that additional sites won’t cause interference. “We didn’t spend $8 million building a …
ST. LOUIS-Southwestern Bell Wireless began a program in St. Louis that enables cellular 911 calls to be automatically routed to the area’s largest police and sheriff’s departments based on the …
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WASHINGTON-A freshman Florida congressman concerned with constituent complaints about wireless tower proliferation is considering legislation to overturn the antenna siting provision of the 1996 telecom act. “I am … researching …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won a contract to supply three new Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Digital AMPS networks in Russia. The contract with Millicom International Cellular calls for Ericsson to …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Telecommunications Sdn Bhd received an order to expand Mutiara Telecommunications Sdn Bhd’s nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia. Ericsson values the contract at $130 million. Mutiara’s order consists …
WASHINGTON-More than half of wireless subscribers and 40 percent of non-users expressed an interest in two-way wireless e-mail, representing a potential market of 44.3 million users, according to a study …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Lucent Technologies Inc. were among the vendors selected by NTT DoCoMo of Japan to develop an experimental “third generation” wireless communications system capable of delivering high-speed …
WILKES-BARRE, Pa.-MCI Communications Corp. shareholders voted 77 percent in favor of the proposed merger with British Telecommunications plc during MCI’s annual meeting. The merger still must be approved by BT …
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs said it is building a new production plant and research facility in Espoo, Finland, near Helsinki. The facility, which is scheduled to open during the fourth quarter, will …
WASHINGTON-Paperwork filed at the Federal Communications Commission April 1 by NextWave Telecom Inc. has the country’s largest C-block personal communications services winner stating once again that the FCC is all …
NEW YORK-The current and potential impact of deregulation and competition on the telecommunications industry has caused Standard & Poor’s Corp. to review and modify its debt evaluation criteria, the credit …
WASHINGTON-When all is said and done at the Federal Communications Commission, the auctions ended and the money counted, some 14,745 megahertz of spectrum from all parts of the chart will …
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Customer care has become an increasingly important tool for operators competing in the wireless market, says a Swedish company that recently launched its third-generation customer care product in the United …
Xypoint Corp. named Jim Thornton chief financial officer with responsibility for all accounting, administration, human resources, risk management and treasury functions. Prior to joining the company, Thornton was president and …
Smith Micro Software Inc. introduced HotPage 2.0, a wireless messaging software that provides message management and transmission to alphanumeric and numeric pagers. The new version supports Windows 95 and Windows …
WASHINGTON-Generation X, a largely untapped wireless market today, will be one of the industry’s most sought after groups, according to the Strategis Group. Less than 7 million of the 60 …
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. said it has shipped more than 1 million gallium arsenide integrated circuits for use in personal communications services handsets for the 1900 MHz Code Division Multiple Access …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won two contracts to expand Advanced Mobile Phone Service analog cellular networks in Brazil. The first contract is with Telpe from the state of Pernambuco, and the …
