PITTSBURGH-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said its Pittsburgh employee base grew 25 percent last year and investments in the Pittsburgh network were more than $150 million. The expansion caused Bell Atlantic …
Wireless Access Inc. said it is volume shipping its AccessLink two-way wireless messaging device to SkyTel Corp. The AccessLink is a narrowband personal communications services device that allows end users …
WASHINGTON-The fiscal 1998 budget President Clinton plans to unveil this week will propose expanded auction authority and at least one major education program underwritten by wireless license sales, despite uncertainty …
WASHINGTON-Now that some of the dust has settled following the Federal Communications Commission’s Dec. 23 adoption of a memorandum opinion and order regarding private-radio refarming, the Industrial Telecommunications Association has …
NEW YORK-BellSouth Corp., Atlanta, reported it closed out 1996 with 3.6 million cellular customers in the United Sates, and increase of 765,000 compared with 1995. In BellSouth’s 11 international cellular …
ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. launched an Internet World Wide Web site that will allow customers to buy cellular phones and service. When the site is accessed, customers will be prompted to …
NEW YORK-Imagine a bell curve for a clear picture of the landscape this year for batteries used in wireless handsets. That big bulge in the middle represents the domain of …
NEW YORK-Batteries Batteries Inc. acquired Battery Network Inc. and affiliated companies including Alexander Battery Co. East Inc., Alexander Battery Co. South Inc. and Alexander Battery Co. West Inc. Batteries Batteries …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has been nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award for developing and implementing its remote electronic auction system. The annual awards program, first introduced in 1989, has …
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.- DCN Wireless, a California-based wireless services reseller, will begin providing GTE Mobilnet Inc. service in the San Francisco area and Northern California. “Our decision to offer the …
Paging Network Inc. appointed Steven Cadwell vice president of national accounts to lead its National Accounts Direct division, which provides customized customer service, billing and pager distribution. Prior to joining …
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group completed a 900 MHz FLEX protocol-based paging system for National Network Communications Inc. National Network Communications will use the infrastructure to support its …
The Italian government announced it will merge Telecom Italia into Stet to form a single company called Telecom Italia, which will continue to control the country’s cellular operator Telecom Italia …
NEW YORK-If the conventional wisdom holds true that a rising tide lifts all boats, then wireless companies seeking to go public this year can take comfort in the results of …
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based In-Flight Phone Corp., the competitor to GTE Airfone Inc. for consumer air-to-ground communications, entertainment and information, quietly filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in a Delaware court. In-Flight …
SAN DIEGO-Pacific Bell Mobile Services Inc. is in the final stages of testing its ability to transmit data over the Global System for Mobile communications network. Pac Bell Mobile is …
The Federal Communications Commission granted GWI PCS Inc. the remaining 14 C-block personal communications licenses won last May. The markets had been on hold since that time because of an …
Simmonds Capital Ltd. said its wholly owned subsidiary, Midland International Corp., sold an 80 percent controlling interest in its European business to an undisclosed buyer. The transaction includes a license …
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) has accused Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt of going forward with a plan to link schools and libraries to the Internet without …
NEW YORK- The media and telecommunications industry was pronounced “generally healthy” by a panel of Wall Street officials discussing new equity and debt issues at an Institute for International Research …
