WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with …
FCC Chairman Reed Hundt is off the hook or should I say off the leash. John Dingell (D-Mich.), a hurricane-like force even when not House Commerce Committee chairman, struck his …
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Corp. announced yesterday it had affirmed its speculative-grade CCC- ratings on $2.4 billion of outstanding debt issued by Nextel Communications Inc., Rutherford, N.J. The New York-based …
WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission’s local competition and interconnection order in hopes of killing, or at least …
Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August. Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of scorched emptiness. T.E. Lawrence-“Lawrence of …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Go Wireless International Ltd. announced it will offer prepaid cellular service to customers who do not qualify for conventional cellular service. The service will be provided through major cellular …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc., an international wireless communications company, announced it has increased its ownership interest in M.I.S. Information Systems Holdings Ltd. to 100 percent. M.I.S. was formed in 1994 …
CLIFTON, N.J.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has selected Gemini Industries Inc. to manage and supply the company’s Universal Accessory Program. Gemini will supply all of the accessories for cellular phones marketed …
GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One has started “FreedomPlus” service in the Washington D.C./Baltimore, Md., area. FreedomPlus is designed to operate between cellular and landline networks to deliver calls to a customer’s cordless …
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee voted last week to downsize the Federal Communications Commission and remove travel restrictions on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. The bill now goes to the Commerce Committee, …
BOCA RATON, Fla.-“PCS and The New Wireless Marketplace,” the first show in the wireless communications series airing as part of The Cutting Edge Technology Report, will be broadcast Tuesday on …
The Eugene, Ore., City Council has proposed a four-month moratorium on tower building for wireless phone services that has some operators sympathetic and others calling their attorneys. Eugene officials and …
A cellular company in San Francisco is working to provide equal access to all people by providing special discounted prices on wireless phones and service to people with visual or …
Wireless local loop and personal communications services technologies have come a long way but differences in their network costs don’t reveal a clear winner, according to a new report from …
A new Denver company is applying the direct mass marketing approach to the two-way radio business, saying most radio customers “already know what they want.” “They want what they have …
WASHINGTON-In a stunning move with perhaps more symbolism than substance, Ameritech Cellular Services left the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week because the trade group’s aggressive wireless agenda clashed with …
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden America Corp. said that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal filed by Peter Tsakanikas and his company, Tsakanikas Global Technologies Inc., which …
SEPTEMBER 16-17 CDMA System Design, Engineering & Optimizations, by the Wireless Institute of Technology. Holiday Inn, San Francisco, Calif. (510) 490-6459. 16-17 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and Congress, though under pressure to fund government operations in fiscal 1997 before adjourning for re-election campaigns in a few weeks, have renewed efforts to expand government …
