OKLAHOMA CITY-A lawsuit stemming from the rural service area lotteries of the late 1980s was resolved recently when United States Cellular Corp. won a $9.5 million award from Southwestern Bell …
ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Florida announced it will market wireless telephones using an automated kiosk that dispenses ready-to-use cellular phones directly to the customer. The Interactive Retail Information …
Japanese telecom leaders suggest they will lift some foreign investment restrictions in cellular if they can get greater access to Western markets in return. Fifty-one countries are negotiating trade rules …
Manufacturers shipped more than 88,000 handsets in 1995 as the market for in-building wireless communications systems began its trajectory toward an estimated 1.6 million handsets shipped in the year 2000, …
PARK RIDGE, N.J.-The Hertz Corp. car rental company announced the rollout of a system that uses wireless technology to improve the speed and accuracy of communications between Hertz shuttle bus …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. and RWE Telliance AG announced they have executed a memorandum of understanding to merge their German public access mobile radio networks, RegioNet and Terrafon Bundelfunk. The …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is set to intervene shortly in a Democratic Party power struggle for leadership of the new Telecommunications Development Fund, a potentially huge pool of money small businesses …
NEW YORK-While wireless and wireline carriers assess and respond to the effects of the 1996 Telecom Reform Act on their business, the Federal Communications Commission also must adapt quickly to …
WASHINGTON-Capitol Hill insiders once again are playing the name game, this time regarding who will be nominated to replace former Federal Communications Commissioner Andrew Barrett, who left the agency for …
Consolidation in the cellular industry is galloping ahead-now spurred faster by the 1996 Telecom Reform Act-but toward an uncertain future. The ten largest cellular carriers served nearly 27 million subscribers …
SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Company Inc. announced an agreement with Authentix Network Inc. to form a strategic alliance that will grant CTS rights to jointly market and support Authentix nationwide roamer …
The C-block auction isn’t just for large companies-not if your strategic goal is the 53,000 pops of McAlester, Okla. That’s the site of Oklahoma’s most notorious prison, as well as …
APRIL 14-16 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Grand Kempinski, Dallas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887. 16-18 Universal Wireless Communications International Conference, Singapore International Convention …
BellSouth Mobility said it expects to sell an additional 1 million minutes of airtime per day during the 1996 Olympic Games that begin in three months in Atlanta. The symbolic …
NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing “Go” means collecting a lot more than $200. Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt last week accused House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Fields (R-Texas) of trying to pin a nonexistent pagers-for-the-homeless proposal on the agency to drive a …
On the same day last week, the nation was a painful witness to high technology’s fork in the road. In some remote hills of spacious Montana, federal agents picked up …
RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $118.9 million, or 62 cents per share, for the fourth quarter 1995, compared with $102.1 million, or 61 cents per share, …
