WASHINGTON-Consumer and industry groups are not expected to offer a clear cut fix to hearing aid interference from digital pocket telephones in the report they submit to Federal Communications Commission …
Dear Editor: Once again, in the interest of accuracy, I am compelled to respond to a letter to you from Mark Ross, Ph.D. (SHHH) in the Feb. 10 issue of …
WASHINGTON-Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, sent letters to President Clinton and General Services Administration Administrator Roger Johnson protesting delays in implementing an August 1995 presidential memorandum …
A popular reason to carry a cellular phone is personal safety, yet a main complaint from both cellular users and emergency assistance providers is lack of cellular “locatability.” When a …
Plugging a Global Positioning System receiver alone into a wireless phone won’t solve the problem faced by 911 emergency operators receiving distress calls from cellular users. “There’s no one solution,” …
GERMANTOWN, M.D.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced it has been selected by the Ho Chi Minh City Telephone Co. to build a wireless network in Vietnam. The $22 million contract, which …
NEW YORK-High-tech, start-up companies-like those in wireless-accustomed to searching for capital may be surprised to know that international capital is searching for them. Bolstered by money pouring in from abroad …
NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc. delayed an initial public offering of common stock scheduled to go to market Feb. 22. The new issue was larger than anticipated, but the share price …
Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks, spawning several potentially lucrative businesses. A …
MONTVALE, N.J.-In a role reversal for the high-tech communications revolution, 27 million blue-collar workers nationwide are targeted as the early adopters for Geotek Communications Inc.’s spring rollout of enhanced mobile …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s new application freeze has created a major rift in the paging industry, the second major wireless sector to feel the big chill from Chairman Reed Hundt’s …
WASHINGTON-Comments are split regarding whether C-block broadband personal communications services and 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction bidders who submit flawed bids should be fined to the letter of the …
Florida cellular customers may soon see a 50-cent increase in their monthly bill, in the form of a fee to fund 911 technology and distance learning. Some cellular carriers indicated …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will seek comment on whether to adopt new fixed microwave rules that would facilitate the introduction of antenna technology developed by the military to the land …
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. of New York will step up deployment of the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system in its New York metropolitan market. AT&T …
The number of mobile phone subscribers is rising quickly in Europe, but an increasing proportion of low-volume users and competition among operators could wrench profits over the next decade, forecasts …
MARCH 6-7 PCS Seminars for ITCs Only, U.S. Intelco Wireless. Doubletree Grand Hotel, Bloomington, Minn. (360) 493-6241. 6-7 Re-engineering Billing Systems in the Telecommunications Industry, by the International Quality & …
Sprint Cellular Co. and United States Cellular Corp. completed an agreement to exchange controlling interests in cellular licenses in Kansas and Ohio. Under the agreement, Sprint Cellular assumes ownership of …
Northern Telecom Inc. announced the commercial launch of VoiceStream Wireless service on its Global System for Mobile communications-based personal communications services 1900 network in Hawaii, the second PCS network activated …
With two recent large acquisitions tucked under its belt, Arch Communications Group Inc. now intends to knit its coast-to-coast properties together with a common name to give the entity a …
