Telecommunications experience, a plan to charge low fees and a promise of $400 million won Oe-Call a Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular license in Austria, according to Waltraud …
BRUSSELS-The European Commission has agreed to step up liberalization by two years and end state monopolies over mobile communications before the 1998 deadline. The decision to move the deadline up …
Dear President Clinton, Majority Leader Dole and Speaker Gingrich, As the country enters Week Three of budget-related furloughs, I think the American public has figured out that “essential government personnel” …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Motorola INc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group and Xi ‘an Datang Telephone Co. have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly provide cellular and wireless local loop base …
Globalstar L.P. of San Jose, Calif., said it has completed a five-year, $250 million bank financing. The company said that with the bank facility, its remaining external financing requirements are …
WASHINGTON-Congressional GOP and White House budget negotiators reached an agreement on auctioning radio spectrum through the year 2002 as part of renewed talks aimed at producing a compromise on a …
MONTREAL-BCE Mobile Communications Inc. announced it has agreed to sell its holdings in Clearnet Communications Inc., a specialized mobile radio operator in Canada. BCE reported the sale of the 3.3 …
WASHINGTON-Participants in the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auctions are taking the next few days to gear up for Jan. 5, when the bidding for C-block broadband personal communications services and …
A landmark merger deal announced last month, in which Arch Communications Group Inc. agreed to pay $340 million for Westlink Holdings Inc., will establish the nation’s third largest paging company …
SAN FRANCISCO – AirTouch Communications Inc. said it acquired the assets of Hartford, Conn.-based Message Center Beepers, a privately help paging company serving customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New …
ADC Telecommunications Inc. is forming a joint venture with PCS Wireless Inc. to manufacture, market and sell remote antenna drivers and remote antenna signal processors to be used in hybrid …
WASHINGTON-Anti-terrorism legislation, at one time the most promising vehicle for funding Federal Bureau of Investigation implementation of digital wiretap legislation, died in Congress late last month to the dismay of …
WESTLAKE, Texas-Western Wireless Corp. announced it signed a multiyear agreement with Nokia Inc. to supply PCS 1900 systems to Western Wireless for its personal communications services network. The initial commitment …
Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc., sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Labour, announced it completed a $3 million equity investment as part of a $15 million financing package with co-investors …
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet said it achieved precommercial interoperability between its Hughes Network Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom Ltd. cellular digital packet data networks. The achievement will allow GTE to provide seamless …
WASHINGTON-Hearing disability advocates are privately furious with the wireless telecommunications industry over the agenda for this week’s conference on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket phones and with Federal Communications …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. announced it planned to begin commercial service on its digital specialized mobile radio network in Philadelphia on New Year’s Day. Geotek activated the network for testing …
WASHINGTON-To encourage third-party vendors to provide wireless telecommunications fraud prevention products and services, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced it is inviting companies to participate in new technology trials beginning …
Happy New Year! The mark of a new year tradition ally brings resolutions for the fu ture and reflections on the past. That holds true for the wireless industry as …
