WASHINGTON-As the telecommunications reform marathon of 1995 nears the finish line, the great political race of 1996 is taking shape before a restless American electorate. Political theater at its best. …
Just months after AT&T Corp. stated it would split into three separate companies, Chairman Robert Allen announced 40,000 people will be displaced or laid off during the next three years. …
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced that its cellular venture in Kyushu, Japan, has launched commercial service. Digital TU-KA Kyushu Co. Ltd. initially will serve the capital city, major highways and the …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, appearing to retreat from recent comments in which he suggested support for a marketplace solution to hearing aid interference from pocket phones, warned that …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. and Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced they have reached an agreement allowing Hughes to extend Geotek a two-year, $25 million line of credit for Geotek to …
WASHINGTON-Following the Nov. 29 filing of a Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit at the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, communications brokers Republic Communications Corp. and …
The Danish government is expected to issue a tender for DCS 1800 licenses this spring, and low service prices are expected to be one of the major criteria in determining …
The Federal Communications Commission and the rest of the federal government could re-open this week but close again later this month if the GOP-led Congress and the Clinton administration fail …
DENVER-Specialized mobile radio company ComTec International Inc. announced it and its wholly owned subsidiary, Key Communications Group Inc., are in default on several acquisition agreements due to difficulties raising financing …
A cellular phone containing a scanner, into which new numbers can be programmed using the phone keypad, was just one of the sophisticated cloning devices acquired by the U.S. Secret …
NEW YORK-With nearly $4 million in creditor claims against it deleted by a federal court in late December, Cellular Telephone Enterprises Inc. last week entered the end game of an …
This may be the year that Code Division Multiple Access technology becomes a commercial reality for cellular operators, with one system already running in Hong Kong and four nearing completion …
BRUSSELS-With a bid of $2.5 billion, Ameritech Corp. and partners Tele Danmark and Singapore Telecom last month captured the winning vote for a 50 percent-less one share-stake and strategic position …
Congress was expected last Friday to pass a measure that would allow 280,000 furloughed federal employees to return to work this week and start paying 480,000 “essential” employees, who have …
SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecom has signed interconnect agreements with each of the three operators awarded licenses to operate mobile communications services in Singapore beginning April 1, 1997. The new operators are cellular …
Question: When is a federal employee deemed “excepted” or “unexcepted?” Answer: Apparently, when there is money involved. During last November’s first partial budget-related government shutdown that lasted six days, the …
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced it will supply its ReFLEX two-way paging technology and global positioning system receiver to the AutoLink System, an automotive safety, security …
The top three executives of Metrocall Inc. convened a teleconference for journalists, analysts and stockholders Jan. 3 that they said was intended largely to dispel widespread rumors of a top-level …
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. completed the acquisition of BellSouth Corp.’s MobileComm paging subsidiary and its nationwide narrowband personal communications services license. MobileMedia said it paid about $930 million. The company …
Even though the personal communications services auctions are designed to make money for the government, some entrepreneurs are finding their own ways to financially benefit from the auctions-by packaging auction …
