WASHINGTON-The United States had mixed success in securing more spectrum for next-generation global satellite systems at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, an event unexpectedly preoccupied with the mammoth Teledesic …
Editor’s Note: The companies listed below are the current holders of A- and B-block licenses for broadband personal communications services in the United States. None of the companies-with the exception …
WASHINGTON-Radiofone Inc., in what amounts to a new stay request, wants the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati to decide whether the Federal Communications Commission is …
Three Texas cellular customers have brought a class-action lawsuit against GTE Mobilnet, maintaining the company’s $200 cancellation fee is an unfair penalty for discontinuing service, said the plaintiffs’ attorneys Richard …
The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal communications services market. Gretel Holcomb Hoffman …
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission last week approved streamlined antenna structure registration procedures that make owners rather than licensees primarily responsible for complying with construction, painting and lighting requirements. …
The tower industry has banded together as the National Association of Tower Erectors to address collective issues of operations and safety and to affect industry-initiated standards. The nonprofit organization represents …
WASHINGTON-In a potential test case of a 1993 law that pre-empted state entry and rate regulation of commercial mobile radio services, U S West Inc. has asked federal regulators to …
William Lenahan is celebrating his one-year anniversary as president and chief executive officer of Ram Mobile Data L.P. by initiating a change in strategic direction for the packet data carrier. …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will go forward with the C-block personal communications services auction and allow Radiofone Inc. and several others that had sought waivers of PCS-cellular cross ownership rules …
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Qualcomm Inc., through its Brazilian subsidiary, Qualcomm do Brasil, and NEC do Brasil plan to deliver digital cellular systems based on Qualcomm’s Code Division Multiple Access technology to …
WASHINGTON-The future is here. Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 …
A number of small U.S. cellular companies have been hit with lawsuits from the government of Alberta, Canada, which is charging the companies breached contracts by not purchasing cellular equipment …
As you no doubt are aware, particularly if you’re one of the 800,000 federal government workers furloughed last week as the GOP Congress and Democratic White House tried to prove …
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced the personal communications services 1900 market in the United States has selected the Enhanced Full Rate voice codec developed by Nokia and the University of Sherbrooke …
VIENNA, Va.-North American Wireless Inc. announced that seven small businesses have agreed to participate in its nationwide network. The firms are planning to bid in the Federal Communications Commission’s personal …
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-America Online users can send text messages directly to people who use MobileMedia Communications Inc.’s alphanumeric pagers, MobileMedia announced. MobileMedia said the new feature operates like e-mail and …
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. introduced a package of network design and operation services the company says will let any local operator build and run a wireless business. Called networkMCI WIN (Wireless …
Federal regulators are working on a plan to auction nearly 16,000 licenses for wireless infrastructure links in the 37 GHz and 39 GHz bands. The Federal Communications Commission, according to …
In an initial study of customer satisfaction among cellular telephone service consumers, J.D. Power and Associates found that local Bell telephone companies achieved higher satisfaction rankings than their nonwireline rivals …
