A line drive is roped into right field and the tying run on second races towards home. As the ball skips into the outfield, the right fielder scoops up the …

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it holds an 18.5 percent interest in a joint venture licensed to provide Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in the Republic of …

Demand for cellular service in the Unites States is booming. Consumers have expressed the need and carriers have stimulated the desire for convenience, safety, efficiency and other benefits of mobility. …

The worldwide installed base of cellular subscribers reached 53 million users by the end of 1994, a remarkable growth rate driven by a number of observable trends, the most important …

With prospects of a House floor fight over switched wireless resale fading, resellers and carriers have taken their fight to the Federal Communications Commission. Cellular and personal communications services firms …

Stanilite Electronics Pty Ltd. said it has signed a contract to deliver cellular infrastructure to Compania de Telefonos del Interior S.A., the Argentine cellular operator. Stanilite will design, manufacture and …

WASHINGTON-A global wireless computer communications system proposed by Craig McCaw, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and AT&T Corp. is a step closer to receiving the frequencies needed to build a …

WASHINGTON-A religious war of biblical proportions has broken out in the nation’s capital between the dueling digital technologies that will occupy the wireless lane of the information superhighway. The war …

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. signed a purchase agreement relating to a private placement of $207 million principal amount of units consisting of 5-year zero coupon 15 percent senior secured discount …

Nextel Communications Inc. said it has received the required consents from its bondholders to complete its pending transactions with Motorola, Inc., Craig O. McCaw, OneComm Corp., American Mobile Systems Inc. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has adopted recommendations for the World Radiocommunication Conference this fall in Geneva that are aimed at fostering development of global mobile satellite systems. Proposals crafted by …

All’s fair in love and war. And wireless telecommunications competition is beginning to look like a battlefield. But not necessarily the “level” playing (battle)field government keeps trying to create when …

NEW YORK-Following a one-year system trial, Ericsson Inc. and Telenor AS (formerly Norwegian Telecom) implemented a Universal Personal Telecommunications system, providing users one personal telephone number at which they can …

Telular Corp. is seeking a strategic partner to help it take advantage of the burgeoning fixed wireless market worldwide and, eventually, the U.S. personal communications services market. “The opportunities we …

Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest wireless equipment dealers in the United States from survey responses and interviews with industry …

WASHINGTON-The House GOP leadership’s drive to make telecommunications reform legislation more deregulatory is not expected to threaten the antenna siting provision that wireless carriers fought hard to include in the …

WASHINGTON-GOP lawmakers have taken steps to freeze the Federal Communications Commission’s budget next year at the current year’s $186 million level, waiting until later this summer to hold hearings on …

Just two months after U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene ruled cellular affiliates of regional Bell operating companies would be eligible to provide long-distance services to their wireless customers-deviating from …

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. said it now has one million units in service, nearly two years ahead of its strategic business plan. The Dallas-based company launched service in July 1989. PageMart operates …

ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Upstate Cellular Network has acquired a 41 percent general partnership interest in New York State’s Rural Service Area 4. Upstate is a joint venture between Frontier Corp. and Nynex …