cellular phones

Pockets of wireless local loop operations and fixed cellular services are emerging throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Small-scale operations and field trials are underway in Argentina, Belize, Brazil, the …

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Geoworks and Ericsson Inc. announced an alliance to deliver a range of afforadable “smart phone” next-generation cellular phones combining voice and data transmission capabilities. Under the terms …

WASHINGTON-After five years of research and development, and three tries on the keypad, the inaugural call on American Mobile Satellite Corp.’s SkyCell satellite telephone service was made Jan. 24 between …

Dial Page Inc.’s stockholders have approved a merger proposal and agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., Nextel announced. The Federal Communications Commission’s final approval on the merger is expected to be …

Budget talks between the Clinton administration and the GOP-controlled Congress are stalled, the chances that any budget agreement will be worked out by the end of this week-when Shutdown III …

NEW YORK – With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on an upward trajectory in competitive urban …

A U.S. battery manufacturer has announced it will produce lithium ion batteries for wireless telecommunications devices, delving into a market previously dominated by Japanese companies such as Sony Battery and …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-A billboard put up in mid December by Alltel Mobile Communications Inc. caused quite a stir in Little Rock, Ark., as motorists along Interstate 30 dialed 911 on …

The cellular industry has taken numerous steps to package cellular for the mass consumer retail market, but a small gap remains between the industry’s effort and the complicated process to …

LAS VEGAS-JRC International Inc. and ReadyCom Inc. have signed a letter of intent under which JRC will develop and produce handsets for the launch of ReadyCom’s Ready Talk two-way wireless …

There may well be a vast geographic and cultural divide between Russia and the United States, but Mikhail Bogdanov, owner of Moscow-based EcoSoft GTCO, said he is impressed by the …

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 …

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 …

DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services has launched its commercial rollout of Interim Standard-136 service with a Dallas in-office system, using L.M. Ericsson microcells and Nokia Corp. handsets. The office system installed at …

Zues Phonstuff has introduced its Always-in-Touch unit, a device that plugs into a home or office phone line and notifies a pager of a call when the phone user is …

Michael Snitz of Phoenix-based Cell Phone Extensions says his business is a part of the new “emulation industry,” but cellular carriers call his work illegal cloning and fraud. “This is …

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 …

Well, it’s finally here. American Personal Communications, doing business under the Sprint name, has introduced personal communications services in the Washington, D.C., market. Broadband PCS is a reality. One small …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is expected to press Japan on the Personal Handyphone System issue before returning home this week from Tokyo, where the United States participated in the Asia-Pacific Economic …

WASHINGTON-Even as the nation’s first broadband personal communications services system began commercial operations here last week, questions continue to be raised in the United States and abroad about the potential …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services announced the commercial availability of the AT&T CellCard, a smart card the size of a credit card that is designed to extend the reach of a …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Cellular Communications received a 13-month contract to sell 500,000 cellular phones to PCS PrimeCo, the joint services organization of AirTouch Communications Inc., U S West Inc., Bell Atlantic …

ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T Microelectronics and Cirrus Logic Inc. have announced the intent to form a joint manufacturing venture. AT&T said the venture is designed to meet the worldwide demand for advanced …

SEATTLE-AT&T Wireless Services introduced a prepackaged phone that is available in stores and activated by calling a 1-800 number and receiving credit-card verification. The telephone costs about $40 with an …

These days cellular phones are sold just about everywhere you turn, even the drug store. However, it may not be so easy to buy one. One company said it has …