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PHOENIX, United States-Some observers have compared the broadband wireless industry to a hockey game: lots of skating around, many dramatic clashes, but not much scoring. Still, like a hockey game, …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Triton PCS Inc. selected Transcept Inc. to help the carrier extend its personal communications services network using Transcept’s TransCell 1900TM PCS-Over-Microwave system. Trancept’s focus is …

NEW YORK-Nextel is a “rag dog” company that has fought against the odds of regulators, antitrust lawyers and Wall Street to win, said Morgan E. O’Brien, vice chairman of Nextel …

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) introduced legislation to remove the spectrum cap for third-generation wireless spectrum to be assigned by auction after Dec. 31. “The Third-Generation Wireless Internet” is not as …

The House, over protests from the White House and some congressional Democrats, last week approved legislation to make electronic signatures legal. The measure, which passed by a 356-66 margin, comes …

The first satellite for the Asia Cellular Satellite (ACeS) mobile telephony and data services communication system is scheduled to be launched in November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according …

Bankrupt mobile satellite service provider ICO Global Communications said it has received letters of intent for the first in an expected three-stage debtor-in-possession financing package that, when complete, would total …

WASHINGTON-For the second straight week, Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) hammered the Federal Communications Commission over questionable wireless licensing activity and opened a new probe into the proposed merger …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely kept in place rules that restrict how much spectrum a carrier can control in any geographic area to no more than 45 megahertz. …

NEW YORK-When David Finkelstein looks up at the heavens and ahead to the future, he sees low-earth-orbit satellites as galactic warriors fighting to control suburban sprawl on Earth and provide …

BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. said its stockholders approved the proposed merger with Lockheed Martin Corp. About 99 percent of votes cast were in favor of the merger. Upon obtaining the necessary …

WASHINGTON-Warburg, Pincus & Co. will rename its CIS Acquisition Corp. business and is restructuring its ownership details in a bid to win approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its …

Spotcast Communications Inc., Silver Spring, Md., is billing itself as the world’s first provider of localized, advertisement-sponsored mobile communications. The company recently completed a beta test with its first carrier …

BETHESDA, Md.-Astrolink L.L.C. and partners Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, TRW and Telespazio closed an equity investment of $900 million in cash that will allow Astrolink to offer on-demand wireless broadband …

During its second-quarter earnings conference call, Motorola executives said Iridium L.L.C. could face liquidation if it fails to bring in the revenues and subscribers originally planned. At the same time, …

The government of Kazakhstan’s temporary ban on Russian rocket launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome has mobile satellite service providers with upcoming launch dates there watching the situation carefully. The ban …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Teledesic L.L.C. has completed a major launch contract with Lockheed Martin and signed a system agreement with Motorola Inc. to build Teledesic’s satellite communications network, said the company. Under …

NASHUA, N.H.-Lockheed Martin Corp. announced it has agreed to sell operating company Sanders Telecommunications Systems to a newly formed affiliate of Spencer Trask & Co. called Transcept Inc. Following the …

NEW YORK-Astrolink L.L.C., a strategic venture initiated by Lockheed Martin Corp., announced it received $900 million in equity from founding partners Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, Telespazio and TRW Inc. to …

WASHINGTON-If the inside-the-beltway crowd thinks the issue of antenna siting is slowing down-or perhaps going away altogether-they should have attended a telecommunications forum on Feb. 28, sponsored by the National …

NASHUA, N.H.-Sanders, a Lockheed Martin company, announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with eXpert Wireless Solution for radio-frequency network planning and services for Sanders’ line of personal communications services …

NASHUA, N.H.-Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Co., announced it entered into a long-term agreement with WirelessNorth to supply its PCS-Over-Cable distributed antenna system to support the deployment of a wireless network …

Geoworks Corp. and APiON Ltd. announced they successfully completed interoperability tests of their products based on the Wireless Application Protocol. The testing process lasted several months and involved Geoworks’ new …

NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility. The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a “groundbreaking initiative” with four companies to …

Triton Network Systems Inc. is aiming to give competitive local exchange carriers a wireless alternative to building fiber-optic networks to get into the local loop, yet keep the same quality …