Lucent Technologies

NEW YORK—Citing plans by TeleCorp PCS Inc. to deploy a “GSM overlay network in the near future” at the same time as its cash flow growth has slowed, Moody’s Investors …

Berliner Communications Inc. Doreen Trant has been promoted to chief operating officer of Berliner Communication Inc. Trant previously served as the company’s vice president of sales and marketing. She will …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. has named John Kritzmacher as its senior vice president and corporate controller, replacing Mark White, who has decided to leave the company.“He has the right …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is the first vendor in North America and one of the first worldwide to make its third-generation cdma2000 equipment and software available for …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said its bank group has given it the go-ahead to renegotiate its $4 billion loan by recording the business restructuring and other charges.The green light …

The NextWave Telecom Inc. saga continued last week as the hopeful wireless wholesaler unveiled funding plans to roll out its network, while its potential wireless competitors/customers continued to look for …

NEW YORK-Nortel Networks Corp. and Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. tapped the debt markets for a total of $1.65 billion last week, providing another reminder that telecommunications bond buyers …

One man’s asset recovery is another man’s poison. Like a stylized garage sale, wireless equipment manufacturers are auctioning off excess inventories, which are being shipped to needy markets in the …

NEW YORK-In profits, the category that counts the most, Nokia Corp. retained top billing, with Ericsson Inc. holding on to second place, according to information from Standard & Poor’s. Lucent …

Even the last bastion has been hit. The heat of the economic slowdown is choking contract electronics manufacturers that help the major original equipment manufacturers make their phones and infrastructure …

Nortel Networks Corp., L.M. Ericsson and Siemens AG may be the major vendors to improve their harvests from the new balance of power that the third generation of technologies will …

While lawyers have spent the past four years wrangling over the fate of Nextwave Telecom Inc.’s 93 C- and F-block licenses, the wanna-be telecom company has been moving ahead with …

Motient Corp. posted another slow quarter last week, showing total revenue of $23.7 million on a net loss of $65.5 million, and warned that the current economic slowdown has begun …

WASHINGTON-A Richardson, Texas, inventor says he has developed a way to allow public safety answering points to call back non-initialized phones that make 911 calls. The statement comes as the …

Two major equipment vendors, one in the United States and the other in Europe, continued to walk on clay feet last week. Motorola Inc. announced a second-quarter loss while Marconi …

While the event was not celebrated with fireworks across the country, AT&T Wireless finally was able to celebrate its independence last week as it began its first trading day as …

Close below the surface of the third-generation mobile-phone spectrum debate is a technology war, the kind of feud industry thought was behind it and wanted to avoid as it tries …

Like two pods in a peanut shell, Lucent Technologies Inc. plans to realign its business operations into two main divisions-wireless and wireline. It is part of the Murray Hill, N.J.-based …

NEW YORK-In a preview of its second-quarter corporate debt outlook, to be published July 27, Standard & Poor’s Corp. said “the large loss announced in June by Nortel Networks Corp. …

WASHINGTON-China, the world’s largest potential wireless export market, is on the verge of entering the World Trade Organization as officials wrap up negotiations to culminate a process that has been …

Expand coverage. Reduce interference. Increase capacity. Enable higher bandwidth. These are the four corners of Conductus Inc.’s philosophy in rolling out its ClearSite solutions for first-, second- and next-generation air-interface …

CAMPINAS, Brazil-Telesp Cellular, a subsidiary of Portugal Telecom, and Lucent Technologies Inc. have signed a $130 million contract to upgrade Telesp’s mobile network in Brazil to third-generation technology. Lucent will …

WASHINGTON-In an effort to prove it is a viable company and at the same time help a struggling icon, bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. said on July 2 it has signed …

Mobile-phone maker LG InfoComm U.S.A. Inc. has been “in the closet, so to speak,” according to Michele Thenegal, the company’s marketing director. While LG InfoComm hasn’t been completely dormant during …

If there were ever any doubts that voice-recognition technology would become a big business, New York state swiftly put those questions to bed when it passed a state law two …