MCI

The U.S. paging and messaging industry is still declining. Nationwide carriers are still losing thousands of customers every month-both one- and two-way subscribers-and there is no indication the tide will …

WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) has launched a probe into whether scandal-plagued MCI, which recently won a $34 million defense contract to supply mobile-phone service in Iraq, …

ASHBURN, Va.-MCI Corp., formerly known as WorldCom Inc., has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its accounting fraud case and will pay $500 million in fines …

WASHINGTON-Despite interest in steering Iraq reconstruction business to American companies through competitive bidding and White House reluctance to meddle in wireless rebuilding in the war-torn country, the Bush administration has …

BellSouth Corp. has agreed to buy WorldCom Inc.’s multichannel multipoint distribution system licenses for $65 million in an agreement the two companies reached last month. BellSouth’s bid for the company’s …

There are several ways one can read the Pentagon mini-mobile-phone Iraq contract with MCI, formerly MCI before reputation-ravaged WorldCom Inc. figured a retro name change was in order since just …

WASHINGTON-MCI is working with the Pentagon to provide mobile-phone service in Iraq, but it is unclear whether the embattled long-distance telephone company has an inside track to bring large-scale commercial …

SAN JOSE, Calif.- Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. Ltd. will license over-the-air application provisioning technology from DoOnGo Technologies Inc. for use in the company’s Panasonic FOMA mobile phones. Using the new …

CLINTON, Mass.-Citing the company’s recent bankruptcy filing and the pending restatement of its financial statements for 2001 and the first quarter of 2002, the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel informed WorldCom …

CLINTON, Mass.-WorldCom Inc. reported that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York approved $750 million in interim financing the company said would provide sufficient finds to …

CLINTON, Mass.-Adding to investor fears concerning the future of WorldCom Inc., the company’s board of directors said it would not pay the 60 cents per share dividend to MCI group …

CLINTON, Miss.—WorldCom Group announced it will cut 3,700 jobs, affecting six percent of WorldCom Group’s work force, or four percent of WorldCom Inc.’s overall work force, but not MCI Group. …

SAN FRANCISCO—MVNO enabler Visage Mobile announced it has made Whitey Bluestein its executive vice president of corporate and business development. Bluestein, who has previously held executive level positions at NorthPoint …

HARTFORD, Conn.—Law firm Schatz & Nobel filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of purchasers of Metricom Inc. common stock. The …

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NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. shareholders approved June 7 the creation of separate tracking stocks, which pursued separate pricing paths at the close of their first day of trading on Nasdaq June …

Blackstone Blackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates …

GENEVA-How the mighty have fallen. British Telecommunications (BT), once ranked among the world’s most powerful carriers, is finding itself buckling under a crippling mountain of debt in a climate where …

Editor’s Note: As part of its celebration of 20 years covering the wireless communications industry, RCR Wireless News each month will take a look back at crucial points in the …

AWR Applied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including …

Infowave Thomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.’s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft’s Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company’s worldwide …

Telcom Global Chris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.’s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company’s global …

How it came to pass that AT&T let its cellular licenses slip away during its 1984 divestiture is the stuff of wireless industry urban legend. Some say AT&T was less-than-concerned …

NEW YORK-Debt downgrades for telecommunications carriers last year outnumbered upgrades by a two-to-one margin, setting the stage for increased pressure on ratings this year, analysts for Standard & Poor’s Corp. …

Band-X Stephen Beynon was hired as Band-X’s new chief executive officer. He was previously in a management position in the data and business services division of Cable & Wireless Optus. …