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Littlefeet Littlefeet Inc., a wireless network infrastructure developer, appointed Kai Cheong Chan as the general manager and sales director for the company’s new regional office, which will serve Singapore and …

RESTON, Va.-XO Communications Inc. named Wayne Rehberger chief financial officer. Rehberger formally was senior vice president of finance at MCI WorldCom Inc., where he managed network costs, local interconnection and …

NEW YORK-MCI WorldCom Inc. sees an opportunity to transform its wireless resale business into one of full-fledged virtual network operation, said Bernard J. Ebbers, president and chief executive officer. Resale …

Following a trend set recently by rival AT&T Corp., WorldCom Inc. last Wednesday announced plans to realign its businesses with the customer bases they serve in an attempt to bolster …

NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. is on track to launch its new Ricochet service with data speeds up to 128 kilobits per second in New York and several other cities markets by …

WASHINGTON-Fixed broadband wireless carriers, seeking to underscore the need for nondiscriminatory building access, say they have identified a `smoking gun’ in the form of a legal memo on a license …

WASHINGTON-Deutsche Telekom AG, after announcing its intent to buy VoiceStream Wireless Corp. , spent last week trying to kill an appropriations bill rider that could kill the deal and others …

It’s Rummage Sale season. If one man’s junk is another man’s treasure, the insurance, health-care and financial industries should find some great bargains in today’s wireless world-basically used names and …

Let the bidding frenzy begin. Possibilities are blowing open now that Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. ended their $115 billion merger plans and reports of suitors for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. …

WASHINGTON-An uncertain wireless industry realignment could be in store as a result of Justice Department’s rejection last week of the WorldCom Inc.-Sprint Corp. merger and new legislation forbidding foreign government …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday approved the transfer of GTE Corp.’s communications licenses to Bell Atlantic Corp. contingent on 25 conditions, including putting some wireless properties into a trust …

WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. lawyers were in Brussels, Belgium, last week defending their proposed $115 billion merger to the European Commission. The EC issued a statement of objections to …

WASHINGTON-A comprehensive proposal by European and Arab states covering third-generation mobile phone spectrum and other issues appeared to be disintegrating late last week at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, …

Sprint Corp. announced it launched its Sprint Broadband Direct service in Phoenix, a multichannel multipoint distribution service offering that provides an always-on Internet connection and burstable downstream data rates up …

BERLIN-A consortium comprised of Telefonica, Orange and Sonera will join U.S.-based MCI WorldCom and 10 other groups in bidding for third-generation licenses in Germany. The auction is set to begin …

British Telecom (BT) could challenge an Internet alliance between Vodafone AirTouch and Vivendi announced just before Vodafone AirTouch’s takeover agreement with Mannesmann in February, the Financial Times reported. The deal …

DUBLIN, Ireland-After decades of tight state control, Eastern European telecommunications markets are waking up to the reality of telecommunications liberalization. But even though many of these countries accept that liberalization …

A consortium comprised of Telefonica, Orange and Sonera will join U.S.-based MCI WorldCom and 10 other groups in bidding for third-generation (3G) licenses in Germany. The auction is set to …

WASHINGTON-With the House up for grabs this fall and a slew of high-tech bills pending before Congress, the high-tech lobby is flexing its muscle on Capitol Hill and shaping the …

The European Commission is expected to issue a statement of objections to MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. over the companies’ merger plans. The EC said in February it was …

Bidders in the U.K. third-generation license auction appeared to exceed their budgets last week. Bidding for the five licenses totaled an eye-popping $35 billion, and the auction will linger on …

Wireless resellers are a hardy breed. Their success or failure teeters on the shoulders of carriers that tightly control the supply of the product they need to survive. Whether warranted …

WASHINGTON-While the mobile-phone industry knew from the start it faced an uphill battle to convince the U.S. government to embrace a multiband spectrum harmonization approach for third-generation technology at next …

The Federal Communications Commission has approved 35 bidders to participate in this Wednesday’s auction of licenses for the 39 GHz band. The 39 GHz band is located at 38.6-40 GHz. …

WASHINGTON-With a U.S.-Cuban custody battle and U.S.-China trade dominating business in the nation’s capital these days, the question arises: What are the prospects for future U.S.-Cuban telecom trade? The answer …