WASHINGTON-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) today urged the General Services Administration to consider cutting ties with WorldCom Inc., potentially putting lucrative government wireline and wireless contracts in jeopardy. Collins' terse two-page letter to GSA Administrator Stephen Perry, obtained by RCR Wireless...
WASHINGTON-The inspector general of the General Services Administration is investigating WorldCom Inc.'s contracts with the federal government and may issue recommendations to Congress shortly on whether the Bush administration should continue doing business with the embattled long-distance company, according to a source familiar with...
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 turn anytime soon.However, industry players continue to offer hopeful outlooks on the future. Some...
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 when it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, expected later this year.The tentative settlement...
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 awarded what appears to be a no-bid GSM mobile-phone contract to a troubled U.S....
Wireless pioneer Craig McCaw assembled an all-star executive team to start and drive McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. in the 1980s and early 1990s. And though McCaw sold the business in 1994 for almost $12 billion to what it now AT&T Wireless Services Inc., many...
Verizon Wireless announced it will shut down its slow-speed wireless data CDPD network by December 2005, following a similar move by CDPD network operator AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The move comes as little surprise because much of the wireless industry is working to migrate to...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Paging and messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. reported a net income of $6.1 million for its first quarter on revenues of $165 million, while showing a decline in subscribers of almost half a million.The carrier, which recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Paging and messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. reported a net income of $6.1 million for its first quarter on revenues of $165 million, while showing a decline in subscribers of almost half a million.The carrier, which recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said...
BOSTON-InfoClarus, which supplies mobility solutions for enterprises, has signed an agreement to jointly market its mobility solutions for enterprises in collaboration with Skypath Networks.Skypath is a nationwide provider of wireless services via handheld devices that Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion manufacture. It has...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Paging and messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. reported a net loss for its fourth quarter of $8.3 million, down from its net loss of $191 million in the same quarter last year.Consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter totaled $182 million, a decline from...
SINGAPORE-M1, a cellular and paging carrier in Singapore, has commenced a free trial through March 31 of its new SunSurf wireless broadband service, available at 60 hot spots to consumers with portable or handheld computers using a Microsoft Inc. operating system.M1 plans to increase...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The recent docking of the Progress cargo spaceship with the International Space Station (ISS) switched off the first Russian cdma2000 network in St. Petersburg. The network has been operated by Delta Telecom since late 2002, and the space-caused problems of the carrier...
IRVINE, Calif.-Continuing their 10-year relationship, billing company Primal Solutions Inc. said it signed a new $13 million agreement with paging and messaging carrier Metrocall Inc. for customer care and billing products.The new agreement spans three years and covers professional services and software support.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Austrian operator Mobilkom Austria has awarded L.M. Ericsson a service assurance contract with an undisclosed value. The agreement will allow Mobilkom Austria to have one focus point for monitoring network and application performance, Ericsson said.The system delivered to Austria's leading wireless carrier includes...
Editor:Further to your request, I am sending a list of the countries in Europe, which have paging operations and the estimated number of users. Because the operators in Britain are members of both the U.K. Wireless Messaging Association and the European Mobile Messaging Association...
NEW YORK-America Online Inc. and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children announced the launch of AOL Amber Alerts, a service that will allow AOL members to choose to receive the alerts on missing children on their computer screens, via e-mail, mobile phones,...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C.-Hark Tower Systems announced its SecureSite SSM2000 Tower Site Monitoring and Security System, a suite of hardware, software and services to provide wireless antenna site management solutions.The system includes: the SSM-2000 Base Site Controller that monitors for problems and alerts organizations of...
WASHINGTON-The wireless market is competitive so the Federal Communications Commission should not impose exit regulations on mobile-phone carriers, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association told FCC Chairman Michael Powell on Thursday."Requiring providers to secure permission to discontinue their services, however, offers no countervailing...
WASHINGTON-There are currently more telephone numbers available for assignment to end-users than currently assigned, said the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday.There are 480 million assigned telephone numbers while 625 million telephone numbers are awaiting to be assigned, said the FCC.The FCC reported its findings...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) released mobile subscriber statistics for the first half of the year. At the end of June, China had 176.16 million mobile-phone users. The number of subscribers increased by 4.78 million in June, a bit slower than the...
BEIJING-Ningbo Bird, China's largest manufacturer of pagers, phased out its pager production this month. When the paging business was at its peak in 2000, Ningbo Bird's market share was second only to Motorola. Bird also operated paging services in 14 cities.The total number of...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-The popular short message service (SMS) traffic has compelled Indonesia's paging operators to call for government protection. Sukoyo, head of the country's radio paging association, said the protection is imperative because the continuity of radio paging services in the country is a big...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced the country had 170 million mobile subscribers and 196 million fixed-line users at the end of May.During the first five months of 2002, China added on average 5.3 million mobile and 3.4 million fixed-line users per month....
