WASHINGTON-While the Communications Workers of America succeeded in winning concessions that make it easier to organize wireless workers at Verizon Communications-the nation's largest mobile phone and local telephone company-the prospect for widespread wireless unionization is challenged by a confluence of forces that conspire against...
Telus Corp. offered to acquire all the shares of Clearnet Communications Inc. for $4.48 billion, creating a daunting competitor in Canada's tight wireless market.Under terms of the offer, Telus will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Clearnet for $47.48 per share. Clearnet shareholders...
Maybe it was an oversight, but in his diatribe against Corporate America at the Democratic National Convention that spewed venom at Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Polluters and Big Pharmaceuticals, Al Gore left out Big Telecom. Oops.Truth is, while Big Oil has a special...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
In the next three to eight months, U.S. wireless carriers will upgrade their HDML-based wireless Internet servers to full WAP compliance, meaning they will support WML technology native in both the network and in new WAP-compliant phones.The result is a greater array of handsets...
WASHINGTON-Union employees at Verizon Communications, the parent company of Verizon Wireless, remained on strike at RCR's deadline Friday afternoon with both sides refusing to say when the strike might end.Whether the key issue of easing efforts at union organizing of wireless employees has been...
WASHINGTON-Despite splashy headlines of multibillion dollar telecom deals, wild dot-com stock swings on Wall Street and all the hot-button digital issues that have GOP and Democratic policy-makers crawling over each other to champion, it is virtually impossible to distinguish the high-tech policies of Republicans...
WASHINGTON-The Baltimore law firm that earlier this month filed a mobile-phone cancer lawsuit against several wireless firms and two industry trade associations is expected to file additional lawsuits as early as this week, according to sources. The lawsuits could be filed in Georgia and...
WASHINGTON-With an Aug. 31 deadline looming, a Texas state commission has asked the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in assisting them to compel wireless carriers to deploy enhanced 911 Phase I services.Under Phase I, a call-back number and cell-site information is delivered to a...
A long list of investors led by J.P. Morgan Capital Corp., FirstCall Telephone Corp. and the management team from former operator Triton Cellular Partners have formed a new wireless carrier.BGV PCS Acquisition Co. L.L.C. has acquired PCS licenses in Chicago and Cincinnati from Verizon...
The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge of wireless outside voice.Everyone-from...
WASHINGTON-While Verizon Communications workers strike in part to make it easier for its wireless workers to join unions, union issues have been largely settled at other companies.Before its workers began striking Aug. 6, Verizon Communications said it did not believe it was in a...
WASHINGTON-Whether Verizon Wireless employees can join a union was a key topic that may have led to a strike by Verizon Communications employees as of midnight Aug. 6.The Communications Workers of America released a statement late last week noting none of its issues had...
NEW YORK-Amid the clutter of conflicting and shifting capital market indicators, the outlook for companies in any sector related to wireless telecommunications nevertheless appears positive.The daily whipsawing of the Nasdaq, where the stocks of many high technology companies trade, may obscure but does not...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications, formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., has begun an intense national advertising campaign touting the Verizon name to customers and the general public.In addition, Verizon said it will begin a 12- to 18-month effort to change...
WASHINGTON-Novatel Wireless Inc., which makes the Minstrel wireless data modem line, filed for a $105 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Novatel makes the Minstrel V modem used in the OmniSky wireless data solution for the Palm V personal digital assistant,...
BALTIMORE-Maryland doctor Chris Newman, 41, filed an $800 million lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court claiming his wireless phone caused a malignant tumor behind his right ear.The tumor was discovered in March 1998.The lawsuit, first reported by Jeffrey Silva in the July 31 issue...
Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission.Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers' networks, while carriers battled that effort, coming up with a concession that would end mandatory reselling two years from...
WASHINGTON-A top-flight Baltimore law firm is expected to file a lawsuit this week claiming a malignant brain tumor diagnosed in a 42-year-old male neurologist was caused by heavy and long-term mobile-phone use.The lawsuit, likely to be filed in a Washington-Baltimore area court, is being...
WASHINGTON-While international attention is focused on Deutsche Telekom AG's $50.3 billion bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and the fireworks it has set off in Congress, merger and acquisition activity in the coming months is expected to be dominated by smaller wireless transactions as large...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. signed a five-year contract for billing and customer-care systems with Verizon Wireless.Convergys, which has pre-existing relationships with Bell Atlantic Corp., Vodafone AirTouch plc and GTE Corp., said it will provide its client/server billing solution, which performs real-time rating and supports customer care...
WASHINGTON-Cellular carriers have mounted an all-out assault on the Federal Communications Commission to get more spectrum."Spectrum is the `life blood' of wireless services. But not all radio-frequency spectrum is equally useful or suitable. Spectrum-management policies determine the `rule of the game;' that is, who...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer two-way short messaging service later this year, giving the carrier a more seamless data offering with its affiliates.AT&T Wireless offers SMS service today and relaunched its PocketNet service, based on Cellular Digital Packet Data service, earlier...
Wireless carriers spend billions of dollars on spectrum to support the latest high-speed wireless applications that are designed to change the way the world communicates. Knowing they can't provide that potential to end users without the proper infrastructure, companies are also spending a little...
