Wireless Services

NEW YORK-The rapid growth in volume and kinds of wireless telecommunications services has created a strong ripple effect on the tower site administration sector of the industry. Independent companies that …

L.M. Ericsson announced it will deliver a Global System for Mobile communications network, valued at $77 million, to the Indian cellular operator Birla Communications Ltd. Birla Communications is a joint …

MEDINA, WASH.-A zoning commission hearing originally scheduled for May 28 in Seattle, concerning a lawsuit filed by Sprint Spectrum L.P. against the city of Medina, Wash., which charges the city’s …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. ordered more than one million of Lucent’s Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phones to be supplied during the next …

It’s quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do. That’s how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.’s …

Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want …

Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want …

CHICAGO-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems said it started authentication service in its Chicago market, which operates as Cellular One. The technology is expected to wipe out cloning fraud as it is …

The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition. According to the …

Although sizable telecom rivals in cellular, personal communications services and paging markets nationwide, AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. hold hands in the San Francisco Bay Area, where …

WASHINGTON-According to a public service announcement aired nationwide in conjunction with National Wireless Safety Week, “Rescue 911” host William Shatner pointed out that more than 50,000 emergency calls are made …

The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable. “It’s all ones and zeros now, so you have to be …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place in February by the city council …

California Microwave Inc. has appointed Dennis Raney executive vice president and chief financial officer. Raney brings 26 years of broad financial experience, including international operations, financial planning, information systems and …

NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services. “Most of the research …

Cloners beware, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are active with authentication technology-each carrier in two markets. “We’ve taken the next step from protection to prevention. It’s …

No big surprise, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s cellular equipment vendors Lucent Technologies Inc. and L.M. Ericsson were named suppliers for the company’s Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services networks, …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place in February by the city council …

Kevin Mitnick, a convicted computer hacker, recently plead guilty to charges of illegally using stolen mobile phone numbers. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina arranged the plea as part of an …

DENVER-Advantage Cellular Inc., a cellular specialty store that offers AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s cellular service, announced the opening of two licensee locations in Colorado Springs and downtown Denver. The new …

When MCI Communications Corp. asked him to build a radio tower on top of a mountain using a helicopter, 21-year-old wireless newcomer Michael Budagher said yes. Fifteen years later, his …

MCI Communications Corp. is breaking out as an early favorite in the race to market with a one-bill offering. Washington, D.C.-based MCI has launched a one-number, follow-me service that includes …

VoiceTech Communications Inc. announced it has been granted patent approval for its VoiceCue Directory Assistance Call Completion, an application that offers cellular customers fast, easy-to-use call completion from a single, …

May day, May day! Air-to-ground communications has just flattened out. That is, GTE Airfone Inc. is introducing flat rate pricing of $15 per call on any domestic call including voice, …

American Mobile Satellite Corp. is taking steps to shore up its financing after disclosing the possibility of bankruptcy in its annual Form 10-K report filed April 1 with the Securities …