Telecom

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) has drafted spectrum auction legislation designed to rein in what has become a high-stakes wireless licensing process driven increasingly by budget forces, possibly …

Marketing may be everything. The technical properties of cellular and personal communications services-some similar, some different-balance out when vying for customers. How carriers decide to exploit technical advantages to win …

NEW YORK-“Why pay for cellular phone service if you only want it for emergency use?” That’s the advertising slogan and the business concept for SOS Wireless Communications Inc., an Irvine, …

Competition began in earnest last week in Singapore when the nation’s second operator launched service. To try to ensure even more competition, the government announced it expects to call for …

NEW YORK-In a most serious transaction notwithstanding its April 1 announcement date, SBC Communications Inc. became the proud parent of Pacific Telesis Group in a $16.5 billion merger said to …

“This is a fight for the total telecommunication system, and we’re not going to play defense,” said John E. Rooney from his new office as president of Ameritech Consumer Services. …