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• States take creative approach to E911 deployment. (Focus: E911).

  - 2002-06-24

  WASHINGTON--While the Federal Communications Commission turns its attention to enforcing the wireless enhanced 911-buildout schedule, some states are doing more to foster the buildout by encouraging deployment and educating their residents about the differences between wireline and wireless E91 1, and some states are...

  Tags: carrier, E911, FCC, Government, Indiana, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• VoiceStream can provide priority access.

  - 2002-04-08

  WASHINGTON--The Federal Communications Commission last week granted a waiver to VoiceStream Wireless Corp. to provide wireless priority access service to local, state and federal officials in the nation's capital and New York. The waiver will expire on Dec. 31 or sooner if...

  Tags: FCC, Government, VoiceStream Wireless, waiver, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• FCC Grants Priority Access Waiver

  - 2002-04-04

  Priority wireless access for government officials is important enough to avoid delaying a pilot program by VoiceStream Wireless until after the carrier and its technology vendors offer priority access precisely how the Federal Communications Commission wants it. The FCC on Wednesday said it will allow VoiceStream, a unit of...

  Tags: FCC, Government, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• VoiceStream Announces Voice Enabled Blackberry and PC Data Card Available

  - 2002-03-04

  Business Editors & Technology Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 4, 2002 Global Wireless Data to be National Master Dealer as Customers GET MORE options for Nationwide High-Speed Data Access VoiceStream Wireless announces the availability of the BlackBerry 5810TM wireless handheld email solution with Integrated Phone and the...

  Tags: E-mail, Handhelds, HARDWARE, network, PC Data Online, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• VoiceStream pushes priority access. (News).(Brief Article)

  - 2002-02-25

  In a filing with the FCC, VoiceStream Wireless Corp. says it is in final negotiations with the National Communications System, a group of federal agencies responsible for emergency communications, to enable wireless priority access in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The GSM community in the...

  Tags: FCC, FINANCE, Government, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Merger Gets Final Green Light.(Company Business and Marketing)

  - 2001-05-07

  WASHINGTON--German wireless behemoth Deutsche Telekom got the final OK from U.S. officials last week to buy out VoiceStream Wireless and Powertel Inc., even as a powerful lawmaker vowed to try to scale back the deal. The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, which...

  Tags: Deutsche Telekom AG, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, marketing, merger, U.S., U.S. Senate, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• VoiceStream Wireless Announces Receiving FCC Approval of VoiceStream, Deutsche Telekom, and Powertel Mergers

  - 2001-04-25

  Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 25, 2001 FCC Approval of License Transfers Represents Important Milestone for VoiceStream/Deutsche Telekom Merger that will Bring More Wireless Competition and Service to American Consumers and Businesses Today, VoiceStream Wireless Corp. (NASDAQ:VSTR) announced that the Federal Communications Commission FCC...

  Tags: Deutsche Telekom AG, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, merger, PowerTel, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Wireless in Alaska - Company Business and Marketing

  - 2001-03-19

  A tiny company teams up with a corporate giant to get a chunk of spectrum. But in the partnership between Alaska Native Wireless and AT&T Wireless, who should be thanking whom? FLOYD PETERSON HAS LIVED HIS entire life in Hoonah, on Chichagof Island in remote southeast Alaska. A native...

  Tags: Alaska, AT&T Wireless, auction, FCC, marketing, Peterson, shareholder, spectrum, telecommunications, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Hollings' Measure Nixed From Spending Bill.(Government Activity)

  - 2000-10-30

  WASHINGTON--While efforts to block German government-controlled Deutsche Telekom's acquisition of VoiceStream Wireless are far from over, Congress appears to have taken a pass this round. A rider, introduced by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) to bar foreign governments from gobbling up U.S...

  Tags: Government, NETWORKING, SOFTWARE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, U.S. Congress, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• `Tear Down This Wall'.(Company Business and Marketing)

  - 2000-07-31

  Deutsche Telekom's proposed $50+ billion merger with VoiceStream Wireless backed the two carriers against the Wall Street last week, with both issues trading significantly lower. But the self-protective reaction of stockholders--some of them skeptical about the common sense of a high price-per-share transaction--was an ineffectual...

  Tags: carrier, Deutsche Telekom AG, Government, marketing, NETWORKING, telecommunications, Telephony, U.S., U.S. Congress, VoiceStream Wireless, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS