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NIXA, Mo.-Applied Cellular Technology Inc. acquired ATI Communications of Bethel Park, Pa. The acquisition was announced in June and completed Oct. 15, although Aug. 31 will be the effective accounting …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS has closed two vendor credit agreements and a bank credit agreement to be used for Sprint’s nationwide personal communications services network. The vendor credit agreements-a $1.8 …

Motorola Inc.’s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network in the Philippines. Motorola said the …

NEW YORK-Fraud fighter Coral Systems Inc. plans to go public in an offering that could raise more than $20 million. Coral, which provides client-server software to help wireless carriers reduce …

DUBLIN, Ireland-The GSM MoU Association is interested in creating a multiband WorldPhone that operates at 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz. “Global roaming is the cornerstone of GSM’s success,” …

J.D. Power and Associates appointed Joanne Codella its new manager of wireless services. Her responsibilities will include managing syndicated and proprietary customer satisfaction studies in the wireless industry. Codella worked …

Sixteen wireless operators have made the cut to be considered possible partners for Greece’s government telephone company. Watching the success of the country’s two private cellular providers, the government has …

Panafon SA, Athens. Global System for Mobile communications cellular system built by L.M. Ericsson. Owned by Vodafone (45 percent), France Telecom (35 percent), Data Bank of Greece (10 percent), Intracom …

NEW YORK-John R. Walter, chief executive officer of printing company R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., will assume the presidency of AT&T Corp. Nov. 1, AT&T’s Chairman and CEO Robert E. …

NEW YORK-Audiovox Corp. will seek shareholder approval next month to exchange outstanding debt for common stock in order to improve its financial strength and meet growth objectives. Headquartered in Hauppauge, …

NEW YORK-PriCellular Wireless Corp. plans to issue $140 million in senior unsecured debt, mostly to finance its acquisition of four clustered rural cellular properties in Kentucky from Horizon Cellular Group. …

DALLAS-HighwayMaster Corp. will install 2,000 mobile communications systems in AmeriTruck Distribution Corp.’s fleets nationwide, HighwayMaster said. AmeriTruck Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lawrence said several options were considered including …

As the Clinton administration and the wireless industry reach for the stars with lofty purpose, each would be well advised to heed the call of Chicken Little: “THE SKY IS …

PCS Development Corp. has changed its name to Conxus Communications. The company believes the new name will better reflect its voice and messaging business. Conxus-pronounced connects us-plans to provide a …

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.-J.D. Power and Associates announced it will jointly produce additional studies on the wireless telecommunications market with Safco Technologies Inc., a company that deploys measurement systems and analysis …

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum’s services. PCS license winners must relocate microwave systems that currently …

When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor. AirTouch Communications Inc. said it will …

WASHINGTON-Environmentalists have teamed up with organized labor to block antenna siting and publicize alleged health risks from pocket telephones in a potent grass roots movement that could lead to litigation …

WASHINGTON-A conservative watchdog group convinced a federal judge to force the Commerce Department to turn over documents of former Secretary Ron Brown in connection with allegations that trade missions-some with …

WASHINGTON-The consensus agreement formulated earlier this year by the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, SMR Won, Nextel Communications Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association has completed Round One of the …

OCTOBER 28-29 Mergers & Acquisitions in Media and Communications, by Management Circle. The New York Helmsley, New York. (800) 338-3004. 28-29 New Paradigms in Telecommunications Research & Development: Rapidly Bringing …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group and Radiomensaje, an Argentina-based national and regional paging service provider, signed an agreement to expand Radiomensaje’s FLEX protocol-based infrastructure network. The new channel …

The wireless industry is primed to woo holiday shoppers this season to their stable of products, offering service that is inexpensive and easy to use, with no strings attached. In …

Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of …

Tektronix Inc. announced a new capability for the R3465 Modulation Spectrum Analyzer, which is made by Japan-based Advantest Corp. and marketed in North America by Tektronix. The new tool, called …