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Cable & Wireless Inc. has signed a cellular resale agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, one of the first steps in introducing its own branded wireless service package into the …

Enhanced services deliver greater convenience, mobility and security to cellular customers, but how much value these “value-adds” provide carriers is uncertain. Depending on the sophistication and expandability of the platform, …

WASHINGTON-Even before the Federal Communications Commission voted last week to solicit comments regarding the possibility of taking back UHF broadcast channels 60 through 69, the National Association of Broadcasters let …

WASHINGTON-Could there be such as thing as spectrum pollution? That’s a question federal regulators are now pondering. While it has not been established that a problem exists, the Federal Communications …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Fractal Antenna Systems Inc. said it is offering an antenna for wireless phones that is much smaller than conventional antennas but just as powerful. Fractals are geometric patterns …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. has entered into a three-year agreement to resell Motorola Inc.’s line of data frame relay access devices, or FRADS, which convert local area network and other data …

The Clinton administration on Friday threatened to impose trade sanctions on Korea for blocking access to that country’s telecommunications market. “I do not intend to use the full one-year negotiating …

E.F. Johnson Co. has signed a $3.6 million contract to build a trunked radio system for Campanhia Energetica de Minas Gerias (CEMIG), an electrical power generation and distribution company in …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has been assisting the RITT Research Institute of Telecommunications, within China’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, to establish an internetwork communications protocol as China’s …

SAN DIEGO-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cirrus Logic Inc., announced it has signed a reseller agreement with Retix to provide personal Air Communications Technology narrowband personal …

PageMart Inc. has appointed Richard Nelson president of the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International. Nelson, formerly vice president of marketing for PageMart, will focus his efforts on extending the …

PLAYA DEL REY, Calif.-PortaCom Wireless Inc. announced Asian American Telecommunications Corp. has completed a total of $25 million in financing for its telecommunications joint venture in Sichuan province, China. The …

MORRISTOWN, Tenn.-Advanced Communications announced it is now offering Racepage alphanumeric racing information service to paging carriers and resellers. Previously, Racepage only was available to subscribers of Advanced Communications’ paging service, …

The government of Romania pushed the tender deadline for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses back by two months, doubled the price for the licenses and formed a special …

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HIGHTSTOWN, N.J.-Systems/Link Corp. announced it has upgraded its most successful products and services, including FraudTec, RoamEx and Home & Roam Metered Cellular Service, for use by personal communications services-only dual-mode …

FORT WORTH, Texas- Uniden America Corp. licensed Motorola Inc.’s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol, the first manufacturing company to license the technology for advanced messaging devices, announced Motorola’s Messaging Systems Products …

SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. said it will not proceed with its proposed public offering of common stock. “Our decision not to proceed with the stock offering is based on …

Champion Communication Services Inc. is pursuing a trunking strategy to bring enhanced capabilities to its network of community repeaters-a wide area dispatch technology that has been around since the 1970s. …

Nearly 1,000 people gathered Wednesday, July 24 to celebrate the life of Crain Communications Chairman Emeritus Gertrude Ramsay Crain at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Mrs. Crain, 85, passed away …

The commissioner in charge of competition for the European Union told an audience recently that while there has been a “dramatic breakthrough” in the liberalization of telecommunications, many things have …

NUREMBERG, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. has received a contract from Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet GmbH to provide the German phone operator with base stations for one of the largest nationwide German mobile …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.’s net income for the second quarter increased 58 percent to $61.2 million, or 12 cents per share, from $38.7 million, or 8 cents per share, for …

WASHINGTON-A newly authorized low-power radio service in the 216-217 MHz band will accommodate planned short-range communications devices for the hearing impaired, health-care telemetry services and stolen-merchandise tracking by public-safety entities. …

ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. said it is introducing local cellular service in south Florida including Miami. The announcement comes on the heels of MCI’s recent cellular service introductions in Atlanta, Detroit …