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The newest arrival in one of cellular’s newest markets-prepaid-is Go Wireless International Ltd., led by an entrepreneur banking his dollars on consumers with damaged credit. The company is venturing new …

While Motorola Inc.’s FLEX paging technology begins to dash across the globe, POCSAG remains the de facto standard in the international paging world, said Ann Lynch, an analyst with the …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java Software Platform and Java Powered chips into its future telephones for residential, enterprise and wireless applications. Java is an Internet …

LG Information & Communications Ltd. of South Korea is wagering its hand in the U.S. personal communications services market with plans to begin large scale PCS technology and equipment manufacturing …

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening signed legislation to strengthen the hand of law enforcement officials in cracking down on wireless telephone fraud by clarifying that it is a crime to …

WASHINGTON-At a time when Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. is scraping for cash to determine whether pocket telephones pose a potential public health risk, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is pumping …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it has completed the installation of five Modular Voice Processing Systems for Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile’s cellular subscribers in North and South Carolina and Virginia. …

Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of Westlink Holdings Inc. The acquisition expands Arch’s operations to a total of 38 states and 90 of the largest …

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 …

The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there. Earlier this year, Indonesia’s government gave …

Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development this year. A total of 34 …

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 …

NEW YORK-Mentor Graphics Corp. plans this summer to begin selling a new generation of electronic design automation software, developed with Nokia Corp., that officials of both companies say will dramatically …

New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from “cheap beeps” to “paging on steroids.” Alphanumeric paging, the …

Another handset manufacturer saw its company stock drop then slowly rise again following the release of a quarterly report with stagnant earnings. It’s the continuation of a process that began …

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Corp. announced a major expansion of Bell Atlantic All@once Solutions, a business approach that helps organizations deal with the increasing complexities of meeting their information technology …

WASHINGTON – Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) said he wants legislation this year to streamline rules governing the relocation of microwave users from the 2 GHz band to higher frequencies that …

WASHINGTON-Wireless Telecommunications Bureau deputy chief Ralph Haller, characterized by former Federal Communications Commission colleague James McKinney as “just a simple country boy from the wheat fields of Kansas,” accepted this …

Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced it has sold $22.5 million of its cumulative convertible accruing pay in kind preferred stock to a group of investors. The buyers include Chase Securities …

NEW YORK-One of the independent companies left out of the merger between Cellular Communications Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. is considering its options, including sale of the company. Cellular Communications …

SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week’s CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about 600 people from 40 countries. Motorola …

PHOENIX-Cellexis International Inc. dismissed its $525 million trade secret lawsuit against GTE Corp., its subsidiaries and Open Development Corp. The company sued GTE and ODC in April claiming theft of …

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 …

WASHINGTON-The United States and China are on the verge of a trade war that could hurt the wireless telecommunications industry’s ability to expand into one of the world’s fastest growing-and …

A cellular carrier loses the equivalent of its entire customer base in three to five years, say industry estimates. Not only does churn amount to missed revenue, but increasing industry …