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DALLAS-A logo has been introduced by PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. that the company intends to use later this year in 11 of its U.S. wireless markets. The red image, done …

California Microwave Inc. has appointed Dennis Raney executive vice president and chief financial officer. Raney brings 26 years of broad financial experience, including international operations, financial planning, information systems and …

PLAYA DEL REY, CALIF.PORT ACOM WIRELESS INC. ANNOUNCED IT HAS NEGOTIATED A BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF UP TO $6.1 MILLION SPECIAL WARRANTS AT $3.30 PER SPE CIAL WARRANT FOR AGGREGATE …

WASHINGTON-The dust has settled only slightly since the bidding for C-block personal communications services licenses ended May 6 after 184 rounds strung out over 4 1/2 months. The entrepreneurial block …

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileComm, a paging and wireless messaging services provider, and Premiere Technologies, an integrator of information and telecommunications services, announced plans to cross market each other’s services. MobileComm said …

Qualcomm Inc. announced the availability of a single-chip vocodor that utilizes PureVoice, the latest version of the 13 kilobit Qualcomm Code Excited Linear Predictive speech coding algorithm. PureVoice was developed …

DALLAS-ProNet Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Georgialina Communications Co. and affiliates for about $11.6 million. The company …

WASHINGTON-The spectrum reform draft bill unveiled by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) last week would privatize much of the nation’s airwaves, a fundamental deregulatory policy shift that combined …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place in February by the city council …

Telular Corp. said it is emerging from its restructuring “lean and focused,” in spite of the $12.4 million in one-time charges it cost the company to accomplish the changes. Telular …

The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable. “It’s all ones and zeros now, so you have to be …

Editor’s Note: The cities listed here represent the 20 largest cellular markets in the United States. Ranking is based on the total number of subscribers in each Metropolitan Statistical Area. …

WASHINGTON-The near collapse of free trade telecommunication talks in Geneva last month has raised concerns in Congress, and could provide the spark for legislation next year to further open the …

Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced it has granted a license to operate its wireless messaging system over 2 MHz in the 900 UHF to Eden, a fully owned subsidiary of …

To the Editor: I am appalled by the unprincipled attack on the WTR carried in last Monday’s issue of RCR. The unverified story was replete with untruths, half-truths, misinformation, innuendo …

You may never need, or want, to leave your car once it is equipped with an in-vehicle navigation and communications system. Hitting the market this year are a handful of …

Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services licensees have based their access technology …

NEW YORK-For Coherent Communications Systems Inc. of Leesburg, Va., the new digital arrivals on the wireless communications scene represent a golden opportunity for its echo cancellation technologies. Digital cellular communications …

The MCI One initial package that includes one-number service, free long distance, Internet services and a calling card is offered for $4.95 a month, not $34.95 as stated in RCR’s …

WASHINGTON-According to a public service announcement aired nationwide in conjunction with National Wireless Safety Week, “Rescue 911” host William Shatner pointed out that more than 50,000 emergency calls are made …

Dear Editor: Your article in Monday’s RCR is a great disappointment in which you misled your readers. Somehow you have turned a story about differences in opinion between CTIA and …

As it was pointed out to me time and time again during the aftermath of last week’s C-block broadband personal communications services auction, in every game there are winners and …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission announced it has agreed to reduce bid withdrawal penalties faced by Atlanta Trunking and MAP Wireless, bidders in the recent 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction. …

It was one book in Alighieri Dante’s 14th century classic Divine Comedy trilogy that inspired the name for Lucent Technologies Inc.’s new software program, Inferno. The technology behind Inferno will …

Who are these guys? It’s a question that has popped into my mind repeatedly after 20-plus years as a journalist now covering the wireless communications field. I can’t compete with …