1997

DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched its PrimeTravel service, which allows subscribers to roam throughout the nation using dual-mode/dual-band handsets manufactured by Sony Corp. The company also announced it has implemented …

CAMARILLO, Calif.-AML Communications Inc. announced it received orders, totaling about $1.8 million, for cellular infrastructure equipment from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and an original equipment manufacturer serving the South American …

CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., announced plans to sell to AirTouch Communications Inc. its minority interests in the cellular systems serving Seattle …

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee, claiming its probe of the Federal Communications Commission’s relocation to The Portals is being deliberately thwarted, is considering subpoenaing the Portals developer who paid $1 million …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will kick up the pace of the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio services auction tomorrow to 24 rounds per day in another effort to bring the …

WATERTOWN, Conn.-MTX Paging Products L.L.C. announced it has selected Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc.’s SkyTel subsidiary as the exclusive service provider for its new Beepwear pager watch. MTX is a joint …

WARREN, N.J.-AirTouch Cellular plans to replace its wireless network infrastructure in seven U.S. markets with Lucent Technologies Inc.’s digital wireless platform, announced the companies. AirTouch said it will install Lucent’s …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have aligned to produce a guide to help federal land managers work with the wireless industry in …

ATLANTA-Powertel Inc. launched its Global System for Mobile communications personal communications services network in Atlanta, bringing to 22 the number of metropolitan areas and major highway corridors in which the …

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Services Inc. and Western Wireless Corp. signed a contract to jointly operate networks in three Kansas basic trading areas, and to offer the service under Western’s …

WASHINGTON-As prospects grow that the Jan. 1 start date of the global telecom free trade pact will be delayed, the United States is coming under fire by the European Union …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has reached an agreement in principle to provide pagers and paging services to more than 660 OfficeMax Inc. retail locations nationwide. The arrangement is aimed …

One big-name credit-card company believes it can help accomplish every wireless carrier’s objective: to gain brand recognition, target high-end users, simplify billing, reduce churn and perhaps entice customers to spend …

Brazil edged nearer to its stated goal of liberalizing its telecom industry when the Canadian-Brazilian consortium Americel S.A. became the first private mobile phone operator to compete against the state-owned …

WASHINGTON-Russia, over U.S. objections, was expected to charge Qualcomm Inc.’s Richard Bliss with espionage on Friday amid new revelations that the 29-year-old field technician reportedly admitted to illegally bringing satellite …

KUALA LUMPUR-The U.S. Commercial Service in Malaysia said Telekom Malaysia Berhad is inviting U.S. telecom firms to take part in a tender for the supply, delivery, installation, testing and commission …

CHICAGO-Gertrude R. Crain, the late chairman of Crain Communications Inc., has been named as one of three new inductees into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Fame, where she …

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. now covers the entire South American continent after signing a service license agreement with Damos SudAmerica S.A. Orbcomm, a provider of global low-earth-orbit satellite data and …

The Personal Communications Industry Association and a coalition of alphanumeric paging dispatchers have filed petitions to either stay or reconsider, respectively, the Federal Communication Commission’s Pay Telephone Compensation Remand Order. …

MONTREAL-More than 1,000 customers signed up on the first day of Bell Canada International’s launch of a new mobile cellular network Jinan, the capital of the Chinese province of Shandong. …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS is offering its customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia the Nokia 9000 Communicator, a digital wireless handset capable of sending faxes, accessing the Internet, …

L.M. Ericsson signed two joint venture agreements to produce equipment in Russia. The pacts were established in conjunction with Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s recent visit to Sweden. Under the first …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Northern Telecom Inc. introduced an integrated text messaging system that simultaneously sends text to both wireless and wireline text-message compatible phones. Nortel demonstrated the system at the Code Division …

SEOUL, Korea-Responding to the recent turmoil in Korea’s economy, Samsung Group said it will reorganize management-making cuts in all Korea-based business units-refocus investments on core growth businesses and cut costs …

AT&T Corp. admitted it might sell its Wireless Messaging Division-without actually confirming that the paging unit is indeed up for sale-after rumors surfaced that the paging network was on the …