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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. changed its name to OmniAmerica Inc. and now trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under a new ticker symbol, XMIT. The company was formed in April …

Northern Telecom Ltd. last week said it plans to lay off 3,500 employees, or about 4 percent of its work force. Shares of Nortel on the New York Stock Exchange …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. entered the fraud-detection and prevention market with its new product offering called SuperSleuth, which combines neural network-based technologies with more traditional rules-based detection techniques to help prevent …

MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian Liberal government has been forced to abandon plans to fully privatize Telstra Corp. in the face of a threatened revolt by members of its coalition partner, the …

Nextel 220 License Acquisition Co. and Intek License Acquisition Corp. appear to be in a fierce bidding battle for licenses in the 220 MHz (220-222 MHz) band. Nextel had expected …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-U.S. chip manufacturers endorsed a compromise legislative plan regarding Year 2000 disclosure issues that provides liability protection to encourage businesses to share problem-solving information about Y2K problems and …

JERSEY CITY, N.J.-Sports-Ticker announced it renewed its license with the National Football League, allowing it to deliver in-progress game updates to its new organization subscribers. SportsTicker is a real-time sports …

AKRON, Ohio-Best Buy awarded Telxon Corp. a contract valued at about $4 million to install mobile computers, portable printers and spread-spectrum wireless networks in its more than 300 retail stores, …

WASHINGTON-The newly installed chairman of the Telecommunications Industry Association also is the head of a company with a product and a position on implementing the digital wiretap act that differs …

NEW YORK-Gearing up for next-generation wireless, Texas Instruments has developed a digital signal processor that is able to execute 2,000 millions of instructions per second. “Two thousand MIPS is 10 …

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced it received a letter of intent from a top 10 cellular carrier for a supply agreement of up to 200 of STI’s SuperFilter Systems …

Seventy years ago, the mobile radio industry was born when the Detroit Police Department installed the first one-way radios in their squad cars. Today there are approximately 19 million two-way …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Watkins-Johnson Co. said weak orders for semiconductor capital equipment is the primary reason for a planned restructuring of its operations that would reduce its global work force by …

To the Editor: Federal Communications Commission Chairman William E. Kennard included in his recent, defensive letter to RCR (Aug. 24) the statement: “The commission’s overarching mandate is to act on …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard vowed to support telecommunications development in Africa, a continent with emerging markets that is looking to wireless technology to leapfrog into the 21st century. …

Applied Cellular Technology Inc.’s board of directors approved a strategic plan aimed at growing its earnings per share by 20 percent that calls for the divestiture of non-core business units …

LOS ANGELES-The presenters and performing artists at the 15th annual MTV Video Music Awards each were given a Body Glove CellSuit phone case for the Motorola StarTAC phone, said GoNeo …

EVANSTON, Ill.-A $600,000 grant from Motorola Inc. will fund research in wireless multimedia devices and protocols design in a new Northwestern-Motorola Center for Telecommunications in Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick …

NEW YORK-Orbcomm USA L.P., Dulles, Va., a provider of low-earth-orbit satellite-based data and messaging communications, announced Sept. 10 it has signed reseller agreements with three companies serving different industrial sectors. …

IRVING, Texas-Nokia Mobile Phones announced the Telecoil-a hearing-aid compatible accessory designed to provide improved communications for the hearing impaired. The new product works with Nokia 5100 or 6100 digital wireless …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications demonstrated its High Speed Circuit Switched Data technology on a Global System for Mobile communications network, which boosted data speeds from current 9.6 kilobits per second to …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. was awarded a three-year $4 million contract to supply Wireless II L.L.C. with switching and base station equipment that will provide fixed and mobile telephone service using …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Northern Telecom Ltd. recently was awarded a contract valued at more than $40 million to provide equipment for the third expansion of Chunghwa Telecom’s 900 MHz Global System for …

WASHINGTON-A Kansas state law creating the Kansas Universal Service Fund discriminates against wireless carriers and should be pre-empted, the wireless industry told the Federal Communications Commission earlier this month. For …

BELLEVUE, Washington-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. launched commercial services on its new metropolitan area network in Seattle and the surrounding areas, following an eight-week service test by more than 20 business. …