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Global Mobility Systems Inc., a provider of software for enhanced services, has created a professional services group to help mobile phone operators with their business and marketing needs. The company, …

The head of Philips Consumer Communications quit last week amidst the company’s announcement it doesn’t expect to break even this year. PCC President and Chief Executive Officer Mike McTighe resigned …

Conxus Communications Inc. will begin offering its Pocketalk portable answering machine service in the Boston metropolitan area beginning Sept. 7. The launch of Boston will extend Pocketalk’s reach to 12 …

BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. marks its re-entry into the paging market this week with the commercial debut of its two-way Interactive Paging Service. The service uses the new Inter@ctive 950 …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group introduced flash-memory technology that can be used in digital signal processors operating at up to 80 million instructions per second. Lucent’s FlashDSP can be …

WIRELESS SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION AND PORTABLE BY DESIGN August 31 – September 3 Penton Media. Boston World Trade Center, Boston. (201) 393-6259. Wireless Product Development September 1-3 AiC Worldwide Inc. …

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America and Sprint PCS announced they have joined in a partnership to promote breast cancer awareness. The joint effort consists of an extensive breast-cancer-awareness campaign that includes providing …

In Chicago, where the mobile phone penetration rate is one of the highest among the nation’s most populous markets, cellular carriers Ameritech Cellular Services Inc. and SBC Wireless have made …

DALLAS-Bosch Telecom Group Inc. said its Bosch World 718 mobile phone is available throughout North America from Quintex Communications Corp. The phone provides seamless access to worldwide Global System for …

U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment during the first half of the year rose by 13.1 percent compared with last year, to more than $36.6 billion, said the Telecommunications Industry …

Tellabs Inc. and Ciena Corp. revised the exchange ratio of their proposed stock-for-stock merger from an equal exchange to a ratio of 0.8 shares of Tellabs for each outstanding share …

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc.’s Network Services Division signed agreements with Goldblatt’s and the Farmer Jack’s food-store chains to provide calling-party-pays paging services for their respective Chicago and Detroit retail locations. The …

A Japanese newspaper reported that AirTouch Communications Inc., Japan Telecom Co. and Nissan Motor Co. plan to form a joint venture next month to bid for one of three third-generation …

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Cellemetry L.L.C., which is a joint venture of NumereX Corp. and BellSouth Corp., signed agreements with two new carriers and completed the conversion of AirTouch Cellular to Cellemetry’s …

Bell Atlantic Mobile is expected to announce next month rate plans competitive with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Digital One Rate plan-a move that could trigger price wars for valuable high-end …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week announced it is creating a new membership council to represent local multipoint distribution services operators. PCIA said it plans to represent fixed, broadband …

PAOLI, Pa.-Orga Card Systems Inc. was chosen by Iowa Wireless Services L.P. to be the exclusive provider of Global System for Mobile communications smart cards for its personal communications services …

ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS ADC Telecommunications Inc. released its Soneplex management access point for Simple Network Management Protocol that allows carriers to convert the 1970s vintage TBOS signaling protocol to SNMP. Soneplex …

Mounting financial and political unrest in Russia last week escalated into a full-blown ruble disaster, drawing the country into the throes of a currency crisis that sent stock markets worldwide …

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-Rockwell Semiconductor Systems last week introduced its first chipset using Code Division Multiple Access technology. The chipset is an integrated radio-frequency subsystem for CDMA that also supports Advanced …

REDMOND, Wash.-Siemens Medical Systems’ Electromedical Systems Division will market Data Critical Corp.’s MobileView and StatView Wireless Telemedicine systems as part of a joint sales-agent agreement, said Data Critical. The wireless …

L.M. Ericsson head Sven-Christer Nilsson told the Japanese press late last week his company will continue negotiations with Qualcomm Inc. and said it is ready to reach some form of …

SAN DIEGO-SecurFone America Inc. completed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic alliance and distribution agreement with Microwave Designs International Inc., a privately held wireless engineering company, and its affiliate …

CLAREMONT, Calif.-WolfeTech Corp. and SatCon Communications Europa Ltd. formed a strategic alliance to deliver WolfeTech’s PocketGenie software to the European cellular market and to offer SatCon’s European information services to …

While satellite news of late primarily has focused on voice and data services, broadband satellite communications services are expected to play an increasingly important role in the next 10 years, …