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ST. LOUIS-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Amdocs announced a global alliance reseller agreement under which Amdocs will resell and support the Sun platform. Under terms of the agreement, Amdocs’ Ensemble customer-care …

WASHINGTON-Outgoing National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving said he will launch a start-up Internet firm and open a consulting practice here, but downplayed suggestions he would use his …

WASHINGTON-Six House members last week sent a letter to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging consideration of a bill recently passed by the House …

AirTouch Cellular plans to unveil a new version of its calling party pays service later this month. AirTouch will launch the new service first in Colorado, followed by rollouts in …

NEW ORLEANS-The bankruptcies of certain C-block and mobile satellite companies, coupled with mutual fund outflows, rising interest rates and other macro-economic trends, have aligned like planets in a bad omen …

When voice paging carrier Conxus Communications Inc. shut off its network in the closing days of August, many wondered what would happen to the nearly 80,000 customers stranded in the …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week told the House of Representatives’ top telecommunications lawmaker, Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), that a letter signed by the FCC general counsel does …

WASHINGTON-The Association of American Railroads again urged federal regulators to lift the licensing freeze on private multiple address system applications and not auction fixed wireless frequencies internally used by railroads, …

WASHINGTON-Rep. George Gekas (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law, last week said the schools and libraries Internet program is possibly wasting taxpayer dollars on …

LOS ANGELES-The Los Angeles Police Department said it completed the installation of the infrastructure for its new mobile data communications system-Motorola Inc.’s $21.6 million 800 MHz Private DataTAC mobile data …

WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday approved President Clinton’s nomination of Gregory Rohde to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The nomination now goes to the Senate floor for consideration. …

SAN DIEGO-Sprint PCS said it selected Qualcomm CDMA Technologies to provide infrastructure for trials of third-generation wireless technology based on the 3G Code Division Multiple Access 1x multicarrier mode of …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. said Philips Consumer Communications has licensed the UP.Browser microbrowser software for its line of Global System for Mobile communications wireless phones. Philips said it expects to …

NEW YORK-Illuminet Holdings Inc., which calls itself the largest unaffiliated Signaling System 7 network provider in the country, plans an initial public offering of 3.9 million shares priced between $14.50 …

SAN FRANCISCO-Saraide.-com Inc. announced it has formed partnerships with Critical Path Inc. and EDS. Critical Path provides business-to-business messaging solutions. Its partnership with Saraide.com is designed to deliver Internet messaging …

WASHINGTON-The wireless 911 bill, once assumed a sure bet for congressional approval this year, has hit snags over liability, privacy and other issues that threaten passage of the legislation in …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-APiON Ltd., a Wireless Application Protocol infrastructure provider, and Symmetry Communications Inc., which provides General Packet Radio System equipment, announced that have cooperated to demonstrate WAP-GPRS interworking. The …

A photo accompanying a story about tower siting in Rock Creek Park in the Sept. 27 issue of RCR (Page 25) was an illustration and not the actual proposed tower …

Tower company SpectraSite Communications Inc. last week began the process of shedding its in-house site acquisition and zoning capabilities. Stephen Clark, chairman and chief executive officer of the company, told …

WASHINGTON-Amid rumors of congressional fatigue with the thought of reforming the Federal Communications Commission, the agency’s chairman last week said reform efforts are going forward. “This effort is real. It …

Speculation that BellSouth Wireless Data Ltd. would not immediately renew its supply contract with Research In Motion Ltd. has proven accurate, expected to result in lower third-quarter earnings for RIM. …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is urging lawmakers and regulators to maintain the “hands off the ‘Net” approach. “The communications industry continues to boom … Deployment of broadband will be crucial …

The wireless industry has yet another trade show under its belt. It’s time to sit back and take a deep breath before all hell breaks loose in preparation for the …

WASHINGTON-In a victory for the wireless industry and a blow to free-speech advocates, a federal court here has revived a high-profile cell-phone eavesdropping lawsuit by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) against …

While the bankruptcies of Iridium L.L.C. and ICO Global Communications have cast doubt on the mobile satellite services market, fixed satellite services provider Teledesic L.L.C. believes it may find a …