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The specialized mobile radio industry is quickly becoming a fractured market divided between the traditional small SMR carriers, which are focused on providing dispatch services to customers at reasonable prices, …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Although Alltel last week announced it will sell 20 of its personal communications services licenses to Verizon Wireless, it will keep another 42 licenses. The company also plans …

Food and atmosphere are generally what attract people to restaurants, but soon wireless Internet connectivity may help restaurant owners draw in the dinner crowd. MobileStar Network Corp. in Richardson, Texas, …

SAN DIEGO-Integrated circuits producer Philips Semiconductors formed a strategic alliance with Widcomm Inc. to speed up the development of its Bluetooth wireless technology products and to provide customers with a …

VIENNA, Austria-Europe’s fifth auction of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses ended after less than two days of bidding. All six participants gained licenses to operate UMTS systems in Austria, drawing …

Not one operator around the world has rolled out third-generation services yet, but discussion of fourth-generation technology is already under way. An industry that began offering a basic communications tool …

NEW YORK-Loral Space & Communications today reported its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended Sept. 30. Loral’s bookings before intercompany and affiliate eliminations for the quarter …

TOKYO-Japan’s National Police Agency on 1 November started distributing photo files and detailed information about 25 selected wanted suspects through the i-mode service. NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode users now can see …

Arch Wireless Inc. reported a third-quarter net loss of $66.2 million, or $1 per share, compared with $68.2 million, or $1.42 per share, reported for the last third-quarter period. Arch …

MUNICH, Germany-Blue Impact AG, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with CellPoint’s location platform …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. released two new carrier-class solutions for delivering virtual private network services. The solutions, from the company’s Carrier Networks Business, are media independent and can be delivered …

NEW YORK-It is all too easy to get “starry eyed” about the prospects for new generations of wireless services. As a counterpoint, a reality check is required about deployment and …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Sprint PCS awarded a contract to Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector to provide the company with CDMA equipment through interoperability specifications and third-generation cdma2000 1x packet data. …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Russian company RadioTel said it will test a Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) trunking network in the St. Petersburg area, using Motorola equipment for infrastructure and terminals. Motorola estimated the …

Wal-Mart’s 1,000 stores nationwide will begin carrying disposable zinc-air cell phone batteries from Electric Fuel Corp. in time for the holiday shopping season. Each battery offers at least six hours …

Arch Wireless Inc. and Paging Network Inc. announced the completion of their merger Friday, creating the largest paging carrier in North America and adding a significant two-way wireless data player …

The evolution of the Symbian initiative advanced last week as the company held its first developers conference in London, supporting the release of version 6.0 of its open software platform …

Over the past several weeks, Sprint PCS has rolled out several additions to its Wireless Web service designed to target the consumer market, particularly teen users. In the last month, …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Slovakian operator Globtel prefers a “beauty contest” process of licensing the country’s third-generation (3G) licenses. Eva Forraiova-Guttlerova, the company’s public relations manager, said the beauty contest system is more …

NEW YORK-Wireless interactive marketing company SkyGo Inc. announced it completed the first phase of its market research study in Boulder, Colo., and has more than 1,000 consumer participants. The study …

Attempting to slash its debt load by as much as $14 billion and boost sales, which have fallen by as much as 50 percent this year, British Telecommunications plc announced …

TOKYO-Matsushita Communication Industrial announced a new company in the Czech Republic to manufacture mobile phones and car audio equipment. The company will begin production in October 2001. Matsushita, which markets …

NEW YORK-Transmeta Corp. and its Crusoe line of processors received enthusiastic applause from investors as the San Francisco company went public Nov. 7. The 13 million share initial public offering, …

TOKYO-Seven regional companies of KDDI Group on 1 November merged to form a new company called “au.” KDDI decided to merge these regional companies to better compete with giant NTT …

GIVATAYIM, Israel-Under a signed agreement, Nexus Telocation North America and Xypoint Corp. made their first steps toward creating a working relationship to deploy location-based services globally. Nexus said it hopes …