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The recession enveloping Colombia is having strong effects on the wireless industry. Cellular carriers, in particular, saw first-half 1999 losses and declining user numbers. And the future will include competition …

All is well in the telecom world. The Dow Jones average is topping 11,000 points, wireless customers are signing up for new services right and left, and the wireless pie …

A recent survey by the Lucas Group found that telecom professionals are looking for more balance between their work and home life. “The top reason candidates seek a job change …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Caribbean governments appear more serious recently about breaking the monopoly stranglehold Cable & Wireless plc has on more than a dozen countries in the region. Ministers responsible for tele-communications …

NEW YORK-Poland is making an able attempt to “keep up with the Joneses,” the leading industrialized nations it joined two years ago as a member of the Organization for Economic …

NEW YORK-“The Asian crisis is overstated; the real problem is Japan,” said Joseph W. Duncan, chief economic adviser to The Dun & Bradstreet Corp., Murray Hill, N.J. “The other countries …

NEW YORK-In its five-year history, Sales Staffers International Inc., Andover, Mass., has carved an unusual niche in the broader market of outsourced services for large corporations. Companies like AT&T Corp., …

Bell Canada International Inc. said it will acquire 29 percent of South Korean personal communications services operator Hansol PCS Co. Ltd. for $180 million. Hansol is one of three PCS …

WASHINGTON-The Indonesian government agreed last week to privatize state-owned telecommunications as part of a new, $43 billion rescue package negotiated with the International Monetary Fund. Last week’s accord, the third …

WASHINGTON-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume last week predicted “widespread boycotts” of major wireless firms that are found to have poor records of hiring and promoting African Americans. The Economic Reciprocity Initiative, …

NEW YORK-Twenty years ago, her parents-both civil servants-gave Rosanne M. Cahn, chief economist of equities for Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, a cartoon she said aptly describes her profession. …

If you don’t believe in the new global economy, you probably aren’t in the market. Last week’s free fall in Hong Kong stock prices triggered a ripple effect worldwide. The …

It’s not been a good week or so for the Morris’, Dick and Phillip, that is. Their futures are nebulous, perhaps up in smoke. Probably not the end-game either had …

Question: When is a federal employee deemed “excepted” or “unexcepted?” Answer: Apparently, when there is money involved. During last November’s first partial budget-related government shutdown that lasted six days, the …