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Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. …

WASHINGTON-Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), ranking minority member of the Governmental Affairs Committee, called for a congressional investigation into whether mobile phones pose a health risk to the nation’s 80 million …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) were thwarted last week in their attempts to attach language to the FCC spending bill that would allow the government to …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Six cellular phone companies, including a consortium led by South Africa’s MTN, have been prequalified by Kenya’s Communications Commission to bid for a second mobile phone license in …

GTE Wireless has taken an aggressive approach to combating fraud in its markets, an initiative that has resulted in an 83-percent reduction in fraud losses during the last two years. …

HONG KONG-Paging subscriber numbers continue to fall in Hong Kong, while the popularity of cellular keeps rising as stiff competition among the six cellular carriers drives down tariffs close to …

NEW YORK-Citigroup and Sonera Ltd. announced last week they are taking an undisclosed ownership stake in 724 Solutions, a Canadian software company that is hardly a household name but could …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week rejected a telecommunications industry proposal to use a product-line approach to make telecom products accessible to the estimated 54 million Americans with disabilities. The …

DUBLIN, Ireland-One of the most common complaints from telecommunications companies competing with former monopoly operators is cross-subsidization by the incumbent, particularly in countries where the incumbent also controls a major …

ATLANTA-Southern LINC, the digital wireless communications services arm of energy company Southern Co., announced plans to offer a suite of wireless data and Internet services beginning this fall. Southern LINC, …

In recent months, several alliances and partnerships have been formed among paging carriers that traditionally have been fierce competitors. But both analysts and carriers say this new teamwork in no …

U.S. Global System for Mobile communications carriers took a financial beating in 1998, but analysts expect 1999 to look brighter for these carriers as they look to butter up their …

WASHINGTON-Notwithstanding the Federal Communications Commission’s findings last week that the rollout of advanced technologies is “reasonable and timely,” Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), chairman of the Senate communications subcommittee, plans to …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. reported fourth-quarter revenues of $137.9 million, an increase of 5.4 percent from third-quarter 1998, revenues of $130.8 million and a decrease of 28.5 percent from …

Teklogix Teklogix introduced the Teklogix 9150 Wireless Gateway, which features dual Personal Computer Memory Card International Association radio card slots that help it support mixed radio configurations. The 9150 allows …

WASHINGTON-A Government Accounting Office report says the U.S. Postal Service has “put on hold” plans to expand an antenna-siting program, which could have significant impacts on efforts to get antenna-siting …

NEW YORK-Panafon, the largest cellular carrier in Greece, raised $2.42 billion Nov. 20 in a global public stock offering of 26.9 million shares. Additionally, France Telecom Mobile International, the overseas …

Dueling high-tech agendas In coming years, the debate for control of the nation’s high-tech policy agenda will become as fierce, and perhaps as important, as any in official Washington. Given …

American Tower Corp. last week bolstered its leading position among independent tower companies when it announced plans to acquire TeleCom Towers L.L.C. and OmniAmerica Inc., the latter considered a major …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc., a provider of chipsets, software and intellectual property to the wireless industry, said it received investments from two venture capital firms. Boston-based Greylock and Lucent Venture …

NEW YORK-If telecommunications companies worked in a vacuum, they would probably be well fortified against the Year 2000 electronics bug that threatens to hobble microprocessor-reliant equipment. Wireless networks that are …

SONY Sony Electronics’ Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides …

Lucent Technologies Inc. said scientists at its Bell Labs research and development arm have developed a technology that could boost capacity of some wireless links by a multiple of 10 …

Qualcomm to spinoff Leap SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced a record date of Sept. 11 for the proposed spinoff of Leap Wireless International Inc. The board declared a one-share dividend of …

LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc.’s stock began trading on the OTC Bulletin Board late last month, after it was delisted from the Nasdaq National Market May 11 for non-compliance with rules …