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AT&T Corp. also told analysts it plans to push a calling party pays program for its wireless customers, as well as a dual-band, dual-mode handset with extended battery time. AT&T …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Lotus Development Corp. have teamed up to provide wireless access to Lotus Notes with AT&T PocketNet phones and service. Lotus planned to demonstrate how …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp.’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement last week was notable both for what the company said about its recent past and about its plans for the near future. The country’s …

Since before she was born, I have wondered what I want my daughter to be when she grows up. After dismissing college professor (too snooty), doctor (too time-consuming), and president …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has signed another deal with a wireless company in its quest to fill in the missing links of its nationwide digital wireless network. The company …

WASHINGTON-Cellular Concepts Inc., one of Cellular One of Washington/Baltimore’s largest dealers in the Washington, D.C., area, filed a lawsuit against the carrier Jan. 29 in Montgomery County (Md.) District Court, …

SINGAPORE-At the initial launch of dual-band services in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore and Taiwan reached the starting line simultaneously. Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte. Ltd. on Jan. 20 launched dual-band service between …

While the personal communications services industry is characterized as up and running, a host of PCS carriers have yet to launch service, raising questions about whether they will survive in …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced that its joint venture in Taiwan, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd., launched its dual-band wireless communications service in Taiwan. The Global System for Mobile …

AT&T Corp. is expected to announce to analysts today its operating strategy for the year that will include as many as 19,000 layoffs, management restructuring and the integration of its …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service assigned a speculative grade rating of B1 to a $130 million bank credit facility that Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp. obtained to finance operating losses and …

NEW YORK – Price Communications Corp. announced its new subsidiary, Price Communications Wireless – formerly Palmer Wireless – poster 19,296 net subscriber additions during the fourth quarter, bringing its total …

NEW YORK-Some interesting twists are ahead on the road to roaming for personal communications services carriers as they seek to emulate their cellular counterparts, which reap between 15 percent and …

Brazil Microwave radio equipment manufacturer Harris Corp. announced plans to open a plant during the second quarter in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to its manufacturing operations, the new facility …

Overall wireless pricing has decreased between 6.1 percent and 10 percent in the United States since September, said Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C.’s latest pricing survey. “This relatively low price decrease is …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has begun streamlining its operations nationwide, eliminating engineering and operations positions. Sprint PCS spokesman Tom Murphy said the reorganization reflects the company’s move from building out new …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. is poised to begin a technical trial in Las Vegas of what it describes as the first F-block personal communications services network built to date. The company …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp., New York, announced it will acquire Teleport Communications Group in a stock swap transaction valued at about $12 billion, based on AT&T’s current stock price. The acquisition …

Many companies that provide anti-cloning products to analog cellular network operators are gearing up for the takeover of digital-based service in the coming years and are waiting to capitalize on …

The effects of Bell Nino, which jumped on the radar screen in Wichita Falls, Texas, New Year’s Eve, are being felt in the nation’s capital. The Bells and U.S. District …

NEW YORK-Cue Corp. entered into a strategic alliance to provide its regional and nationwide FM subcarrier messaging service to the new Clarion Corp. of America AutoPC, a platform using Microsoft …

NEW YORK-SBC Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. won their legal challenge to the constitutionality of part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The carriers had asked Judge Joe …

The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access …

CARLSBAD, Calif.-Patrick Stephenson, a principal of Houston-based Cellular 99, bought the cellular reseller, C99 Prepaid Cellular Telephone, from Global Venture Funding Inc., both parties announced. C99, a reseller offering prepaid …

NEW YORK-Promotional activity revved into high gear during the critical December holiday season, which accounts for about 40 percent of carriers’ yearly gross customer additions, according to an informal but …