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AT&T Corp. formally named Alex Mandl president and chief operating officer of the new AT&T and a member of the company’s board of directors. Mandl has headed the company’s long-distance …

NEW YORK – With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on an upward trajectory in competitive urban …

Memphis, Tenn.-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent for a secondary underwriting with Barron Chase Securities of Boca Raton, Fla. Chadmoore said the offering, …

Two divisions in AT&T Corp.’s systems and technology company last week unveiled a communications system the company said will provide customers wireless phone access in the office or on a …

Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is expected to be first to offer commercial personal communications services in Canada, launching in at least two cities by September, predicts the Yankee Group, a Boston-based …

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to …

The cellular industry has taken numerous steps to package cellular for the mass consumer retail market, but a small gap remains between the industry’s effort and the complicated process to …

WASHINGTON-With the idea of wireless communications as a complement to traditional wireline residential and business service still fresh in the public’s mind, the move toward wireless as a purveyor of …

WASHINGTON-The recently completed summit on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket telephones was hailed a success by the wireless telecommunications industry and hearing disability advocates, but controversy simmering beneath the …

OKLAHOMA CITY-A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in the civil lawsuit filed by AT&T Wireless Services against an Oklahoma City medical supply company that provides cellular phone emulation service. AT&T received …

From the bidders’ view of the post-C-block auction landscape, not only the Goliaths but also the Davids seem likely to gain ready access to financing to construct personal communications services …

Just months after AT&T Corp. stated it would split into three separate companies, Chairman Robert Allen announced 40,000 people will be displaced or laid off during the next three years. …

WASHINGTON-Following the Nov. 29 filing of a Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit at the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, communications brokers Republic Communications Corp. and …

A cellular phone containing a scanner, into which new numbers can be programmed using the phone keypad, was just one of the sophisticated cloning devices acquired by the U.S. Secret …

WASHINGTON-The Overseas Private Investment Corp. announced $423 million of support for three telecommunications projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The projects are a wireless public telephone system in Tanzania, …

Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc., sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Labour, announced it completed a $3 million equity investment as part of a $15 million financing package with co-investors …

Happy New Year! The mark of a new year tradition ally brings resolutions for the fu ture and reflections on the past. That holds true for the wireless industry as …

Glenayre Technologies Inc. has appointed Bill Edwards vice president of sales and marketing for the Voice Systems Division. Edwards will be responsible for developing a worldwide sales and marketing plan …

WASHINGTON-While congressional Republican leaders late last week signaled problems with landmark telecommunications reform legislation, the wireless telecommunications industry declared victory after securing antenna siting, long-distance access and other provisions that …

U.S. firms were big winners in the latest round of cellular licensing in India, after watching Asian and British companies get the lion’s share of previous awards. Twenty-one licenses covering …

Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today. Thirteen bidders have made …

DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services has launched its commercial rollout of Interim Standard-136 service with a Dallas in-office system, using L.M. Ericsson microcells and Nokia Corp. handsets. The office system installed at …

IRVINE, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced it has developed and tested advanced speech coding programming that will bring high-quality voice communications to subscribers using Code Division Multiple Access personal communications …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Telecommunications Venture is expected to announce in the next two weeks its choice of equipment vendors for its personal communications services network. Northern Telecom Ltd., AT&T Corp. …

It’s the morning after. The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview …