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NEW YORK-Conventional wisdom may hold that scale is superior when it comes to carriers and miniaturization is most desirable when it comes to handsets. However, neither attribute necessarily implies long-term …

NEW YORK-By the tenor of their top executives’ flirtatious banter Nov. 2, WinStar Communications Inc. appears to be an amorous suitor to a somewhat hesitant Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. “Spectrum …

The recent stock market volatility has created uncertainty among investors, leading to a rather steep slide in wireless stock value, say financial analysts following the wireless industry. Paging stocks have …

Continuing his vision to build a worldwide telecom powerhouse, Craig McCaw and his gaggle of companies have agreed to share the cost of building Level 3 Communications’ national fiber optic …

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp., a subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell Inc., filed an amendment to its registration statement related to the initial public offering of Convergys shares. The amended statement proposes to sell …

NEW YORK-Even if telecommunications giants seeking to combine with each other clear the myriad hurdles confronting their plans, the success of their bids to merge may depend ultimately on approval …

Second-tier wireless companies are hot properties, helping to push wireless stock prices past the Standard &Poor’s index. Centennial Cellular Corp. earlier this month became the third second-tier cellular carrier to …

DENVER, United States-Personal Communications Services (PCS) carriers have made significant inroads into the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry, weakening the entrenched cellular carriers’ net additions and driving down airtime prices. The …

NEW YORK-And now let’s have a round of applause for top executives of Arch Communications Group Inc., Paging Network Inc. and SkyTel Corp. These successful emigres from wireless telephony have …

MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Dolphin Telecom plc, raised about $700 million in financing it plans to use to deploy enhanced specialized mobile radio networks …

They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of …

Nth Dimension Corp. this month launched a Web site designed to assist consumers in selecting wireless products and services. The site, Wireless Dimension, provides information for the 25 largest U.S. …

The wireless telecommunications industry has grown up more quickly than many other industries in the United States. The industry likes to boast of its relatively quick acceptance in the marketplace, …

A new niche segment of the wireless industry-build-to-suit-is attracting a lot of attention, both from carriers and Wall Street. The idea behind the build-to-suit concept is to shift all aspects …

NEW YORK-“The challenge for the paging industry is to reinvent itself so it can become a free cash-flow business, to put the brakes on capital expenditures and drive up revenues …

NEW YORK-The merger spree in the paging industry during the past few years currently is at a lull, but acquisition activity is not over by any means. “Among the top …

PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a $500 million three-year exclusive contract to supply personal communications services equipment and services for the next phase of its network development. …

AT&T Corp. admitted it might sell its Wireless Messaging Division-without actually confirming that the paging unit is indeed up for sale-after rumors surfaced that the paging network was on the …

With 1997 drawing to a close, the paging industry is readying itself to go out with a bang. Whether the achievement of the carrier, reseller or distributor, fourth-quarter sales traditionally …

NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications carriers have placed high hopes on high-yield debt to help finance their early and intensive capital needs, and the junk bond market has shown some willingness to …

Since the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, it seems rarely a week goes by without the announcement-or rumor-of another blockbuster telecom deal. The recent flurry of merger and acquisition …

NEW YORK-Chase Telecommunications Inc., a C-block personal communications services carrier waiting for favorable stock market conditions before going public, was expected to place privately last week a $125 million debt …

NEW YORK-The continued expansion of commercially available new wireless services is extremely important to the future success in public capital raising for the entire sector, said Norman C. Frost, Jr., …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. filed an amended S-1 registration statement Feb. 3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission in hopes of jumpstarting its halted initial public offering that had been planned …

Tele-Communications Inc. said the tracking stock it is creating for its holding in Sprint Spectrum L.P. is designed to raise cash, and shouldn’t be seen as a sign that TCI …