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WASHINGTON-The law firm of Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, which earlier this year took control of an $800 million mobile phone-brain cancer lawsuit, has joined forces with attorneys in a …

NEW YORK-Rural carriers, with operating histories often many decades old, appear poised at the forefront of the strategy for long-term growth based on bundled or converged services. Seeking to be …

WASHINGTON-A Blue Ribbon panel released a report last week that called for the telecommunications excise tax to be used to fund universal service. “A current excise tax on telecommunications services, …

I’ve seen the future and it is m-commerce. M is for money, isn’t it? Money or mobile, same thing, different pronunciation. At Accenture’s Global Communications Forum last week in Miami …

It’s all about connecting. The notion that telecommunications exists to connect people is no longer a simple yet catchy idea, but an obvious cliche that does little to sell communications …

ATLANTA-Online Yellow Pages provider BellSouth RealPages.com will offer consumer access to its Southeastern U.S. directory listing on Web-enabled phones through Yahoo! Yellow Pages. BellSouth said the deal will allow wireless …

AWR Applied Wave Research appointed Ronald Patston as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining AWR, Patston held several positions in various companies in the wireless and EDA industry including …

WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission having reaffirmed last month that state courts are not prohibited under the telecom act from awarding monetary damages in lawsuits against wireless carriers, the mobile-phone …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Complying with an agreement signed between the two major political parties, the Uruguayan Congress approved the sale of up to 40 percent of Ancel, the state cellular telephony …

It was the wild, wild West of wireless history. After the breakup of AT&T, in which the company lost its cellular business, the Federal Communications Commission began allocating cellular licenses …

WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Duane Ackerman told reporters at the Precursor Group annual conference that the country’s third-largest local telephone company had no plans to cut its …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Early in 2001, several countries in South America have changed their tariff schemes with the objective of reducing the existing gap between the cost of fixed calls and …

DENVER, United States-While some countries in Latin America are moving forward with advanced wireless networks, Central American nations are not likely to see commercial next-generation systems any time soon. Mass-market …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A year after the launch of mobile Internet services in South America, almost all the cellular telephony operators are offering Internet services, although exclusively in the major cities …

As technologies duel and markets discriminate, the impression is growing that TDMA will roll over in the dust trail and exhaust fumes of GSM and CDMA as both whistle past …

WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra time to deploy enhanced 911 Phase …

WASHINGTON-A Georgia man last week filed lawsuit against mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and others, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. The mobile-phone-cancer lawsuit is the latest in a …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission again plans to review the cap that limits the amount of spectrum wireless carriers can control to 45 megahertz in urban areas and 55 megahertz in …

Early expectations of the wireless Internet sweeping the country have suffered the realities of the limitations the service offers in comparison to the wired Web. While the number of wirelessly …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported a 33-percent increase in domestic wireless revenue from the fourth quarter of 1999 to $1.2 billion, including its 40-percent stake in Cingular. Net income from domestic wireless …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-Cingular Interactive, formerly BellSouth Wireless Data, ended 2000 with more than 570,000 subscribers to its nationwide data network, compared with more than 200,000 subscribers at the end of 1999. …

SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. reported continued strong growth in data services and contributions from Cingular Wireless, its wireless joint venture with BellSouth Corp., combined to increase fourth quarter 2000 revenues …

It has been less than 20 years since the first commercial cellular phone call was completed in the United States. The date was Oct. 13, 1983. Bob Barnett, then president …

With celebrity endorsements becoming common in advertisements for wireless carriers, Cingular Wireless knew it needed a recognizable figure to kick off the advertising campaign promoting its nationwide service. The country’s …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-In a move that could further i-mode’s push into Europe, Telecom Italia Mobile said it will jointly develop and introduce a new mobile Internet concept for the pan-European …