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WASHINGTON-An uncertain wireless industry realignment could be in store as a result of Justice Department’s rejection last week of the WorldCom Inc.-Sprint Corp. merger and new legislation forbidding foreign government …

NEW YORK-SBC Wireless hopes to take a bite out of the Big Apple as one part of a territorial and services expansion plan accompanying combining its wireless operations with those …

The Federal Communications Commission received comments from wireless operators over its tentative decision to allow large carriers to bid in the re-auction of C- and F-block personal communications services spectrum. …

Alcatel. Benin. With Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT) for a GSM network, along with fiber-optic and switching equipment. Value: US$32.8 million Kenya. With KenCell for a 50,000-subscriber capacity GSM …

Argentina Millicom International Cellular (MIC) launched phase one of it service rollout in the Buenos Aires area. Millicom Argentina also will provide wireless Internet services to the country’s most populated …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-For Movicom BellSouth and CTI M

PARIS-SnapTrack Inc. said an international consortium of Global System for Mobile communications wireless carriers and equipment manufacturers are preparing to evaluate SnapTrack’s Wireless Assisted Global Positioning System technology, which provides …

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission decision last week that is largely favorable to the paging industry has led one local telephone company to threaten to sue. “Requiring local service providers to …

AT&T Wireless Group announced it entered agreements with Verizon Wireless to acquire wireless systems in San Diego, San Francisco and Houston for approximately $3.3 billion. “This is a critical move …

DALLAS-BellSouth Mobility DCS signed Nortel Networks Corp. to a three-year, $200 million equipment and services agreement to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network in the southeastern United States. …

ATLANTA-After first entering the Colombian wireless market just last month and in line with its aggressive Latin American expansion strategy, BellSouth Corp. announced it increased its stake in operator Celumovil. …

OpenGrid Wireless Internet solutions provider OpenGrid Inc. appointed Gary Rhea to the position of chief financial officer. Rhea will oversee the company’s financial activities, including treasury, accounting, business planning and …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-BellSouth Mobility said it plans to deploy up to 56 Ericsson Datacom Inc. AXC 627 Tigris Access Servers in 28 of its mobile switching centers. The servers, part of …

WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America will make unionization of wireless workers a priority when negotiations begin in two weeks on a new collective bargaining agreement with Bell Atlantic Corp., a …

NEW YORK-WebLink Wireless Inc., Dallas, will target teen-agers and twenty-somethings with a two-way messaging and e-mail service it plans to debut this summer. Subscribers who sign a year-long service contract …

OmniSky OmniSky Corp., a provider of wireless Internet services for handheld computing devices, named five new people to its executive management team. Lawrence Winkler is the company’s new senior vice …

IPmobile Wireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will …

LONDON-France Telecom is expected to make a $45 billion cash and stock bid for Orange plc early next week, according to international press reports. The French telecom company is reported …

Whatever you do, don’t tell John Beletic he’s running a paging network. “We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. will acquire a 33.8-percent stake in Celumovil SA, a wireless communications provider in eastern and Atlantic regions of Colombia, for $295 million. Celumovil’s coverage area in Colombia includes …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry received a stinging rebuke Thursday about its lack of action on a Federal Communications Commission item that could increase the amount of money wireless customers pay into …

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support. Sybase created iAnywhere Solutions Inc. to …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-BellSouth Corp. said it acquired 16.5 percent of the total capital of Brazilian cellular operator Tele Centro Oeste Cellular for $229 million, bringing the number of its Brazilian …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility introduced “BellSouth Rollover,” a new calling plan that will let customers keep their unused monthly minutes. “When a customer buys a package of minutes one month, they shouldn’t …

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with KPN Telecom, acquiring 15 percent of the voting rights in a newly formed holding company called KPN Mobile N.V. …