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NEW YORK-The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is engaged in a monumental juggling act with significant implications for levies on telecommunications in general, judging by comments at its two-day hearing …

Portals have a hidden agenda to capture the wireless e-commerce market. Carriers had better beware. Greek mythology chronicles the fall of the once-prosperous city of Troy, misled by the promise …

Bell Atlantic Mobile purchased six 10-megahertz personal communications services licenses from Rivgam Communications L.L.C. to increase voice capacity and prepare for the onslaught of high-speed data applications. The cellular operator …

U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data …

WASHINGTON-A recent agreement by giant wireline telcos about how to reduce the charges long-distance companies pay to local exchange carriers to connect their customers’ calls may end up costing the …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced new pricing plans last week that could build on the success of the carrier’s Digital One Rate plan by adding more phones into the home. …

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.-Wynd Communications Inc. announced it has completed the beta testing of its AAA Emergency Roadside Service for deaf and hard of hearing users, and said the service …

Ericsson Inc. said last week its displacement from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as the majority vendor hurt the company and conceded part of the reason it lost AT&T Wireless contracts …

BANGALORE, India-Foreign investors are reconsidering their investments in India, with press reports naming several European and U.S. companies lining up to back out of operations there. Swisscom, the Switzerland-based telecommunications …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-PCS arrived in South America a year ago, and various signs already point to its success. Already, one PCS operator in Chile has surpassed the number of subscribers …

Aether Systems Inc. announced it will acquire mobeo Inc., a company that provides financial news and stock updates on wireless devices such as pagers. Formerly called DocuPro Inc., mobeo delivers …

ATLANTA-BellSouth International Wireless Services launched BellSouth Net eXchange, a Web-based interface that facilitates the upload and download of customer data files, said the company. BellSouth Net eXchange can transfer encrypted …

SAO PAULO-Brazilian cellular operator Telesp Cellular S.A., operating in the state and city of Sao Paulo, announced today it launched a new prepaid product, “Peg & Fale,” designed to meet …

The paging industry made further progress toward implementing content services last week, as both Motorola Inc. and Arch Communications Group Inc. introduced products and services targeting the space. Arch said …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has thrown out recently changed rules on how telecommunications carriers use information about their customers. The court issued the ruling as the wireless industry celebrated the …

The Ginger Media Group, owners of U.K.-based Virgin Radio, is collaborating with L.M. Ericsson in early trials of wireless third-generation technology that would allow local or national radio stations to …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life …

The economy is rolling along, wireless subscriber additions are climbing and merger and acquisition activity is heating up. This is good news for the personal communications services industry, which last …

Analysts have long criticized operator-assisted dispatch as the weak link in the alphanumeric paging chain, citing its inherent lack of privacy and potential for misinterpreted messages. But users have accepted …

A Baltimore-based company called reachNET introduced a wireless messaging solution that provides a direct connection between a wireless device and the telephone teletype machines commonly used by the deaf and …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. began offering residential and small business customers a suite of communications products and services on one bill, including Internet access, wireless, paging and local phone service with calling …

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced it filed a preliminary prospectus supplement covering up to 5 million shares, worth approximately $115 million, of its common stock owned by Robert and Barbara …

NEW YORK-w-Trade Technologies Inc., which developed the w-Trade wireless trading system, introduced a new product called w-Bank. Much like the way w-Trade allows brokerages to offer wireless access to their …

AirCell Inc. received favorable decisions from the Federal Communications Commission that will enable it to move forward with its air-to-ground communications system, targeted for use by general aviation aircraft and …

Coherent The Coherent original equipment manufacturer division of Tellabs launched a complete design verification kit for its CEC-128 Integrated Echo Canceller multichip module. The kit consists of a CEC-128 plug-in …