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Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT …

Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects. In the last year alone, at least half …

The battle continues at the Federal Communications Commission over whether a waiver of the airborne cellular rule granted to AirCell Inc. is proper. Louisville, Colo.-based AirCell has proposed an air-to-ground …

Tensions ran high at the International Telecommunication Union two-week meeting on third-generation technology in Fortaleza, Brazil, as the industry waits for an agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson on …

In the last two weeks alone, Crown Castle International Corp. has more than doubled its tower portfolio in the United States and United Kingdom, securing a top position for itself …

While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 “the year of wireless data,” few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year. In 1998, …

Polson on target regarding public’s RF perception Thank you for Peter Polson’s excellent article “Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation,” Feb. 8 in RCR. I agree that there …

NEW YORK-As wireless telecommunications heads into the new frontier of electronic commerce, service providers must answer a question posed by an old British rock song: “I really want to know, …

Crown Castle International Corp. sealed its second deal to manage a large wireless carrier’s tower portfolio with last week’s announcement that BellSouth Corp. is selling 1,850 towers to the company …

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with VeriFone Inc., a division of Hewlett-Packard Co., to develop wireless point-of-sale solutions. The two said they …

Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld and laptop computers to the Atlanta, …

In what may be the beginning of a trend, BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Paging Network Inc. entered into a strategic alliance last week under which PageNet will resell BellSouth’s …

Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.’s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial …

Called one of the largest deployments of mobile computing technology to date, BellSouth Corp. introduced a new, $163 million mobile computing platform created to give its 15,000 service technicians access …

NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector announced it entered into a software alliance agreement with Cerulean Technology Inc. in an effort to beef up its wireless information …

NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. launched a prepaid wireless service called Passport, which it said is the first in the United States to permit calls from any wireless phone to …

WASHINGTON-In an embarrassing political blunder that lends insight into the tricky third-generation wireless debate, Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.) last week joined two fellow Finance Committee members in urging the Clinton …

Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years. When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about …

WASHINGTON-Thomas Wheeler, the president and chief executive of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, does not want to enter the ‘holy war’ between local and long-distance companies. Rather, he wants to …

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-A study conducted by Solomon-Wolff Associates showed AT&T Corp. has the highest level of satisfaction among the three largest long-distance companies. The study reported that among Internet users, …

When BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced its Interactive Paging service at PCS ’98 last year, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing Janet Boudris said she expected financial applications to be …

Representatives from BellSouth Corp., AirTouch Communications Inc. and GTE Corp. last week met with Federal Communications Commission representatives to discuss AirCell Inc.’s petition for a waiver of the airborne cellular …

NEW YORK-w-Trade announced its Wireless Internet Trading System now supports both the Research In Motion Inter@ctive 950 handheld wireless device, as well as those on Palm Computing Inc.’s platform, such …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it is offering Nettech Systems’ Smart IP product over its wireless data network. Smart IP allows Internet Protocol applications to run over non-IP-based wireless …