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Motorola Inc. said the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium elevated its Cellular Subscriber Sector from general member to board member of the organization. UWCC represents 106 telecommunications carriers and vendors to …

Wireless carriers that bill for services through local phone companies may be affected by cramming, the latest consumer billing scam to hit the telecommunications industry. Cramming is when customers are …

NEW YORK-Instead of viewing paging as a dying industry, wireless telephony providers should recognize it as a service enhancement and growth catalyst, said Andrew Weisheit, vice president of the carrier …

Many wireless carriers last week participated in Wireless Safety Week by encouraging subscribers to help out in emergency situations and use their wireless phones responsibly while driving. Carriers used everything …

Metawave Metawave Communications Corp. appointed Scot B. Jarvis to its board of directors. Jarvis helped build McCaw Cellular Communications cellular business through aggressive acquisitions of cellular licenses. During his nine …

SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. last week announced a stock-for-stock merger agreement valued at about $62 billion that would give the combined company a local and wireless presence in …

The number of digital wireless subscribers is expected to increase rapidly this year as more cellular carriers begin to push digital service aggressively. While many cellular carriers last year offered …

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Cerulean Technology Inc. and BellSouth Wireless Data teamed up to give public-safety agencies access to BellSouth’s nationwide wireless data network using Cerulean’s PacketCluster Patrol software, BellSouth said. PacketCluster software …

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, …

ATLANTA-A consortium led by BellSouth Corp. and Grupo Safra were scheduled to begin offering cellular service today in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Construction on the Time Division Multiple Access network was …

WASHINGTON-Members of the House Commerce Committee last month urged the Federal Communications Commission to delay or eliminate the requirement that commercial mobile radio service providers implement local number portability (LNP) …

LAS VEGAS-General Magic Inc. said it plans to begin commercially offering July 30 its integrated voice and data virtual assistant network service via local, regional and national value-added resellers. The …

WASHINGTON-GTE Corp. filed a private antitrust lawsuit at a U.S. federal district court here last week in an attempt to block the planned $38 billion merger of WorldCom Inc. and …

Trying to compete with satellite-industry giants, Celsat America Inc., a small, domestic player in the mobile satellite services arena, filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission opposing the allocation of …

DALLAS-“It’s an exciting time in the industry. It’s a time of growth and rebirth.” So said Konstantin Zsigo, president of Zsigo Wireless Data Inc., at the opening session of Wireless …

Conductus Inc. announced two agreements providing up to $4.5 million in financing to support the commercialization of its new ClearSite wireless products next year. Conductus also said it concluded the …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The 1998 Eugene C. Bowler award was presented to David Siddall, legal adviser to Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness at the Personal Communications Industry Association’s Eighth Annual Eugene C. …

Midway through this year’s legislative session, many states have considered and passed bills to provide a cost-recovery mechanism for wireless carriers deploying enhanced 911 systems. Phase I of the Federal …

Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market. But mobile data network …

NEW YORK-The California State Board of Equalization decided April 30 to postpone voting until at least late June on a permanent extension of the state sales taxes to wireless devices …

BellSouth Cellular Corp. signed an agreement with PageMart Wireless Inc., which will allow the cellular carrier to add paging to a mix of bundled services it plans to offer. Under …

ARGENTINA U.S.-based DSC Communications Corp. announced it signed an agreement with Movicom to deliver and deploy its CTC421 Intelligent Digital Trunk Optimizer for expanding the carrier’s network capacity. BOLIVIA SR …

A movement is slowly growing toward developing a wireless handset that can operate around the world, though few carriers seem to be taking interest at this point. The Modular Multifunction …

Personal communications services carrier BellSouth Mobility DCS said it is offering an enhanced voice-mail service called RapidReply to customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia. With the new …

NEW YORK-Triton PCS Inc., a startup Time Division Multiple Access carrier based in Malvern, Pa., was expected to sell privately late last week its first debt issue, which comprises $300 …