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NEW YORK-It was just this year that the camel’s nose of wireless intelligent networks appeared under the mobile communications’ tent, and it is not expected to rise to its full …

Financial analysts continued their wait-and-see attitude toward Paging Network Inc. as the company released second-quarter earnings. In contrast, Arch Communications Group Inc. completed its merger with MobileMedia Corp. in the …

Spotcast Communications Inc., Silver Spring, Md., is billing itself as the world’s first provider of localized, advertisement-sponsored mobile communications. The company recently completed a beta test with its first carrier …

MCLEAN, Va.-Nineteen network service providers and telecommunications companies, including Amdocs, Andersen Consulting, Convergys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Portal Software and Sun Microsystems Inc., have formed a working group to develop a …

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. said it entered into and outsourcing agreement with Ameritech Mobile Communications Inc. to provide a complete suite of customer care and billing solutions to Ameritech through Sept. 30, …

NEW YORK-Since the launch of carrier competition in the duopoly wireless market, third-party distributors have had to work hard to manage increasingly complex distribution issues. Carriers, meanwhile, are dealing with …

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry has come out against the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to impose truth-in-billing rules on commercial mobile radio service carriers. Additionally, both long-distance carriers and local exchange carriers …

BOULDER, Colo.-SignalSoft Corp., a software developer focused on the wireless location market, found high consumer demand for wireless location services in two market research studies the company conducted. The studies …

Alltel Corp. said it signed an integration agreement with Intecom Systems under which Alltel Information Systems will fully integrate Intecom’s applications into its customer-care and billing system to provide converged …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Savera Systems Inc. said Tango, the Global System for Mobile communications provider in Luxembourg, is incorporating the Savera RealTime Prepaid Billing system into its Pronto prepaid wireless service …

NEW YORK-Heading into a scorcher of an Independence Day holiday, American stock markets closed in record-setting territory, thereby heating up the prospects for wireless sector companies seeking financing during the …

As the paging industry continues its transformation to narrowband personal communications services and engages in high-level consolidation, some have questioned the fate of the smaller, mom-and-pop paging carriers. In an …

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular announced the national rollout of BillTracker, an electronic billing solution that provides multi-service line and multi-account business customers with immediate access to monthly billing information, and enables them …

Primal Systems Inc., a provider of customer management products, introduced a new product to its suite of e-business solutions, called WebCare, last week at Billing ’99 in Dallas. Designed to …

ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. expanded its Fraud Management product offering by adding two new products-Sleuth and Integrity+, said the company. Sleuth is a software system that provides control and detection of …

Latin America Cellular/personal communications services handset shipments to Latin America showed a significant technology shift from analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service to digital Time Division Multiple Access technology during the …

MONTE CARLO, Monaco-Seemingly lost in the breakneck expansion of the cellular industry is a largely forgotten fact-it was cellular operators wanting a common digital voice standard that drove the rapid …

MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic U.S. carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by …

Handsets Kyocera Kyocera plans to begin marketing at the end of July in Japan its VP-210 VisualPhone, a PHS phone with a built-in camera that can transmit and receive images …

In response to wireless customers’ demands that they be able to use their cellular phones outside their home calling area, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in the United States decided …

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it acquired Saville Systems plc, a worldwide provider of customer-care and billing software solutions. Under terms of the agreement, each ordinary share of Saville will be …

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it is teaming with IBM Corp. to market and deliver billing and subscriber management solutions for the wireless industry. The alliance provides carriers with billing and subscriber …

Scandinavian Softline to license WAP HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavian Softline Technology has agreed to license Nokia Corp.’s Wireless Application Protocol technology to deliver value-added data solutions for wireless carriers. SST has developed …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. said it has established a new branch office in New Delhi, India. The office is a branch of LHS Asia Pacific based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “The …

WASHINGTON-To the delight of the wireless industry, the Federal Communications Commission last week declared that if and when calling-party-pays service is authorized, it will be a nationwide optional service. It …