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WIRELESS SYMPOSIUM & EXHIBITION AND PORTABLE BY DESIGN August 31 – September 3 Penton Media. Boston World Trade Center, Boston. (201) 393-6259. Wireless Product Development September 1-3 AiC Worldwide Inc. …

NEW YORK-As mergers among telecommunications giants tear around the track at breathtaking speed, it may seem that domestic deregulation, intended to promote competition, has instead achieved consolidation. However, a glance …

In the past year, paging companies have engineered a striking makeover designed to change their “look” to better meet the business style of the new millennium. Just as the parachute …

WASHINGTON-Saying he was responding to constituent complaints about non-itemized billing, Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) recently introduced legislation requiring all commercial mobile radio service providers to itemize customer bills. This itemization …

August 17-18 Alexander Resources. Marriott Courtyard Crystal City, Washington, D.C. (800) 948-8225 or (972) 818-8225. Wireless Number Portability Forum August 18 Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Westin City Center Hotel, Washington, …

Motorola Inc. said it created a new start-up services business to focus on developing and providing integrated communication and information services. The Internet and Connectivity Services Division is part of …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced its billing and customer care system was chosen as Telecom Italia Mobile’s international telecom billing solution. As a member of the Telecom Italia Group, TIM is …

MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. announced Paging Network Inc. has awarded it a three-year contract to handle all of PageNet’s reseller billing and provisioning nationwide. According to the agreement, PageNet …

Communication Solutions Inc. awarded Conductus Inc. a subcontract, valued at about $1 million, to build a multichannel wireless receiver front-end enhanced by superconductors. The Baltimore-based company plans to integrate the …

Though the wireless industry remains an employee-driven market, signs indicate the intense demand for employees domestically may be slowing as companies are becoming cost sensitive under intense competition and merger-and-acquisition …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is taking the lead on implementing wireless number portability at the same time it waits for the Federal Communications Commission to rule on its request …

Metrocall Inc. announced a two-year interactive marketing agreement with America Online, by far the country’s largest Internet online service with more than 12 million members. Under the terms of the …

With personal communications services carriers reporting average monthly churn levels about twice as high as cellular carriers, bad debt increasingly is being blamed for PCS churn problems. Some PCS carriers …

WARWICK, R.I.-Cellular One of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass., launched its digital wireless network and is offering calling plans that provide for free long-distance wireless calls throughout North America, …

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services’ electronic billing solution will be offered to the entire client base of Cincinnati Bell Information Services, which provides billing and customer-support solutions to the …

Metapath Software Corp. today introduced its Cerve Provisioning Manager 2.0, which will be commercially available during the fourth quarter. The Cerve product is a real-time provisioning platform designed to decrease …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced it won a multi-million-dollar contract from Portuguese telecom consortium Optimus to provide its billing and customer-care solution called BSCS, or Business Support and Control System. Optimus, …

Wireless Roaming 1998 July 20-23 IBC USA Conferences Inc. Annapolis Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Annapolis, Md. (508) 481-6400. 1998 XDSL ComForum July 21-22 International Engineering Consortium. Oak Brook Hills Resort Conference …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it won a $45 million order to expand the digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service network operated by Telefonica Comunicaciones Personales in central and southern Argentina. This …

The proposed combination of SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. could create a big obstacle to the implementation of calling-party-pays service in the United States. Speaking last month at a …

NEW YORK-As the telecommunications marketplace expands, billing and customer-care companies are ramping up efforts to carve out niches and compete against each other for dominance. “Fueled by changes in customer …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-BT Mobile, a paging service provider based in Leeds, United Kingdom, awarded Corsair Communications Inc. a three-year contract valued at nearly $5 million to provide it with an …

WASHINGTON-The American novelist Edith Wharton once noted the only thing that distinguishes vice from virtue is point of view. Some might say her comment is an apt description of the …

U.S. utility companies could become significant players in the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years if they can figure out the right strategy to enter the business. Analysts indicate utilities …

Lucent Technologies Inc. added several new applications to its Cooperative Innovations alliance program, which is meant to supplement Lucent-developed and -branded solutions. Lucent tests applications marketed through Cooperative Innovations for …