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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 …

Although they believe the future growth of the paging industry lies in advanced messaging, paging carriers continue to search out new ways to attract customers to traditional paging services as …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. this week signed several interconnection agreements with Bell Atlantic Corp. and a three-year bundling agreement with AnswerNet Network. The interconnection agreement provides for the delivery of local …

DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. announced a strategic relationship with 3Com Corp., designed to extend AOL e-mail to Palm Computing handheld devices. 3Com said it will bundle AOL’s new software in …

Novatel Wireless Inc. introduced the Merlin Type II Cellular Digital Packet Data modem, a wireless modem that enables data and e-mail transmission, Internet connection and corporate database access to mobile …

NEW YORK-AmTec Inc. has its home base in the Big Apple, where the money is, and its heart in the People’s Republic of China, where it believes telecommunications has the …

Sprint PCS believes it has a strong enough wireless footprint to begin aggressively targeting business users. Analysts didn’t expect the company to heavily pursue this segment until next year, but …

AT&T Corp. last week signed a definitive merger agreement with cable company MediaOne Group after cutting a deal with rival bidder Comcast Corp., which agreed not to try to outbid …

China China Telecom granted U.S.-based Cwill Telecommunications’ smart antenna technology a digital Network Access License to connect its wireless PCS-band technology for WLL to China Telecom’s phone system anywhere in …

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-Communication Intelligence Corp. announced it completed a licensing agreement with Ericsson Mobile Communications AB to bundle CIC’s Jot handwriting recognition system and QuickNotes electronic note taking solutions with …

In the first major initiative since the group formed in December, the WirelessReady Alliance held its first member meeting last week in Vancouver, where members discussed the state of the …

“To see what competitive telecommunications will look like tomorrow, look at wireless today,” read a banner at CTIA’s Wireless ’99. That’s not the way Ernest Kelly, president of the Telecommunications …

PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. introduced the Nettech Developer Suite, a bundle of all its Software Development Kits to give software developers one complete solution to wirelessly enable their applications. The …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. submitted an application on behalf of the selling stockholders to the Securities Exchange Commission to withdraw the selling stockholders’ secondary stock offering of 3.35 million shares. The …

Roaming charges and long-distance fees increasingly are becoming a thing of the past as one-rate plans like the one AT&T Wireless Services Inc. offers take over the domestic wireless market. …

NORCROSS, Ga.-Atomic Software Inc. announced it entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement with GTE Wireless to provide a GTE-branded version of its Authorizer for Windows 95/98/NT electronic payment software. …

Bundling continues to push forward, albeit at a slow pace. A recent Arthur Andersen survey of telecommunications companies found 66 percent of respondents offer bundled services to business customers, and …

Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. is offering high-speed Internet services to businesses in the Phoenix metropolitan area. More than 25 companies in the Phoenix area have signed contracts with ART. The …

NEW YORK-Taking the pulse of the domestic cellular and personal communications services sectors as 1998 drew to a close, securities analysts from three major investment banks offered a positive prognosis …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. announced it entered into an agreement to acquire all the assets of BellSouth Mobility’s cellular operations in the Dothan, Ala., area. “The purchase will allow us …

SEATTLE-Go to any trade show where mobile phone operators congregate, and you will hear grumbling about how AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Digital One Rate pricing plan has wreaked havoc on …

BOSTON-Wireless Internet service provider GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will provide an end-to-end sales force automation outsource solution that bundles hardware and software products from several companies. It includes Practical …

PARIS-Cap Gemini Group, a systems integrator and business consultancy, formed a partnership with SLP InfoWare, Alexandre Haeffner, group vice president of Cap Gemini Telecom & Media, a division of Cap …

LAS VEGAS-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it will offer J.P. Systems Inc.’s NetCradle in its Web@Hand product portfolio, extending Internet access to personal digital assistants made by 3Com Corp. The GoAmerica …

NEW YORK-Conventional wisdom may hold that scale is superior when it comes to carriers and miniaturization is most desirable when it comes to handsets. However, neither attribute necessarily implies long-term …