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JERUSALEM-Bezeq Israel Telecom Ltd., the state-owned telecommunications company, announced a plan to allow cellular telephone users to route incoming calls through either their mobile phones or the nearest fixed-line phone. …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Just as the cellular fight in Israel intensified with the latest marketing campaigns, the Ministry of Communications announced it may license a fourth and maybe a fifth provider …

JERUSALEM-Hutchison Whampoa is considering listing its Israeli mobile phone unit, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., in London or on the Nasdaq National Market to secure financing to expand its network, according …

ATLANTA-Nortel Networks and BellSouth Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding regarding a long-term global supply agreement that makes Nortel Networks’ communications equipment, software and services available to BellSouth at competitive …

Northeast Communications of Wisconsin Inc. announced it acquired U.S. Cellular’s Marathon County operations. Cellcom, the company’s wireless subsidiary, will provide cellular and paging services. Marathon County will be the fifth …

NABLUS, West Bank-Many who conduct business in this often-troubled region say peace would come much more quickly if they took over the responsibility from politicians. Cooperation in the wireless telecommunications …

JERUSALEM, Israel-In the southern town of Ashkelon stands a larger-than-life black marble grave stone that is as much a monument to the teenager buried in the plot as it is …

JERUSALEM, Israel-Afraid of scaring Israeli consumers, wireless carriers operating in this nation of 2 million cellular phone users are awaiting the arrival of a third player, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., …

L.M. Ericsson Belgium. With KPN-Orange Belgium N.V. for a DCS 1800 network. Value: US$269 million Brazil. With ATL-Algar Telecom Leste S.A. for a TDMA network. Value: up to US$350 million …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson was selected by Srinivas Cellcom Ltd., a Global System for Mobile communications operator in India, to build the largest mobile network ever to be rolled out in …

WASHINGTON-Brad Clark, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident used his cellular phone three times to help people in emergency situations. His actions won him the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s 1997 VITA …

DE PERE, Wis.-Cellcom announced it has activated two new towers in the Green Bay, Wis., area. One is located on the west side near Austin Straubel Airport, and the other …

Lucent Technologies announced it promoted Richard McGinn, current president and chief operating officer, to chief executive officer, effective immediately. McGinn, 51, will replace Henry Schacht, 63, who will remain as …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Cellcom, which operates a cellular network in Wisconsin and Iowa, will purchase four beta units of Conductus Inc.’s ClearSite receiver subsystem following a successful trial of the system, Conductus …

Metawave Communications Corp. named Vito Palermo senior vice president and chief financial officer, with responsibility for the company’s financial and administrative operations including accounting, treasury, financial planning, investor relations and …

California Microwave Inc.’s Microwave Network Systems division won a contract from Cellcom Israel Ltd. to expand its Time Division Multiple Access cellular network. California Microwave said it values the contract …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it installed its ClearSite receiver subsystems in a field trial in three sites in Wisconsin. The trial will run through the end of January to cover …

NEW YORK-TTI Team Telecom International Ltd., an Israeli developer of operations support and network management systems for telecommunications providers, was slated to go public Nov. 22. The initial public offering …

Triden Telecom Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Communitronics Inc., a paging company based in Mobile, Ala. Communitronics has 3,000 pagers in service and is expanding its …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has completed a beta deployment agreement with Cellcom, a rural cellular company based in DePere, Wis. Under the agreement, Cellcom will install three Conductus ultra-low-noise …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has successfully completed two additional rural field tests of its ultra-low-noise receiver subsystem for cellular base stations. The Conductus subsystem is designed to provide enhanced …