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A Greenville, S.C., jury awarded four independent cellular dealers $2.5 million each in punitive damages and actual damages totalling nearly $2 million in a lawsuit against 3607 Communications Co. Dealer …

A Denver-based company has caught the attention of price-sensitive mobile phone carriers as well as some big manufacturers. Cactus Integration Group, incorporated Aug. 1, provides integrated, turnkey site development solutions …

St. Paul, Minn.-based Tele digital Development Inc. has introduced a system that allows cellular phone service resellers and other providers to control the cost and use of prepaid airtime on …

CANCUN, Mexico-Northern Telecom Ltd.’s Proximity T-LTX, which allows operators to offer fixed wireless services from a wireline switching system, is now commercially available, announced the company at Mexico’s Wireless ’97 …

More bad news for the wireless telecom industry on the RF front. The Communications Workers of America is throwing its full weight behind an appeal in the D.C. circuit to …

NEW YORK-Point-to-multipoint equipment should be available in quantity by mid-1998, bringing the bandwidth on demand promise of last-mile wireless “fiber” closer to widespread deployment. “Where the heck did this market …

WASHINGTON-After months of being publicly pounded on antenna siting, health concerns, unsafe cell phone drivers and blocked E-911 calls, the wireless industry is responding with an approach that relies on …

WASHINGTON-The Library of Congress may ask the Federal Communications Commission for a piece of the auction-revenue pie to promote a program to preserve TV videos. The Library of Congress in …

The holiday season is just around the corner, and wireless carriers will be looking to cash in by marketing their products and services as gifts to consumers enjoying a strong …

An attorney who filed a class-action lawsuit against reseller Econopage Inc. announced he will amend that suit to include claims against paging carriers Paging Network Inc. and PageMart Wireless Inc. …

Voice paging service will get another chance at success as Conxus Communications Inc. launches Pocketalk in the nation’s capital and South Florida. Conxus said it launched service last week in …

Sitting in a meeting several years ago, Douglas (Bud) Weiser and his staff were oblivious to a tornado touching down not too far from their office. Traditional emergency warning systems-outdoor …

The country’s three largest long-distance phone companies-AT&T Corp., MCI Communications Inc. and Sprint Corp.-have each announced they are offering their 800-number customers the ability to block toll-free calls originating from …

The paging industry is gearing up for a fight over what one industry executive termed “one of the most important issues affecting our industry at this point.” The comment refers …

WASHINGTON-A NextWave Telecom Inc. plan that would defer interest payments for C-block personal communications services companies for five years was circulating last week on Capitol Hill. The plan would circumvent …

WASHINGTON-As the end of the first session of the 105th Congress nears, the wireless telecom industry is left hanging with key policy issues unresolved. In limbo are antenna siting moratoria, …

LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined …

WASHINGTON-The Senate last week confirmed Bill Kennard as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and approved three other agency nominees, but immediately put the new leadership on notice that it …

In perhaps the biggest reseller default case ever, Paging Network Inc., PageMart Wireless Inc. and Metrocall Inc. all terminated their service agreements with San Jose, Calif.-based reseller EconoPage Inc., last …

WinStar Communications Inc. last week announced it signed agreements with Siemens Telecom Networks and Broadband Networks Inc., which will allow WinStar to supply digital multipoint local network systems for deployment …

WASHINGTON-Members of the House Subcommittee on Crime now know what the wireless industry has recognized but the public-safety community refuses to admit: that the two parties are no closer to …

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet said it completed the service provider testing necessary to connect to Lockheed Martin’s Number Portability Administration Center in the mid-Atlantic region. Completion of the testing means Illuminet’s service …

NEW YORK-The New York City Investment Fund and Ericsson Inc. announced plans to establish CyberLab East, the first collaborative laboratory for testing the commercial potential of ideas conceived by the …

NEW YORK-“Show me the money!” Flush with capital pouring in and looking for places to invest, that is exactly what Wall Street hopes to do for the wireless industry. “There …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is not embracing a sweeping regulatory reform bill that would subject the wireless industry and other regulated business sectors to a new government oversight regime grounded in …