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Wireless construction company Berliner Communications Inc. said it has begun negotiating with underwriters to commence an initial public offering. “We see geographic expansion and further offerings via acquisition of selected …

TeleCorp PCS TeleCorp PCS Inc. hired Raul Burgos as vice president and general manager of its Puerto Rican operations. He most recently served as general manager and vice president of …

Leap gains FCC OK on license transfers SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced the Federal Communications Commission issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order, which conditionally grants Leap’s applications to transfer …

NEW YORK-Happy days are here again for Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., which announced second-quarter earnings late July 13 of $273 million, or 44 cents per share. The gains are three …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. named Susan Swenson president of Leap and chief executive officer of Leap’s U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications Inc. Swenson, who also will join Leap’s board of …

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 …

The paging industry in North America is making moves that are changing the way the public thinks about paging. It is impacting the way people communicate, and it is opening …

L.M. Ericsson wants the industry to know it plans to become a formidable contender in the cdmaOne infrastructure business. It’s been more than a month since the company completed its …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Telecommunications industry wholesale revenues will more than double during the next five years, according to a preliminary survey of the industry conducted by Phillips Group InfoTech of Parsippany, N.J. …

Now that the Federal Communications Commission has completed the re-auction of 365 C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, it still could be months or even years before …

More than a year after receiving a favorable ruling from a Dallas bankruptcy judge, General Wireless Inc. still is crafting its business plan and searching for financing. The company, which …

Andrew Andrew Corp. elected Guy Campbell group president of wireless products and distributed communications systems. Campbell joined Andrew from Ericsson Inc., where most recently he was vice president of wireless …

A front-page story in USA Today several weeks ago introduced a new technology called electronic ink, marketed by a company called E Ink, and paging technology just may be what …

While paging carriers work to upgrade their network technology to fit the advanced messaging paradigm, several also are working to upgrade the services available on their networks, namely content. For …

Belgium KPN Orange launched GSM 1800 service in early April as the third mobile operator in Belgium. Ireland Esat Telecom Group confirmed it accepted an offer to acquire a pro …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Chile, which became the first country in Latin America in 1998 to implement PCS, has just felt the tremor of three new events in its market that could …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed the re-auction of 356 PCS licenses in the United States. Licenses had to be re-auctioned after several of the original bidders were unable …

Germany InterDigital Communications Corp., through its subsidiary InterDigital Technology Corp., entered a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH of Germany. According to the …

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-In a $50 million transaction, Leap Wireless International Inc. increased its ownership of Chilesat Telefonia Personal S.A. from 50 percent to 100 percent, by purchasing Telex-Chile’s and Chilesat …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. reported revenues of $1.1 million for the 1999 fiscal second quarter, compared with no revenues in the second quarter of 1998. Operating expenses for Leap …

WASHINGTON-By the end of nearly three weeks of bidding, action has all but stopped on the major markets left in the re-auction of personal communications services licenses. The only major …

It was an unprecedented event. Qualcomm Inc., the biggest defender of CDMA technology, and L.M. Ericsson, the largest naysayer of the technology, embraced last week, ending more than 10 years …

WASHINGTON-Sixty-six bidders are competing for the 356 personal communications services licenses being re-auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission. Bidders include Omnipoint Corp., Cook Inlet/VoiceStream PCS L.L.C., Leap Wireless International Inc., …

The Federal Communications Commission could rule today on whether Leap Wireless International Inc. is qualified to own C-and F-block personal communications services licenses and bid in tomorrow’s reauction of C-block …

SAN DIEGO-Pegaso PCS, the Mexican operating company of Leap Wireless International Inc., last week launched its first market in Tijuana, Mexico. The company plans to build a nationwide network in …