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NEW YORK -Ten Square, San Jose, Calif., plans to expand its provision of wireless e-commerce services to 2,800 service stations and convenience stores in various cities by year-end. The privately …

Shunichiro Mishima, vice president of business development for NTT DoCoMo USA Inc., said the Japanese parent company would convert its 16-percent ownership of AT&T Wireless Group into tracking stock of …

LONDON-Infrastructure supplier Marconi Inc. said it will lay off 3,000 workers this year as part of its strategy to save costs. The company, however, says it will create 3,000 new …

Motorola Inc.’s miserable journey into the realm of mobile satellite communications with Iridium L.L.C. worsened last week when a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in New York ruled that creditors of …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The St.Petersburg-based RadioTel carrier concluded an agreement with the Russian Transport Ministry regarding the construction of the first Trans European Trunked Radio (TETRA) network along the Moscow-St. Petersburg-Vyborg-Finnish …

Telcom Global Chris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.’s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company’s global …

Marconi Corp. plc and ArrayComm Inc. announced a deal under which Marconi will embed ArrayComm’s Intellicell smart antenna technology in its third-generation wideband-CDMA base stations. The open-ended deal is expected …

HOUSTON-Compaq Computer Corp. and Siemens Information and Communication Mobile said they have signed a worldwide agreement to jointly provide network management solutions for their base of worldwide wireless customers. Under …

Endware Broadband wireless product supplier Endware Corp. appointed Mike Roush vice president of manufacturing and operations, Nick Ingrao director of wireless programs and Chris Brown system engineering manager. Roush will …

Alcatel supplied European wireless operators France Telecom Mobiles, Mobistar and Dutchtone a solution that will allow their customers to continue making or receiving calls on their prepaid mobile phones when …

GENEVA-Second-ranked Spanish carrier, Retevision, is taking to the air waves with plans to build one of the world’s largest networks based on point-to-point and point-to-multipoint fixed wireless access technology. The …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Trunked radio may be dismissed by some as the poor relation of GSM and an irrelevance in the world of multibillion pound Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license bids, …

United Kingdom Britain-based Marconi plc announced it has sold its Network Components & Services business in Europe and China to Viasystems Group Inc. for $115 million in cash. The sale …

“I now felt for the first time absolutely certain that the day would come when mankind would be able to send messages `round the wires, not only across the Atlantic, …

GENEVA-Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest supplier of natural gas, is completing the final stages of a $100 million trunked radio network built to service gas drilling towns located in one …

HIGHLANDS, N.J.-The Wireless Information Networks Laboratory at Rutgers University commemorated Sept. 30 its 10th birthday and the centennial anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi’s historic first, the transmission of wireless telegraphy messages …

Electofuel Electrofuel Inc. announced the Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery, which has an energy density of 470 Wh/liter and 183 Wh/kilogram, almost doubling the previous endurance records of rechargeable batteries. With …

Geoworks Corp. said it provided the engineering expertise behind a new handset from Seiko Epson Corp. of Japan, called the Locatio. The multi-purpose phone combines Personal Handyphone System technology with …

NCR NCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer’s readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called …

CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. officially adopted Marconi Communications’ corporate name, logo, signage and letterhead, said Marconi, establishing a North American operator for the United Kingdom-based company. In March, General Electric Co. plc …

AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom’s wireless local loop products worldwide. Marconi will offer AdiCom’s WLL products …

Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace. Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies …

NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility. The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a “groundbreaking initiative” with four companies to …

Happy New Year from the Nation’s Capital. Only 361 days until the new millennium, at which time we will get to see if the millennium bug-also known as Y2K-really is …

DENVER-Following its $107 million cash acquisition of Marconi Instruments Inc. in February, IFR Systems Inc. began a road tour last week-part product demonstration and part branding initiative designed to introduce …