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Shortly following Winstar Communications Inc.’s announcement last Monday that it had failed to make aggregate interest payments of approximately $75 million on loans, the local multipoint distribution service carrier voluntarily …

Everyone knew it was coming. Everyone who cared to listen that is. Concerted legal action alleging use of mobile phones has caused brain tumors is to be launched in the …

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WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association is urging the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Qwest Corp. rules that require it to offer interconnection with paging …

France France released details of its plan to award four 3G wireless phone licenses based on a beauty contest. Bidders, given a 31 January, 2001, deadline to submit proposals, will …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, clearing the way for research to begin on whether radio-frequency emissions …

DUBLIN, Ireland-After decades of tight state control, Eastern European telecommunications markets are waking up to the reality of telecommunications liberalization. But even though many of these countries accept that liberalization …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard, a vigilant proponent of equal employment opportunity rules and a champion of disabled rights, has been hit with seven job discrimination lawsuits against his …

VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Stanton said the carrier is likely to complete its mergers with Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. in the first quarter …

WASHINGTON-Qualcomm Inc. and Richard Bliss, a former employee temporarily imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges in 1997, have reached an out-of-court settlement to end a lawsuit that accused the San …

TOKYO- To preserve more resources for its new business objectives and recover a balance between a currently too-heavy workforce and a shrinking beeper business, NTT DoCoMo announced it is restructuring …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission was given some advice on FCC reform last week as Michael Kennedy of Motorola Inc. suggested the FCC create a spectrum management board comprised of bureau …

Several class-action lawsuits have be filed by various law firms representing shareholders of Orbital Sciences Corp., claiming the company overstated both revenues and earnings. Orbital Sciences is the parent company …

WASHINGTON-Qualcomm Inc. is waging a major court battle against the Federal Communications Commission to gain recognition of Code Division Multiple Access technology innovation in personal communications services and the potentially …

In the past year, paging companies have engineered a striking makeover designed to change their “look” to better meet the business style of the new millennium. Just as the parachute …

NEW YORK-At least four class-action shareholder lawsuits were filed between June 25 and July 1 against Premiere Technologies Inc., an Atlanta-based company that provides enhanced services to paging and other …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected an appeal by SkyTel Communications Corp.-formerly Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.-that argued the paging carrier deserved its narrowband personal communications license for free as a pioneer’s …

Switzerland last week awarded national licenses to two of five rival consortia-diAx mobile and Orange Communications SA-to operate wireless networks in competition with the country’s single operator, Swisscom. The winning …

It was designed to be a way to compete against Motorola Inc.’s FLEX technology, but instead the joint venture between Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. and American Paging Inc. has dissolved …

Bob Hope made a lot of money telling jokes, but he made a great deal more in the real-estate business. Asked to explain his real-estate investment strategy, he said, “I …

NEW YORK-Global TeleSystems Group Inc., an American carrier providing wireless and wireline phone service in the former Soviet Republic and Eastern Europe, plans to go public. With Merrill Lynch & …

SEOUL, Korea-Responding to the recent turmoil in Korea’s economy, Samsung Group said it will reorganize management-making cuts in all Korea-based business units-refocus investments on core growth businesses and cut costs …

WASHINGTON-With all its internal struggles regarding the proposed new Federal Communications Commissioners reportedly solved, Congress was poised at press time to vote on the leaders of a new regime at …

LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk Teleservices Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the retail prepaid business of Frontier Corp. for $35 million cash. Frontier distributes prepaid phone cards in more …

InterCel completes Maine sub. sale InterCel Inc. completed the sale of its Maine cellular subsidiary last week for the purchase price of about $77 million. InterCel said it will use …