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After almost two years of savage beatings on Wall Street, Glenayre Technologies Inc. has proven to have a tough chin, and analysts believe the company now is poised to come …

Australian telecommunications company Telstra, and Nokia Corp. signed an agreement to trial Nokia’s Terrestrial Trunked Radio system. The six-month trial will begin in Sydney this year and will represent the …

Wireless carriers mobilized their resources earlier this month to maintain cellular service when an ice storm in upstate New York and northern New England left thousands without power or wireline …

LAS VEGAS-Manufacturers at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have been hinting at things to come with a handful of launches and plenty of promises of phones …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has completed work on a calling-party-pays standard scheduled for presentation to “appropriate industry standards bodies” this month and next in an effort to end the …

Growing up, my best friend in the whole world was named Wilma. She moved to Montana in eighth grade. I can still remember her phone number, 2-3476. (It wasn’t until …

CHICAGO-Competitive local exchange carrier USN Communications Inc. has increased the size of its initial public offering to 8 million shares, and plans to use some of the proceeds to add …

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America introduced a new compact Code Division Multiple Access base station designed to drastically reduce initial deployment and recurring network costs. Samsung said the PicoBTS base station provides …

WASHINGTON-Wireline telecommunications carriers are gearing up to offer two phases of number portability this year, after successfully winning a time extension from the Federal Communications Commission. Some in the wireless …

First, the nation’s capital gave you the Million Man March. Now, the Million-Dollar Question. It’s just a matter of time now before subpoenas go out to one or more of …

McLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. introduced several new products and services, including the i600 phone, and announced record subscriber numbers in the fourth quarter 1997. Nextel’s digital subscriber units in service …

ArrayComm Inc. announced its next-generation IntelliCell-enhanced Personal Handyphone System cell stations are operating in Tokyo’s PHS network, following months of field trials conducted with DDI Pocket Telephone. DDI holds a …

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-After introducing the architecture for the Wireless Application Protocol last September, collaborators L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they established a new company …

They’re coming out of the woodwork to point out the perils of driving and dialing. Cellular phones can cause distractions, says a new report from the National Highway Traffic Safety …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association said it asked the Federal Communication Commission to require wireless carriers to offer automatic roaming agreements on a nondiscriminatory basis. TRA asserts that wireless resellers “have …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp., New York, announced it will acquire Teleport Communications Group in a stock swap transaction valued at about $12 billion, based on AT&T’s current stock price. The acquisition …

LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. said it completed its acquisition of ConQuest Telecommunications Services Corp., following “overwhelming approval by shareholders of both companies.” Under the terms of the acquisition, each share …

WASHINGTON-C-block personal communications service licensees will have an additional seven weeks to file with the Federal Communications Commission their choice-if any-of the four financial restructuring options offered by the commission …

WASHINGTON-State Department officials last week told Qualcomm Inc. that Russian authorities will not require technician Richard Bliss to return to Russia to face espionage charges. Bliss, who was arrested Nov. …

Editor’s Note: A wireless RF engineer with 18 years experience shared his recent job-hunting experience with RCR-and the response he wished he could have written back. Thank you for your …

CAMARILLO, Calif.-AML Communications Inc. announced it received two separate orders for its amplifiers, totaling about $470,000, from Lucent Technologies Inc. and an original equipment manufacturer serving the South American market. …

WASHINGTON-A total of 21 states have pending legislation regarding emergency service and its parameters scheduled for votes this year, according to a survey performed by wireless E911 equipment manufacturer Xypoint …

In the new global telecom market, the World Trade Organization is king-the United Nations for global telecom free trade as it were. For the United States, having rules of the …

Location: Geneva, Switzerland Established: Jan. 1, 1995 Created by: Uruguay Round negotiations (1986-1994) Membership: 132 countries (as of September 1997) Budget: $93 million (1996) Secretariat staff: 500 Director General: Renato …

WASHINGTON-Western Wireless Corp., parent company of personal communications services provider Western PCS Corp., was granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission to boost its foreign ownership to a possible 39.9 …