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MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc., along with other equity investors, announced an agreement with Nextel Partners Inc. to build and operate an integrated digital wireless communications network using frequencies licensed to …

The CDMA Development Group formed an interest group within the CDG that will focus on Latin America. The CDG said the interest group builds on the success of similar organizations …

WASHINGTON-In perhaps the strongest signal to date of congressional concern about U.S. global competitiveness in the future third-generation mobile phone market, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) pressed the Clinton administration to …

NEW YORK-After dramatically reducing the size and price of its initial public offering, Crown Castle International Corp., a Houston-based wireless tower company, sold 14 million shares at $13 each Aug. …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Division introduced two new services last week-a guaranteed delivery service and a nationwide paging alternative. The first, called AlphaTrack, is a guaranteed-messaging service reselling …

To the Editor: I would like to clarify a point contained in your Aug. 3 article about export controls on U.S. communications satellites. Motorola Inc.’s commercial satellite launches from China …

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it is offering a prepaid alphanumeric paging package in addition to its prepaid numeric paging product launched last fall. Prepaid alpha paging allows subscribers to …

SAO PAULO-Telefonica del Peru ordered the first phase of a digital cellular network expansion from Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group designed to extend service beyond the capital city of Lima …

The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.’s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging, in which all major paging players …

Watching a cellular handset manufacturer that was once on top of the market exit from the U.S. handset business has broken Mal Gurian’s heart. The one-time president of Oki telecom, …

The industry’s first cellular phone manufacturer has become another casualty of the highly competitive handset business. Oki Telecom Inc. has ceased manufacturing, sales and marketing all mobile phones in the …

LONDON-The European Commission approved the formation of Symbian, a joint venture launched in June between Psion Software plc, L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and, eventually, Motorola Inc. Symbian plans to promote …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will give up to two months of free airtime to customers who buy one-way numeric pagers in August at some 17,500 7-Eleven stores nationwide. 7-Eleven …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced a two-way messaging service it said will allow customers to receive and create e-mails and pages from one device. The company also said it will create …

As a trade news reporter covering the paging industry, I talk with all sorts of marketing and public-relations personnel, as well as company executives, who regularly impress upon me the …

Joining a slew of other industry captains abandoning ship for various reasons, Ericsson Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Bo Hedfors last week decided to set sail for Motorla Inc. …

In the July 27 issue of RCR, the name of Mike Engle, vice president of international sales and worldwide marketing for Tadiran Microwave Networks, was misspelled. Also in that issue, …

LONDON-London Underground Ltd. selected the CityLink Telecommunications consortium to replace and manage its communications network in a private finance initiative project valued at more than $6 million during 20 years. …

Paging Network Inc.’s Internet gateway experienced sporadic outages over a space of 30 hours late last month, during which customers nationwide were unable to receive text messages sent from an …

SEATTLE-Tegic Communications added Motorola Inc. to the growing list of companies licensed to use its T9 text-input technology in their wireless handsets. Motorola initially plans to incorporate T9 technology into …

Motorola Inc. said it created a new start-up services business to focus on developing and providing integrated communication and information services. The Internet and Connectivity Services Division is part of …

CAIRO, Egypt-Mobinil, a Global System for Mobile communications network operator in Egypt, awarded a contract, valued at up to $60 million, to Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group. Motorola CIG will …

No one at Iridium L.L.C. or Motorola Inc. has explained the cause of two satellite failures last month, but the consortium maintains the problem is unrelated to the previous five …

CANADA Rogers Cantel announced the beginning of a rollout of Cantel AT&T Pay As You Go cellular service to more than 25 new markets in Canada. The markets include: Abbotsford, …

JERSEY CITY, N.J.-As the International Telecommunication Union wound up its meeting in South Korea July 24 to consider 15 third-generation wireless proposals, Telecom Analysis Systems convened a media briefing to …