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LAS VEGAS-Telemetry applications made a strong showing at last week’s Wireless Apps ’96 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Skywire Corp. announced a trial to monitor several hundred …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc.’s proposed $159 million buyout of Pittencrieff Communications Inc.-a deal that could give one firm half of the 2.2 million dispatch customers and access to most of the …

FLEX has been adopted en masse in the paging industry, at least in principle. In reality, the majority of U.S. one-way paging customers are POCSAG customers and carriers are in …

NEW YORK-Because many new personal communications services providers are unable to pay out of pocket for equipment purchases, AirNet Communications Corp. announced last week it would downsize, restructure and direct …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Telecomunicacoes do Ceara S.A., a Brazilian cellular provider, chose Motorola Inc.’s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division to supply its Advanced Mobile Phone Service network in the state of …

NEW YORK-As expected from its advance warning last month, Motorola Inc. last week reported lower sales and earnings for the third quarter of 1996 when compared with the same period …

MobileMedia Corp. marked the end of the third quarter with poor earnings, anticipated bank covenant violations, increased churn, a decrease in net new subscribers and potential trouble with the Federal …

Editor: Quentin Hardy’s article, “Jacobs’ Patter,” in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that “some of the biggest names in telecommunications” have invested perhaps $20 billion …

The Micro Digital M75 is a Time Division Multiple Access digital phone from Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Subscriber Group. The Flip Phone meets the Telecommunications Industry Association IS-136 standard for North …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it will assist the Tianjin Posts & Telecommunications Administration in the expansion of the Global System for Mobile Communications network in …

RadioMail Corp. announced the availability of its RadioMailer wireless Internet access solution for Cellular Digital Packet Data networks. Service previously was limited to Mobitex and DataTAC packet radio systems. “By …

The voices of young people are getting louder in the paging industry. Paging manufacturers and carriers have discovered just how “cool” teenagers and young adults think pagers are, and are …

Northern Telecom Ltd. announced Telemig, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, has signed two contracts valued at $95 million to purchase Nortel cellular network infrastructure equipment. According to the first contract, Telemig …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it will assist the Tianjin Posts & Telecommunications Administration in the expansion of the Global System for Mobile Communications network in …

NEW YORK-DSC Communications Corp., a major manufacturer of switches for wireless and wireline telecommunications, announced it anticipates posting disappointing revenues and earnings for the third quarter ending Sept. 30. The …

WASHINGTON-The five-year, $25 million industry-funded research program on potential cancer risks from pocket telephones will come to a screeching halt unless wireless carriers and manufacturers agree to indemnify scientists named …

OCTOBER 7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050. 7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. …

NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. has a not-so-modest proposal and concrete plans to execute it: a prepaid wireless roaming network for the Western Hemisphere. Already the company is in various …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several major cities in the Northeast, including …

Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder and chief technical officer of the …

I’m still recovering from PCS ’96 in San Francisco. Between the 400 exhibitors, about 15,000 attendees and 30 sessions, I just couldn’t take it all in. In fact, PCIA said …

SBC Communications Inc. has made the latest move in the battle for prepaid cellular customers in Chicago. In June, SBC, operating under the franchise name Cellular One, began offering its …

SAN FRANCISCO-Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands and Motorola Inc. announced a cross-licensing agreement giving Philips access to the FLEX family of messaging technologies, including the FLEX one-way, ReFLEX two-way …

WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation’s capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent …

The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek’s writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS ’96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, …