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WASHINGTON-At a time when Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. is scraping for cash to determine whether pocket telephones pose a potential public health risk, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is pumping …

While Motorola Inc.’s FLEX paging technology begins to dash across the globe, POCSAG remains the de facto standard in the international paging world, said Ann Lynch, an analyst with the …

The newest arrival in one of cellular’s newest markets-prepaid-is Go Wireless International Ltd., led by an entrepreneur banking his dollars on consumers with damaged credit. The company is venturing new …

Geotek Communications Inc. is a new kid on the block, not tied to any traditional distribution system and not bound by “this is the way we’ve always done it” thinking. …

New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from “cheap beeps” to “paging on steroids.” Alphanumeric paging, the …

Motorola Inc. said it has worked out the glitches and is in full production again on the RSVP, its slim cellular phone battery that contains a pager. The product was …

It is said that when you provide a valuable service at a fair price, you’ll always have customers. Such is the personality of paging. In the last year more than …

Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want …

SkyTel Corp. said it expects to have radio and software glitches worked out of its SkyTel 2-Way network in the next few months. While the service has been operating well …

New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from “cheap beeps” to “paging on steroids.” Alphanumeric paging, the …

Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want …

WASHINGTON-The United States and China are on the verge of a trade war that could hurt the wireless telecommunications industry’s ability to expand into one of the world’s fastest growing-and …

SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week’s CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about 600 people from 40 countries. Motorola …

Another handset manufacturer saw its company stock drop then slowly rise again following the release of a quarterly report with stagnant earnings. It’s the continuation of a process that began …

SOMERS, N.Y.-MobileComm and Motorola Inc. have teamed up with Mountain Dew to launch a program aimed at placing pagers in the hands of teens and young adults. The promotion, called …

WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack division of Ft. Worth, Texas-based Tandy …

How ’bout the attendees at President Clinton’s White House Corporate Citizenship Conference last Thursday here: Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T Corp.; Charles Lee, chairman of GTE Corp.; Richard Notebaert, chairman …

“This is not a race,” said AirTouch Communications Inc. about its controlled rollout of digital cellular service in northern Los Angeles. “It’s about getting the right customers transitioned,” explains AirTouch …

Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group announced that PacLink has become the first to launch Motorola’s FLEX paging protocol and distribute FLEX protocol-based pagers in Thailand. PacLink is investing more than …

Give me a mountain with nothing to do. Give a pager to a kid with nothing to do and what will he do with it? Last week MobileComm and PepsiCo …

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a paging wholesaler that went public in March, experienced net losses of $1.5 million during the first quarter of 1996, the price for investment in rapid …

As it was pointed out to me time and time again during the aftermath of last week’s C-block broadband personal communications services auction, in every game there are winners and …

Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services licensees have based their access technology …

The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable. “It’s all ones and zeros now, so you have to be …

Telular Corp. said it is emerging from its restructuring “lean and focused,” in spite of the $12.4 million in one-time charges it cost the company to accomplish the changes. Telular …