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NEW YORK-A Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association group is developing recommendations for handset manufacturers that would reduce fraud potential and facilitate over-the-air customer activations for non-Global System for Mobile Communications carriers. …

CITEL Citel Inc. unveiled a new line of coaxial surge protectors that provide protection against lightning surges and electrical transients. They use gas tube technology, making them suitable for broadband …

A group of smaller, paging manufacturers impudently are challenging the pager dominance of the 800-pound gorilla that is Motorola Inc. by creating products with unique features designed to set themselves …

RESTON, Va.-Checkpoint Systems Inc. will use the Ardis network to deploy Checkpoint’s network services and solution development support for a nationwide wireless field-service application, according to American Mobile Satellite Corp. …

TOKYO-DDI Cellular Group is set to kick off its cdmaOne IS-95 service in mid-July in western Japan. The service gradually will spread across the nation. Once IDO Corp. kicks off …

TOKYO-IDO, a cellular operator covering the Kanto and Chubu regions of Japan, will market a 69-gram cellular terminal starting in mid-July, the company announced recently. While this is just the …

Stet Hallas Telecommunications S.A., Greece, went public 3 June through an equity offering by a holding company. Stet Hallas is 20-percent owned by Bell Atlantic Corp. of the United States. …

NEW YORK-Like comets flashing across the sky, one vendor that topped the 1996 revenue charts dropped significantly on the 1997 charts, while another that was absent from the major players …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology Inc. announced it has begun shipping its new IntelliLink software solution for NEC America Inc.’s Beacon Data Pager. IntelliLink provides one of the key components that …

After months of financing negotiations, 21st Century Telesis and Hughes Network Systems Inc. finally have signed a contract to build the first commercial wireless network in the United States using …

MACH India Pvt Ltd. entered into a contract with Bharti Cellular of India to offer cellular clearinghouse services for the country. The agreement includes MACH Data, the clearing service for …

WASHINGTON-The Brazilian government is moving ahead with the privatization of Telebr

TOKYO-NEC Corp. and United Kingdom-based ERA Technology Ltd. signed a joint-venture agreement to design and develop next-generation wireless network infrastructure based on the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) standard, said …

IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc.’s Communications Terminals Division and United States Cellular Corp. announced they will work together in an advertising program to promote a prepaid wireless service called TalkTracker. U …

BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems announced its JetEye PC infrared serial adapter will be bundled with NEC America Inc.’s Beacon Data Pager. JetEye will allow a PC to exchange data with the …

NEW YORK-NEC Corp. announced it signed an agreement with ERA Technology Ltd. of the United Kingdom that established a joint-venture company to design and develop the next generation of European …

NEW YORK-In late March, the logjam finally broke on the long-stalled liberalization of the Brazilian telecommunications market through the introduction of second wireless carriers. One forecast predicted the number of …

IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc. said its Wireless Voice Terminals Division developed a new merchandising program to support GTE Corp.’s FamilyNet, a wireless service that allows up to four family members …

Further developments in the B-band auction for cellular licenses in Brazil continue to be stymied, while the June privatization auction date set for government-owned Telebr

TOKYO-The Japanese government has begun development work for a 40-billion-yen (US$317 million) futuristic mobile communications system using a geostationary satellite. If the technology is adopted by cellular carriers, handheld satellite …

DENVER, United States-Competition in the world’s cdmaOne handset markets is expected to heat up this year as more countries deploy commercial systems and manufacturers battle it out for market share. …

NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail …

CUSHCRAFT Cushcraft Corp. introduced the FRX450 UHF fiberglass omnidirectional antenna, which provides for transmission and reception of vertically polarized signals in the 450 MHz to 470 MHz frequency band. The …

21st Century Telesis Inc. said it is making a significant step toward becoming the first U.S. wireless carrier to commercially deploy Personal Access Communications System technology. Costa-Mesa, Calif.-based 21st Century, …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Microcell Solutions Inc. announced it will provide Nokia Mobile Phones’ 9000i Communicator smart phone to its subscribers in Canada. Microcell is a Canadian personal communications services provider using Global …