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Northern Telecom Inc. announced the commercial launch of VoiceStream Wireless service on its Global System for Mobile communications-based personal communications services 1900 network in Hawaii, the second PCS network activated …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it will supply Northern Telecom Inc. with 1900 MHz digital infrastructure equipment and radio frequency services as part of Nortel’s $1 billion award from Sprint Telecommunications …

L.M. Ericsson announced its subsidiary, Ericsson Australia Pty. Ltd., has signed a contract to install a switching system for 4,000 mobile telephones in Rangoon, Burma’s capital. Ericsson said it will …

WASHINGTON-In a potential blow to Omnipoint Corp.’s planned initial public offering this week, wireless investor James Valentine has asked federal regulators to investigate whether the small Colorado firm is violating …

ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet said it achieved precommercial interoperability between its Hughes Network Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom Ltd. cellular digital packet data networks. The achievement will allow GTE to provide seamless …

SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecom MobileLink announced the completion of Singapore’s first national personal communications services network, which was designed and developed by Northern Telecom Ltd. The Global System for Mobile communications network …

A number of small U.S. cellular companies have been hit with lawsuits from the government of Alberta, Canada, which is charging the companies breached contracts by not purchasing cellular equipment …

American Personal Communications has cracked a deal with Baltimore Gas & Electric that will allow APC to put full-sector antenna configurations on electric transmission towers. The relationship could help APC …

Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. announced its purchase of Orlando Tower Service Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based builder of transmitting and receiving facilities for wireless telecommunications providers. Consideration for the transaction totaled $135,000 …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. received a contract valued at $3.7 billion from Uzdunrobita, a joint venture between ICG Inc. of Perry, Ga., and the Uzbekistan Ministry of Communications-of the Uzbekistan republic …

Olivetti SpA and Northern Telecom Ltd. have formed a joint venture to distribute and service Nortel telecommunications products in Italy. As part of the agreement, Nortel has acquired 49 percent …

Three Chinese state ministries have created a competitor for China’s monopolistic Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to expand the nation’s telecommunications system. China United Telecommunications Corp., Unicom, initially intends to …

Noting the Federal Communications Commission recently ended state regulation of cellular service rates in California, AirTouch Cellular Communications Inc. announced lower prices and new service plans in its Los Angeles …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. will provide Star Digitel with a Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone system valued at $24 million under the terms of a three-year supply agreement. Star …