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WASHINGTON-A petition by three trade associations representing railroads, utilities and the petroleum industry is being criticized soundly by other frequency coordinators, which claim the request for a separate “public service …

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 …

SAN DIEGO-National Dispatch Center Inc. announced U S West selected it to provide operator dispatch service to U S West alphanumeric paging and personal communications services subscribers. U S West …

The vast number of players coupled with loads of savvy Wall Street money has set the stage for mass consolidation within the tower industry. The rate of acquisitions has moved …

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 …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and wireless operator Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH began a live trial of adaptive antenna technology-both downlink and uplink-on Mannesmann’s Global System for Mobile communications network in Germany. Adaptive …

Arthur Andersen predicts continued convergence within and amongst the industry segments well into the next century, thanks to the advent of digital technology. Seven of the 10 biggest acquisitions and …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association has taken another stab at urging the Federal Communications Commission to become less regulatory and less burdensome. “PCIA is continuing to find ways to press …

Transcrypt International Inc. announced Aug. 6 a net loss of $5 million, or 39 cents per share, for the second quarter, which ended June 30. Revenues for the latest quarter …

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 …

To the Editor: Amidst an escalating industry-wide debate about competing wireless technologies, we want to ensure that the “GSM-CDMA Economic Study,” prepared by Andersen Consulting with two other consulting firms, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it was contracted by Finnish operator Kuopio Telephone Co. to provide a complete 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network that initially will cover Kuopio …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced an aggressive rollout schedule for its facilities-based ReFLEX 25 guaranteed messaging service, with commercial service planned for areas of 15 additional states in August as well …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced its billing and customer care system was chosen as Telecom Italia Mobile’s international telecom billing solution. As a member of the Telecom Italia Group, TIM is …

Some U.S. GSM and TDMA operators are irked at Qualcomm Inc. and its lobbying efforts within the U.S. government to frame the third-generation issue as a trade issue with Europe. …

Continuing his vision to build a worldwide telecom powerhouse, Craig McCaw and his gaggle of companies have agreed to share the cost of building Level 3 Communications’ national fiber optic …

Though the wireless industry remains an employee-driven market, signs indicate the intense demand for employees domestically may be slowing as companies are becoming cost sensitive under intense competition and merger-and-acquisition …

LONDON-The ERMES MoU Association, formerly called ERMES MoU, celebrated its new status as a legal entity with the launch of an ERMES paging system in Sweden, by telecom provider Telia, …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Three of Japanese cellular operator DDI Corp.’s regional service providers launched commercial Code Division Multiple Access service in Japan, according to Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group. Service is …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Low-tier mobile phone service in Taiwan was opened to competition by the country’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications, with a tender announcement expected by December and commercial service rollout …

The success of the personal communications services industry has astounded industry analysts, PCS company executives and cellular carriers alike. The PCS industry is about two years old and already has …

The personal communications services industry emerged almost unscathed in its quest for automatic roaming agreements with analog cellular carriers. Last year’s lawsuit, which subsequently was dropped, brought by AT&T Wireless …

LONDON-U.K. mobile operator Orange plc introduced the Orange Network Performance Promise, which offers to automatically credit the company’s Talk Plan customers with up to a minute of free talk time …

Analysts are indicating now is the time to buy some cheap Canadian wireless stocks, as the mobile phone market finally has rebounded from its 1997 growth slump. BT Alex.Brown Inc. …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced it won a multi-million-dollar contract from Portuguese telecom consortium Optimus to provide its billing and customer-care solution called BSCS, or Business Support and Control System. Optimus, …