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Initially used as a tool to tap into the credit-challenged market, many carriers are finding that prepaid service is attracting more than those with bad credit. Many personal communications services …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Iridium L.L.C. has 75 percent of its planned satellite constellation deployed after it successfully launched two more satellites into orbit, bringing the total number of operational satellites to 51, …

Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. initiated coverage on the paging industry last month, issuing a report titled “Where’s the Beep?”-written by company vice president Cynthia Motz. In the report, the …

PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a $500 million three-year exclusive contract to supply personal communications services equipment and services for the next phase of its network development. …

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel International Inc. has purchased a 21-percent interest in an unnamed Japanese wireless operator for approximately $32 million, according to its parent company, Nextel Communications Inc. According to Nextel …

Vendors and carriers have renewed hope that the world could have one standard in place for third-generation systems, but Europe holds one of the keys in making it a reality. …

PAIGNTON, United Kingdom-Northern Telecom Inc. said it successfully demonstrated Integrated Services Digital Network capability via fixed wireless access. The company said it plans to begin field tests and customer implementation …

The good news: Competition is rampant in at least 50 of the top markets. The bad news: Churn is on the rise. This time around, however, applications developers say they …

SAN FRANCISCO-A consortium in which AirTouch Communications Inc. holds a 30-percent interest won a nationwide cellular license in Egypt, expanding AirTouch’s reach into the Middle East for the first time, …

B-band cellular licenses don’t appear to be a wireless Mardi Gras for the Brazilian government any longer. Though raking in billions so far from four of the 10 licenses it …

Worldwide mobile telephony subscriber numbers will climb at triple the compound annual growth rate expected from the landline side between 1996 and 2002, according to a recently published report from …

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported its total revenue during 1997 increased by 122 percent to $739 million compared with $332.9 million for 1996. Fourth-quarter total revenue increased 187 percent to …

PERU Comsat International said it received a license to provide voice, data and multimedia wireless communications services for businesses operating in Lima, Peru. Using both fiber-optic cable and microwave technologies, …

Ericsson forms office mobility unit ATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace. Ericsson said the …

ATHENS-According to sources at OTE, the Greek telephone company’s subsidiary Cosmote will begin activating personal communications services customers this week as scheduled, becoming the country’s third mobile phone operator. OTE, …

Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group is struggling to keep PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. from giving future contracts to another vendor for more personal communications services equipment. PrimeCo reportedly is dissatisfied …

Although the Italian government awarded fixed telephony licenses last week to two companies, confusion and frustration continue to surround the decision to bestow a much-delayed third mobile phone license. The …

DUBLIN, Ireland-The challenges faced by radio-access network providers have been underlined by the experiences of Ionica, a company established in June 1996 to provide a new wireless telephone service to …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Digifone has built a substantial market share since it launched Ireland’s second Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) phone service last March. Global Wireless spoke to Marketing Director …

The transformation of Russia’s paging industry took a major step in late January when modest operator Multi-Page merged into industry giant Segol RadioPage Inc. According to the terms of the …

DENVER, United States-Market strategy has taken on a new meaning for wireless carriers in the Asia-Pacific, which are picking themselves up, dusting themselves off and looking around to see if …

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

Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under …

JOHANNESBURG-The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) formal approval of Motorola Inc.’s FLEX paging protocol as an international standard will give the green light to expand FLEX operations in Africa. This will …

JOHANNESBURG-South African companies are poised to play a major role in telecommunications as the privatization and deregulation process, which began in the early 1990s in Africa, moves rapidly ahead. But …