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AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom’s wireless local loop products worldwide. Marconi will offer AdiCom’s WLL products …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced its Interactive Paging Service customers now have four levels of operator service options through a deal with National Dispatch Center Inc. The standard operator …

Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a partnership with Lisa Communications Ltd. to expand the PageMart Network into Trinidad and Tobago by July. This brings to 17 the number of countries participating …

PageMart Wireless Inc. expanded its resale and network integration effort last week, announcing a two-stage strategic relationship with AirTouch Communications Inc.’s paging division, similar to an agreement announced with Metrocall …

The tortoise is Tortoise Paging & Communications, of Ridgecrest, Calif., and the scare is the U.S. government. This may not interest a lot of you. It’s a small-town story, not …

Metrocall Inc. may have gained a bit of a lead in the information services race last week, announcing the launch of OnTheGoInfo, a customizable suite of services using the i …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-The Integrated Network Group of Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks announced plans to deliver enhanced voice messaging and call management services by combining Nortel’s DMS-10, DMS-100 and DMS-500 …

DALLAS-Metrocall Inc. has begun participating in America Online Inc.’s AOL Rewards Program, according to Digital Marketing Services Inc., which provides incentive programs for the Internet service provider. Under the program, …

Conxus Communications Inc. confirmed it had conducted a series of layoffs last week as part of a “strategic refocus” that will affect employees at its headquarters in Greenville, S.C., and …

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.-International Wireless Technologies L.L.C. has developed a single-chip solution that permits wireless device manufacturers to use one platform for multiple mobile and fixed voice and data standards. By …

FCC Chairman Bill Kennard now says the agency has an open mind on the question of private wireless auctions. It wasn’t always that way. The FCC, going back to the …

Early cellular carriers did it. Early paging carriers did it. Mobile data carriers are doing it now, and according to analyst Tim O’Neil of SoundView Technology Group Inc., Iridium L.L.C. …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Iridium Brasil reports it has 1,000 subscribers and that next month it will reduce the cost of its Motorola satellite handset to make the service more attractive to …

The cry “paging is dead” began once digital cellular and personal communications services providers obtained the ability to offer paging services on their networks and handsets. However, while paging carriers …

While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 “the year of wireless data,” few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year. In 1998, …

NEW YORK-Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Inc. has wandered far from its home base and original paging strategy as it pursues emerging opportunities in developed and developing markets in Europe, Latin …

3Com Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to develop co-branded home networking products that initially will include traditional ethernet and home-phone-line networking kits, with radio-frequency and power-line kits to …

Resistance to unsightly towers has prompted many wireless carriers to site their antennas on existing structures such as buildings and water towers to reduce the visual impact of their equipment. …

SAN DIEGO-If you are a small specialized mobile radio operator, which trade association, if any, should you belong to? Three trade associations, all based in the Washington, D.C., area, purport …

NEW YORK-Television programming often can be as good a barometer as hard numbers about trends that are hot, and so it is with the wireless tower industry. In a recent …

With vendors putting their time and energy into the three main U.S. digital standards and into developing standards for third-generation technology, there hardly seems room for commercialization of the more …

Reuters and other national news agencies reported Sony Corp. is undergoing a restructuring process that will consolidate various business segments and lay off 10 percent of the company’s work force. …

Ireland Esat Telecom Group plc confirmed it accepted an offer to acquire a pro rata share of 9 percent of Ireland’s Global System for Mobile communications cellular operator, Esat Digifone, …

In what may be the beginning of a trend, BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Paging Network Inc. entered into a strategic alliance last week under which PageNet will resell BellSouth’s …