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AirNet Communications Corp. announced it has received a $17 million contract to supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Message Express Co., owner of two Michigan basic …

AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. introduced a new chip last week designed to bring paging capability to personal digital assistants and other devices not traditionally used for paging. The MMC2080 chip can …

I need your help. The next few weeks at RCR and everywhere else in the wireless industry are going to be crazy. It’s too late to try to clean off …

An old Chinese saying may be relevant to the commercialization of CDMA mobile phone networks in China-“Those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know”-at least on the …

WASHINGTON-The Mexican government will auction new frequencies for paging, narrowband PCS (two-way paging), trunking and point-to-point microwave. The auctions are scheduled for late 1998 and early 1999, depending on the …

WANDEL & GOLTERMANN RadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values …

BEIJING-In its latest proposal to gain entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), China offered on 24 July to open gradually its paging and mobile phone operating services to foreign …

SINGAPORE-Given that Singapore’s paging market is close to saturation with a 43-percent penetration rate, it comes as no surprise that paging operators in the market constantly are on the lookout …

The Australian Communications Authority has invited applications for an auction of previously unsold 800 MHz and 1.8 GHz PCS spectrum. Bids closed on 31 August for the partial privatization of …

SINGAPORE-One of the strongest indications Singapore’s paging market may have reached saturation was given in July when three of Hutchison Paging’s top executives quit en masse, reportedly over poor sales …

WASHINGTON-The United States and Canada are the largest trading partners in the world. Mexico is the United States’ fastest-growing export market and the top tourist destination for Americans. Latin American …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra Corp., Australia’s largest communications company, announced it is getting out of the paging business. It hopes to complete the sale to Link Telecommunications Pty. Ltd. by October, giving …

Chile’s Undersecretary of Telecommunications Juanita Gana announced mobile phone carriers no longer can force subscribers to sign long-term contracts, according to an article in El Diario. Until now carrier contracts …

NEW YORK-Nextel International Inc., Seattle, announced it has launched commercial service of its integrated Digital Enhanced Network in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Manila, Philippines. Nextel International, a wholly owned …

In what is no doubt the single-largest transaction in the history of the U.S. paging industry, Arch Communications Group Inc. and MobileMedia Corp. confirmed they have completed a definitive merger …

Total paging subscribers in the United States will reach 68.9 million by year-end 2002, according to The Strategis Group report “The State of the U.S. Paging Industry: 1998.” Of that …

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc.’s Network Services Division signed agreements with Goldblatt’s and the Farmer Jack’s food-store chains to provide calling-party-pays paging services for their respective Chicago and Detroit retail locations. The …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it purchased a narrowband personal communications services license from AT&T Two-Way Messaging Communications Inc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. TSR’s acquisition …

Compared with defining-and keeping-the same wireless strategy over the years, gambling is beginning to look like a sound way to sock some money away for retirement. In today’s frenetic telecom …

DALLAS-Bosch Telecom Group Inc. said its Bosch World 718 mobile phone is available throughout North America from Quintex Communications Corp. The phone provides seamless access to worldwide Global System for …

BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. marks its re-entry into the paging market this week with the commercial debut of its two-way Interactive Paging Service. The service uses the new Inter@ctive 950 …

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Novera Software Inc. announced its jBusiness Solutions product will be used to create a customer-care system for Arch Communications Group Inc. Arch, which recently underwent an operational restructuring, will …

The CDMA Development Group formed an interest group within the CDG that will focus on Latin America. The CDG said the interest group builds on the success of similar organizations …

In the July 27 story about the Audiovox agreement with CommQuest, the wrong photo inadvertently was used. The photo that ran was of the LSI Logic baseband processor chip. In …

NEW YORK-As mergers among telecommunications giants tear around the track at breathtaking speed, it may seem that domestic deregulation, intended to promote competition, has instead achieved consolidation. However, a glance …