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WASHINGTON-Congress has charged the Federal Communications Commission with raising $152.5 million in regulatory fees for fiscal year 1997, a $26.1 million (nearly 21 percent) hike above the amount the commission …

NEW YORK-RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. is gearing up for a national rollout, starting in the New York City metropolitan area, of an interactive, two-way messaging service designed to compete …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. today kicked off a hefty advertising campaign-expected to cost more than $20 million by the end of 1997-for its VoiceNow voice paging service, which started commercially in …

SANTA ANA, Calif.-PageStar Inc. entered an agreement with Paging Network Inc. for nationwide paging services to be used in conjunction with its StarTrak vehicle tracking and recovery system. StarTrak allows …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group announced it plans to introduce two-way data and voice paging products in Brazil. The announcement was made at the group’s first regional …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communication Commission’s long-awaited third report and order governing the further licensing of the 220 MHz-222 MHz band, released March 12, raised more controversy on the 8th floor of …

Natural MicroSystems Corp. announced the latest member of its TX family of communications resource boards, the TX3000. The TX3000 is an ISA bus card that provides a powerful and highly …

Editor’s Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest resellers of cellular service in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number of cellular resale subscribers reported …

Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code …

SAN RAMON, Calif.-GTE Wireless announced it has expanded its digital wireless network to include San Francisco’s East Bay. The company’s digital wireless service now is available in the majority of …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has overestimated by $12 billion the amount of revenue from spectrum auctions over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. CBO’s numbers, prepared at …

FORT WORTH, Texas-The Sabre Group is offering a flight paging service, which alerts business and leisure travelers of departure and arrival times, gate changes and delays. Alphanumeric paging subscribers can …

In January, Greg Rosston and Jeff Steinberg released a staff working paper that clearly articulated how a market-based approach to spectrum management would maximize the public interest. That report informed …

Link Telecommunications of Australia is gearing up to launch a two-way messaging network in Sydney, using technology supplied by Nexus Telecommunications Ltd. of Israel. The system trials began in the …

ACT Communications Inc. developed two personal communications services and cellular protection products. The ACT 452-120-400L is a two-line, single phase surge arrestor that provides all-mode protection. The company said it …

PageMart Wireless Inc. has crossed all borders in North America and some in Central America with its formation of the PageMart Network. The international network is supported by affiliate carriers …

Metawave Communications Corp. named Vito Palermo senior vice president and chief financial officer, with responsibility for the company’s financial and administrative operations including accounting, treasury, financial planning, investor relations and …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it will begin international service during the second quarter, allowing subscribers to roam in Canada, Mexico and Central America. International numeric roaming will cost $15 per …

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Laissez-faire capitalists repeatedly faced off with supporters of de facto or government-mandated high-technology standards during last week’s Mobile Insights ’97 conference on mobile computing. The three-day meeting, held …

After a year of declining prices on paging stocks, market values among the industry’s leaders are starting to stabilize. “The bottom is here, the worst is behind us,” stated Michael …

NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. “is right on target for the (late) April introduction of its SkyWord Plus caller acknowledgement paging,” John T. Stupka, president and chief executive officer, said …

DALLAS-Motorola Inc. and Paging Network Inc. introduced Motorola’s Tenor voice pager to the Dallas/Fort Worth market through PageNet’s VoiceNow service.The tenor pager has the ability to play, rewind, fast forward, …

DENVER-More than half of SMR Direct’s new subscribers are switching to two-way radio from cellular and paging, the company said. “We expected our customer base to be two-way users of …

ReadyCom Inc. is in line to launch two-way voice paging services over networks already built, offering nationwide coverage and roaming capability. Its secret is cellular. The Chapel Hill, N.C., company …

LONDON-Orange plc signed a contract with Inference Corp. for its customer service software. Inference’s case-based reasoning (CBR) products will assist staff in responding to customers’ inquiries on the phone, said …