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Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of laPAGEco of Baton Rouge, La. laPAGEco is a privately owned paging company that provides services to about 6,700 pagers on …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc., is offering Internet paging access to its 2.6 million customers nationwide. All AirTouch Paging customers now can receive e-mail messages sent …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.’s net income for the second quarter increased 58 percent to $61.2 million, or 12 cents per share, from $38.7 million, or 8 cents per share, for …

FORT WORTH, Texas- Uniden America Corp. licensed Motorola Inc.’s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol, the first manufacturing company to license the technology for advanced messaging devices, announced Motorola’s Messaging Systems Products …

MORRISTOWN, Tenn.-Advanced Communications announced it is now offering Racepage alphanumeric racing information service to paging carriers and resellers. Previously, Racepage only was available to subscribers of Advanced Communications’ paging service, …

SAN DIEGO-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cirrus Logic Inc., announced it has signed a reseller agreement with Retix to provide personal Air Communications Technology narrowband personal …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has been assisting the RITT Research Institute of Telecommunications, within China’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, to establish an internetwork communications protocol as China’s …

Cable & Wireless Inc. has signed a cellular resale agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, one of the first steps in introducing its own branded wireless service package into the …

I wonder if Judge Loretta Preska has ever been to a professional basketball game. Preska ruled in favor of the NBA in its lawsuit against Motorola Inc., ordering Motorola and …

WASHINGTON-Members of a small-business personal communications services coalition met with staffers representing Sen. Christopher (Kit) Bond (R-Mo.), chairman of the Committee on Small Business, to ask for his intervention if …

TORONTO, Ontario-Paging Network Inc. of Canada said it started service in Ottawa and Quebec City. The company first introduced one-way paging services April 1 in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Toronto-based …

American Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the MicroTracker remote tracking module, a vehicle location system that combines a global positioning system receiver, radio transceiver and radio frequency modem in …

NEW YORK-The NBA won its lawsuit against Motorola Inc. last week, with a judge ruling the electronics company “engaged in unlawful conduct” with its pager-like device that provides accounts of …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group, in cooperation with the Personal Communications Industry Association, has made the Telocator Data Paging suite of protocols available free of charge to …

Dear Editor: Small businesses are the foundation of our nation’s economic success; they create jobs, spur innovation and spark competition. The Federal Communications Commission is committed to fostering the entry …

Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless communications project in Indonesia. Photocomm said …

WASHINGTON-Following what they characterized as an unsuccessful meeting with Wireless Telecommunications Bureau personnel last week, three personal communications services small-business concerns filed a petition for reconsideration regarding revised D-, E- …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is on a collision course with Congress over encryption policy, as policymakers try to balance law enforcement and national security needs with privacy and commercial interests. The …

The prospect of taking SkyTel 2-Way messaging service from a workable technology to a marketplace product is at the crux of John Stupka’s new role as president and chief executive …

Forget cellular. Personal Technology Services Inc.’s PCS business will compete with the phone company, said Colin Buckingham, PTS’ president and chief executive officer. The company is seeking spectrum in the …

Comcast Cellular One has named David S. Levine director of marketing communications. Levine will be responsible for all marketing functions for the Cranbury, N.J.-based cellular provider, including advertising, promotion, public …

SEATTLE-McCaw International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., announced it has purchased a 30 percent interest in Infocom Communications Network Inc., a wireless company in the Philippines. …

I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did I use? “Sprint,” I told him. …

Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network …

MobileMedia Corp. apparently has outgrown the talents of its leaders. Six months after the company purchased MobileComm from BellSouth Corp., MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Gregory Rorke, President and Chief Operating …