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“The Internet is the killer app!” declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps ’95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas. He was …

The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, …

NEW YORK-The surprise announcement of a proposed merger between SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group came about due to a unique set of circumstances. But the move, a first …

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group announced West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Pager One Inc. has introduced a FLEX high-speed paging system that it said gives pager users more reliable …

NEW YORK-Two years after it divested itself of its international paging and cellular operations, Pacific Telesis Group, San Francisco, now confronts projections of two years of nearly flat earnings and …

NEW YORK-Orange plc, a British cellular carrier, sold an initial public offering of common stock March 27 that netted approximately $951 million. In January, Orange, Bristol, England, was formed as …

The South African Police Services announced it has awarded Motorola Inc. and South Africa-based Alcom a contract for a SmartZone UHF two-way radio communications system. Motorola said the system will …

WASHINGTON-Congress late last week was expected to introduce legislation to force the Federal Communications Commission to lift the two-month-old paging application freeze, a source told RCR. The legislation likely will …

California Microwave Inc. announced it is expecting earnings per share for its 1996 fiscal year third quarter ending March 31 to be in the range of 5 cents to 10 …

I’ve got a scoop! I think I now know how President Clinton plans to balance the budget. By selling the budget-all five volumes of the fiscal ’97 spending plan for …

AirTouch Communications Inc. announced its cellular ventures in Germany and Italy have continued to experience strong customer growth. AirTouch said its German cellular venture, Mannesmann Mobilfunk, currently has more than …

Starting a wireless communications company was probably the most ambitious undertaking I have ever initiated in my life. Many people question whether or not a small business can survive in …

ReadyCom field trials garner 46 paying users ReadyCom Inc. announced it has completed the first phase of its two-way voice messaging market trial. From the 43 participants recruited for the …

Like parallel rails that run straight into the distance but seem to touch at the horizon, wireless telecommunications and mobile computing have each made great strides into the future. Now …

REDMOND, Wash.-Data Critical Corp. announced it has been awarded two patents for its Data-Through-Paging technology. One patent covers the “packetizing” component of the company’s protocol, whereby textual and/or graphical data …

WASHINGTON-If bidders in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction have learned one thing, it’s to watch one’s back at any given moment or prized markets will be stolen away. …

MARCH 25-27 Wireless ’96, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Dallas Convention Center, Dallas. Call Mary Claire Murphy at (202) 785-0081. 25-29 Third Annual Portable by Design Conference and Exposition. …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed to auction toll-free 888 telephone numbers, a potential hot-button issue for Congress that could hurt paging operators in the near term and pocket telephone …

U S West Inc.’s board of directors has declared a regular, quarterly dividend of 54 cents per share on the common stock of U S West Communications Group. U S …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Media Group announced U S West Cellular will adopt the AirTouch name before the companies’ domestic cellular units merge. U S West …

Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The …

WASHINGTON-Jackson, Miss.-based Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. will have to wait a while longer to learn if it is liable for a $33 million payment for the pioneer’s preference narrowband personal …

NEW YORK-Recent blips of volatility in the stock and bond markets are no cause for alarm for wireless companies planning to tap the public capital markets this spring, Wall Street …

WASHINGTON-U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor warned that World Trade Organization telecommunications talks will collapse unless more countries agree to open their markets, a development that could complicate efforts to ease …

The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, …