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NEW YORK-Get ready for “PSC”-not to be confused with PCS, and for the “information sky way”-not to be mistaken for the information superhighway. Comsat Mobile Communications announced last week that …

Taiwan’s new telecommunications law will give wireless companies the chance to break into that country’s communications market, but a 20 percent ownership limit may disappoint some businesses. Taiwan is making …

Six months of executive infighting at Metrocall Inc. has led to a top-level management shake-up at the paging carrier, an eventuality the company discounted just three weeks ago. Among the …

Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest international paging markets by country based on information supplied by the U.S. Department of …

Digital Microwave Corp. announced it has received purchase orders valued at $5 million to supply digital microwave radios to Smart Information Technologies Inc., a cellular firm and local exchange carrier …

WASHINGTON-Bidders returned to the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of C-block broadband personal communications services and 900 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses with renewed fervor last week, following complications from the …

Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it has received a contract from L’Office National des Postes et Telecommunications, the government-led telecommunications company in Morocco, to provide paging infrastructure equipment and installation services. …

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to …

Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group was a victim of its own success during the last five months of 1995. A variety of factors caused significant delays in the shipments of …

Rural Cellular Corp. hopes to raise about $30 million in an initial public offering of common stock that could occur as early as this month. The IPO would make the …

L.M. Ericsson and Telia Mobitel have signed a two-year general purchasing agreement covering delivery and installation of Global System for Mobile communications systems to expand the capacity and radio coverage …

Despite Motorola Inc.’s initial $10.62 loss on Wall Street after posting a 16 percent plunge in fourth quarter earnings, its stock started to forge a quick recovery. But while Wall …

There may well be a vast geographic and cultural divide between Russia and the United States, but Mikhail Bogdanov, owner of Moscow-based EcoSoft GTCO, said he is impressed by the …

Frontier Communications announced it will resell Cellular One’s cellular services in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, and in metropolitan Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich. Under the agreement between the two companies, …

Just months after AT&T Corp. stated it would split into three separate companies, Chairman Robert Allen announced 40,000 people will be displaced or laid off during the next three years. …

WASHINGTON-Following the Nov. 29 filing of a Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit at the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, communications brokers Republic Communications Corp. and …

NEW YORK-With nearly $4 million in creditor claims against it deleted by a federal court in late December, Cellular Telephone Enterprises Inc. last week entered the end game of an …

SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecom has signed interconnect agreements with each of the three operators awarded licenses to operate mobile communications services in Singapore beginning April 1, 1997. The new operators are cellular …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced it will supply its ReFLEX two-way paging technology and global positioning system receiver to the AutoLink System, an automotive safety, security …

The top three executives of Metrocall Inc. convened a teleconference for journalists, analysts and stockholders Jan. 3 that they said was intended largely to dispel widespread rumors of a top-level …

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. completed the acquisition of BellSouth Corp.’s MobileComm paging subsidiary and its nationwide narrowband personal communications services license. MobileMedia said it paid about $930 million. The company …

The worldwide market for wireless online transaction terminals and systems is forecast to grow from $487 million in 1995 to $1.9 billion by 1999, with wireless partially displacing wireline for …

WASHINGTON-The Overseas Private Investment Corp. announced $423 million of support for three telecommunications projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The projects are a wireless public telephone system in Tanzania, …

Globalstar L.P. of San Jose, Calif., said it has completed a five-year, $250 million bank financing. The company said that with the bank facility, its remaining external financing requirements are …

WASHINGTON-Congressional GOP and White House budget negotiators reached an agreement on auctioning radio spectrum through the year 2002 as part of renewed talks aimed at producing a compromise on a …