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In these days of competitive, get-the-activation-at-any-cost retail marketing, can a cellular service provider that charges high airtime rates without discounting handsets or letting its subscribers roam find success in the …

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 …

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 …

TAMPA, Fla.-Nokia Corp. has announced a new version of its Nokia 232 cellular phone that enables the phone to operate on a Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service network. The company …

Happy New Year! The mark of a new year tradition ally brings resolutions for the fu ture and reflections on the past. That holds true for the wireless industry as …

NEW YORK-Industry analysts remain confident in the outlook for Nokia Corp., despite the mid-December drubbing its American Depository Receipts took after the Finnish electronics manufacturer announced poor profit performance in …

CellStar Corp. said it formed a distribution relationship with Cellular One Group. The company said the agreement is a nationwide strategic cellular accessory program encompassing original equipment manufacturer products from …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with Crutchfield Corp., a national retail catalog sales firm in Charlottesville, Va. The Crutchfield catalog specializes in car, home, electronics and audio/video …

While leading companies in all segments of the wireless industry are growing through consolidation, Dallas-based PageMart Inc. is flourishing by concentrating on the internal growth of its paging operations. Although …

WASHINGTON-The future is here. Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 …

These days cellular phones are sold just about everywhere you turn, even the drug store. However, it may not be so easy to buy one. One company said it has …

Two kinds of private, in-building wireless systems are seeking the attention of today’s large business customers-stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions of employee desk phones, and stand-alone systems that provide …

IFR Systems Inc. has named Dr. Samual Kyehung Lee director of business development for the Pacific Rim. He will also be the management contact for all IFR distributors in mainland …

Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will supply equipment for narrowband personal communications services to Paging Network Inc. under a contract agreement. PageNet will use the equipment to beta test its …

The nation’s major cellular handset manufacturers caused a little commotion on Wall Street recently when they noted handset sales hadn’t grown at the phenomenal rate that analysts and industry execs …

WHEATON, Md.-Replacement sales of cellular phones has emerged as a key market segment, yielding profit opportunities, according to market research analyst Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd., in the company’s latest issue …

As a native Washingtonian, I always become suspicious when Democrats and Republicans jointly embrace anything. My suspicions heighten when the executive and legislative branches-and the “independent” Federal Communications Commission-all rush …

The two-way paging system recently launched by SkyTel Corp. is reasonably priced and clearly takes the paging industry across the threshold into next-century applications, say wireless analysts. “The market is …

ORLANDO, Fla.-A cellular phone battery with a built-in numeric pager has been introduced by Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group, in what the company says is a response to market demand. …

AT&T’s cellular and paging division and its wireless equipment business will soon belong to separate and independent publicly traded companies under AT&T Corp.’s plan to completely restructure the organization. AT&T …

Accelerating consolidation in the wireless industry engulfs yet another prominent company as MobileMedia Corp. agrees to acquire BellSouth Corp.’s MobileComm paging subsidiary and its two-way nationwide narrowband personal communications services …

Incidents of cloning fraud and associated revenue loss have dropped more than 80 percent in Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile’s cellular markets since the company started aggressively using personal identification numbers …

With the dramatic changes that are occurring in every sector of the telecommunications industry, analysts and investors on Wall Street and elsewhere are re-evaluating the industry, its sectors and its …

American Paging Inc. is restructuring three of its key operating areas – sales and marketing, administration and customer service – to achieve an improved customer mix, reduced administrative costs and …

Paging operators using an Israeli technology can plug a spread-spectrum return path into their present systems to facilitate low-end, two-way paging at a fraction of the cost of full two-way …