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CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced cellular service provider Cocelco S.A. in Colombia chose CellStar to provide a variety of distribution and value-added services. Under terms of the agreement, CellStar will provide …

NEW YORK-Telecom Eireann raised about $4.3 billion and erased 10 percent of Ireland’s national debt with its initial public offering, which was priced July 7 and began trading July 8 …

Although they believe the future growth of the paging industry lies in advanced messaging, paging carriers continue to search out new ways to attract customers to traditional paging services as …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has agreed to resell its paging and messaging services for a five-year period to Sprint Corp. According to the agreement, Sprint initially will offer traditional …

DENVER, United States-After several months of fruitlessly chasing the horizontal market of international roaming business users, Iridium announced a refocused marketing plan aimed at the vertical industrial segments and a …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the drive to implement Internet e-commerce is being hyped almost on a daily basis, with some justification, as the way forward for almost all future business transactions, …

NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus ’99 that the company plans to offer for sale later this year …

DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. announced a strategic relationship with 3Com Corp., designed to extend AOL e-mail to Palm Computing handheld devices. 3Com said it will bundle AOL’s new software in …

Authentix Authentix Network Inc. announced David Rowan and Raymond Szull joined the company as regional vice presidents in sales. Rowan will be based in Pennsylvania and will be responsible for …

Iridium World Communications Ltd.’s stock plunged last week after an announcement that parent company Iridium L.L.C. had hired Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette to restructure its debt and the company announced …

As deregulation slowly takes hold of the U.S. electric utility industry, many companies are beginning to take a look at wireless telecommunications as a way to hold on to their …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced OfficeMax Inc. will sell its advanced messaging products and services. OfficeMax operates more than 860 stores in 360 markets throughout 49 states, as well as Puerto …

NEW YORK-For status-conscious Americans, Nokia Corp. plans to debut by late summer its Nokia 8800 series phone, carrying a suggested retail price of “under $1,000,” the company said May 10. …

American Mobile Satellite Corp. introduced a service called eLink, a two-way wireless messaging application with integrated personal information manager functions. Using a modified version of the RIM 950 pager from …

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced it is consolidating its Latin America and North America regions into a new Americas region in an effort to increase growth in the U.S. market and …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden Multimedia Corp. began shipping for commercial and retail sale a new portable wireless communications Cellular Digital Packet Data modem, the Uniden Data 2000. The Data 2000 is …

Iridium L.L.C.’s first full quarter of operation was marked with handset production delays, distribution problems, low subscriber numbers and a deepening net loss, the aftermath of which has led the …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a CDMA handset for the Brazil market in Manaus, …

Intellicell Intellicell Corp. announced Mike Hedge and Michael King, both previously with CellStar Corp., are heading up Intellicell’s sales and marketing group. Hedge will be responsible for the implementation of …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. announced the SCH-1500 personal communications services handset. The phone is a dual-band, dual-mode handset that combines voice-activated dialing. Sprint PCS will …

WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission moves closer to setting guidelines to make telecom equipment and services accessible to disabled individuals, the wireless industry is pressing regulators to back off proposed …

WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced a five-year extension of its technology licensing agreement with Telemac Corp. STC said it will feature handset-based prepaid technology from Telemac in its direct-response …

AO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a Code Division Multiple Access handset for the Brazil …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it changed the operating segments it uses to report financial figures to coincide with organizational changes in its communications equipment business. Research and development expenditures now …

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced Sprint PCS will deploy Lightbridge’s Retail Management System and consulting services. According to Lightbridge, RMS will help Sprint PCS to incorporate a more efficient selling process …