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The emergence of personal communications services providers is putting the often-tenuous relationship between carriers and resellers to the test in more ways than one. PCS once was viewed as the …

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless announced that it expanded its southwest Ohio operating region by launching personal communications services in Dayton. The launch coincides with the opening of four new Cincinnati Bell …

The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.’s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging, in which all major paging players …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will give up to two months of free airtime to customers who buy one-way numeric pagers in August at some 17,500 7-Eleven stores nationwide. 7-Eleven …

NEW YORK-Due to orchestrated criminal activity involving illegally obtained subscriber identity module cards, Omnipoint Corp. discounted nearly $10 million-all overseas roaming revenues-its Omnipoint Communications Services L.L.C. subsidiary earned last quarter. …

CELWAVE Celwave introduced a new antenna and amplifier. The Celwave Optimizer, a log periodic dipole antenna, has continuous adjustment of electrical downtilt with the turn of a dial. With an …

PAGEMART PageMart Wireless Inc. promoted two executives, Wayne Stargardt and Donna Regenbaum. Stargardt was named vice president of the company’s fastest-growing business unit, the Carrier Services Division. Stargardt previously was …

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating CellStar Corp.’s compliance with federal securities laws, and the handset distributor said it believes the inquiry is focused on previously disclosed events that …

DENVER-Los Angeles-based resellers American Way Paging and Cellular Palace Inc. merged last month into WirelessLines Inc. The combined company has 75,000 paging customers, as well as wholesale and retail operations …

NEW YORK-“One of the humbling things about this business is that, for three out of four years, we are unapproachable and obnoxious, but in the fourth year we have to …

Mobile phone sales during the second quarter gave Nokia Corp. a boost when it released its second-quarter earnings July 24, while its Swedish rival L.M. Ericsson suffered a plunge in …

NEW YORK-Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent begun with publishing industry-related cases dating back to 1926, the Internal Revenue Service has determined a cellular provider must amortize, or spread out over …

NEW YORK-For consumers, the important news out of a Motorola Inc. press conference July 21 is the broad suite of new wireless telecommunications devices the industry heavyweight debuted. For other …

The paging industry experienced some greater-than-usual excitement in the second quarter that securities analysts at Toronto Dominion Securities Inc. believe will set the tone for the next stage of the …

COMSTREAM John F. Hodgson joined ComStream Corp. as vice president of human resources. Before ComStream, Hodgson held the same position with NextWave Telecom, San Diego, and prior to that with …

LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc announced plans to purchase MCI Communications Corp.’s Internet communications business for $1.75 billion in cash. An agreement previously announced May 28 included only the Internet backbone …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. launched a print ad campaign called Summer Necessities. The campaign targets retail customers of the more than 200 TSR Wireless store’s nationwide and features newspaper …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced the grand opening of its latest retail in northern California in Roseville, marking the sixth such retail presence in the area since the beginning …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it began shipping the Synapse Pager Card, which allows wireless messaging on 3com Corp.’s PalmPilot Organizer. The card-developed by PageMart, 3Com and Motorola Inc.-upgrades all Pilot, …

Motorola Inc. last week announced its long-awaited plan for realigning the company along with another quarter of depressing financial results. Ending its “warring tribes” way of doing business, Motorola announced …

A group of smaller, paging manufacturers impudently are challenging the pager dominance of the 800-pound gorilla that is Motorola Inc. by creating products with unique features designed to set themselves …

Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd., said the company. Comverse said it is the first vendor exclusively dedicated to providing …

While the majority of wireless carriers are moving toward outsourcing their handset distribution needs, Powertel Inc. is moving in the opposite direction. The West Point, Ga.-based personal communications services company …

NEW YORK-As the telecommunications marketplace expands, billing and customer-care companies are ramping up efforts to carve out niches and compete against each other for dominance. “Fueled by changes in customer …

The larger players in the paging industry have bellied up to the consolidation table and, with fork and knife in hand, are poised to dig in. Still digesting its acquisition …