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Cord Communications Inc. selected Mark E. Reed to be its president and chief executive officer. Reed joins Cord from In Focus Systems, a multimedia projection systems company, where he was …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its international paging network is now operational, as a result of recent agreements with telecom companies in Mexico, Panama and El Salvador. These agreements-added to those …

LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk Teleservices Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the retail prepaid business of Frontier Corp. for $35 million cash. Frontier distributes prepaid phone cards in more …

WASHINGTON-The United States and Japan earlier this month appeared to sidestep a trade war that portended potential devastation for American retailers of wireless products during the busy holiday season. U.S. …

Tectonic Engineering Consultants P.C. named Robert E. Lister a supervising engineer, with responsibility for the structural design and analysis of buildings, infrastructure projects and wireless communication facilities. A licensed professional …

Boston Communications Group Inc. signed a corporate agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to provide wireless roaming services to personal communications services customers roaming within Sprint PCS’ coverage areas. Boston’s Roamerplus …

PanaVise Products Inc. introduced a combination mounting kit designed to keep cellular phones secure while driving, but quickly release the phone for easy removal from the vehicle. The PortaGrip 2000 …

To clarify the cost of airtime for Global System for Mobile communications subscribers who use their phones to roam on foreign networks, the GSM MoU Association’s global membership voted to …

NEW YORK-Competition, as intended, is causing the telecommunications pie to enlarge. But it also is creating numerous consolidation plays among carriers as they strive for dominance and economies of scale …

Lucent Technologies announced it promoted Richard McGinn, current president and chief operating officer, to chief executive officer, effective immediately. McGinn, 51, will replace Henry Schacht, 63, who will remain as …

NEW YORK-Expanding an offering available to corporate customers for the last year, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced its PocketNet service, which allows Internet access from analog cellular phones, …

MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa.-Gemplus Corp. and Far Point Consulting together introduced a smart card-based electronic gift certificate application for the retail market. The product, which was developed by Far Point using Gemplus …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a five-year strategic alliance that will allow Alltel to offer its customers PageMart’s numeric and text-based paging services. Alltel is a …

NEW YORK-France Telecom’s partial privatization through an initial public offering of common stock, priced Oct.7, should raise $8.2 billion for the federal government, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, finance minister, said. The government …

One of the more significant developments in the paging industry this year was the announced merger between ProNet Inc. and Metrocall Inc., expected to create the second largest paging carrier …

BellSouth Mobility named Scott Stone, Jack Landham, Rick Rudden and Terry D. Newberry to management positions for Alabama and northwest Florida. Stone, who was named director of finance, joined the …

WASHINGTON-With industry consolidation increasing and prospects for greater facilities-based competition diminishing, new life has been breathed into the wireless resale debate. Most recently, San Francisco-based AirTouch Communications Inc. has come …

Once the industry’s dynamic duo of distribution, the relationship between paging carriers and paging resellers is no longer the love fest it once was. In paging’s early days, resellers were …

Bell Atlantic Corp.’s Carrier Services has teamed up with Metrocall Inc. to launch a calling party pays numeric paging service. The four-month trial service will be available to residents of …

Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. won a contract to provide propagation analysis equipment to Qualcomm Inc. for international distribution of personal communications services and cellular systems. Berkeley values the arrangement at …

NEWTON, Mass.-Personal communications services providers must prevail in the consumer market in order to be successful, said a report issued by Business Research Group. PCS providers focused initially on the …

Boston Communications Group Inc. reached an agreement with RadioShack to jointly distribute wireless prepaid services. “RadioShack displays a strong commitment toward wireless prepaid services, and because of this, the impact …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Personal communications services provider Powertel Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCel Inc., launched commercial PCS service last week in Gainesville, Fla. Allen Smith, president and chief executive …

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched its personal communications services network branded Sprint PCS in the Twin Cities area. Minneapolis and St. Paul mark the company’s 47th and 48th Code …

NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Wireless Communications Centers Inc., will install sales and customer service centers in high-traffic retail locations in Atlanta, Phoenix, Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., and Birmingham, …