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BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation’s first multistate personal communications services network, and the country’s fourth PCS system activation. Service was launched in a cluster that involves three …

Sales and marketing practices in the wireless communications industry are substandard and could cause carriers worldwide to lose as much as a third of their revenues to new competitors over …

Paging Network Inc. of Dallas is introducing a paging service that allows its customers to receive unlimited pages with no monthly fees. What’s the catch? Value Page is a caller …

Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest wireless equipment dealers in the United States based on survey responses and interviews with …

DALLAS-A new chain of communications superstores called Communications Expo is scheduled to open its first store in Dallas next month, announced Paging Network Inc., which plans to distribute its line …

Could the obstacle-plagued auction that took forever to start be near its end? It seems so, although a part of me believes the C-block auction for personal communications services will …

WASHINGTON-Of the 89 winners of C-block personal communications services licenses last May, only four were singled out by seven other entities who seek to have the Federal Communications Commission either …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Personal Communications Inc. has changed its corporate name and unveiled a new logo to promote its Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 service. The BellSouth Corp. subsidiary said it …

IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems announced the IBM 2488 Model 800, the latest offering in its line of rugged, wireless handheld computing devices. IBM Mobile said the line is integrated …

Qualcomm Personal Electronics has won significant handset contracts from Sprint Spectrum L.P. and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., with a combined value of $850 million. The Sprint Spectrum agreement requires that …

Great Britain’s Office of Telecommunications said it is exploring the possibility that wireless phone operators Vodafone plc and Cellnet are charging local telephone operator British Telecommunications plc unfair interconnect rates. …

WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and senior discounted notes sale in the …

NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. hit the ground running last fall with its nationwide SkyTel 2-Way paging launch, stumbled over unforeseen obstacles and has now dusted itself off and resumed …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets. CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T’s cellular coverage area, according to …

Tessco Technologies Inc. said it has acquired Cincinnati-based Cartwright Communications for cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The transaction is valued at $3.8 million plus the net value of …

CHICAGO-Paging Network Inc. and software developer Ex Machina Inc. announced the rollout of a wireless, Internet-based news, entertainment and messaging network called AirMedia Live! PageNet said it will carry AirMedia …

The wireless arms of the regional Bell operating companies are riding a new wave of revenue by offering long-distance service to their cellular customers. Until the Telecommunications Act was passed …

WASHINGTON-DCR Communications has changed its name to Pocket Communications Inc. The Washington, D.C.-based firm, which walked away from the C-block spectrum auctions with personal communications services licenses for 43 markets, …

It has been about seven years since the disintegration of the Soviet empire. During that time, some former Eastern bloc countries have built a thriving telecommunications business despite obstacles. Cellular …

NEW YORK-Group Communication Services, Canada’s second-largest specialized mobile radio operator, plans an initial public offering of common stock to help finance most of a major expansion project to deploy digital …

A new retail outlet for cellular is opening nationwide, but there won’t be any sales people and you won’t find the address in the yellow pages. Denver-based nLYTn Technologies Corp. …

NEW YORK-In its first application outside paging, Motorola Inc.’s FLEX chipsets will be used in Ex Machina Inc.’s AirMedia Live information services product, the companies announced. AirMedia Live will allow …

Motorola Inc. said it has worked out the glitches and is in full production again on the RSVP, its slim cellular phone battery that contains a pager. The product was …

DALLAS-ProNet Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Georgialina Communications Co. and affiliates for about $11.6 million. The company …

DENVER-Advantage Cellular Inc., a cellular specialty store that offers AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s cellular service, announced the opening of two licensee locations in Colorado Springs and downtown Denver. The new …