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WASHINGTON-The House GOP strategy to reach out to voters this election year by repealing a 4.3 cents gasoline tax hike and underwriting forgone federal revenue by auctioning 35 megahertz of …

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 …

It’s quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do. That’s how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.’s …

WASHINGTON-The dust has settled only slightly since the bidding for C-block personal communications services licenses ended May 6 after 184 rounds strung out over 4 1/2 months. The entrepreneurial block …

California Microwave Inc. has appointed Dennis Raney executive vice president and chief financial officer. Raney brings 26 years of broad financial experience, including international operations, financial planning, information systems and …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House commerce appropriations subcommittee, said the Federal Communications Commission will not receive the $223 million requested for fiscal 1997 and blasted FCC Chairman …

NEW YORK-A+ Network Inc. signed definitive agreements to acquire Radio and Communications Consultants Inc. of Shreveport, La., and South Central Paging of Nashville, Tenn. The two paging companies, formerly affiliates …

WASHINGTON-With the huge capital costs of spectrum, infrastructure and marketing playing a major part in the rollout of new personal communications services, PACS technology may become an attractive option for …

WASHINGTON-President Clinton signed appropriations legislation Friday to fund the Federal Communications Commission and scores of other government agencies for the rest of fiscal 1996, ending a bloody budget battle between …

A Korean company has allied with an Indian manufacturer to build pagers and paging systems in India, and directly compete with U.S. manufacturers that claim strong inroads into that nation. …

WASHINGTON-After reaching an exhausting seven rounds per day, the 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auctions finally ended last week, with the predicted big spenders-Paging Network of America, Geotek Communications Inc., …

ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of class A common shares that is expected to raise about …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is set to intervene shortly in a Democratic Party power struggle for leadership of the new Telecommunications Development Fund, a potentially huge pool of money small businesses …

Consolidation in the cellular industry is galloping ahead-now spurred faster by the 1996 Telecom Reform Act-but toward an uncertain future. The ten largest cellular carriers served nearly 27 million subscribers …

NEW YORK-With a push from the new federal telecommunications deregulation law, SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group announced April 1 the first merger ever between two Baby Bells. In …

NEW YORK-The surprise announcement of a proposed merger between SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group came about due to a unique set of circumstances. But the move, a first …

What did he know and when did he know it? Ah, the immortal question of Sen. Howard Baker of Watergate fame. That’s what House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Fields (R-Texas) …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Mark Warner knows how he’d market Virginia, one of America’s booming high-tech hotbeds, if elected to the Senate this fall. He’d have a picture of Thomas Jefferson sitting at …

PCS Development Corp. is confident in the opportunities for early players in the market for stored voice paging in narrowband PCS. The company just last week announced it signed a …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division announced it has been awarded contracts to deploy seven Global System for Mobile communications networks in China. “With the explosive growth …

Roy Neel, president of the United States Telephone Association, offered reporters last week what he believed to be a keen insight. He recounted an anecdote about President Clinton’s Feb. 8 …

WASHINGTON-TheUnited States Telephone Association last week attacked the Federal Communications Commission’s interim wireless-wireline interconnection proposal, calling the plan misguided and the cellular industry’s campaign for such reform misleading. “The process …

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a wholesaler of one-way paging airtime, last Friday expected to launch its initial public offering of 3.3 million shares of common stock at $14 to $16 …

Proponents of calling party pays believe the service will both generate more airtime and increase the number of incoming calls, but they don’t agree on how such a system should …

It’s understandable, as we now read in post-telecom bill interviews with U.S. District Judge Harold Greene, that the seven regional Bell telephone companies under his purview since the 1984 AT&T …