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BOSTON-The Yankee Group has concluded that wireless prices are both stabilizing and homogenizing. The company’s Wireless Price Index, which has tracked wireless prices in 25 cities since 1994, shows that …

BOSTON-New all-inclusive wireless rate plans are signalling the beginning of landline replacement, according to the third in a series of pricing studies conducted by the Yankee Group. Wireless rates have …

BOSTON-The success of wireless value-added services depends on the region where the services are being offered, according to a Yankee Group report on value-added services, including call management, voice mail, …

Ever since Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. introduced the first in a new class of mobile phones with its Nokia 9000 Communicator, the excitement surrounding the idea of devices that combine …

Some analysts are expecting Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure spending to taper off in 1999 as cdmaOne infrastructure deployments in China remain questionable. “I think China is the lynch pin …

The wireless implications of America Online Inc.’s acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp. and its related strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Inc. continue to reverberate as more attention has been given …

The personal handyphone system market in Japan is ready for improvement, but analysts say it will take big commitments from carriers and differentiated marketing to jump-start demand. PHS subscriber numbers …

This holiday season will see an unprecedented number of mobile phone competitors in the market, but carriers still seem unwilling to compete with break-neck pricing as they aim to keep …

Aggressive digital pricing plans are quickly driving the migration of customers from analog service to digital service, say analysts. “We attribute today’s successful migration directly to rate plans combined with …

WASHINGTON-In the post-telecom-act era, the cellular telephone industry continues to face intertwined challenges of policy and perception. On the one hand, the Federal Communications Commission wants to foster the local …

Royal Philips Electronics and Lucent Technologies Inc. last week said they will dissolve the consumer communications joint venture they established just more than one year ago. At the time of …

Sources indicate Ericsson Inc. may be preparing to enter the cdmaOne handset business. Ericsson, the only major vendor that has yet to license Interim Standard-95 technology from Qualcomm Inc., has …

Changing times are requiring some infrastructure vendors to reorganize their businesses and better align themselves with their customers. Siemens AG of Germany is the latest vendor to realize this. The …

In Chicago, where the mobile phone penetration rate is one of the highest among the nation’s most populous markets, cellular carriers Ameritech Cellular Services Inc. and SBC Wireless have made …

BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. marks its re-entry into the paging market this week with the commercial debut of its two-way Interactive Paging Service. The service uses the new Inter@ctive 950 …

If the promise of enhanced wireless services was a hot-fudge sundae with lots of toppings, about the only thing wireless customers have been served so far is vanilla ice cream …

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it is offering a prepaid alphanumeric paging package in addition to its prepaid numeric paging product launched last fall. Prepaid alpha paging allows subscribers to …

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 …

Analysts are indicating now is the time to buy some cheap Canadian wireless stocks, as the mobile phone market finally has rebounded from its 1997 growth slump. BT Alex.Brown Inc. …

As the digital revolution begins to move at a substantial pace, mobile phone manufacturers have some tough decisions to make. The demand for digital handsets is growing, especially in the …

PageMart Wireless Inc. launched a narrowband personal communications services network in Austin and San Antonio, offering a guaranteed-receipt alphanumeric message service called Scout. This makes PageMart the first paging carrier …

Wideband cdmaOne will play a small part in the proposal Japan’s standards body will submit to the International Telecommunications Union as a third-generation technology choice. The Association of Radio Businesses …

NEW YORK-Pathnet Inc. hopes to raise $100 million by going public to help finance its goal of becoming a national carrier’s carrier in smaller markets by upgrading existing wireless infrastructure …

Once astounding the world with its success in 1995 and 1996, Personal Handyphone System service in Japan now has taken a turn for the worse. The number of PHS subscribers …

Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market. But mobile data network …