Telecom

CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said its board of directors authorized repurchase of up to 3 million TDS common shares. “It is our intention to use repurchased shares to fund …

Tele-Communications Inc. said the tracking stock it is creating for its holding in Sprint Spectrum L.P. is designed to raise cash, and shouldn’t be seen as a sign that TCI …

SINGAPORE-MobileOne of Singapore announced it turned on its cellular network for limited use and plans to launch service commercially in April. Goh Chee Wee, Singapore’s Minister of the State for …

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-Sims Communications Inc. and the American Automobile Association have teamed to offer rented cellular phones to AAA’s 890,000 members in the Carolinas. The product package called “TripFone,” is …

WASHINGTON-In a decision almost surely headed for the appeals court, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday conditionally awarded NextWave Personal Communications Inc. its C-block licenses after NextWave submitted a plan …

NEW YORK-The public capital markets were not kind to personal communications services companies in 1996, but 1997 is looking a bit more hopeful. “The seven publicly traded PCS players not …