Telecom

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. received commitments from two financial institutions on a private placement of $25 million of Series A Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase common stock. Metrocall said the …

An independent Louisiana telephone company is among those launching the second wave of personal communications service systems in the country. Meretel Communications L.P. has received a multimillion loan from the …

WASHINGTON-The proposed merger of MCI Communications Corp. and British Telecommunications plc promises to bring plenty of cash and plenty of new services to the global telecommunications arena, but wireless subscribers …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is considering auctioning low-earth-orbit mobile data satellite licenses from the remaining pool of applicants. The prospect of auctions, a regulatory tool not used in global satellite …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Dr. Nils Rydbeck, manager of Mobile Telephony research and development at Ericsson in the United States, was awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ Gold Medal for an …

TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Tele-communications Services Inc. has designed an animated electronic presentation on computer disk to promote its ChurnManager system. The disk, called “Wireless Romance, or The True Life Story of …