Telecom

After DSP Communications Inc. announced plans to merge with Proxim Inc. last Tuesday, DSPC’s stock dropped 49 percent to close at $35.25 on the Nasdaq exchange. But Merrill Lynch calls …

COLUMBUS, Ohio-American Electric Power formed a new subsidiary to offer personal communications services licensees assistance in establishing and maintaining their networks. The non-regulated company is named AEP Communications Inc. AEP …

WASHINGTON-When President Clinton signed the telecommunications reform bill on Feb. 8, the wireless telecommunications industry thought it was home free. A national antenna siting policy. Exclusion from local exchange carrier …

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron Inc. signed a contract with Southeastern Michigan Gas Enterprises to provide a wireless automatic meter reading system to the Battle Creek Gas Co., a Southeastern subsidiary. The contract …

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator, will expand its “friendly user” network trial by several hundred people in the New York City metropolitan area. The users …

The broadband personal communications services auctions held during the past two years have spawned a plethora of novel policy and fiscal issues for policymakers. The reason: $20 billion. Money changes …