Telecom

RALEIGH, N.C.-BellSouth Mobility DCS has launched the second phase of its three-year, $500 million network deployment plan to bring personal communications services to the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee. The company …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has acquired the Little Rock, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., 1900 MHz personal communications services licenses from SBC Communications Inc. In addition to acquiring the two major …

NEW YORK-Shareholders of Cellular Communications Inc., New York, were scheduled to vote Aug. 16 whether to approve the company’s acquisition by AirTouch Communications Inc., San Francisco. Once the merger is …

WALTHAM, Mass.-Primark Corp. has acquired Yankee Group Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm in the communications and computing field. The transaction includes cash payments of $34 million and …

Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group said Shanghai Guomai, the largest paging carrier in China, is operating using Motorola’s FLEX protocol-based paging system in Shanghai. Guomai has close to 1 million …

Paging stocks have been taking a beating lately as ratings agencies and some analysts worry that plain old paging won’t be able to compete in the sophisticated two-way messaging and …