Telecom

Noting the Federal Communications Commission recently ended state regulation of cellular service rates in California, AirTouch Cellular Communications Inc. announced lower prices and new service plans in its Los Angeles …

August is supposed to be a slow month in the nation’s capital, but even though Congress and the president are out of town there is movement on other fronts. There’s …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Underwriters Laboratories certified Northern Telecom’s 1.9 GHz personal communications services network equipment, the company said. Nortel said its radio base station equipment, based on PCS …

Vigorous consolidation in the U.S. paging industry continues as MobileMedia Corp. closes its $188.5 million purchase of the paging and messaging business of South Carolina-based Dial Page Inc. The rest …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has won a contract with Korea Telecom to provide the first phase of a mobile data network based on Mobitex technology. Korea Telecom, a government-run telecommunications company, …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. said it has begun testing switching equipment from AT&T Network Systems Inc. and L.M. Ericsson in two markets. McCaw plans to purchase $450 million dollars …