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Resistance to unsightly towers has prompted many wireless carriers to site their antennas on existing structures such as buildings and water towers to reduce the visual impact of their equipment. …

TOKYO-NEC Corp. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. have agreed to work together in technical trials of a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system with the Telephone Organization of Thailand. …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. lawyer Thomas Cullen, attempting to convince U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last Friday to accept the dispatch giant’s request to vacate a 1995 antitrust consent decree, …

Are today’s high-tech firms so different from companies of the Industrial Age as to make classic antitrust analysis archaic and no longer applicable? Top antitrust minds, like Federal Trade Commission …

WASHINGTON-In the public forum, Nextel Communications Inc. speaks earnestly of a brave new wireless world in which it could compete more favorably against AT&T Corp., Sprint Corp. and others if …

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. became the first Global System for Mobile communications carrier to eliminate long-distance and roaming charges on GSM networks in the United States and Canada. The …

NEW YORK-Orbcomm Global L.P., Dulles, Va., announced March 1 that Conatel, the Venezuelan government regulatory agency, has granted operating and frequency licenses to Telecomunicaciones de Caracas, the exclusive provider of …

EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Several technology companies announced they have created an alliance to develop an interface connecting consumer and small-business appliances to Internet services, called the Open Service Gateway specification. Its backers …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre’s Wireless Access Group and Golden Eagle Credit Corp. have teamed to lease pagers directly to the end user. The new leasing arrangement will allow more companies to …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. last week signed agreements with LottoNet and Yahoo!, furthering its goal to provide various Internet-based information services to its paging subscribers. LottoNet is an Internet-based lottery information …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced a new service plan for business customers that combines the use of multiple customers to provide a consistent and predictable wireless plan costing 10 cents …

WASHINGTON-Let the lobbying begin. Now that the Federal Communications Commission has decided to think some more about its position on whether to auction private wireless spectrum, lobbyists are gearing up …

Intelligent roaming is guaranteed to change the face of the wireless industry, and smaller carriers that have built their businesses on making money from roaming better pay attention, say experts. …

WASHINGTON-The fallout over alleged technology transfers, increasingly testing the mettle of fledgling mobile satellite firms, has prompted new bills to aid the U.S. space launch industry and to ban satellite …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS announced short messaging service is available to its wireless customers. All Sprint PCS customers who have voice mail have the additional option of receiving numeric pages …

WHEATON, Md.-A recent report from Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. examines the reasons why Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Subscriber Sector lost market share to Nokia Corp., which today is the leader in …

WASHINGTON-If the inside-the-beltway crowd thinks the issue of antenna siting is slowing down-or perhaps going away altogether-they should have attended a telecommunications forum on Feb. 28, sponsored by the National …

Helsinki-based Sonera Group plc, Finland’s largest telecommunications carrier, plans a $1.1 billion issue of medium term notes to help finance its expansion plans. The partially privatized carrier, owned 78 percent …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS engineers have developed standard specifications that enable interoperability between two major components of wireless networks-mobile switching centers and base station subsystems-from two different vendors of Code …

NEW YORK-Vodafone Group plc, based in Berkshire, England, announced it signed up its 10 millionth proportionate customer March 1. Vodafone, which is acquiring AirTouch Communications Inc., said the subscriber count …

SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp. and Allen Telecom Inc. announced an agreement to form a joint venture that will offer an integrated line of geolocation equipment and solutions based on …

Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace. Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies …

NEW YORK-Venture capitalists are beating a path to the door of those who would build a better mousetrap for the burgeoning telecommunications/wireless sector, according to results of the quarterly PriceWaterhouseCoopers …

Royal Philips Electronics launched a hostile bid Friday to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of VLSI Technology Inc. after VLSI declined to respond to Philips’ merger proposal by …

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., among others, have joined to create a standard that will allow users to access Web-based information via mobile or landline …