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WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has thrown out recently changed rules on how telecommunications carriers use information about their customers. The court issued the ruling as the wireless industry celebrated the …

Soon my constant companion will leave me-no I don’t mean my husband or my adorable bulldog-rather I mean my Sprint Spectrum phone. I (along with all of the other Sprint …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to start struggling with the definition of competition as it reviews comments submitted in its competitive networks docket. Is it competition that …

IRVING, Texas-GTE Corp. continued to prepare financially to buy Ameritech Corp.’s wireless properties by selling off 126,410 wireline access lines to Telephone USA of Wisconsin L.L.C. and Century Tel Inc. …

PALM BAY, Fla.-Harris Corp.’s former semiconductor unit launched its new name and corporate identity. The company’s new name is Intersil Corp. The company appointed Gregory L. Williams president and chief …

DALLAS-HighwayMaster Communications Inc. reported a second-quarter net income of $200,000, or 1 cent per share, compared with a net loss of $14.1 million, or 56 cents per share, for the …

According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report filed last week, the recently bankrupt Iridium L.L.C. said it proposed offering bondholders and other creditors an equity stake in the …

NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., McLean, Va., attributed its 26-percent decline in second-quarter revenues to an “early quarter ramp-down” in its current radio-frequency engineering and system deployment contracts, coupled with domestic …

Lucent Technologies Inc. last week pulled off what could be seen as a major coup with the announcement that it plans to acquire Excel Switching Corp., the Hyannis, Mass.-based developer …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it has signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement with Puerto Rican paging carrier Celpage to extend PageMart’s Advanced Messaging network to the area. According to the …

WASHINGTON-Warburg, Pincus & Co. will rename its CIS Acquisition Corp. business and is restructuring its ownership details in a bid to win approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its …

The next round in the fight to popularize voice paging has begun, this time in Latin America, as Mexican paging operator RadioFlash became the first carrier to launch a voice …

CI Wireless Inc., a supplier of wireless signal distribution products for wireless carriers, last week acquired Ortel Corp.’s domestic wireless assets, including certain technology properties, products, leased facilities and the …

Telecommunications operators could benefit from embracing fixed mobile convergence, according to a new report released by Ovum, an independent research and consulting company. The convergence market is expected to reach …

The paging industry made further progress toward implementing content services last week, as both Motorola Inc. and Arch Communications Group Inc. introduced products and services targeting the space. Arch said …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. received a $2 million purchase order from Tele.ring Telecom GmbH, an Austrian fixed access company known as 1012 privat. P-Com will provide 26 GHz point-to-multipoint equipment for …

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. released second-quarter results with a net loss of $2.3 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $3.8 million, or 24 cents per …

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. announced Internet service provider RCN Corp. has become the first ISP to offer its BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution to subscribers. RCN said it plans to …

WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said it will supply Venezuela-based carrier Telcel Cellular with its Inter@ctive 950e pager, the Spanish language version of the Inter@ctive 950. The deal will allow …

BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. said it signed a contract to maintain enhanced 911 data for Colorado-based MediaOne Group Inc. in markets where MediaOne launches its cable-telephony solution. MediaOne will use …

VANCOUVER-Sierra Wireless said it has begun shipping the Windows version of the AirCard 300, a Type II wireless PC Card modem for devices supporting Windows CE, 95, 98 and NT.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Everything Wireless, a division of Roxy.com, launched its new Web site from which the company will sell various wireless phones, accessories and pagers.

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $17.1 million. TeleCorp’s net loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization was $23.4 million. TeleCorp PCS …

SAO PAULO-Brazilian cellular operator Telesp Cellular S.A., operating in the state and city of Sao Paulo, announced today it launched a new prepaid product, “Peg & Fale,” designed to meet …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is charging that private wireless receives a subsidy because it does not pay for its licenses. The enhanced specialized mobile radio operator made the remarks in reply …