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Roy Neel, president of the United States Telephone Association, offered reporters last week what he believed to be a keen insight.He recounted an anecdote about President Clinton's Feb. 8 signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. On the one hand, said the former aide...

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc. delayed an initial public offering of common stock scheduled to go to market Feb. 22. The new issue was larger than anticipated, but the share price also was lower.According to the preliminary offering statement, the company expected to sell 3.3...

"We do a bid in the morning, digest it, do a bid in the afternoon, digest it, then eat dinner and digest that."-Geotek U.S. Business President Jonathan C. Crane. Story on Page 10.

COLUMBUS-Ameritech Cellular Services is combating cellular fraud by requiring all of its customers to use a personal identification number.Company spokeswoman Ellen Butler said cloning has become a big problem in some of its markets. "We're experiencing fraud with people driving to the grocery store."...

"We will offer a clear alternative...*from the long-distance industry that for years has raised prices in lock step, pocketing savings they could pass on to customers..."-Steve Nowick, president of Ameritech's long-distance subsidiary. Story on Page 12.

The specialized mobile radio industry grew 13 percent last year, but operators reported a steady increase in industry churn during 1995, says a new market study produced by Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and the American Mobile Telecommunications Association.The report indicates industry churn...

WEST POINT, Ga.-InterQuest Inc. announced it is offering a new service that allows wireless carriers to offer unregistered roamers in their market to complete a cellular call.Instead of connecting unregistered roamers to a recording that ultimately prevents the user from completing a cellular call,...

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected a petition to review mandatory relocation of public-safety entities from personal communications services frequencies to perceived lesser-quality channels.In an opinion written by U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Wald, the three-judge panel decided that the Federal Communications Commission "had...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-Signal Communications Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to purchase three Motorola Inc. service facilities in south Florida and the related service contracts and customer bases.Signal, in cooperation with Motorola, said it will perform service work on two-way radios and systems,...

NEW YORK-American Portable Telecom Inc., the fifth largest licensee of personal communications services in the United States, registered Feb. 20 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell publicly its first 11 million shares of common stock. Depending on SEC review, a process that...

Eighty percent of major U.S. cellular carriers employ Systems/Link Corp.'s RoamEx product to fight cellular fraud, but until now the decade-old Jackson, N.J., company has kept its nose to the grindstone and quietly gone about its business.Diane Sammer, president of Systems/Link said the company...

NEW YORK-Arch Communications Group Inc. plans a $200 million bond issue, which received a B3 rating Feb. 22 from Moody's Investors Service, according to the agency.The bond issue will partially finance Arch's acquisition of Westlink Paging Inc., said Bob Nabholz, a director at Prudential...

Sprint Spectrum L.P. denies any discord among its member companies, despite revisions to the venture's original plans to launch cable telephony with its wireless service. But telecommunications analysts are split on what the modification means.It shouldn't be surprising that the companies are repositioning 16...

PITTSBURGH-AT&T Wireless Services announced its customers in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio now have access to the AT&T CellCard, a smart card that extends the reach of a customer's cellular phone outside North America.To use the smart card, traveling customers rent...

At some point in most relationships, one partner looks at the other, and instead of seeing Prince or Princess Charming, sees a human ... complete with flaws.The partners in the newly named Sprint Spectrum L.P. are at that point. In other words, the honeymoon...

WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic lawmakers last week lambasted Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plan to add broadcast auction language to debt ceiling legislation, a reaction that represents a widening schism in Congress between telecommunications and budget policymakers over jurisdiction of the lucrative public airwaves.The House...

Cellular theft: A cellular phone is stolen from a legitimate customer and used before the theft can be reported.Subscription fraud: This type of counterfeiting occurs when a person signs up for cellular service using fraudulent information or false identification and does not intend to pay for...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services and Ameritech Cellular Services have signed an intercarrier agreement that allows each carrier's Cellular Digital Packet Data customers to use CDPD within the other's cellular network.The carriers' customers will be able to use CDPD...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. announced PTT Telecom BV, a subsidiary of Royal PTT Netherlands, has licensed General Magic's Telescript technology.The technology is designed to allow users to launch electronic surrogates, called agents, into networks to search for and monitor information and to interact with...

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced three contracts for paging infrastructure equipment in China from Hunan Post and Telecommunication Administration, the Shaanxi PTA and the Hainan PTA.Motorola said each province has chosen its Nucleus radio frequency transmission base stations, C-Net control...

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced its ultra-miniature amplifiers and mixers, high-integration chipsets and a small 3-volt modulator/mixer that all are designed to benefit end users.The company has introduced three RFIC amplifiers and mixers suited for buffer or driver amplifier applications. All are designed to...

PHOENIX-The U.S. District Court in Phoenix ordered One Line Cellular and Cell Phone Extensions to permanently discontinue altering, transferring, emulating or manipulating electronic serial numbers to create extension phones, U S West Cellular announced.U S West filed charges against the two companies in August,...

NEW YORK-NEC Corp. received an order to equip a wireless local loop system from PT Aria West International in West Java, Indonesia. The company said this is the first WLL system in Asia using Personal Handyphone System technology.The order includes 97,000 fixed telephone terminals....

Pacific Bell Mobile Services and Ericsson Inc., in conjunction with Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Inc., said they are developing and testing interim solutions to hearing aid interference caused by digital phones.If accepted by hearing aid users, the modified phones would be...