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GARDEN GROVE, Calif.-AirTouch Teletrac introduced new messaging plans for its communications and vehicle location system, designed to save users time and free radio waves for more specific communications. For $28 per month per vehicle, dispatchers and drivers receive unlimited communications …

Recently, the Senate Commerce Committee approved “The Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995,” which included the following provision: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary*…*an electric, gas, water, or steam utility, and any subsidiary company, affiliate or …

Editor’s Note: Portions of this article will be submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in a White Paper by the Industrial Telecommunications Association. I have been reading Fred Day’s book, “Policies and Practices in the Regulation of Private Radio Communications …

LYNCHBURG, Va.-Ericsson GE Communications Inc. said it has received an order from Oklahoma Gas and Electric for a systemwide 800 MHz Enhanced Digital Access Communications System network. The network will include 29 trunked radio repeater sites and will feature systemwide …

NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. has declared a three-for-two split of the company’s common stock to be effected in the form of a 50 percent stock dividend that will be distributed Jan. 5 to stockholders of record on Dec. 22. The …

LONDON – Cable & Wireless plc said it will eliminate 2,500 positions at its Mercury Communications Ltd. subsidiary by March in an attempt to become more competitive and increase shareholders’ return on their investment. Despite the cuts, the company said …

Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract for more than $10 million to expand the narrowband advanced mobile phone service in the Dominican Republic. The contract with the private telephone company, Tricom Inc., will expand that company’s …

An international cellular operator and a U.S. paging equipment provider have cellular and paging service up and running in Bulgaria, despite the former Eastern bloc government’s sluggish efforts to privatize business. A Bulgarian joint venture led by Cable & Wireless …

IRVINE, Calif. – The CDMA Development Group said it has created a new working division to head up issues in personal communications services based on Code Division Multiple Access technology. The group is in charge of monitoring PCS technology requirements, …

A “hip-pocket receptionist” is how Bell Atlantic Mobile describes its new ContactLine II service, a personal communications cellular device that allows customers to receive calls however, whenever and wherever they choose. People calling a ContactLine II customer can dial one …

Cellular One of Ohio and Michigan announced Lindsay Notwell has been appointed director of wireless data, heading up this new department. Notwell will be responsible for building and managing the wireless data group and supervise the rollout of various wireless …

GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One of Washington D.C./Baltimore announced a new service that enables customers to make and receive calls using a single telephone number from up to three cellular phones. The service, called FlexPhone, allows subscribers to add two extra phones …

Editor’s note: After only a little more than a year as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Reed Hundt has spearheaded some of the most dramatic changes ever for the wireless communications industry. He has, in effect, redesigned an industry …

Close Close 52-week Exch. Company 11/28 12/13 High Low OTC A+ Communications* 12.75 13.25 15.50 7.50 OTC Adage Inc. 4.75 4.63 7.13 4.25 NYS AirTouch 26.75 27.25 30.63 19.88 NYS Allen Group 23.13 21.88 25.63 13.50 NYS Alltel Corp. 38.38 …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. is seeking permission to make a secondary offering of 35.9 million shares of AT&T stock owned by BT plc. If the move is approved by the securities and Exchange Commission, it could be the largest secondary offering …

WASHINGTON – Bell Atlantic Mobile President Dennis Strigl predicts that wireless data will account for a greater proportion of system operators’ business in coming years, but cautioned industry against over reaching itself. “Frankly, I don’t think most people have any …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Top executives of the wireless venture between Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp. have been selected to lead the two companies as they combine their cellular service properties into a new, unnamed company. Dennis Strigl, president and chief executive …

High stakes and fierce competition in the Federal Communications Commission’s personal communications service auctions have shown no mercy for the weak of heart of the pocketbook. And June Walsh is no exception. President and owner of Eureka, Calif.-based Cal Autofone …

FORT WORTH, Texas – Motorola Inc.’s Global Paging Infrastructure Division introduced its new Nucleus LT paging station, providing Latin America with next-generation paging station technology. The Nucleus LT transmitter is designed for single site, nonsimulcast, continuous-duty operation and can use …

NEW YORK-Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make an initial public offering of 12 million shares of common stock, priced between $24 and $26 a share. Proceeds from the offering will be used to …

An Oregon test and measurement equipment company with international alliances is poised for what it hopes is a wave of demand from companies building personal communications services networks. “Test equipment is an integral part of installing a PCS system. And …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt’s selection of Regina Keeney to head the new Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is looking better every day. Especially since Nov. 8, the day voters shook the political landscape by handing Congress over to Republicans and …

NEW YORK-Mobile communications executives George Schmitt and Al Boschulte have been chosen to lead the PCS PrimeCo L.P. alliance between U S West Inc., AirTouch Communications, Nynex Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. Schmitt, formerly AirTouch executive vice president, will manage …

FRANKFURT, Germany-Investment banking firm Goldman, Sachs & Co. announced it has been selected as lead foreign manager for the privatization of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom. Specifically, Goldman, Sachs will be responsible for selling shares of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom to institutional investors …