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Time Warner Telecommunications announced it will begin offering cellular phone service in Rochester, N.Y.-the company’s largest cable television market-by reselling service from the city’s B-side carrier, Rochester Telephone Mobile Communications. This will be the company’s first move into the wireless …

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif.-The Small Business PCS Association will hold a national meeting Dec. 15 in Washington D.C., to discuss auction rules for broadband personal communications services, auction bidding results and financing for designated entities. The National Designated Entity Network will …

True, America views the nation’s capital with a jaundiced eye. And well it should. The system is broke and needs fixing. Lobbyists, special interest money and lawmakers-for-life control the ways and means by which business-as-usual is carried out on Capitol …

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. reported a 50 percent increase in consolidated revenues for the nine months ended Sept. 30. The company reported $49.4 million in consolidated revenues, up from $32.9 million for the same period in 1993. Total revenues for …

Every time you turn around, the telecommunications industry takes a leap in a new direction. But investing in a basketball franchise? Could be stretching it-unless you’re Bruce Crockett, president and chief executive officer of Comsat Corp. With its roots in …

Nintendo, a name most familiar in exclusive circles-the young teens market-has made its first U.S. investment in a small company with an “expanding” technology. Waltham, Mass.-based Reflection Technology Inc. has designed the Virtual Boy game device for Nintendo Co. Ltd., …

BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. has signed a five-year contract with Doston Technology Inc. to purchase equipmint that delivers inhanced services. BellSouth uses Boston’s CO ACCESS Network Services Platforms to provide MemoryCall service, including call answering and voice messaging, in semveral Southern …

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-SNET Mobility said it will pay $450 million cash for certain of Nynex Corp.’s and Bell Atlantic Corp.’s cellular properties, and, ironically, become a fierce competitor of the two Baby Bells. The properties affected are areas where BAM …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-U S West Inc. named Jan Peters chief operating officer of U S West NewVector Group Inc., the company’s cellular division, where she will oversee all company operations. Prior to her appointment, Peters served as vice president of sales …

Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest radio common carrier paging operators based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. Ranking is based on the number of subscribers the operators …

OAKBROOK, Ill.-GTE Airfone says it has introduced the first digital public facsimile machines aboard aircraft. Fax machines now will be available on United Airlines’ transcontinental routes from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Selected Delta Airlines planes also …

WASHINGTON-Jay Kitchen has always had a knack for being able to talk to folks, whether they be mom-and-pop two-way radio dealers who for years have looked to him for representation in Washington, D.C., or Fortune 500 executives, engineers and policymakers …

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.-John “Jack” Goeken announced his resignation as chairman and chief executive officer at In-Flight Phone Corp., the air-to-ground telecommunications service he founded in 1989. “Now that most of the major challenges associated with a start-up company have been …

Hail the birth of broadband PCS! Hail more competition in the marketplace! And hail to what likely will be continued growth for the wireless industry! But while the industry revels in its inaugural week of auctions to award broadband PCS …

BOULDER, Colo.-Engineers have completed a month-long test of the Global System for Mobile communications standard at 1.8 GHz as part of an assessment for the U.S. wireless industry entering the personal communications services market. Field tests took place at U …

WASHINGTON-Sparks are flying weeks before public comments are due at the Federal Communications Commission on applications from six firms seeking licenses to operate global pocket-phone satellite systems. “I think that some of the competitive systems are basing their financial qualifications …

SAN FRANCISCO- The California Public Utilities Commission awarded five groups $38,613 for their advocacy in a CPUC decision last April that allowed AT&T Corp. to acquire McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. The Latino Issues Forum, Chinese for Affirmative Action, San Francisco …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association has formed the Wireless Resale Council, a TRA advisory committee designed to guide industry policy and provide members with information on wireless service resale. TRA Director William Rodi has been elected chairman of the group. The …

Cellular One in the Washington, D.C., area has suspended roaming services temporarily in New York City while the company tackles an enormous cellular cloning problem. Cellular fraud has been a major concern of the U.S. cellular industry for quite some …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.- Dr. Donald Schilling has resigned as president and chief executive officer of InterDigital Communications Corp. to pursue other interests. William Doyle, executive vice president, has been promoted to president. William Burns, chairman of the board, will …

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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 …