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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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-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 …

DENVER-Analysts speculate AT&T Wireless Services Inc. may add Nortel Networks as an additional supplier of Time Division Multiple Access equipment. Growth on the carrier’s networks has skyrocketed since AT&T Wireless …

CHICAGO-A deregulated marketplace characterized by aggressive competition will bring new challenges to traditional telecommunications companies in the future, according to “Vision 2010: New strategies for communications enterprises,” an Andersen Consulting/Economist …

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-With a $120,000 grant from Lucent Technologies Inc., the Wireless Information Networks Laboratory of Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J., has established the Lucent Technologies Wireless Postdoctoral Fellowship. “Our sponsorship (of …

NEW YORK-Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Malvern, Penn., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 13 for an initial public offering of up to …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -L.M. Ericsson reported July 29 that German cellular operator T-Mobil has now deployed its Ericsson General Packet Radio Service system for testing. The T-Mobil-Ericsson GPRS contract was the …

NEW YORK-World Access Inc., Atlanta, announced Aug. 17 it would acquire FaciliCom International Inc., Washington, D.C., by paying FaciliCom’s shareholders about $436 million and assuming $300 million in FaciliCom debt. …

WinStar Communications Inc. said it has been awarded 18 additional licenses from the Federal Communications Commission to operate in the 38 GHz band. Additionally, the company announced Siebel Systems Inc. …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association International’s unlicensed council, created earlier this month, modified its group name and selected ADC Telecommunications, Clearwire Communications and WaveRider Communications as team leaders for core functions. …