LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. reported record second-quarter operating results for 360

CARPINTERIA, Calif.-PulsePoint Communications said market trials of its unified messaging solution, conducted by GTE Corp. and Concord Technologies, showed the service appeals to 62 percent of small office/home office users …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. added approximately 25,000 net personal communications services subscribers during the second quarter to close the first six months of 1998 with about 181,000 total subscribers. Average …

Meeting its planned mid-1998 launch deadline, General Magic Inc. began commercial rollout of its Portico virtual assistant service July 30 through a network of nationwide resellers. Portico, formerly code-named Serengeti, …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission that it wanted to examine the annual budgets of the regional number portability administrators to ensure these entities …

PLANO, Texas-Paging Network Inc. announced it will outsource its product inventory management and logistics management, including warehousing and customer fulfillment processing, to enterprise customer management solution provider Centrobe, an EDS …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced an aggressive rollout schedule for its facilities-based ReFLEX 25 guaranteed messaging service, with commercial service planned for areas of 15 additional states in August as well …

Wynd Communications Corp. recently introduced a wireless communications service designed to put deaf and hard of hearing people on equal footing with the hearing community. The WyndTell service uses Research …

Cramming, slamming, telemarketing, annoying … Anymore when my home phone rings I am ready to repel, poised to protect. As a result, I recently had a conversation that went something …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced its billing and customer care system was chosen as Telecom Italia Mobile’s international telecom billing solution. As a member of the Telecom Italia Group, TIM is …

WASHINGTON-Franklin Haney, the embattled Tennessee developer, will testify Tuesday before the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations. Congressional and Justice Department investigators are probing whether the 20-year, $400 million …

WASHINGTON-TeleCorp PCS Inc. last week announced it closed a deal that will give it $525 million in senior secured credit facilities with a group of financial institutions led by Chase …

NEW YORK-Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent begun with publishing industry-related cases dating back to 1926, the Internal Revenue Service has determined a cellular provider must amortize, or spread out over …

LOS GATOS, Calif.-ARM Ltd. announced it will support the newly formed Symbian joint venture recently created by L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and Psion. Symbian was established to create …

MILPITAS, Calif.-Solectron Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. formed a manufacturing partnership to compete in the North American wireless market. Under the agreement, Mitsubishi will transfer to Solectron the wireless telephone …

WASHINGTON-The House approved high-tech securities reform litigation that would create uniform national standards for class action shareholder lawsuits and keep such cases in federal court. “This bill closes a loophole …

WASHINGTON-Hughes Electronics Co., under fire in Congress for heavy-handed lobbying on satellite exports to China, again is pushing the Clinton administration to relicense a $500 million Asia-Pacific Mobile Telecommunications satellite …

The government of Brazil received premiums of more than 200 percent over minimum bid requirements on some of the cellular properties it auctioned off last week. The sealed-bid auction last …

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group said its new Global System for Mobile communications handset design cuts development time by about 60 percent. Taiwan-based GVC Corp., Lucent’s first GSM Reference …

MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. announced Paging Network Inc. has awarded it a three-year contract to handle all of PageNet’s reseller billing and provisioning nationwide. According to the agreement, PageNet …