CHICAGO-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. assigned a `B’ rating to the senior discount notes of Nextel Communications Inc. The rating also applies to the senior debt of Dial Call …

More than a year after the Internet burst into the wireless space, the big story in mobile data continues to be how the industry is responding to this communications phenomenon. …

NEW CANAAN, Conn.-Centennial Cellular Corp.’s subsidiary Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp. completed a long-term bank credit agreement. The $130 million financing arranged by Citibank N.A. is meant to fully fund …

GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One of Washington, D.C./Baltimore introduced its RSVP Piper Traveler, a product that combines a pager and an analog cellular phone. RSVP Piper Traveler features a nationwide numeric display …

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. and InfoCellular Inc. introduced a customer acquisition and inventory fulfillment product. The interface provides one application for customer qualification, fulfillment and activations, the companies said. Users enter …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-BT Mobile awarded a contract to Ericsson Ltd. to upgrade BT’s wide area paging network. The project, scheduled for completion this year, will add features and increase network capacity. …

BOTHELL, Wash.-GTE Corp.’s Network Management Organization opened an office in Surrey, U.K., to focus on the European market. Jean-Pierre Goetz, the group’s director of European sales for WorldWin, will head …

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. launched its ninth mobile communications network in Tampa, Fla. The network allows dispatchers, fleet managers and mobile employees to communicate with each other. Tampa is Geotek’s …

SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Inc. will supply its Blackbird Platform and PreTect wireless fraud prevention systems to GTE Wireless. The Blackbird and PreTect products work together using radio frequency fingerprinting to …

WASHINGTON-A major Australian study has found significant cancer in rodents exposed to digital wireless phone radiation, dramatic findings that offer compelling new evidence of potential health risks from phones and …

InterCel completes Maine sub. sale InterCel Inc. completed the sale of its Maine cellular subsidiary last week for the purchase price of about $77 million. InterCel said it will use …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Telecom Personal S.A., a cellular provider in northern Argentina, reached 100,000 subscribers. The company said it is the first Argentinian firm with less than a year in the …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said its net loss for the first quarter increased due to higher levels of debt to finance growth and depreciation and amortization expenses associated with …

PHOENIX, Ariz.-AG Communication Systems said Ameritech Cellular Services selected its INgage Authorization and Call Routing Equipment technology for use in Ameritech’s Dual Link service. The Dual Link service allows customers …

WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunication industry and the Federal Bureau of Investigations are back on a collision course over how the 1994 digital wiretap bill should be implemented. The issue is an …

DENVER-Personal communications services operator Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream service last Thursday in Denver, promising rates at least 20 percent lower than AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s digital cellular rates. …

ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. executed definitive agreements to acquire the cellular properties and certain assets of Triad Cellular Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif. Western Wireless will acquire 12 rural service …

DENVER-U S West Communications Group awarded a contract it values at $500 million to Lucent Technologies Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access equipment and products for its personal communications services …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. launched a network services unit to offer multivendor telecommunications management services to carriers. The company’s network management services include billing, customer care, work force management, fault handling, …

The Federal Communications Commission filed a reply brief last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which is causing a review of the commission’s wireless resale …