To the Editor: I am writing to clarify the law applicable to state and local regulation of personal wireless service providers, as discussed by Susan H.R. Jones in her article …

WASHINGTON-Lawmakers return this week to tackle a handful of telecommunications policy and funding issues before adjourning in a month to campaign in House and Senate races. Appropriations bills will dominate …

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron Inc., a provider of information and communications solutions for utilities, reached an agreement with Precision Meters to jointly develop automatic meter reading modules compatible with Precision’s domestic, turbine …

Of late, the move from corporate executive to born again entrepreneur is not uncommon in wireless. But still it comes as a surprise Alex Mandl would leave his post as …

NEW YORK-Investors who want up-to-the-minute financial information beamed directly to them will benefit from two recently introduced products from PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas, and Wireless Financial Services Inc., New York. …

NEW YORK-Omnipoint Corp. raised $250 million in gross proceeds in its sale of 10-year senior notes Thursday to help finance the buildout of its personal communications services network in the …

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Personal communications services operator Omnipoint Communications Inc. has chosen Paoli, Penn.-based Orga Card Systems to supply subscriber identity modules, or smart cards. Under the terms of the agreement …

If you look at a list of nations supporting commercial Global System for Mobile communications networks, Japan is conspicuously absent from the list. Its neighbor, China, has numerous GSM systems, …

Were there not enough sports metaphors in politics already, the addition of former Buffalo Bills quarterback, congressman and Housing secretary Jack Kemp to the Dole prez ticket has made matters …

NEW YORK-Recent Securities and Exchange Commission censure of Nasdaq, a stock market that lists many wireless-related companies, is just one of several drivers of significant changes ahead for the financial …

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced the winners of its second annual pager design competition for college student designers. The enormous growth in pager use by children and teenagers prompted Motorola …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group has licensed Wireless Access Inc. for the InFLEXion voice protocol. Wireless Access now is licensed for all three two-way protocols, the InFLEXion, …

NEW YORK-AirTouch Communications Inc., San Francisco, announced last week it completed its acquisition of Cellular Communications Inc. At a special meeting, 99 percent of shareholders voting, representing about 82 percent …

ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. began offering cellular service in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston on Wednesday, bringing its coverage footprint up to one-third of the U.S. population. The company is expected to …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-Motorola Inc. has bought a 38 percent stake in a joint venture company that will build a digital radio network in China. The company will use Motorola’s integrated …

WALTHAM, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. and Trans Union announced a strategic alliance that will equip the wireless industry with a fraud detection tool designed to reduce the risk of activating potentially fraudulent …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission apparently has come up with a winning plan to expand its current rules regarding partitioning and spectrum disaggregation by commercial mobile services licensees. Many current personal …

WASHINGTON-Richard Basile, president of On Line Communications, a Las Vegas-based paging applications mill, reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to return nearly $40,000 in funds to the commission …

Competition strategies used by France Telecom may change a little now that the national company has become a private entity, researchers say. “As a private company, they have to be …

WASHINGTON-Sometime this week, the Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff’s Department should be able to use most capabilities of an $18 million Enhanced Digital Access Communications Systems radio system being installed by …