Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place in February by the city council …

WASHINGTON-The spectrum reform draft bill unveiled by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) last week would privatize much of the nation’s airwaves, a fundamental deregulatory policy shift that combined …

DALLAS-ProNet Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Georgialina Communications Co. and affiliates for about $11.6 million. The company …

Qualcomm Inc. announced the availability of a single-chip vocodor that utilizes PureVoice, the latest version of the 13 kilobit Qualcomm Code Excited Linear Predictive speech coding algorithm. PureVoice was developed …

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileComm, a paging and wireless messaging services provider, and Premiere Technologies, an integrator of information and telecommunications services, announced plans to cross market each other’s services. MobileComm said …

WASHINGTON-The dust has settled only slightly since the bidding for C-block personal communications services licenses ended May 6 after 184 rounds strung out over 4 1/2 months. The entrepreneurial block …

PLAYA DEL REY, CALIF.PORT ACOM WIRELESS INC. ANNOUNCED IT HAS NEGOTIATED A BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF UP TO $6.1 MILLION SPECIAL WARRANTS AT $3.30 PER SPE CIAL WARRANT FOR AGGREGATE …

California Microwave Inc. has appointed Dennis Raney executive vice president and chief financial officer. Raney brings 26 years of broad financial experience, including international operations, financial planning, information systems and …

DALLAS-A logo has been introduced by PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. that the company intends to use later this year in 11 of its U.S. wireless markets. The red image, done …

ArrayComm Inc. announced it has closed a private equity placement totaling $12.3 million. The placement, which was oversubscribed, was managed by UBS Securities Inc. and Volpe, Welty & Co. ArrayComm …

WASHINGTON-Spectrum politics took center stage last week in Congress as the golden airwaves surfaced in a new, scaled-back GOP balanced budget plan, a gas tax repeal-minimum wage deal mulled by …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House commerce appropriations subcommittee, said the Federal Communications Commission will not receive the $223 million requested for fiscal 1997 and blasted FCC Chairman …

NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services. “Most of the research …

Cloners beware, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are active with authentication technology-each carrier in two markets. “We’ve taken the next step from protection to prevention. It’s …

NEW YORK – AVIC Group International Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture with Beijing Catch to develop a nationwide paging system in …

Nokia profits down in first quarter A 62 percent decrease in operating profit reported by the Nokia Group has been attributed to Nokia Mobile Phones. The Finnish manufacturer’s handset division …

No big surprise, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s cellular equipment vendors Lucent Technologies Inc. and L.M. Ericsson were named suppliers for the company’s Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services networks, …

William A. Wilson, chief financial officer of Arch Communications Group Inc. sees no threat to his company or the paging industry from the new personal communications competitors on the horizon. …

NEW YORK-A+ Network Inc. signed definitive agreements to acquire Radio and Communications Consultants Inc. of Shreveport, La., and South Central Paging of Nashville, Tenn. The two paging companies, formerly affiliates …

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The national wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular, Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. announced they have signed a contract …