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One of the largest wireless companies in Latin America is considering a technology flip for the next generation. Sources close to BellSouth International Inc. say the carrier wants to convert TDMA systems in its Latin American markets to CDMA-based 1XRTT …

NEW YORK-Speculation continued last week as to what actions AT&T Corp. and its wireless business, AT&T Wireless Group, would take to boost their lagging stock prices. AT&T reportedly will discuss how to boost share prices at a board meeting this …

DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. has added its vast array of content and services to OmniSky Corp.’s wireless Internet access solution, allowing OmniSky users to access AOL wireless content and services on mobile devices. This includes such features as AOL e-mail, …

WASHINGTON-Fixed broadband wireless carriers, seeking to underscore the need for nondiscriminatory building access, say they have identified a `smoking gun’ in the form of a legal memo on a license agreement between BroadBand Office and a national real estate company …

Bank of America launched a wireless banking and brokerage offering last week in limited markets through a partnership with 724 Solutions Inc. Bank of America Private Bank customers in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., will be …

FieldCentrix Inc., a provider of wireless Internet-based software solutions for the field service industry, raised $23 million in venture capital to support its expansion into new markets, including electrical, utilities, property management and heavy equipment and materials handling. FieldCentrix said …

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department will require SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. to divest wireless licenses in 16 markets throughout three states as an antitrust condition for a joint venture that will create the second-largest mobile phone company in the nation. …

BOGOTA, Colombia-Celumovil BellSouth acquired 100 percent of the shares of Colombian mobile carrier Cocelco through a purchase on the Bogot stock exchange. BellSouth said the transaction creates the first nationwide mobile cellular operator in Colombia. Completion of BellSouth’s acquisition of …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Although cellular telephony client bases doubled last year in Uruguay and Paraguay, at this point it seems only Paraguay will be able to achieve this objective again in 2000. Uruguay’s strong cellular growth has slowed during the year, …

TORONTO-The consolidation trend in the North American wireless sector is intensifying. The prevailing wisdom is that it is no longer good enough to be merely a regional or national carrier with transborder capabilities. The game plan is to be part …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will vigorously enforce wireless radiation safety rules that go into effect later this week. “We are serious about this and will be checking,” said Robert Cleveland, the FCC’s expert on radio-frequency exposure rules. Cleveland …

WASHINGTON-While the Communications Workers of America succeeded in winning concessions that make it easier to organize wireless workers at Verizon Communications-the nation’s largest mobile phone and local telephone company-the prospect for widespread wireless unionization is challenged by a confluence of …

Maybe it was an oversight, but in his diatribe against Corporate America at the Democratic National Convention that spewed venom at Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Polluters and Big Pharmaceuticals, Al Gore left out Big Telecom. Oops. Truth is, while …

Pinnacle Holdings reversed itself last week on an announcement it made earlier this month that it planned to pursue opportunities in the colocation facility business. Long a renter of space on towers, the Sarasota, Fla.-based company had said it wanted …

Pathnet Pathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions …

In the next three to eight months, U.S. wireless carriers will upgrade their HDML-based wireless Internet servers to full WAP compliance, meaning they will support WML technology native in both the network and in new WAP-compliant phones. The result is …

Seven years ago this month, Congress approved a new, market-based telecom licensing mechanism that would forever change the wireless industry. Spectrum auctions not only revolutionized licensing, but came to permeate a broad range of policy debates-from the budget to defense …

WASHINGTON-Nearly a week after the Federal Communications Commission ruled that wireless carriers can be subject to damages awarded in civil lawsuits, consumers and the industry are reading the ruling differently. Meanwhile, interest in wireless consumer issues on Capitol Hill is …

Speculation is running high about what moves AT&T Corp. will make to bolster its tumbling stock price. The company’s stock has lost nearly 39 percent of its value this year since hitting a 52-week low of $29.63 in recent weeks. …

NEW YORK-Merger prospects tend to have a significant impact on a company’s share price, although the degree of that influence can be difficult to precisely identify. The second-largest domestic personal communications services carrier, VoiceStream Wireless Corp., saw its stock price …

The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge …

ARLINGTON, Va.-Shareholders of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s two largest affiliates, TeleCorp PCS Inc. and Tritel Inc., approved the merger of the two companies at special meetings. In a concurrent transaction, TeleCorp and AT&T agreed to exchange wireless properties that the …

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LOS ANGELES-Cellular phone service prices dropped an average of 4 percent nationwide in June to $40.64, according to a survey by Econ One, a research and consulting firm examining prices in the wireless industry. Econ One said the decrease, averaged …

TORONTO-Rogers AT&T Wireless launched a wireless shopping comparison service in conjunction with BuyBuddy.com, an online independent comparison shopping guide. The service is available on the new BlackBerry 957 and 950 handheld devices. Rogers plans to extend BuyBuddy Mobile to all …