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NEW DELHI, India-Singapore Telecom said it is acquiring minority stakes in two companies within India’s Bharti Group for $400 million. The investment is the single- largest investment by an international investor in India’s telecom industry and the largest to date …

Enticed by the tremendous expected demand for wireless broadband services, Loop Technologies Inc., based in Ridgeland, Miss., soon will offer high-speed data-only service in several major cities around the country. Loop recently entered into a Business Unit Alliance agreement with …

WASHINGTON-While Verizon Communications workers strike in part to make it easier for its wireless workers to join unions, union issues have been largely settled at other companies. Before its workers began striking Aug. 6, Verizon Communications said it did not …

The Federal Communications Commission has extended by 45 days the deadline by which carriers must report their telephone number utilization. A coalition of telecommunications trade associations had urged the FCC to extend the Aug. 1 deadline by 90 days. The …

WASHINGTON-Novatel Wireless Inc., which makes the Minstrel wireless data modem line, filed for a $105 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Novatel makes the Minstrel V modem used in the OmniSky wireless data solution for the …

CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. sold its interest in Hawaii Rural Service Area 3 to AT&T Wireless Group for an undisclosed amount. The deal includes US Cellular’s nonwireline license and related assets covering a population of approximately 141,000 people on the …

With a little help from concerned consumer groups and government researchers, voice technologies are forging ahead as a safe alternative to dialing while driving, while at the same time opening new revenue channels for advertisers and wireless carriers. Voice technologies …

NEW YORK-To catch a thief, at least two companies are turning to wireless technology. The first out of the box is Aeris.net, San Jose, Calif., which provides back-up wireless messaging for residential alarm systems when the wireline connection is severed. …

NEW YORK-The risks of using a cellular phone while driving “appear to be small compared to other daily risks, but are uncertain because existing research is limited and of uneven quality,” a new Harvard Center for Risk Analysis report concluded. …

WASHINGTON-A top-flight Baltimore law firm is expected to file a lawsuit this week claiming a malignant brain tumor diagnosed in a 42-year-old male neurologist was caused by heavy and long-term mobile-phone use. The lawsuit, likely to be filed in a …

WirelessNorth Personal communications services carrier WirelessNorth named David Charles president of the company. Charles served as director of operations with Montana Power Co., where he was responsible for 120 employees serving 110,000 electric and natural gas customers in the Missoula …

Price Communications Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary of Price Communications Corp., signed its 500,000th subscriber and reported it added 42,162 net new cellular subscriber during the first six months of this year. Price also reported its average penetration rate is …

WASHINGTON-While international attention is focused on Deutsche Telekom AG’s $50.3 billion bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and the fireworks it has set off in Congress, merger and acquisition activity in the coming months is expected to be dominated by smaller …

The upcoming U.S. spectrum auctions present some interesting times for the wireless industry. Auctions in the past were more predictable, primarily reserved for veteran executives experienced in running wireless networks. Today, the story is much different. Wireless has caught the …

WASHINGTON-Deutsche Telekom AG, after announcing its intent to buy VoiceStream Wireless Corp. , spent last week trying to kill an appropriations bill rider that could kill the deal and others like it involving purchases of U.S. telecom firms by companies …

WASHINGTON-Several instant messaging companies, telecom carriers and Internet service and content providers have formed an organization dedicated to achieving true instant messaging interoperability among competing platforms. The IMUnified coalition said it intends to create specifications by the end of August …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer two-way short messaging service later this year, giving the carrier a more seamless data offering with its affiliates. AT&T Wireless offers SMS service today and relaunched its PocketNet service, based on Cellular …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it will provide turnkey services for at least 1,500 sites in five regions for the AT&T Digital Broadband network. Under an agreement announced July 27, deployment of these sites is expected to be completed by year-end …

The road to higher data speeds for wireless networks is rooted in voice technology, but Flarion Technologies, a new venture company formed by Lucent Technologies Inc., hopes to bypass that road and develop a technology rooted in data. Flarion is …

LOS ANGELES-CreSenda Wireless Inc. formed a strategic alliance with AT&T Wireless Services to launch its Wireless Professional Series business applications over AT&T’s CDPD network. The first product line in CreSenda’s Wireless Professional Series is the WirelessRealty service, allowing real estate …

BellSouth Wireless Data Michael McGarry was appointed regional vice president, Central Region, for BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. McGarry’s team will be responsible for selling Interactive Messaging PLUS and industry solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. Prior to joining BellSouth, McGarry held …

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

REDMOND, Wash.-America Online Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they have agreed to provide AOL content to AT&T Digital PocketNet subscribers. Beginning this fall, PocketNet customers will have access to AOL’s suite of wireless services, including MovieFone’s local movie …

Wireless carriers spend billions of dollars on spectrum to support the latest high-speed wireless applications that are designed to change the way the world communicates. Knowing they can’t provide that potential to end users without the proper infrastructure, companies are …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Group will launch fixed wireless service in four more markets in the coming months and is partnering with vendors to cope with its aggressive deployment strategy during the next two years. Following a successful commercial rollout of …