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Tektronix Tektronix Inc. launched a new Global System for Mobile communications cell analysis product, the Cell Analyzer, which combines the key functions of the Actix Abis Analyzer with Tektronix’s K1205 Signaling Protocol Analyzer. Available as an add-on software package for …

Pine Belt Wireless, based in Arlington, Ala., said it will introduce prepaid wireless services to its cellular and personal communications services markets using National Telemanagement Corp.’s SmartPay Wireless real-time billing system. SmartPay Wireless is an account-based system that eliminates the …

WASHINGTON-The importance public image holds for competitive wireless carriers was highlighted last week when a major daily newspaper here-pointing to the lack of mobile-phone service in underground subways that run through some poor black and Latino neighborhoods-questioned whether Verizon Wireless …

WASHINGTON-To bolster its case for splitting Microsoft Corp. into two companies-a remedy U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson may agree to as early as this week-Justice Department lawyers in the waning days of the antitrust case produced an e-mail and …

The prospect of calling party pays looks like a dying one in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission appears to be backing away from the issue, and many wonder if the service is needed in light of nationwide …

WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last week rejected the notion that new rules designed to reduce the amount consumers pay for long-distance service transfers a portion of the obligation for universal service to wireless carriers. “I do not …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Third-generation wireless revenue will increase from $4.3 billion in 2002 to $63 billion in 2007, while wireless infrastructure purchases will grow from $4 billion to $34 billion during the same five-year period, according to a new study from The …

Formus Communications Inc. filed a registration statement for an initial public offering of its class A common stock. Formus, a wireless broadband carrier, expects to complete the offering by the middle of the year. Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. successfully bid …

Columbus, Ohio-based Divine Tower International Corp. bills itself the one-stop shop for small wireless carriers looking to build out their networks, providing everything from the initial financing to equipment procurement. “Towers are only a component of our infrastructure. The only …

IPmobile Wireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will spearhead the company’s initiative to secure and capitalize on the …

WASHINGTON-Even as reports of wireless carriers being close to running out of telephone numbers reached the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC began reviewing comments on additional regulatory measures to help with number conservation. Large wireless carriers-like AT&T Wireless Services Inc. …

Two-way messaging took a leap forward last week as Motorola Inc. introduced a new two-way pager and JP Systems Inc. implemented a mobile Internet portal service. Motorola unveiled its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, which features a full Qwerty keyboard, …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Vicinity Corp. have partnered to provide AT&T Digital PocketNet users location-based information through Vicinity’s BrandFinder wireless application, the companies announced. PocketNet users can enter a zip code or street address to find the …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry received a stinging rebuke Thursday about its lack of action on a Federal Communications Commission item that could increase the amount of money wireless customers pay into the universal-service fund. “I have been shocked at how timid …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is jumping in the wireless Internet pool again, with the introduction of its Digital PocketNet service. Unlike AT&T’s first attempt, an analog cellular service introduced in 1997 that allowed only basic e-mail functions, PocketNet will …

While the big names in the wireless industry usually get most of the credit for providing wireless coverage across the country, it is the smaller players who often make up the backbone of the much larger beast. Affiliations between large, …

NEW YORK-Excluding the third-generation wireless impact, the number of cell sites for mobile communications in the United States likely will reach 140,000 in the next two years, said Ric Prentiss, senior vice president of equity research for Raymond James & …

NEW YORK-With existing wireless carriers seeking to expand coverage and capacity and new spectrum poised for commercial use, building owners and managers must develop enhanced expertise in telecommunications before negotiating cell site leasing deals. Landlords must deal with issues including: …

Blame it on the glut of recent mergers and acquisitions. Blame it on the abundance and promise of working at a start-up company. But for these reasons and more, recruiters and human resource managers throughout the wireless industry are coming …

They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors. All three associations will convene this week in Las Vegas at …

Unity is something more easily achieved as a goal rather than a reality. Let’s face it: It’s difficult to agree. Ask a husband and wife where they would like to spend this summer’s vacation, and you are likely to get …

PETACH TIKVA, Israel-TTI Telecom International Ltd., a supplier of turnkey software solutions for telecom service providers, received an initial contract totaling $5 million from AT&T Wireless Group for a comprehensive network management system solution for cellular and telephony networks. In …

BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, reported higher net losses for the first quarter, despite more revenues. Triton said it saw an increase in revenue from the first quarter last year, from $11.5 million to …

JACKSON, Miss.-Tritel Inc., a member of the AT&T Wireless network, launched wireless phone service in Birmingham, Ala., under the SunCom brand name. “The Birmingham area has been waiting for a wireless carrier that offers a true national coverage area and …

SAN FRANCISCO-When people in Atlanta think of the top two wireless service providers, BellSouth Wireless Services and Sprint PCS come to mind. In Minneapolis, the top two are AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS. And in San Diego, it’s …