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Tritel Inc., a Jackson, Miss., personal communications services affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., raised $168.75 million Dec. 14 in an initial public offering of 9.375 million shares. Tritel registered Nov. 18 for the IPO with an expected price range …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is considering using some of its reserved personal communications services spectrum to solve capacity problems in high-density cellular markets. The Time Division Multiple Access carrier owns hundreds of 10-megahertz PCS licenses that surround its existing markets. …

REDWOOD|CITY-Sometimes the greatest inventions aren’t inventions at all, but the successful application of an idea common in one industry to a problem faced by another. Alain Rossman did exactly this when he created an application environment enabling Internet applications to …

WASHINGTON-While industry this holiday season pushes family plans and makes pocket phones attractive to the younger crowd, questions linger in the scientific community about whether children are more vulnerable to possible health risks from phones than adults. “No, it (possible …

It appears that since Dan Hesse’s appointment as president and chief executive officer of AT&T Corp.’s wireless business three years ago, AT&T has had a tenuous relationship with the man. Financial analysts last week were wondering why the man who …

Several important wireless markets will be up for grabs during the next year-a result of overlapping wireless markets created by the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. with GTE Corp. as well as Bell Atlantic’s agreement to merge its wireless assets …

NEW YORK-Judging by their investments during the third quarter, venture capitalists can’t seem to get enough of technology companies, including those involved in the wireless communications sector. “Investments in [the wireless/telecom] sector for the first three quarters of 1999 approached …

SAN FRANCISCO-Telephia Inc. released its Net-Q results for the New York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., markets. Net-Q is an independent measurement method that gauges coverage, dropped calls, blocked calls, audio quality …

Wireless stocks became the darling of Wall Street this year. Just a year ago analysts were predicting the death of stand-alone wireless stocks as landline companies planned to fold their wireless assets in with the rest of their companies to …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will enter the third millennium A.D. as the envy of the telecommunications industry. It is arguably the most competitive sector. It is innovative, with three different digital standards and third-generation wireless becoming reality. And it has conquered …

NEW YORK-Tritel Inc., a Jackson, Miss.-based personal communications services affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., plans to go public just in time for Christmas. Tritel registered Nov. 18 for an initial public offering of 9.375 million shares in a price …

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and AT&T Corp. announced the availability of Motorola’s ST7797 StarTac Time Division Multiple Access digital wireless phone. The ST7797 offers up to 110 minutes of talk time or 100 hours of standby time as well as a …

More spectrum, better call quality and expanded coverage are the battle cries of the wireless industry as of late, and ScoreBoard Inc. in Herndon, Va., said it is offering carriers a new way to “get more bang for their buck.” …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. has taken a page from Ericsson Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., each of which now dominate in certain areas of telecommunications infrastructure provision, said Richard A. McGinn, Lucent’s chairman and chief executive officer. “In the …

The Canadian wireless market has seen a run-up in stock prices this year as tremendous growth and recent consolidation activity have driven increased interest in the sector. “1998 was not a bad year, but it was a little wishy-washy,” said …

As wireless access to the Internet becomes an increasingly popular selling point for wireless carriers, a new concern arises over how carriers can offer valuable Internet-based content without becoming marginalized as a pipe. With 1 billion wireless customers expected by …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Furthering its goal of becoming a complete communications provider, Metrocall Inc. announced an alliance with Covad Communications as the first step in providing high-speed Internet services through the newly formed Metrocall.net division. Through Covad, Metrocall will provide digital line …

WASHINGTON-MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. jointly filed with the Federal Communications Commission an application for approval of their merger. MCI WorldCom and Sprint announced their agreement to merge last month. The application includes a brief and several affidavits by …

Nextel Communications Inc. finally found another vendor willing to manufacture handsets incorporating Motorola Inc.’s proprietary iDEN technology. Nextel and Kyocera Corp. signed a letter of intent last week calling for the Japanese vendor to produce a small high-end integrated Digital …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s largest affiliate, TeleCorp PCS Inc., raised $184 million last Tuesday from its initial public offering. TeleCorp priced its IPO offering of 9.2 million shares of class A common stock at $20 per share, which includes about …

Speculation continues that AT&T Corp. will unveil plans to issue a separate tracking stock to trace its wireless business, which has grown significantly since the carrier introduced its successful Digital One Rate plan. The tracking stock, according to published reports, …

REDMOND, Wash.-InfoSpace.com introduced its person-to-person instant messaging service for mobile wireless devices. The company said the server-based service will allow users on different networks and devices to send instant text-messages to each other, including those on Internet networks such as …

At long last, a wireless carrier has announced its intention to launch the Revolv service from Wireless Knowledge L.L.C., the joint venture Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp. formed more than a year ago. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it plans …

LAS VEGAS-L.M. Ericsson introduced the R280LX quad-mode wireless phone, which covers the 800 MHz Time Division Multiple Access, 800 MHz analog and 800 MHz packet data frequencies, and supports data speeds up to 19.2 kilobits per second for Internet access. …

LAS VEGAS-OmniSky Corp., formerly OpenSky Corp., introduced its first product last week at Comdex-a wireless Internet and e-mail service solution for Palm V users that integrates hardware, software and Internet access from several partner providers. OmniSky is the venture formed …