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NEW YORK-A company called Beatie, King & Abate L.L.P. has filed a class-action lawsuit against Lucent Technologies Inc. individually and as a successor to AT&T Corp., alleging its telecommunications products sold between 1990 and Jan. 13, 1999, are not Y2K …

SEATTLE-AT&T Wireless Services announced Alaska, American, Canadian, Northwest and Southwest airlines’ passengers who make or receive, during any single month, five in-flight calls via AT&T’s incoming call service will receive the following month’s incoming calls free. All calls placed or …

Bundling continues to push forward, albeit at a slow pace. A recent Arthur Andersen survey of telecommunications companies found 66 percent of respondents offer bundled services to business customers, and 61 percent are offering these services to residential customers. About …

Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed a letter of intent with MCI WorldCom’s prepaid services division to provide prepaid cellular services nationwide under MCI WorldCom’s brand name, and through its extensive distribution network. An agreement is expected to be …

WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry forum studying whether the telephone network will work when the new century arrives needs better participation from the wireless industry, said Peter Spring of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council. NRIC is a Federal Communications Commission advisory …

NEW YORK-Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., said it began earlier this month in Las Vegas the commercial rollout of a new voice paging service it plans to offer in 100 North American markets by year’s end. The “CUEVoice” messaging service also …

In the Top 20 Wireless Resellers list (Jan. 11), Discount Cellular Inc. and The Mobile Phone Co. were listed wrong. The companies are agents for Omnipoint. Discount Cellular also is an agent for Powertel and Sprint PCS and a reseller …

Today’s telecommunications behemoths soon will rank right up there with journalists and used-car salesman on the “Who don’t you trust” list. As competition tries to come to the telecom industry, we’re beginning to see more and more of the underbelly …

JACKSON, Miss.-Tritel Inc. announced it will launch a 1900 MHz personal communications services wireless network as an affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The network will cover Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Georgia. Tritel said it …

AT&T Wireless employee wounded in Utah shooting SALT LAKE CITY-The Associated Press reported AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee Anne Sleater was shot in the head Thursday by a woman demanding entrance to a local newsroom housed in the same building …

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Inc. announced it has formed its joint venture with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to provide personal communications services in the Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, markets. Cincinnati Bell acquired from AT&T Wireless an 80-percent interest in the joint venture. …

WASHINGTON-The commercial mobile radio services rate integration order released by the Federal Communications Commission on New Year’s Eve could have an impact on the proposed merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. and AirTouch Communications Inc. Rate integration requires interstate telecommunications companies …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week said he would consider further wireless deregulation and intends to streamline operations, objectives that could help defuse plans on Capitol Hill to reform the agency this year. Kennard came under fire in …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. announced Friday it has postponed indefinitely a plan to create a separate class of stock that would have tracked its wireless business and the cable TV business it gains when it acquires Tele-Communications Inc. However, to allow …

The nation’s largest independent cellular carrier last week entertained bids from two potential acquirers in what could become a global bidding war. AirTouch Communications Inc. last week confirmed it was in discussions with Bell Atlantic Corp. for a possible tie-up …

NEW YORK-“Much to the shock of my sales team, vendors are not partners with an equity stake in carriers, and loans are not investments without repayment expectations,” Leslie L. Rogers said at International Business Communications’ recent Wireless Finance ’98 conference. …

MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network of affiliate, announced it selected SunCom as the brand name for its wireless network in the Southeast. The company is building a wireless network in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, …

We are witnesses to history in the making. Yes, yes, tomorrow’s students will study the impeachment of President Clinton in History class (now isn’t that something to look forward to), but that is not what I am talking about. Tomorrow’s …

WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. gave itself an early Christmas present on Dec. 23 when it announced it was buying Claircom Communications Group Inc. from AT&T Corp. and Rogers Cantel for $65 million in cash and debt. Seattle-based Claircom is the second largest …

Will ’99 be the year wireless becomes airborne? Iridium, hoping to further entice business travelers to trust and use the Iridium name, spent $65 million in December to buy Claircom Communications Group Inc. from AT&T Corp. and Rogers Cantel. Claircom …

NEW YORK-Start-up American companies searching the financing firmament for venture capital might do better by setting their sights upward toward the hidden realm occupied by angels. Angel investors are high-net-worth people whose small, patient investments in fledgling companies play a …

NEW YORK-Taking the pulse of the domestic cellular and personal communications services sectors as 1998 drew to a close, securities analysts from three major investment banks offered a positive prognosis for 1999 and beyond. When the full-year count is completed, …

New Enterprise Associates New Enterprise Associates, a Palo Alto, Calif. venture capital firm, appointed Nobel Laureate Arno A. Penzias as a partner. Penzias is the senior technology adviser for Lucent Technologies Inc. He has written two books, Ideas and Information …

MEXICO CITY-Imagine the following scenario: A company enters into a government auction to obtain spectrum. After an extremely long process, it wins frequencies because other participants couldn’t follow the pace of its high bids. Everything seems OK, until the deadline …

SINGAPORE-Over the last few months, British Telecommunications plc has been on a buying spree that would put any seasoned shopaholic to shame-chalking up a bill of more than US$1 billion in the Asia-Pacific region alone. Having kept a relatively low …