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ORLANDO, Fla.-“I feel like I’m on a bucking bronco and about to get thrown into the mud,” George Shaginaw Jr. said at the Wireless Location Applications Conference earlier this month. “We are looking at nine wireless licensees in each market …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. formed a license and maintenance agreement with TeleCorp PCS Inc. to provide its client/server-based Business Support and Control System for customer care and billing. The implementation is being provided jointly by Cap Gemini America L.L.C. and LHS. …

WASHINGTON-A critical European Parliament vote last week, which could effectively mandate a third-generation mobile phone standard dominated by Sweden’s L.M. Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia Corp. and lock out American technology, will ratchet up the stakes in upcoming negotiations here among …

Nextel Communications Inc. is testing nationwide pricing plans that fall in line with high-end one-rate plans offered by national mobile phone competitors. Analysts say the company quietly is rolling out the plans, which eliminate long-distance fees, to test the market’s …

This holiday season will see an unprecedented number of mobile phone competitors in the market, but carriers still seem unwilling to compete with break-neck pricing as they aim to keep average revenue per user at high levels. It’s a “digital …

This year’s holiday season promises to be an interesting one for wireless carriers and vendors offering their products to online buyers. Jupiter Communications, a new media research firm, predicts holiday shoppers will spend $2.3 billion online this season, up from …

WASHINGTON-While this week’s election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course of telecom policy making in Congress, a wholesale shakeup in GOP leadership could alter the political …

SEATTLE-Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp. made good on their promise to converge the computing and wireless industries when they announced the formation of WirelessKnowledge L.L.C. last week, a joint venture many say will revolutionize the wireless data industry. WirelessKnowledge aims …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it plans to brand the AT&T name in Los Angeles by next year. The company recently gained management control of Los Angeles Cellular under an agreement with BellSouth Cellular Corp. to consolidate ownership of …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it plans to brand the AT&T name in Los Angeles by next year. The company recently gained management control of Los Angeles Cellular under an agreement with BellSouth Cellular Corp. to consolidate ownership of …

Cellular carriers have made significant progress in their efforts to upgrade their 800 MHz analog networks to digital technology. Consumers’ appetite for digital features is demonstrated by the success of digital pricing plans such as AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Digital …

Aggressive digital pricing plans are quickly driving the migration of customers from analog service to digital service, say analysts. “We attribute today’s successful migration directly to rate plans combined with solid products,” said Richard Siber, head of Andersen Consulting’s wireless …

Motorola Inc. announced a partnership with BMW North America Inc. to create a new telematics cellular phone system expected to be available on all BMW models by late this year. The BMW Mayday Cellular Phone combines cellular telephony with global …

Metrocall Inc. and PageMart Wireless Inc. have entered a five-year strategic alliance that is part resale agreement, part shared network buildout relationship. In the first phase of the alliance, to begin immediately, Metrocall plans to resell PageMart’s advanced messaging services …

When all is said and done and the Federal Communications Commission has fully relocated to the Portals II building in Southwest Washington next year, the real catastrophe for the telecommunications world may not be the distance to the FCC (and …

NEW YORK-Propelled by its Digital One Rate plan, AT&T Corp. said total revenue from wireless services increased 19.4 percent for the third quarter compared with last year. AT&T Corp.’s third-quarter earnings were $1 per share on a diluted basis. Earnings …

Sprint Corp., citing poor market conditions, said it is postponing its planned public offering of its Sprint PCS venture. The Kansas City, Mo.-based long-distance carrier said it will continue to evaluate market conditions and may proceed with a public offering …

NEW YORK-Telecommunications carriers, equipment manufacturers, regulators and financiers are invited to attend the second steering committee meeting Nov. 9 of a new organization being formed to promote competitive markets and capital availability in developing nations. The Association for Competitive International …

The new head of Italy’s communications ministry said the government expects to hold its tender for a fourth mobile phone license by the middle of next year. The ministry originally said the tender would get underway by the end of …

NEW YORK-If telecommunications companies worked in a vacuum, they would probably be well fortified against the Year 2000 electronics bug that threatens to hobble microprocessor-reliant equipment. Wireless networks that are newer than traditional landline systems often are equipped to pass …

At a rate of nearly 400,000 new subscriber additions each quarter, U.S.-based Nextel Communications Inc. has been attracting a lot of attention, including from traditional wireless carriers that may try to imitate Nextel’s unique Direct Connect dispatch feature. Wireless carriers …

WASHINGTON-Tele-Communications Inc. President Leo Hindery, grilled by federal regulators last week on the cable TV giant’s planned $48 billion merger into top long-distance and mobile phone carrier AT&T Corp., said TCI’s 30-percent stake in Sprint PCS likely will be divested …

WASHINGTON-This year’s midterm election has monumental implications for the political landscape in terms of telecom policy and the balance of power in America-however, not in the conventional sense. The Republicans, whose revolution took back the House and Senate from Democrats …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and BellSouth Cellular Corp. have agreed to consolidate ownership of their jointly owned cellular properties in Los Angeles, Houston and Galveston, Texas, and have created a new management structure that will streamline operations, said the companies. …

NEW YORK-Earlier this month, Charles E. Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of Rogers Cantel Inc., temporarily assumed a new identity as a retail sales clerk to gain first-hand understanding of his wireless customers. After four hours on the job, …