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CALABASAS, Calif.-Silverlake Communications Inc. announced it has completed software enhancements for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with MessageFlash Text Messaging Software version 2.0 in AT&T Wireless’ digital mobile phone and paging services. MessageFlash 2.0 is a custom application combining the look …

NEW YORK-Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., announced the company is considering its options, including selling some or all of its assets. The company, a cellular carrier on the United States mainland and a personal communications services carrier in Puerto …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. The premise-based system, designed to capitalize on advantages of the Time Division Multiple Access standard, offers companies …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Postal Service and UniSite Inc. are planning a major rollout of huge flagpole antennas in the East and Midwest, a development representing a technological breakthrough in antenna co-location technology and aesthetics that will test the willingness of communities …

Cincinnati Bell Inc. said it expects first-quarter earnings to be in the range of 35 to 36 cents per share, compared with 35 cents per share for the first quarter of 1997. That figure excludes an acquisition-related charge for in-process …

Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C’s latest quarterly survey of U.S. mobile phone prices indicates the pricing wars may be over. The Atlanta-based company said pricing decreased since December just .8 percent to 1.6 percent on average, the smallest price decrease the company …

NEW YORK-The communications industry took the lead in the domestic mergers and acquisitions market during the first quarter, with $26.1 billion in transactions announced, a huge leap from the $1.5 billion announced during the first three months of 1997. Communications …

“The industry created two decades ago to foster dispatch wireless communications in the United States stands at a crossroads as regulatory, technological and market forces conspire to put mom-and-pop two-way radio businesses out to pasture. “Nextel Communications Inc., the largest …

NEW YORK-Anyone who has tried to find a wireline pay phone or use a wireless handset at crowded public entertainment events can understand why International CellComm Corp. has found a lucrative niche providing portable cellular pay phone services. The Titusville, …

NEW YORK-Aliant Communications Inc. said it will use part of the proceeds of a recently completed public debt issue to pay for its purchase of a 50-percent stake in Omaha Cellular General Partnership, which it will then own completely. Aliant, …

Two wireless enhanced 911 services vendors last week announced their systems were live in time for the Federal Communications Commission’s Phase I deadline, which calls for carriers to be able to transmit a call-back number and the location of the …

The annual growth rate of worldwide subscribers using Time Division Multiple Access technology is expected to increase more than 100 percent this year, according to figures released last week by the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium. UWCC estimates there were 9.2 …

A new niche segment of the wireless industry-build-to-suit-is attracting a lot of attention, both from carriers and Wall Street. The idea behind the build-to-suit concept is to shift all aspects of tower siting-including zoning, construction and maintenance-to a third party. …

Slam! Bam! Thank you, ma’am. Opening mail that accumulated during a week’s vacation was a test case in re-entry shock and a reality check. Fraudsters had forged my signature on an application for AT&T Corp. long-distance wireline telephony. Someone, possibly …

WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications & Information Administration estimates that the liberalization of the global telecommunications marketplace has resulted in a $675 billion opportunity for carriers that want to pursue business overseas. While the World Trade Organization treaty has paved part of …

CHICAGO-The status of Motorola Inc. has been the hot topic of the week. Again. First, reports surfaced that the vendor was preparing a corporate restructuring that would separate its various businesses into two divisions-an industrial products group and a consumer …

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Data Broadcasting Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a new wireless service that the companies said will provide real-time financial information and access to online trading. Customers can purchase Sierra Wireless Inc.’s AirCard modem to connect their …

This year’s El Nino phenomenon has brought unseasonably mild weather to some parts of the nation while slamming others with sudden bizarre weather, including flooding in California, ice storms in the Northeast and tornadoes in the South. The strange weather …

What does wireless have in common with toothpaste? Maybe not much now, but perhaps the toothpaste industry has learned a marketing secret that wireless carriers could benefit from. Toothpaste companies have learned to pick a customer segment they want and …

NEW YORK-Legislation to privatize the remaining two-thirds of Telstra Corp. Ltd. in what would be the world’s largest single stock sale could be introduced in the Australian Parliament as early as March 23, said Prime Minister John Howard. Although financial …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Hong Kong venture, SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., signed conditional agreements with Star Telecom International Holdings Ltd. and Telecom Service Ltd. to acquire P Plus Communications Ltd. for about $95 million. SmarTone will gain additional spectrum …

NEW YORK-Globo Comunicagues e Participagues S.A., doing business as Globopar, plans to sell a $300 million issue of 10-year senior unsecured notes to refinance a bridge loan and short-term debt. Globopar, headquartered in Rio de Janiero, is Brazil’s leading media …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission denied a waiver request forwarded last December by AirTouch Communications Inc. that would have stayed any per-call pay-phone compensation until pay-phone service providers are able to provide pay-phone-specific coding digits to facilitate blocking. In an order …

DENVER-The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is considering a plan to provide a new area code just for wireless phones and pagers despite a 1995 ruling from the Federal Communications Commission that prohibits such action. The CPUC believes Colorado will need …

WASHINGTON-Real competition will not succeed in the marketplace until “realistic rates” can be reached and subsidies cut back or restructured-including those earmarked for universal service, said three Wall Street analysts who testified before a Senate subcommittee last Wednesday. Sen. John …