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HARDWICK, Vt.-Even on a miserable, rainy day in March, this small New England state of maple syrup, cheddar cheese, splendid ski resorts and Ben and Jerry’s ice cream whispers a uniquely American native beauty. In trying to capture Vermont, the …

NEW YORK-The share price of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc., Greensboro, N.C., closed up $1 at $17.13 per share March 11, the day it announced it plans to sell its Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Wilmington-Jacksonville, N.C., properties. The big bump in …

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee said an investigation confirmed that BellSouth Corp. offered to drop a regulatory challenge to Teligent Corp.’s wireless licenses if Teligent would actively support the Baby Bell’s entry into long distance. The congressional probe also found that …

While it may be clear that the use of wireless phones is prohibited aboard commercial aircraft, many private pilots in a recent survey indicated they have made calls from their cellular phone while airborne, and some believe it is OK …

NEW YORK-Wireless online financial information services are a hot item, judging from the flurry of recent announcements about new offerings in this category. w-Trade Technologies, New York, said AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s PocketNet Service will offer its new w-Trade Internet …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service, New York, announced Feb. 27 it lowered its ratings on $489 million of Cincinnati Bell Inc. debt after conducting a two-month review. Moody’s said it lowered by three notches, to Baa2 from A2, its investment grade …

ATLANTA-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group made up of Time Division Multiple Access technology supporters including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced a migratable solution to IMT-2000 technology called UWC-136. UWCC said the solution meets the high-speed data application requirements …

Competition from personal communications services providers has impacted the bottom line of many cellular carriers, although the overall health of the cellular industry remains strong, say some analysts. One sign that the cellular carriers are financially healthy is that several …

Lightbridge Inc. successfully petitioned the California Public Utilities Commission to overturn a long-standing rule that forbids California wireless carriers to share customer information. The new ruling, said Lightbridge, allows wireless carriers immediately to begin sharing negative customer-credit data. Lightbridge petitioned …

Consumers are aware of increased competition within the wireless industry, according to a report conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc., released at Wireless ’98 last week in Atlanta. Seventy-one percent of the survey’s respondents said they perceived more …

Further developments in the B-band auction for cellular licenses in Brazil continue to be stymied, while the June privatization auction date set for government-owned Telebr

Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under the brand names Praxiphone, Heliophone and Armoricom, announced TIW. With …

1998 may be the year for introductions of next-generation wireless office systems that allow for seamless handoffs between the office system and a carrier’s macrocellular system. Hughes Network Systems Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a strategic marketing agreement …

In the summer of 1989, one of my favorite bands, the B-52s, released an album with the big hit-tune “Roam,” in which singer Kate Pierson encouraged listeners to “roam around the world.” Well, it took me nine years, Kate, but …

Consumers in Cincinnati for the first time will be able to purchase local, long-distance, personal communications, Internet and satellite TV service from one provider and receive their charges on one bill. The service begins May 1. Cincinnati Bell Wireless, the …

Multinational Automated Clearing House U.S.A. said it signed agreements to provide roamer call data clearing services to Global System for Mobile service providers American Personal Communications, Powertel Inc., Microcell Connexions Inc., Aerial Communications, Airadigm Communications, DigiPH PCS, Conestoga Wireless and …

CERRITOS, Calif.-Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. said it teamed up with the American Association of Retired Persons, Retired Senior Volunteer Persons and a host of celebrities and local dignitaries to fight telemarketing fraud in Southern California. L.A. Cellular subsidized this …

Envision an all digital baseball stadium that allows its patrons to use their digital wireless phones to determine which parking lots are full, to order food and have it delivered to their seats or download player statistics. That is only …

To the Editor: During the next few weeks, the Federal Communications Commission will rule on requests to modify its decision to provide limited debt relief to C-block wireless personal communications services licensees that owe the U.S. government billions of dollars. …

WASHINGTON-A year-end survey conducted by the Telecommunications Resellers Association revealed that 90 percent of respondents who sought to resell personal communications services were barred from doing so by carriers, and that number rose to 100 percent for those respondents who …

WASHINGTON-With technologies converging, telecom giants merging and entrenched networks discouraging new competition, there is growing debate over the role of antitrust law in the Digital Age. In one camp are the Clintonites, lawyers and economists who emphasize the inherent power …

NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail stores. Is this a case of product oversupply? No, it’s …

NEW YORK-The dominant impression today of Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., is connected more to its late 1996 wireless debut in Puerto Rico than to its longstanding analog role on the U.S. mainland. Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp. is …

“From the mighty pen, true wisdom flows. If it says so, then it is so. If it is so, so it is. A thought’s not fit to think ’til it’s printed in ink. Then it says so, so it is.”-Rabbit, …

Look out, Craig McCaw! A low-earth-orbiting pie in the eye-Bill Gates a la mode-could be in your future once the world finds out you’ve joined forces with McCaw expatriates and Nextel mobile moguls to pummel bidders in the LMDS auction …