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NEW YORK-Cue Corp. entered into a strategic alliance to provide its regional and nationwide FM subcarrier messaging service to the new Clarion Corp. of America AutoPC, a platform using Microsoft Corp.’s Windows CE software. The new wireless service uses Cue’s …

NEW YORK-SBC Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. won their legal challenge to the constitutionality of part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The carriers had asked Judge Joe Kendall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District …

The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access technology to its two-week course, “Basic Wireless Telephony.” “We cut …

CARLSBAD, Calif.-Patrick Stephenson, a principal of Houston-based Cellular 99, bought the cellular reseller, C99 Prepaid Cellular Telephone, from Global Venture Funding Inc., both parties announced. C99, a reseller offering prepaid services to customers with poor credit, has reseller agreements with …

NEW YORK-Promotional activity revved into high gear during the critical December holiday season, which accounts for about 40 percent of carriers’ yearly gross customer additions, according to an informal but intensive survey by the wireless research consulting staff at The …

… Kudos to AT&T Wireless for being the proud provider of PCS service that worked in D.C.’s Old Ebbitt Grill. The bartender said most pocket phones don’t work in Old Ebbitt because of lead in the windows. My AT&T PCS …

In an initial victory for paging carriers nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau announced its current rules do not allow local exchange carriers to charge paging carriers for delivering traffic over the LEC network. Specifically, the bureau said …

As 1998 begins and a new century beckons, the wireless industry finds itself riding the wave of landmark free trade agreements that will open telecom and information technology markets and force countries to address the far-reaching implications of the Digital …

Toll Free Cellular has laid off most of its employees and put the company up for sale after AT&T Wireless Services Inc. opted not to proceed with plans to offer nationwide #800 cellular service. Seattle-based Toll Free, which partners with …

Canadian mobile phone operators are hoping the holiday season will help them rebound from lagging subscriber additions and falling stock prices. “The third quarter was a weak quarter in terms of subscriber additions” for the Canadian mobile phone market, said …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. and Cincinnati Bell Inc. announced a definitive agreement for Matrixx Marketing Inc., the teleservices unit of Cincinnati Bell, to acquire AT&T Solutions Customer Care for about $625 million in cash. Matrixx Marketing is an independent provider of …

WASHINGTON-The government is expected to begin collecting subsidies from all eligible telecommunications providers this week for the universal service fund. The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted an order outlining the amount of money it plans to raise during the first …

WASHINGTON-While wireless local loop technology is taking off in such countries as South Africa, Great Britain, India and China, the United States continues to lag behind in deploying what could be the most cost-effective, time-sensitive means of providing everyone in …

WASHINGTON-Although a broadband wireless pricing survey performed by BT Alex. Brown Research came up with no definitive trend-all up, all down or all the same-it did find that high-end subscribers have been ratcheting down their minutes of use, that personal …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. is rumored to be at an advanced stage in negotiations to acquire Teleport Communications Group Inc., the first and largest competitive local exchange carrier in the country. AT&T and Teleport, both headquartered in New York, have declined …

Teledesic Corp. announced Craig McCaw will return to his former post as chief executive officer of the company, where he will share the position with Steve Hooper, a longtime associate of McCaw and chairman of Nextlink Communications. Steve Twyver, who …

DETROIT-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services network in Detroit, using infrastructure equipment supplied and installed by Lucent Technologies Inc. The new system has advanced services including caller ID, paging, e-mail, and voice mail …

GoAmerica Communications Corp., a wireless Internet and intranet service provider, hopes to enter the consumer market in the next couple of years and is preparing by beginning to build network partnerships with Global System for Mobile communications and Code Division …

A new company led by former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. executive Michael Buhrmann has developed a client-server operating platform designed to let wireless carriers segment their customer base by offering lower-cost specialized services. “The new entrants that have come to …

Another wireless carrier has jumped on the Time Division Multiple Access bandwagon with help from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Oklahoma City-based Dobson Communications Corp., a cellular carrier with about 100,000 customers, has signed an operating agreement with AT&T Wireless to …

HOUSTON-Castle Tower Corp. and Crown Communications merged, announced the companies. Castle Tower is a subsidiary of Castle Tower Holding Corp., now know as Crown Castle International. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Crown Communications will serve as the domestic operating arm of …

Holiday shoppers this year will be faced with a variety of choices when it comes to selecting a wireless service, and the average consumer probably will have a difficult time wading through all the alphabet soup. According to a survey …

CAMARILLO, Calif.-AML Communications Inc. announced it received orders, totaling about $1.8 million, for cellular infrastructure equipment from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and an original equipment manufacturer serving the South American wireless market. The follow-on orders for multicarrier power and low-noise …

AT&T Corp. admitted it might sell its Wireless Messaging Division-without actually confirming that the paging unit is indeed up for sale-after rumors surfaced that the paging network was on the auction block. “We are being very aggressive at looking at …

What, you haven’t had enough paparazzi already? Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods and the man who might have been father-in-law to the late Princess Di, is back in the news. He’s in court challenging a 70-foot mobile phone tower …