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WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission plans to seek legislation to privatize spectrum auctions, a move that would shift debt collection to a third party with banking expertise. While the FCC would continue to be responsible for crafting and enforcing auction rules …

WASHINGTON-In a move that has jolted global telecommunications and financial institutions and may have repercussions for U.S. wireless traders, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ousted western investors from a $1 billion deal to privatize state-run telecommunications facilities and replaced them with …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. signed a contract to install its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems’ Texas markets. Corsair will install the system in the Dallas, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Laredo and Rio Grande valley …

WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use the Cibernet On-line Roaming Database to administer and exchange carrier market data used in roaming. The database allows carriers to update their roaming data online for immediate use by roaming partners. CORD transfers data …

As part of a holiday promotion, Powertel Inc. is offering unlimited local calling within its entire coverage area for $50 per month for all of next year. Customers who sign up before Jan. 18 will become “Prestige Partners” and will …

LOS ANGELES-The CDMA Development Group has said it wants to create a single name for the Code Division Multiple Access family of products. Wireless local loop, cellular and personal communications services are based on the same specification, said Perry LaForge, …

As European countries progressively open and grow their wireless markets, the contest for licenses is hot. But in Germany, only one group entered a bid for a second personal communications network license by deadline, which leaves questions as to the …

Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company’s wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director …

WASHINGTON-If the wireless telecom industry has learned one thing in recent years, it is that rules for paging, cellular, specialized mobile radio, personal communications services, mobile satellite, microwave, wireless local loop and private wireless services are not made in a …

Picture this. Down at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the space shuttle Columbia sits on the launch pad. The astronauts have run tests for months in preparation for the big day. Now they are strapped into their …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s 15-month-old executive memorandum mandating tower siting on federal lands not only is not being implemented quickly, it is being filibustered by land-management agencies, according to a Dec. 2 letter to President Clinton from Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association …

The transition from analog to digital handsets in the United States is finally taking off, says a new study published by Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. “After four years of false starts, the U.S. digital transition is finally underway,” said Jane …

SEATTLE-Toll Free Cellular has announced plans for national expansion of its #800 free cellular calling services. The national expansion is propelled by an infusion of capital, provided primarily by limited partnerships affiliated with Goldman, Sachs & Co., and supported by …

Investee Company Investors Amount Raised Type of Financing Nature of Business SignalSoft Corp. Olympic Venture Partners $1.9 million First Wireless location software & services Boulder, CO Pathnet Inc. Corman Foundation Inc., IAI Venture Capital $700,000 Bridge/Mezzanine Microwave incumbent relocation services …

I’ve noted before that vendors of the personal Air Communications Technology protocol-one of the newest contenders for two-way paging and messaging systems, and being implemented by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. over its nationwide two-way channels-have their work cut out for …

WASHINGTON–The Federal Communications Commission may delay implementation of the new hybrid radio frequency safety guideline that’s scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, according to an official. “I think there’s definitely merit to some of the arguments,” said Robert Cleveland, senior …

Editor’s Note: The companies listed below are the current holders of A-, B- and C-block licenses for broadband personal communications services in the United States. Some of the companies have not yet received their licenses from the Federal Communications Commission …

L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will …

NEW YORK-Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, the country’s monopoly telecommun-ications conglomerate, was scheduled to become a publicly traded company Nov. 22 with an offering outside the country of 34.2 million American Depository Shares. The IPO, lead managed by Lehman …

PARAMUS, N.J.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it reduced wireless telephone fraud in metropolitan New York City by 90 percent so far this year, using its authentication system and Corsair Communications Inc.’s PhonePrint radio frequency fingerprinting system. The company also announced …

Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest paging companies in the United States from survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. Rankings are based on carriers’ reported total number of paging …

WASHINGTON-In an amici curiae brief submitted by four members of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission is taken to task for taking telecommunications law into its own hands in the currently stayed interconnection and local competition order. And speaking at a …

Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp.’s AT&T Canada Inc. subsidiary announced a long-term alliance that licenses Cantel to use the AT&T brand name and includes a marketing and technology agreement between Cantel and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The …

“The debate on CDMA is over, folks,” declared Jerry Butters, an executive with Lucent Technologies Inc., last week when PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched 1900 MHz service in 11 major trading areas. It was the most comprehensive launch of both …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court has closed the book on any further appeal to vacate a stay of certain interconnection and local competition rules adopted last August by the Federal Communications Commission. The court last week denied for the second time …