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WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, having shuffled around key leadership in the aftermath of the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others during a Balkan trade mission, is aggressively moving ahead to reach a global telecommunications liberalization accord …

NEW YORK-As the 1996 campaign season gets into high gear, wireless providers might do well to consider this profile when looking for loyal customers most likely to vote early and often for communications services: they are young, religious, affluent, well-read …

SEATTLE-Bob Ratliff has left AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to return to active politics, but said he will continue to work beside cellular baron Craig McCaw. For the next month, Ratliff will coordinate communication strategy for a political campaign, the Seattle …

Sales of wireless network equipment in the United States grew more than 72 percent in 1995 to $5.44 billion, up from $3.16 billion the previous year, according to a new report from Northern Business Information. In U.S. Wireless Network Equipment …

Lately Western Europe is a tourney of anticipation and waiting where players are evaluating merging options and calculating the competition’s next move. The first domino may fall if Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc join forces. Weeks ago …

The Telecommunications Industry Association wrote the standard for authentication technology five years ago and in March 1995, Tom Berson, a noted cryptologist and president of Anagram Laboratories, completed a study for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Fraud Task Force that …

Telemac Cellular Corp.’s cellular debit phone is a product of carriers’ wish lists for the ideal prepaid service, said company President Scott McGregor. The SCOTT (Simple Credit Options with Telemac Technology) phone allows roaming and long-distance calling, provides customers various …

Repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling cellular phones is the business of ReCellular Inc. The company brings phones sent in by carriers, dealers and other clients back to new condition. And while some phones are serviced for return to the owners, …

After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was ready to hang up his spurs. That was four years ago. Today Cooper, along with the …

ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Florida announced it will market wireless telephones using an automated kiosk that dispenses ready-to-use cellular phones directly to the customer. The Interactive Retail Information System, developed by Lightbridge Inc., is fully automated and provides …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is set to intervene shortly in a Democratic Party power struggle for leadership of the new Telecommunications Development Fund, a potentially huge pool of money small businesses can tap into for wireless projects and other telecommunications ventures. …

Consolidation in the cellular industry is galloping ahead-now spurred faster by the 1996 Telecom Reform Act-but toward an uncertain future. The ten largest cellular carriers served nearly 27 million subscribers at year-end 1995, not counting the subscribers in the markets …

On the same day last week, the nation was a painful witness to high technology’s fork in the road. In some remote hills of spacious Montana, federal agents picked up a bearded 53-year-old Harvard-educated math whiz named Ted Kaczynski on …

NEW YORK-With a push from the new federal telecommunications deregulation law, SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group announced April 1 the first merger ever between two Baby Bells. In this friendly takeover, SBC Communications Inc., based in San Antonio, …

NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. launched itself into the public equity market last Thursday with an initial public offering of more than 112 million shares of common stock priced at $27 per share, reportedly the largest IPO in U.S. history. At …

“The Internet is the killer app!” declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps ’95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas. He was referring to the long-sought application for wireless data-a Holy Grail …

First wedding of Baby Bells has many eyes on their siblings … Ameritech sees no value in mergers … BellSouth says plans unchanged in wake of SBC-PacTel deal … U S West not seen bidding for PacTel … SBC-PacTel deal …

If London-based Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc merge, the new enterprise could descend upon an auspicious Asian market and create a shake up among globally-footed wireless giants. “This whole merger move is based on a wireless view …

WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, an aggressive promoter of telecommunications abroad and a strong advocate of minority advancement in high technology, was among the 35 passengers killed last week in a plane crash off the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik. Brown …

DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and …

California Microwave Inc. announced it is expecting earnings per share for its 1996 fiscal year third quarter ending March 31 to be in the range of 5 cents to 10 cents as a result of lower than projected bookings and …

STAMFORD, Conn.-GTE Corp. has announced it intends to get a foothold in the Brazilian cellular phone market through an alliance with a Brazilian investment group and a Brazilian equipment manufacturer. The trio has its eyes on one of the B-band …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nippon Telephone and Telegraph and AccessLine Technologies organized a venture to bring one-number services to Japan’s personal communications services market. One Number Service Inc. is being launched by the two companies as well as AT&T Corp., France Telecom, several …

DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and …

NEW YORK-The total number and dollar volume of mergers and acquisitions in the global telecommunications market reached an all-time high in 1995, according to a report by Broadview Associates L.P. of Fort Lee, N.J. Cable and wireless transactions accounted for …