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Some big-city markets saw a decrease in cloning fraud last year after implementing personal identification numbers, but the effort hasn’t beat the bandits. Cloning criminals have hit the road, scanning for numbers in one market, reprogramming and selling handsets in …

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services and Ameritech Cellular Services have signed an intercarrier agreement that allows each carrier’s Cellular Digital Packet Data customers to use CDPD within the other’s cellular network. The carriers’ customers will …

PITTSBURGH-AT&T Wireless Services announced its customers in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio now have access to the AT&T CellCard, a smart card that extends the reach of a customer’s cellular phone outside North America. To use the …

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.-On a clear day, you can look south and see the Manhattan skyline from the landmark hilltop house of Steve Preston, who owns and leases towers for wireless transmissions. But Preston has his sights set north where he …

Proponents of calling party pays believe the service will both generate more airtime and increase the number of incoming calls, but they don’t agree on how such a system should be introduced in the U.S. market. “We need some movement …

While Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. showed dramatic fourth quarter and year-end income loss for 1995, the company said it was the strongest quarter ever for adding cellular customers. The majority of net loss is attributed to acquisition costs associated …

NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. of Atlanta plans its debut in the public capital markets early next month to finance its expansion as a provider of systems integrating various modes of communications into one device. The company is one player in …

Charles Hunter has been named vice president of business development and general counsel for Toll Free Cellular. Hunter will lead the company’s business development efforts, manage contractual relationships with cellular providers nationwide and provide legal counsel to the company. For …

It’s understandable, as we now read in post-telecom bill interviews with U.S. District Judge Harold Greene, that the seven regional Bell telephone companies under his purview since the 1984 AT&T Corp. breakup still believe this smallish man of giant stature …

WASHINGTON-The panels and format for the Federal Communications Commission’s March 5 en banc hearing on spectrum policy have been set, with the agenda and most of the questioning determined by the four commissioners and Chairman Reed Hundt. Concurrent with the …

Two long-distance telephone service rivals have announced initiatives to provide wireless data access to their high-speed transmission networks. MCI Telecommunications Corp. said it will implement circuit-switched cellular access to its HyperStream Frame Relay network by the end of March. “MCI’s …

When it comes to the bottom line, AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc dominate the top two positions for 1995, with equipment manufacturers NEC Corp. and Motorola Inc. right behind them. According to Motorola’s year-end report, downward pressure on prices …

The Harris NovAtel Division of Harris Canada Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. have signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement that will enable Harris NovAtel to incorporate Glenayre’s Modular Voice Processing System platform in its cellular equipment networks worldwide, Glenayre announced. …

In a Feb. 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen volunteered his group’s help as Congress begins to formulate its broadcast analog spectrum-auctioning policy next month, exhorting that “the days of …

United States Cellular Corp. tops this ranking with an eye-popping increase in net income that approached 2,000 percent. The company said it disposed of some nonstrategic markets that didn’t fit in with its overall strategy, which produced substantial gains. Also, …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced it will market turnkey systems based on the new personal air communications technology standard for the narrowband personal communications services market. The company said it signed a multimillion dollar contract to implement the technology for AT&T …

Editor’s note: Following are five charts ranking major players in the wireless telecommunications industry according to revenues, net incomes, percent change in revenue from 1994 to 1995, percent change in net income from 1994 to 1995 and two-year total return …

I’ve been kind of a wired wireless guy lately. My wife, Liz, just gave birth to Graham Robert, who weighed in at 9 lbs. 8 oz. and now joins our 3-year-old daughter, Anastasia, in the information age that President Clinton …

The MultiMedia Telecommunications Association released its annual market review and forecast, examining technology developments, growth and trends in telecommunications and computing. MMTA of Washington, D.C., is the second-generation of the long-standing telecom trade group called North American Telecommunications Association, formed …

AT&T Corp.’s systems and technology division received a fresh face last week when it was reintroduced as Lucent Technologies Inc. Concurrently, AT&T announced it began the process to take Lucent public. Lucent, meaning “glowing with light” or “marked by clarity …

As part of AT&T Corp.’s plan to spin off its system and technology business, newly named Lucent Technologies Inc. filed last week for an initial public stock offering, aiming to sell between 15 percent and 20 percent of the company. …

This year promises to be a transition period for the Latin American wireless market, a year hosting key events necessary to drive the subscriber growth that is projected by the end of the decade. Impending introduction of competition in Brazil …

The impending liberalization of Brazil’s cellular services sector has attracted interest from a host of global carriers clamoring to position themselves in the region’s fastest growing telecom services sector. The lucky few that win private cellular operating licenses in Brazil …

Just as Cellular Digital Packet Data has been slow to take off in the United States, it looks like it will take a little pushing and shoving for the technology to thrive in Latin America as well. So far only …

This year will bring competition to Argentina’s interior cellular market, now served only by Compania de Telefonos del Interior under a two-year exclusive license. Owned by GTE Corp., AT&T Corp. and local partners, CTI rapidly built out an Advanced Mobile …