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A cellular network using Code Division Multiple Access technology is live in South Korea, but so far enduring only a lukewarm reception. Current analog operator Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp. introduced CDMA service Jan. 1 in Inchon, a port city west …

WASHINGTON-Congress passed landmark telecommunications reform legislation late last week, paving the way for the wireless lane of the information superhighway and setting the stage for a fierce debate on a national spectrum policy bill later this year. The measure, which …

Sprint Telecommunications Venture has awarded contracts to build its personal communications services network to AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom Inc. with roughly a 60/40 split of STV’s markets. The contracts are valued at more than $3 billion. “Today’s …

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands-Philips Electronics said it will dissolve its infrastructure division in the Netherlands and open a new unit in France to manufacture wireless phones, pagers and other personal communications items. AT&T Corp. recently bought the infrastructure assets of Philips in …

Offering customers wireless access inside and outside the office will enable wireless carriers to gain new subscribers, retain current subscribers and generate increased airtime revenue, said Jerry Kaufman, president of Arizona-based Alexander Resources. Kaufman believes cellular and personal communications services …

The Cellular One Group intends to expand the scope of the Cellular One brand name to paging, local and long-distance service, and will offer licensing to B-side cellular carriers, personal communications services operators and resellers as well. “Customers want to …

A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world. Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to providing consumer pocket telephony as well as plain old telephone …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Three American companies are working through the U.S. Embassy in Ireland to determine how an Irish long-distance company won the country’s second cellular wireless telephone license last fall. Motorola Inc., AT&T Wireless Services and Southwestern Bell Corp. want the …

Sprint Cellular Co. may not have completed its anticipated spinoff from Sprint Corp., but it is confident enough of its future to choose a new name. The Chicago-based company will become Three-sixty Communications Co. if the spinoff is successful. The …

Dial Page Inc.’s stockholders have approved a merger proposal and agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., Nextel announced. The Federal Communications Commission’s final approval on the merger is expected to be made in late January, Nextel said. The transaction is scheduled …

WASHINGTON-In a potential blow to Omnipoint Corp.’s planned initial public offering this week, wireless investor James Valentine has asked federal regulators to investigate whether the small Colorado firm is violating its pioneer’s preference for a personal communications services license in …

Motorola Inc. pulled out of equipment negotiations with Sprint Telecommunications Venture last week, saying financial and commercial terms proposed by Sprint were extraordinary. “We made every effort to reach an agreement, and put our best and final offer on the …

AT&T Corp. formally named Alex Mandl president and chief operating officer of the new AT&T and a member of the company’s board of directors. Mandl has headed the company’s long-distance services business since 1993 and was AT&T’s chief financial officer …

NEW YORK – With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on an upward trajectory in competitive urban markets in the East, representative for major carriers report. “It …

Memphis, Tenn.-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent for a secondary underwriting with Barron Chase Securities of Boca Raton, Fla. Chadmoore said the offering, which is scheduled to take place in the second quarter, …

Two divisions in AT&T Corp.’s systems and technology company last week unveiled a communications system the company said will provide customers wireless phone access in the office or on a campus and analog cellular service wherever else they go, all …

Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is expected to be first to offer commercial personal communications services in Canada, launching in at least two cities by September, predicts the Yankee Group, a Boston-based research and consulting group. Four companies recently won PCS licenses …

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to $70 billion. Dole’s latest salvo against the broadcasters could, if …

The cellular industry has taken numerous steps to package cellular for the mass consumer retail market, but a small gap remains between the industry’s effort and the complicated process to activate a phone. “Mass merchants are a substantial opportunity for …

WASHINGTON-With the idea of wireless communications as a complement to traditional wireline residential and business service still fresh in the public’s mind, the move toward wireless as a purveyor of local-loop service is closer than most people think. With some …

WASHINGTON-The recently completed summit on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket telephones was hailed a success by the wireless telecommunications industry and hearing disability advocates, but controversy simmering beneath the surface could thwart further progress. An undercurrent of mistrust between …

OKLAHOMA CITY-A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in the civil lawsuit filed by AT&T Wireless Services against an Oklahoma City medical supply company that provides cellular phone emulation service. AT&T received an emergency restraining order against Safari Communications on Jan. 8, …

From the bidders’ view of the post-C-block auction landscape, not only the Goliaths but also the Davids seem likely to gain ready access to financing to construct personal communications services systems. The wireless spectrum auction was designed initially to give …

Just months after AT&T Corp. stated it would split into three separate companies, Chairman Robert Allen announced 40,000 people will be displaced or laid off during the next three years. Meanwhile, AT&T Wireless Services is actively recruiting. Experts say downsizing …

WASHINGTON-Following the Nov. 29 filing of a Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit at the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, communications brokers Republic Communications Corp. and its subsidiary, Falcon Crest Communications Inc., have been shut down …