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Of late, the move from corporate executive to born again entrepreneur is not uncommon in wireless.But still it comes as a surprise Alex Mandl would leave his post as president and chief operating officer of AT&T Corp. Word has it he was Chairman Bob...

Preferred Networks Inc. said it has signed an agreement with NationsBank for a $20 million revolving credit facility. The money will be used primarily to finance the acquisition of paging networks and capital expenditures for the company's nationwide network construction, said Atlanta-based Preferred.Carlson Design/Construct...

Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it is facing the same problem in Oregon experienced by its personal communications services competitor, Western Wireless Corp.-an attempt by the state to tax its personal communications services license."This tax puts PCS operators at a disadvantage because incumbents aren't facing...

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has acquired the Little Rock, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., 1900 MHz personal communications services licenses from SBC Communications Inc.In addition to acquiring the two major trading area licenses, AT&T said it also will gain control of SBC's 35.7 percent interest...

NEW YORK-After many delays, Brazil's B-band cellular license auctions, which will be open to foreign bidders, are likely to begin early next year.The Brazil Senate last month ratified telecommunications deregulation legislation already approved by the House, thereby opening satellite and cellular services to outside...

WASHINGTON-A lengthy notice of proposed rulemaking adopted July 25 by the Federal Communications Commission but not released until Aug. 13, "initiates a comprehensive review of our existing regulatory framework of structural and nonstructural safeguards for local exchange carrier provision of commercial mobile radio services."Taking...

Comsat RSI Mark Antennas signed agreements with several contractors to supply antennas for Sprint Spectrum L.P.'s personal communications services network. The contractors include Black & Veatch and MFS Network Technologies, said Comsat.Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has signed intercarrier agreements with Southwestco, its wholly owned...

Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...

3607 Communications Co. launched its Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone network in Las Vegas and is offering the service to new and existing customers.The system, which covers 85 percent of the company's analog traffic areas, will allow 3607 to increase network capacity...

Lucent Technologies Inc. said it doesn't expect to renew its original equipment manufacturer contracts with Nokia Mobile Phones and Oki telecom at the end of the year when the agreements expire.Lucent said it is making good progress on establishing a factory in New Jersey...

NEW YORK-The establishment of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission by Aug. 10 heralds the advent of significant new foreign ownership opportunities south of the border for wireless services companies."Joint auctions for personal communications services and local wireless access are contemplated for year-end 1996," said Carlos...

Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet Inc. signed an agreement to interconnect their wireless data networks.Both networks use Cellular Digital Packet Data technology and combined can provide data service to more than 65 million potential customers in 34 cellular markets, AT&T said. Account...

Hong Kong's dominant cellular operator Hongkong Telecom said it deeply regrets that the government failed to award it one of six new wireless licenses, and intends to discuss the matter with Hong Kong officials.Fourteen companies bid for the 10-year personal communications services licenses offered...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's adoption last week of a sweeping local-competition docket at best opens the door for some wireless carriers to become true head-to-head competitors with local exchange carriers, and at least will help lower prices wireless carriers and subscribers pay for service.Aug....

Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the Clinton administration later this year."The time seems right for me to tell you and the president that I have decided,...

NEW YORK-TeleTech, a Denver-based customer care service provider, planned to go public last week with 4 million shares of common stock priced from $14.50 to $16.50 each.At the end of the first quarter, AT&T Corp.'s cellular unit was TeleTech's single largest customer and accounted...

WASHINGTON-At night, when most people are asleep, Dan Akerson thinks about Rubik's Cubes. Relating the colors and squares on the device to possible marketing strategies, he toys with going beyond the colored surfaces and into the deeper relationships that connect the pieces.The new chairman...

NEW YORK-Cellhire Global Phone Rental plc, headquartered in York, England, will open its first office outside the United Kingdom, Aug. 1, on Broadway near Wall Street in the financial district of New York City.The wholly owned American subsidiary, Cellhire Global Phone Rental USA, first...

From Wall Street to Main Street, the outlook for the cellular industry remains positive, especially for major players abroad and minor players at home that exploit markets with lower competition and penetration levels.The new Telecommunications Act has unleashed forces that could transform the entire...

Not wanting to be elbowed aside by rival new suitors, cellular carriers are beginning to serenade subscribers with their own chorus of "Digital! Digital! Digital!"But unlike emerging personal communications services networks that are digital by design, incumbent cellular carriers have some unexpected leeway in...

WITCHITA, Kan.-IFR Systems Inc. has begun shipping its new Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular radio protocol analyzer.The analyzer is the first test platform available to verify TDMA standards compliance for wireless cellular radio equipment, said IFR. The new system was...

PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...

I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did I use?"Sprint," I told him. Then I thought to myself, "Is it Sprint? No wait, maybe it's MCI."Hold on a...