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Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall …

Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects. In the last year alone, at least half of the carriers on RCR’s 1998 Top 20 cellular carriers’ …

The battle continues at the Federal Communications Commission over whether a waiver of the airborne cellular rule granted to AirCell Inc. is proper. Louisville, Colo.-based AirCell has proposed an air-to-ground communications system for use in general and commercial aviation markets …

Tensions ran high at the International Telecommunication Union two-week meeting on third-generation technology in Fortaleza, Brazil, as the industry waits for an agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson on cdmaOne patents. Qualcomm and Ericsson won’t comment on progress made …

In the last two weeks alone, Crown Castle International Corp. has more than doubled its tower portfolio in the United States and United Kingdom, securing a top position for itself among independent tower companies. The most recent transactions with Powertel …

While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 “the year of wireless data,” few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year. In 1998, several new devices were introduced that met the form factor …

Polson on target regarding public’s RF perception Thank you for Peter Polson’s excellent article “Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation,” Feb. 8 in RCR. I agree that there is, indeed, a great storm brewing and it is about …

NEW YORK-As wireless telecommunications heads into the new frontier of electronic commerce, service providers must answer a question posed by an old British rock song: “I really want to know, who are you?” Toronto-based Diversinet Corp. is in business to …

Crown Castle International Corp. sealed its second deal to manage a large wireless carrier’s tower portfolio with last week’s announcement that BellSouth Corp. is selling 1,850 towers to the company for $610 million in cash and common stock. Crown in …

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with VeriFone Inc., a division of Hewlett-Packard Co., to develop wireless point-of-sale solutions. The two said they will work together to create end-to-end solutions linking wireless credit …

Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld and laptop computers to the Atlanta, Los Angeles and New Orleans markets. Datalink.net announced it can …

In what may be the beginning of a trend, BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Paging Network Inc. entered into a strategic alliance last week under which PageNet will resell BellSouth’s Interactive Paging Service, effective in May. According to the agreement, …

Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.’s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial equipment. BellSouth Cellular Corp. said it selected Compass Telecom Services …

Called one of the largest deployments of mobile computing technology to date, BellSouth Corp. introduced a new, $163 million mobile computing platform created to give its 15,000 service technicians access to customer service and network information in the field. The …

NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector announced it entered into a software alliance agreement with Cerulean Technology Inc. in an effort to beef up its wireless information solutions aimed at public-safety agencies. Under terms of the agreement, …

NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. launched a prepaid wireless service called Passport, which it said is the first in the United States to permit calls from any wireless phone to anywhere in the world. Rogers Cantel Inc., Canada’s largest wireless …

WASHINGTON-In an embarrassing political blunder that lends insight into the tricky third-generation wireless debate, Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.) last week joined two fellow Finance Committee members in urging the Clinton administration to use renewed Super 301 trade authority to make …

Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years. When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about how wrong the early subscriber forecasts were, while putting out …

WASHINGTON-Thomas Wheeler, the president and chief executive of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, does not want to enter the ‘holy war’ between local and long-distance companies. Rather, he wants to focus on what is best for the wireless industry. And, …

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-A study conducted by Solomon-Wolff Associates showed AT&T Corp. has the highest level of satisfaction among the three largest long-distance companies. The study reported that among Internet users, for both local and telephone wireless service, BellSouth Mobility customers …

When BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced its Interactive Paging service at PCS ’98 last year, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing Janet Boudris said she expected financial applications to be a big driver of the two-way messaging paradigm. If recent …

Representatives from BellSouth Corp., AirTouch Communications Inc. and GTE Corp. last week met with Federal Communications Commission representatives to discuss AirCell Inc.’s petition for a waiver of the airborne cellular rule. The discussion with representatives from the Commercial Wireless Division …

NEW YORK-w-Trade announced its Wireless Internet Trading System now supports both the Research In Motion Inter@ctive 950 handheld wireless device, as well as those on Palm Computing Inc.’s platform, such as the PalmPilot and the Palm III from 3Com Corp. …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it is offering Nettech Systems’ Smart IP product over its wireless data network. Smart IP allows Internet Protocol applications to run over non-IP-based wireless networks without modification. The agreement allows BellSouth to offer other …