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BOSTON-The future of wireless reselling is based on the resellers’ ability to realize economies of scale, provide a wide scope of services and achieve brand awareness, according to a recently …

WASHINGTON-Unless it receives as-yet-undefined “higher and better alternatives” from potential buyers who would like to purchase the Dallas and Chicago C-block licenses from bankrupt Pocket Communications Inc., a group of …

The Federal Communications Commission’s Phase I E911 deadline is set for Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean that dispatchers across the nation this week will begin receiving the extra information called …

Initially used as a tool to tap into the credit-challenged market, many carriers are finding that prepaid service is attracting more than those with bad credit. Many personal communications services …

Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java …

WASHINGTON-Negotiations between the Justice Department and the telecom industry over a digital wiretap standard collapsed last week, an outcome that will pull the Federal Communications Commission into the fray and …

Like the ugly duckling that was teased and spurned in its younger years only to mature into a beautiful swan, the two-way paging market is expected to someday spread its …

NEW YORK-It has been said that where you stand depends on where you sit. And so it was earlier this month when representatives of four wireless carriers and four equipment …

WASHINGTON-As the Justice Department broadens its antitrust probe of WorldCom Inc.’s proposed $37 billion purchase of MCI Communications Corp., Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/Push Coalition is using the mega-merger as a …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission denied a waiver request forwarded last December by AirTouch Communications Inc. that would have stayed any per-call pay-phone compensation until pay-phone service providers are able to …

NEW YORK-Field-programmable gate arrays are poised to become the next key driver in the trend toward smaller, less expensive, more powerful and more quickly deployable cell sites, according to a …

The differences between paging resellers and carriers is perhaps most evident when looking at what happens to paging resellers that offer customers prepaid multiyear or lifetime contracts. The plan seems …

Much hype has surrounded information services and what they mean to the future of the paging industry. By providing customers with information-such as news, sports scores and stock quotes-carriers hope …

WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno will decide by this Friday whether to pull the Federal Communications Commission into a digital wiretap controversy that kept the telecom industry and FBI officials busy …

NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc announced its mobile satellite communications customers will enjoy price reductions up to 15 percent, when the company introduces a new U.S. dollar billing rate. BT will …

BALTIMORE-Pacific Eagle Investments Ltd., Masa Telecom Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Siemens Telecom Networks-collective creditors to bankrupt C-block personal communications services licensee Pocket Communications Inc.-have withdrawn a lawsuit filed in U.S. …

WASHINGTON-The pack leaders haven’t changed much during the last week of bidding in the Federal Communications Commission’s local multipoint distribution services auction. The top 10 companies remain the same, although …

Most analysts and industry insiders agree the future of the paging industry lies in providing value-added services to the current paging subscriber base. For some that means upgrading from numeric …

B-band cellular licenses don’t appear to be a wireless Mardi Gras for the Brazilian government any longer. Though raking in billions so far from four of the 10 licenses it …

LONDON (AP)-Three British telephone companies charge customers too much to place calls to mobile phones, a regulator said Thursday as he ordered a monopoly investigation of their pricing. “Mobile phones …

WASHINGTON-Four Senate telecom lawmakers plan to introduce universal service legislation this week aimed at preventing mandated Internet links for schools, libraries and rural health-care facilities from draining telephone service subsidies …

WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno said Friday she will postpone seeking Federal Communications Commission intervention in the digital wiretap controversy if the telecom industry can show progress in the coming months …

Ericsson forms office mobility unit ATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace. Ericsson said the …

WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno, amid indications of coming legislation, told Congress last week she will order the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in mid-March if the deadlock between the FBI …

NEW YORK-Rumors of analog’s death are premature, according to a group of former IBM Corp. executives who have joined with other industry veterans to form a new company to exploit …