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Incidents of cloning fraud and associated revenue loss have dropped more than 80 percent in Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile’s cellular markets since the company started aggressively using personal identification numbers …

With the dramatic changes that are occurring in every sector of the telecommunications industry, analysts and investors on Wall Street and elsewhere are re-evaluating the industry, its sectors and its …

On the eve of introducing a brand new wireless local loop product, Diva Communications Inc. already is placing a priority on forging strategic relationships in newly industrializing countries to jointly …

Yet another wireless technology is knocking on the door of the U.S. personal communications services marketplace, with the promise of wireline quality voice service. Actually, the low-power, microcellular PACS Edge …

ierre Dogan, David Patton and Ray Nettleton Two observations can be drawn from the recent personal communications services license auctions. First, PCS participants are willing to assume enormous financial risk, …

The road to launching the first commercial personal communications services network in the United States, which American Personal Communications plans to do this fall, began at the Personal Communications Industry …

American Paging Inc. is restructuring three of its key operating areas – sales and marketing, administration and customer service – to achieve an improved customer mix, reduced administrative costs and …

Paging operators using an Israeli technology can plug a spread-spectrum return path into their present systems to facilitate low-end, two-way paging at a fraction of the cost of full two-way …

The latest step in the continuing march toward ever higher radio frequencies, 38 GHz point-to-point digital services, is providing a set of interesting, unique products. The 38 GHz technology has …

Allen Telecom Group hopes that four new applications for its SmartCell will allow the company to attract business in areas that other manufacturers have ignored. “I’m not sure the cellular …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, responding to industry concerns about potential interference from the introduction of advanced technologies in private wireless bands below 800 MHz, has extended the freeze on filing …

BRUSSELS-The European Commission is investigating three consortia building mobile satellite systems to guage the effect those global systems will have on future competition in European Union nations. Globalstar L.P., Iridium …

Cellular operators may have to continue to price digital service lower than analog to capture and keep customers until digital service matures and can offer advanced features, said cellular phone …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel PCS Partners L.P. has selected Global System for Mobile communications technology for the personal communications services network that will be built by Powertel. Powertel paid $124.5 million …

A small Colorado company has reduced the cost of an average cellular call to the price point of a soda. CellAir Saver is an alternative access service for cellular customers …

Launching personal communications services with a multitude of standards may be the way for industry to sort out the benefits of each technology, but it could set consumers up for …

WASHINGTON-Resale could become a powerful force in wireless telephony in the coming years, bringing an odd mix of competition and commerce to facilities-based carriers. Resale has experienced modest success in …

A new company led by industry veteran Allen Salmasi is poised to bid in the entrepreneurial auction for personal communications services licenses, with plans to build a network based on …

A joint venture is underway to deliver “last mile”-or in this case last 20 miles-digital wireless connections for wireline phones in regions worldwide where phone service is costly, inadequate or …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Interim Standard-634, an open network interface standard, has been approved by the engineering committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association. The standard provides an open interface between the mobile …

BellSouth Wireless Inc. unveiled a new cellular technology application called Cellemetry, which makes it possible to send short data messages over existing cellular networks. Currently undergoing system trials, applications for …

While voice transmissions over the cellular network have reached a certain degree of maturity in the marketplace, data transmissions continue to alternately attract and frustrate carriers, manufacturers and end users. …

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Driven by the emerging Interim Standard-136 digital cellular market, DSP Communications Inc. and NEC Electronics Inc. said they plan to jointly introduce a new chipset. DSPC has agreed to …

BIS Strategic Decitions was sold to Giga Information Group, and investment group led by Gideon Gartner. BIS provides data, information and knowledge to enterprises in the computer, office and teleommunications …

WASHINGTON-Industry negotiations aimed at clearing fixed microwave licensees off the 2 GHz band that next-generation pocket telephone systems will soon occupy have begun with a bang. Personal Communications Industry Association …