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This year’s holiday season promises to be an interesting one for wireless carriers and vendors offering their products to online buyers. Jupiter Communications, a new media research firm, predicts holiday …

American Tower Corp. last week bolstered its leading position among independent tower companies when it announced plans to acquire TeleCom Towers L.L.C. and OmniAmerica Inc., the latter considered a major …

It’s been more than a year since Glenayre Technologies Inc. first announced its intention to divest the Western Multiplex microwave business unit, yet the company continues to search for a …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced it received a $12.4 million follow-on order from Lucent Technologies Inc. for highly linear, single-channel, high-power PCS-CDMA amplifiers. The amplifiers are for use in …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said its proprietary Integrated Resource Management System is now commercially available. The IRMS allows corporate customers to control wireless messaging activities in their organization by using local-area-network …

WASHINGTON-While this week’s election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course of telecom policy making in Congress, …

Alcatel to deliver network to Pegaso SAN DIEGO-A subsidiary of Mexico’s Pegaso Telecomunicaciones S.A. de C.V. and Alcatel Althsom signed an agreement that calls for Alcatel to provide up to …

BOSTON-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. announced more than 2.3 million Global System for Mobile communications customers exist in the United States and Canada. “GSM’s growth continues to outpace rival …

LONDON-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum announced 11 new companies have joined the organization, and it appointed three additional members to its board of directors. New to the board are Hiroshi …

HOUSTON-Equiva Services L.L.C., an affiliate of Shell, and TruePosition Inc. signed an agreement to jointly develop and market location-based services and applications using the TruePosition Wireless Location System. Under terms …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc., a provider of chipsets, software and intellectual property to the wireless industry, said it received investments from two venture capital firms. Boston-based Greylock and Lucent Venture …

WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission set the stage for auctioning nearly 500 returned C-block personal communications services licenses next March, agency lawyers successfully fought lenders Friday in Baltimore bankruptcy court …

Alltel Corp. said it acquired Armstrong Cellular Inc.’s 15-percent interest in a network the two companies operate in Charleston, W.Va. Alltel now has 100 percent control of the operation. Terms …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced Mark Golden, senior vice president of industry affairs, is leaving the association as of Dec. 3 to become executive director of the National …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration will brief the Senate Finance Committee this week on mobile phone trade and standards policy, a meeting prompted by intensified lobbying by Global System for Mobile communications …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson unveiled a mobile positioning system for Global System for Mobile communications networks that uses network idle time to calculate the position of a mobile subscriber on a …

The mere idea it may one day be possible to connect computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices to share voice and data transmissions without the need for cables has …

Three personal communications services licensees last week agreed to consent decrees with the U.S. Department of Justice concerning alleged collusion during the Federal Communications Commission’s 1996 D-, E- and F-block …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it plans to brand the AT&T name in Los Angeles by next year. The company recently gained management control of Los Angeles Cellular under …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it plans to brand the AT&T name in Los Angeles by next year. The company recently gained management control of Los Angeles Cellular under …

Rural Cellular Corp. Rural Cellular’s revenues increased 103 percent to $34 million from $16.8 million during last year’s third quarter. Net loss for the quarter totaled $4.5 million, or 50 …

While Iridium L.L.C. continues work to improve the technical prowess of its low-earth-orbit satellite-based global phone service, the company also must turn its attention to its global sales and marketing …

WASHINGTON-Franklin Haney, a Tennessee developer closely tied to Vice President Gore and a central figure in Portals investigations, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of …

NEW YORK-Conventional wisdom may hold that scale is superior when it comes to carriers and miniaturization is most desirable when it comes to handsets. However, neither attribute necessarily implies long-term …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced expansion contracts with Singapore Telecom and Chongqing Telecom and the Hebei PT in China. Ericsson plans to expand SingTel Mobile’s Global System for Mobile communications network …