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ORLANDO, Fla.-BellSouth Wireless Data disclosed in greater detail its distribution strategy for its Interactive Paging service at PCS ’98 last week, where the company also announced a strategic alliance and …

WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile refuses to throw in the towel on antenna siting and continues to fight for sites the company claims are necessary for coverage. In two cases, opponents see …

ADC Telecommunications Inc. said the NewNet CALEAserver tests on JSI Telecom’s digital collection platform used by policing agencies, called VoiceBox, were successful for compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law …

SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. announced it received contracts from Price Communications Wireless Inc. and Cellular One in San Francisco to provide its enhanced 911 solution, which delivers the 10-digit number and general …

ATLANTA-UPS Worldwide Logistics said it established the Wireless Industry Group to create supply-chain management solutions for cellular equipment manufacturers, retailers and wireless network providers. The group’s mission is to make …

MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. announced it reached a definitive agreement to purchase AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Norfolk, Va., personal communications services operations for an undisclosed amount. The Norfolk market will …

The House Commerce Committee last Thursday added three wireless amendments to a bill to protect consumers from unauthorized changes by their long-distance providers. The amendments are intended to stem the …

BOULDER, Colo.-SignalSoft Corp., a software developer for wireless services, launched its local.info product, a location-based application that will provide personalized, localized information to wireless customers. Local.info will provide to subscribers …

WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee, amid legislation to shift satellite export licensing from the Commerce Department to the State Department and new signs that China plans to curtail wireless telecom trade, …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is at a “watershed point,” and is now beginning to compete in earnest with wireline telephony, said Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. The …

WASHINGTON-Manufacturers and fixed wireless users are poised to launch a campaign on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission to advocate “spectrum-impact studies” as a prerequisite to frequency reallocations …

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Powertel Inc. launched wireless personal communications services in Chattanooga, Tenn., expanding its market to 27 metropolitan areas and major highway corridors throughout 12 Southeastern states with 11 million pops. …

NEW YORK-Domestic wireless carriers “now have prepaid (services) fully introduced throughout their geographic territories,” but they lag behind their peers abroad in fully tapping its potential, said Scott R. Cassell, …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. was awarded a contract to supply a turnkey 1900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Pinpoint Communications, which successfully bid in the D-block auction …

In the paging industry today, money talks. Carriers know this and are pursuing every avenue available to bulk up the bottom line. One relatively new road eyed by some carriers …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry this week is preparing to argue before a federal appeals court in Oklahoma City that the Federal Communications Commission’s rules requiring wireless number portability were enacted improperly …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it completed $6.53 million in financing, consisting of $5.03 million in new equity funds, $1 million from a new lease line and $500,000 that was released …

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems announced it has agreed to supply BellSouth Corp. with universal messaging infrastructure for BellSouth’s Advanced Intelligent Messaging 2000 initiative. BellSouth hopes AIM 2000 will give customers …

NEW YORK-Coded Communications Corp., a Carlsbad, Calif., developer and supplier of wireless mobile data systems, announced an agreement to acquire Boston-based NetCore Technologies Inc., which provides remote network management and …

NEW YORK-It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s `super craft’! Look up in the sky over California’s Mojave Desert on the morning of Sept. 22, and you’re likely to …

Last month marked the first anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission’s revised radio-frequency radiation guidelines. Those guidelines constituted the first major overhaul of RF rules in nearly a decade and …

WASHINGTON-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume last week called for a boycott of two top wireless firms-AirTouch Communications Inc. and AllTel Corp.-for inadequate representation of African Americans in employment and contracting practices, …

BETHESDA, Md.-Sybase Inc. announced the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau began implementing the Universal Licensing System to make filing for wireless licenses easier. The ULS, an integrated information system …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission plans to demonstrate its auctions bidding software, electronic filing processes and Internet accessibility at PCS ’98 Sept. 23-25 in Orlando, Fla. At the FCC’s booth, conference …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in moves that will largely wipe out the huge wireless backlog and automate future licensing, dismissed 50,000 multiple address system applications and approved rules implementing the …