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NEW YORK-SkyTel Communications Inc. said declining investments per subscriber and strong cash flow has put it in position to show positive net income figures by the fourth quarter. Net loss …

IRVINE, Calif.-Powerwave Technologies Inc. will acquire Hewlett-Packard Co.’s radio-frequency power amplifier business and its manufacturing facility located in Folsom, Calif., for about $59 million, the companies announced. The business, part …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless, Inc. announced it plans to extend its narrowband personal communications services ReFLEX network in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee in September. …

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-NumereX Corp., which owns a controlling interest in Cellemetry L.L.C., announced a third-quarter net loss of $808,000, or 7 cents per share, compared with a net gain of …

NEW YORK-Northern Telecom Ltd., Toronto, completed its $7 billion-plus acquisition of Bay Networks, Santa Clara, Calif. Nortel is the third-largest wireless infrastructure supplier in the world. Wireless telecommunications remains the …

AirNet Communications Corp. announced it has received a $17 million contract to supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Message Express Co., owner of two Michigan basic …

Sweden-based L.M. Ericsson said it has found no reason to believe the current W-CDMA 3G standard chosen by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute would infringe on any valid intellectual property …

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.-During the next decade, worldwide cellular phone users are expected to more than double to 715 million from this year’s subscription numbers of 268 million, according to Baskerville …

LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs Inc. and Ciena Corp. canceled the special stockholder meetings scheduled for Sept. 9 to vote on the proposed merger of the companies. The meetings are expected to be …

An old Chinese saying may be relevant to the commercialization of CDMA mobile phone networks in China-“Those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know”-at least on the …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Celeritek Inc. said it received a $4.7 million order for transceiver products from Innova Corp. Innova plans to use the components in its new XP2 product, a low-cost, …

BETHESDA, Md.-The Maryland-National Capital Park Police-Montgomery County Division has equipped 30 of its police cruisers with wireless access to criminal databases and Motor Vehicle Administration records, announced Bell Atlantic Mobile. …

WASHINGTON-About a year after the Clinton administration created a special panel in 1996 to assess potential threats to telecom networks and other critical infrastructure, the Pentagon conducted a top secret …

PARIS, and DALLAS-Alcatel and DSC Communications Corp. announced the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has favorably completed its review of the pending agreement for Alcatel to acquire …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will make certain modifications to its merger agreement with MobileMedia Corp. in response to recent capital market volatility. Arch has agreed to modify …

WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America received a powerful push from six U.S. senators last week, who urged the Federal Communications Commission to grant AAA “quasi public-safety” status, a request AAA …

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced the availability of prepaid personal communications services in all of the company’s markets. “Powertel’s prepaid offering is an extension of our simplified, post-paid service plans,” …

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. began offering Motorola Inc.’s palm-sized integrated digital handset called the i1000. The fourth-generation integrated Digital Enhanced Network handset is designed to provide business professionals with multiple …

In RCR’s Aug. 17 story reporting Omnipoint’s second-quarter earnings, the company’s second-quarter subscriber figures should have been 255,000.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-InConcert Inc. and Evolving Systems Inc. announced a joint marketing agreement to provide telecommunications companies with operational support system solutions. The agreement combines Teoss, InConcert’s process-based OSS integration framework, …

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc.’s Network Services Division signed agreements with Goldblatt’s and the Farmer Jack’s food-store chains to provide calling-party-pays paging services for their respective Chicago and Detroit retail locations. The …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week announced it is creating a new membership council to represent local multipoint distribution services operators. PCIA said it plans to represent fixed, broadband …

PAOLI, Pa.-Orga Card Systems Inc. was chosen by Iowa Wireless Services L.P. to be the exclusive provider of Global System for Mobile communications smart cards for its personal communications services …

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.-Cellemetry L.L.C., which is a joint venture of NumereX Corp. and BellSouth Corp., signed agreements with two new carriers and completed the conversion of AirTouch Cellular to Cellemetry’s …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is planning to add 82 airports to the airport-frequencies protected list. This list will allow the airports primary access to frequencies specially allocated for airports in …