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ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-U S West Communications Inc. said it added features to its personal communications services handsets to give customers the benefits of their home and office phones. The service, renamed …

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Reltec Corp. said it established a joint venture with Splice do Brazil Telecommunicacoes e Eletronica S.A. to capitalize on opportunities provided by the privatization of Telebras, the state-owned telecom …

WASHINGTON-The European Commission last week gave conditional approval to the proposed merger between MCI Communications Corp. and WorldCom Inc. The approval is subject to the divestiture of MCI’s Internet services …

WASHINGTON-As Congress comes back to Washington after the July 4 recess, members again are poised to lean on the Federal Communications Commission on the sticky issue of how the agency …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. launched a print ad campaign called Summer Necessities. The campaign targets retail customers of the more than 200 TSR Wireless store’s nationwide and features newspaper …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced the grand opening of its latest retail in northern California in Roseville, marking the sixth such retail presence in the area since the beginning …

BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced that Southern California wireless reseller ConexOne Wireless Communications selected its Telesto suite of integrated customer acquisition and retention solution. “Our subscriber base spans the greater Los …

Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Inc., fought a David and Goliath battle during the 1980s to get Code Division Multiple Access technology accepted by the U.S. wireless establishment. Having accomplished …

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron Inc. was selected by the city of Houston to provide an automatic meter-reading system for the city. Itron said it is the second-largest AMR installation in the United …

Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month suggest a tough road toward achieving …

Second-tier wireless companies are hot properties, helping to push wireless stock prices past the Standard &Poor’s index. Centennial Cellular Corp. earlier this month became the third second-tier cellular carrier to …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court last week said mandatory resale of commercial mobile radio services can sunset in 2002, dealing a blow to wireless resellers who argued the government could not …

A dispute between Omnipoint Communications Enterprises L.P. and one of its site-acquisition consultants highlights the potential problems that can occur when wireless carriers loosen their control on tower siting. Omnipoint …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Corp. said it formed a partnership with ADC Metrica to offer ADC’s performance management tools as part of Harris’ network management service platform. The Harris platform offers unified …

WASHINGTON-It is Congress, not the Federal Communications Commission, that makes telecom policy, according to one of the new FCC commissioners, Harold Furchtgott-Roth. The FCC “must simply follow the law as …

SCARBOROUGH, Ontario-Clearnet Communications Inc. launched an automatic roaming service that provides Clearnet PCS clients with digital coverage across the United States without the confusion of inconsistent airtime and long-distance charges …

WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. told the Federal Communications Commission last week that since a majority of personal communications services customers in Louisiana said they use their PCS phone to make or receive …

WASHINGTON-Key lawmakers are expected soon to ask Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard to lift burdensome common carrier regulations off the backs of specialized mobile radio operators, something the agency …

While the majority of wireless carriers are moving toward outsourcing their handset distribution needs, Powertel Inc. is moving in the opposite direction. The West Point, Ga.-based personal communications services company …

WASHINGTON-Two wireless trade groups urged the government to develop flexible rules that do not impose undue cost on carriers, manufacturers and consumers in comments filed regarding rules for providing people …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission not to enforce newly enacted rules on customer information. In February, the FCC enacted rules that the telecommunications industry-especially …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. entered into an agreement to provide a cellular operator in Japan with a Japanese version of its ClearSite product to examine cellular coverage and radio-frequency interference. “We …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Toshiba Corp. have merged Ericsson Toshiba Telecommunications Systems K.K. with Nippon Ericsson K.K. in Japan. Ericsson Toshiba Telecommunications was a joint venture between Ericsson and Toshiba. …

WASHINGTON-The chairman of the House Commerce Committee last week charged the Department of State was unduly influenced by Comsat Corp. last spring when the State Department changed its views on …

WASHINGTON-Local government representatives and the wireless industry appear to be close to announcing procedures for local governments and industry to resolve disputes about siting wireless facilities. The Federal Communications Commission’s …