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WASHINGTON-The Senate, pressured by Democratic accusations the GOP wanted to embarrass President Clinton while he was in China, has declined for now to forbid satellite exports to that country. The …

ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. received regulatory approval and completed the acquisition of the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont cellular licenses, operations and related assets of Atlantic Cellular Inc. …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-The Cellular Infrastructure Group of Motorola Inc. agreed to jointly develop and market Rapid Deployment Vehicles with Xi’an Datang Telephone Company Ltd. The agreement calls for Motorola CIG …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Richard Sulpizio was promoted to president of Qualcomm. Harvey White, current president, will assume the role of vice chairman and head of the company’s new telecom …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its MSM2310 Mobile Station Modem, a single-chip, tri-mode vocoder solution supporting Enhanced Variable Rate Vocoder is available in production quantities. A derivative of Qualcomm’s MSM2300, the …

NEW YORK-At least four class-action shareholder lawsuits were filed between June 25 and July 1 against Premiere Technologies Inc., an Atlanta-based company that provides enhanced services to paging and other …

NEW YORK-Citing “the weak state of the new issues public market,” Orbcomm Corp., Herndon, Va., announced July 2 it decided to postpone indefinitely its planned initial public offering of 7.6 …

WASHINGTON-When the Galaxy IV satellite went berserk in May and left most paging carriers and their customers holding the bag, the Federal Communications Commission said the Network Reliability and Interoperability …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week urged the FBI to revise its definition of key words in rules implementing the digital wiretap act. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association asked the FBI …

WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS now is offering its customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia lower rates with more packaged minutes than before. BellSouth, which is celebrating its second …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it completed the first phase of its site management business sale to OmniAmerica Inc. In the first of two transactions, Arch sold its communications …

DALLAS-Panafon, a mobile operator in Greece, awarded Aethos Communication Systems a $1.6 million contract to increase capacity of its prepaid platform to accommodate 300,000 subscribers. This is the second upgrade …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will resell Conxus Communications Inc.’s Pocketalk voice paging services in the Philadelphia area. Pocketalk is based on Motorola Inc.’s FLEX technology. TSR said …

FWT Inc. announced its first installation of the PowerMount antenna system on anything other than an electrical transmission tower-this one inside the legs of a Shell Oil Co. sign at …

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Communications Corp. announced it launched a prepaid paging service package called The MobileComm 6-Pak, which includes a numeric pager, six months of local service, activation fee and …

WESTPORT, Conn.-Customers in 21 U.S. markets and one in Toronto are being asked to evaluate their wireless provider during the first phase of J.D. Power and Associates’ 1998 Wireless Customer …

ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc.’s second-quarter results will reflect a one-time charge of about $6.4 million for research and development in process that it acquired in connection with the InfoCellular Inc. merger …

LOS ANGELES-Global Access Pagers Inc. said it plans to introduce a pen-based personal digital assistant this fall that supports Motorola Inc.’s FLEX messaging protocol. The company said it hopes the …

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Personal communications services provider Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced its 56th international roaming agreement in Chile with Entel PCS Telecomunicaciones. “Today’s activation is particularly noteworthy since it is our …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. completed the previously announced acquisition of Eurocom Systems S.A., thereby establishing logistics services and distribution operations in France. Eurocom reported net sales of about $10.7 million during 1997, …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-BT Mobile, a paging service provider based in Leeds, United Kingdom, awarded Corsair Communications Inc. a three-year contract valued at nearly $5 million to provide it with an …

The sinking ship that is Geotek Communications Inc. wallowed deeper into troubled waters last week when the company filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while its captain and …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. announced it named Gary D. Cuccio president-elect of AirTouch Paging. Cuccio, 52, will assume the role July 13, in anticipation of Charlie Jackson’s retirement as president. …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom announced a plan to deploy a series of experimental third-generation wireless networks beginning in the fourth quarter in support of the International Telecommunication Union’s IMT-2000 initiative. Nortel plans …