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The most recent consolidation among larger paging carriers was completed last month, when TSR Paging Inc. and American Paging Inc. combined into TSR Wireless Inc. With the financial and regulatory …

1921 Detroit Police Department begins first mobile telephone service. 1928 Edwin Armstrong invents Frequency Modulation. 1946 The Bell System introduces first Public Land Mobile Communications System service in St. Louis …

SAN DIEGO-Sony Corp. launched a $10 million advertising campaign this month in an effort to build awareness of the new wireless handsets created by Sony Personal Mobile Communications of America. …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Paging Network Inc. officially threw its hat into the narrowband personal communications services game last week when Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced that PageNet has agreed to buy a two-way, …

DALLAS-Aeris Communications Inc. and Orbcomm Canada Inc. announced an agreement to integrate their respective MicroBurst and Orbcomm services for hybrid wireless data and messaging products and services in Canada. The …

WASHINGTON-Members of the House Commerce Committee last month urged the Federal Communications Commission to delay or eliminate the requirement that commercial mobile radio service providers implement local number portability (LNP) …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it formed a new business venture that will provide products to help emergency crews respond to wireline and wireless 911 calls more quickly. The …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group announced the Wireless Application Protocol Forum will support the FLEX and ReFLEX paging protocols in its specifications. The WAP standard is a …

Now that paging carriers must make Universal Service Fund contributions, even though they are ineligible to withdraw money from it, many are adding new charges to customer bills to recoup …

MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. announced it received gross proceeds of about $300 million from its recently completed sale of 11-percent senior subordinated discount notes due 2008. The company plans to …

ATLANTA-GTE Wireless and Baja Celular of Tijuana, Mexico, have partnered to use digital networks that allow U.S. and Mexican cell sites to serve calls simultaneously without signal interference, said GTE. …

LAS VEGAS-General Magic Inc. said it plans to begin commercially offering July 30 its integrated voice and data virtual assistant network service via local, regional and national value-added resellers. The …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission believes the best reason auctions should be used to allocate spectrum is not the revenue the auctions generate but rather “getting the most use out of …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced an aggressive national rate system that eliminates long-distance and roaming charges. The AT&T Digital One Rate plan includes three pricing options: 600 minutes …

WASHINGTON-The Republican congressional leadership plans hearings to investigate Clinton-administration approval of commercial satellite technology transfers from U.S. wireless firms to China that Pentagon and intelligence officials say were converted to …

GREENVILLE, S.C.-Conxus Communications Inc. announced it successfully tested its Pocketext ReFLEX 25 data messaging service on its existing InFLEXion network. Conxus’ Pocketalk voice paging service, launched last year, was the …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association remains concerned proposed guidelines for siting wireless antenna on National Park Service lands will not adequately protect sensitive commercial information about wireless carriers’ future business …

WASHINGTON-With consolidation, affirmative action curbs and top-dollar licenses turning into barriers to entry, federal regulators are trying to create after-market opportunities for small businesses in a young but fast-maturing industry …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Telephone carrier LCI International Inc. will begin marketing Metrocall Inc.’s paging and wireless messaging services to business and residential customers through its direct sales force and other sales and …

RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced JS Express Inc. has signed a three-year contract extension for its Ardis wireless data network. JS Express, a one-hour, on-demand delivery service, uses the …

WASHINGTON-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Commerce Committee, has endorsed the Federal Communications Commission’s request to delay until next year a spectrum auction for general wireless communication services (GWCS) …

WASHINGTON-GTE Corp. filed a private antitrust lawsuit at a U.S. federal district court here last week in an attempt to block the planned $38 billion merger of WorldCom Inc. and …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s latest Semi-Annual Data Survey reported the industry gained 11.2 million wireless phone subscribers in 1997, which it said led to lower bills and increased revenues. …

NEW YORK-U.S. District Court of Maryland Judge Alexander Williams Jr. has dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit Comsat Corp. had filed Jan. 30 against IDB Mobile Communications Inc., saying it …

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless said it has launched personal communications services based on Time Division Multiple Access technology in the Cincinnati/Dayton/northern Kentucky market. The launch is coordinated through a management agreement …