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IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc.’s Communications Terminals Division and United States Cellular Corp. announced they will work together in an advertising program to promote a prepaid wireless service called TalkTracker. U …

IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. installed a fraud detection system for Canadian personal communications services provider Microcell Telecommunications Inc., announced the company. Subscriber Computing said Microcell is the first North American …

NEW YORK-In its five-year history, Sales Staffers International Inc., Andover, Mass., has carved an unusual niche in the broader market of outsourced services for large corporations. Companies like AT&T Corp., …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. reported a first-quarter net income of $212.1 million, or 49 cents per share, which reflects a 27-percent drop from its net income for the comparable period …

DENVER-U S West Inc. said it hopes to finish the split of its two companies, U S West Communications Inc. and MediaOne Group, by mid-June after clearing all major legal …

A California software company has introduced an object-based server that captures, processes and manages distributed events and transactions across disparate computer and network systems. Softwire Corp. of Larkspur, Calif., already …

BOISE, Idaho-Extended Systems announced its JetEye PC infrared serial adapter will be bundled with NEC America Inc.’s Beacon Data Pager. JetEye will allow a PC to exchange data with the …

PARIS-Bouygues Telecom, a French Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network operator, selected Northern Telecom Ltd. to supply radio equipment in its fourth-phase network expansion. The contract is valued …

California-based paging carrier/reseller Power Page L.L.C. and its marketing arm, Wireless Marketing Inc.-profiled last June in RCR for its uncommon practice of enlisting independent marketing associates to help it acquire …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth, joining a growing chorus of critics, has charged the Democratic-led agency with subordinating the interests of rural and low-income universal service recipients to connecting …

ASHLAND, Ken.-RAM Technologies announced it has acquired American Answering Service of Charleston, W.Va. “We look forward to providing American Answering Service’s customers with state-of-the-art computerized messaging service, a wide variety …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. entered into a multimillion-dollar, royalty-bearing Code Division Multiple Access subscriber license agreement with Casio Computer Co. Ltd. of Japan. Qualcomm will grant Casio a license to manufacture …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia invested $200 million cash in Teledesic L.L.C., the “Internet-in-the-Sky” satellite communications venture of primary investors Craig McCaw and Bill …

Unsecured creditors of Pocket Communications Inc. have subpoenaed the Federal Communications Commission for information omitted from the reorganization plan approved last month by several creditor-vendors, the FCC and the Justice …

IRVINE, Calif.-Personal communications services provider Amica Wireless Phone Service Inc. plans to launch service this year in Illinois and Iowa complete with a customer-care and billing system provided by Subscriber …

WASHINGTON-The paging industry’s battle against pay-phone deregulation has picked up support from an unlikely source in Congress. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a leading opponent of federal pre-emption of local antenna-siting …

CARPINTERIA, Calif.-PulsePoint Communications’ shareholders approved the company’s name change from Digital Sound Corp. to PulsePoint, re-elected its board of directors and authorized a reverse stock split of 1: 4. The …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. The premise-based system, designed to capitalize on …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Norway’s mobile communications network operator NetCom GSM of Oslo awarded Siemens AG a contract valued at $21.8 million to expand and modernize its base stations in southern Norway. …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp.’s A and K shares were split in half last week, in accordance with the resolution passed at the company’s general meeting. Nokia plans to release its first-quarter …

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-Precision Systems Inc.’s auditors, Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., expressed concern about the company’s ability to continue, citing recurring losses from operations and cash-flow problems, said the company. Precision …

It was designed to be a way to compete against Motorola Inc.’s FLEX technology, but instead the joint venture between Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. and American Paging Inc. has dissolved …

Nextel Communications Inc. dealers have filed a putative class-action lawsuit against the enhanced specialized mobile radio operator in a San Diego court, claiming Nextel failed to properly pay commissions and …

Glenayre Technologies Inc. confirmed the general manager of its Sao Paulo, Brazil, operation was murdered earlier this month. Funeral services for Ricardo Periera were held last week in Sao Paulo. …

JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced a Caller ID service, that allows all one-way and two-way alphanumeric paging customers to know who is paging them. When subscribers receive a page, …