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LONDON-Moody’s Investors Service has assigned long-term ratings of Baa1 to the proposed $1 billion and $650 million bond issues of Cable & Wireless Communications, which will provide integrated telecommunications services …

WASHINGTON-A year-end survey conducted by the Telecommunications Resellers Association revealed that 90 percent of respondents who sought to resell personal communications services were barred from doing so by carriers, and …

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-CommNet Cellular Inc. announced it has closed the merger with AV Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of The Blackstone Group’s Blackstone Capital Partners II Merchant Banking Fund L.P. AV purchased …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Anritsu Co. announced it received a contract from Qualcomm Inc. to develop, manufacture and market a custom test instrument to perform radio communication analysis on telephones for use on …

Ameritel Communications Inc., a wireless reseller owned by USCI Inc., has quickly and quietly become a weighty presence in the resale industry. The company, which began last year with fewer …

RICHMOND, England-Powertel Inc. plans to use new additions to the ADC Metrica family of network performance management tools for its personal communications services network, ADC Metrica announced. The PCS carrier …

TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems announced that Metamora Telephone Co. of Metamora, Ill., selected its digital FM Cubed transmission technology to offer paging services for the company’s customers. SpaceCom, which provides satellite …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products Sector said it deployed the first SmartZone OmniLink very-wide-area two-way radio communications system for Western Resources, an electric and gas utility company based in …

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Pontiac and Stateville Correctional Centers in Illinois each installed Motorola Inc.’s new Smartnet trunked radio system to improve the speed and quality of communication at the prisons, Motorola …

BRUSSELS, Belgium-Amidst complaints from European Union member states about high interconnection tariffs applied between fixed and mobile phone operators, the European Commission announced it has opened an inquiry into the …

A newly constituted Federal Communications Commission soon will get a chance to reconsider one of the thornier issues facing the agency in recent months. That is, how to deal with …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association launched its “Agenda for a Wireless America” aimed at urging regulators and legislators at the local, county, state and federal levels to focus their efforts …

DALLAS-3COM PalmPilot users can send numeric or alphanumeric pages and personal or group e-mail messages directly, using One-Touch software by JP Systems Inc., the software provider announced. The One-Touch application …

Paging Network Inc. last week disclosed a plan to dramatically restructure its U.S. operations, the most notable aspect of which includes a 30-percent reduction in work force during the next …

AirTouch Communications Inc. signed a contract with Ultimate Electronics stores nationwide to make AirTouch the exclusive wireless provider in all Audio King, SoundTrack and Ultimate Electronics stores in AirTouch markets, …

WASHINGTON-With technologies converging, telecom giants merging and entrenched networks discouraging new competition, there is growing debate over the role of antitrust law in the Digital Age. In one camp are …

Aiming to attract alphanumeric paging subscribers wary of dictating messages to a dispatch operator, GoComm Wireless Corp. created a device called the MessageSender, currently being shipped to distributors. The MessageSender …

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Vivox USA Inc. said it will distribute its products internationally through Tessco Inc. of Sparks, Md., under a new agreement signed between the two companies. The agreement covers Vivox’s …

Two developers of handset-based prepaid technology are headed to court over alleged patent and trademark infringement. Telemac Corp. has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., against …

WASHINGTON-Just who is WNP Communications Inc. in Earlysville, Va., and where did it come up with a $100 million upfront payment for the upcoming local multipoint distribution services auction, set …

ITALY Business customers of Omnitel Pronto Italia now can call from Italy to Europe, the United States and Canada for the same price as local calls, announced Omnitel. “Italian telecommunications …

In addition to $8.9 million AirNet Communications Corp. raised last year, the company announced it recently received $19.3 million in financing from a group of private investors, including a number …

Look out, Craig McCaw! A low-earth-orbiting pie in the eye-Bill Gates a la mode-could be in your future once the world finds out you’ve joined forces with McCaw expatriates and …

WASHINGTON-For Beverly Wilborn, being female and African American has not kept her from climbing the corporate ladder in a telecommunications industry dominated in all respects by white males. In that …

Bundling cellular equipment with a service plan played a significant role in the success of the wireless industry. People could justify penny phones, even if it meant signing up for …