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NEW YORK-American Alpha Dispatch Services Inc. launched “Personalized PIN,” a transcription text service enhancement that Sidney Mandel, company president, said is new to the alphanumeric paging industry. Standard personal identification …

COLUMBUS, Ohio-Aerial Communications Inc. offers per-second billing in its Columbus, Ohio, market, which may make it the first personal communications services operator to launch such a proposition. Nextel Communications Inc., …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Telecommunications Sdn Bhd received an order to expand Mutiara Telecommunications Sdn Bhd’s nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia. Ericsson values the contract at $130 million. Mutiara’s order consists …

WASHINGTON-When all is said and done at the Federal Communications Commission, the auctions ended and the money counted, some 14,745 megahertz of spectrum from all parts of the chart will …

Customer care has become an increasingly important tool for operators competing in the wireless market, says a Swedish company that recently launched its third-generation customer care product in the United …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won two contracts to expand Advanced Mobile Phone Service analog cellular networks in Brazil. The first contract is with Telpe from the state of Pernambuco, and the …

Marketing may be everything. The technical properties of cellular and personal communications services-some similar, some different-balance out when vying for customers. How carriers decide to exploit technical advantages to win …

Competition began in earnest last week in Singapore when the nation’s second operator launched service. To try to ensure even more competition, the government announced it expects to call for …

PHILADELPHIA-Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched service in Philadelphia on April 3, now the 20th market in which the carrier offers service. The Philadelphia major trading area license actually is held by …

Norway’s Ministry of Transport and Communications announced plans to award three national Digital Cellular System 1800 licenses, perhaps by this summer. However, the winners will not be required to build …

Cellemetry Data Service has signed eight new contracts since it was launched almost a year ago, and now provides total coverage to 125 million pops in North America. The service …

Timing, surprise and troop strength. These are the tools used by military leaders worldwide to fight a war, and the same methods should be expected from personal communications services carriers …

Avic Group International Inc. said it has formed a joint venture partnership with the Hebei Provincial Government in China to develop telecommunications projects in the province of Hebei. The joint …

Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile began integrating DSC Communications Corp.’s INfusion Signal Transfer Point W/2 into its cellular network. The INfusion STP W/2 provides packet switching of Signaling System 7 signaling …

Austria’s Ministry for Science and Transport announced a tender for a Digital Cellular System 1800 personal communications network license, according to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. Interested parties that requested …

NEW YORK-Telecommunications projects overseas, while exceedingly complex, follow the simple tenets of an old adage: Education is what you get when you follow the rules; experience is what you get …

Laws won’t stop traffic accidents Dear Editor: I am sure that law enforcement will want to lead the way to safer driving by laying down their mobile radio microphones while …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Taiwan’s dominant telecommunications carrier has issued an equipment tender for a Digital Cellular System for 1800 MHz. Deadline for bids is April 8. The equipment is valued at $350 …

RIGA, Latvia-Baltel Ltd., the second national mobile operator in Latvia, launched its Global System for Mobile communications network with switching, radio, transmission and microwave equipment provided by Northern Telecom Ltd. …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telecommunications Systems Ltd. said it will deploy a two-way paging system for an undisclosed operator in Southeast Asia. The company values the initial contract, which includes infrastructure …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a contract to supply a Code Division Multiple Access system to JSC Personal Communications of Moscow. The system initially will serve 100,000 subscribers, but as many …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. will provide its UltraPhone system to Bukaka Sing Tel International of Indonesia, a joint systems operator owned by Singapore Telecom and PT Telkom of …

E.F. Johnson Co. and Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products sector said they will submit a proposal to build a new digital, trunked 800 MHz public safety radio system for the …

Qualcomm Inc. has asked the Federal Communications Commission for the Miami pioneer’s preference personal communications services license the company was denied three years ago. The request comes after the FCC’s …

SAN FRANCISCO-Market segmentation and minimizing costs are critical success factors for wireless operators, and as countering forces, these topics were hot conversation at this year’s Wireless ’97 conference. Cellular Telecommunications …