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The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new regulations and the new spectrum allocations. …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc., is offering Internet paging access to its 2.6 million customers nationwide. All AirTouch Paging customers now can receive e-mail messages sent …

While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong. Western Wireless Corp. last week …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has signed contracts with Hungarian telecommunications operator Deltav to deploy a Digital European Cordless Telecommunications network in southern Hungary. Ericsson and Deltav will deploy AXE switching centers …

NUREMBERG, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. has received a contract from Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet GmbH to provide the German phone operator with base stations for one of the largest nationwide German mobile …

Champion Communication Services Inc. is pursuing a trunking strategy to bring enhanced capabilities to its network of community repeaters-a wide area dispatch technology that has been around since the 1970s. …

The government of Romania pushed the tender deadline for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses back by two months, doubled the price for the licenses and formed a special …

PRAGUE-Landline operator SPT Telecom s.p. of the Czech Republic has agreed to purchase wireless equipment, valued at $7 million, from Lucent Technologies Inc. Lucent will supply 12 Integrated Radio Telecommunications …

A joint venture that Geotek Communications Inc. was trying to put together in Canada fell apart last week after the companies involved failed to reach a final agreement. Canadian cable …

WASHINGTON-President Clinton, continuing to pitch low-risk, low-cost initiatives linked to telecommunications, last week called on Attorney General Janet Reno, the Federal Communications Commission and the private sector to create a …

Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless communications project in Indonesia. Photocomm said …

Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network …

BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation’s first multistate personal communications services network, and the country’s fourth PCS system activation. Service was launched in a cluster that involves three …

U.K. wireless operator Orange plc claimed victory last week after a High Court judge dismissed a complaint made by Vodafone Group plc following the launch of a comparative ad campaign …

Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement with Paging Network Inc. to offer PageNet’s wireless messaging services, including the company’s line of alphanumeric and numeric pagers. PageNet will …

Casio PhoneMate Inc. has introduced a new product that combines an answering machine with Pager Link, a device that automatically calls a user’s pager whenever a new message is received …

WASHINGTON-As expected, Los Angeles specialized mobile radio operator James Kay, with whom the Federal Communications Commission has had a running dispute over 152 licenses since 1994, has petitioned the agency …

If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless operators are obligated to pass the …

A stern letter from the European Commission has gone out to dozens of wireless operators and phone manufacturers in Europe about the use of SIM card locks. “With this pressure, …

ROME-Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A. has taken a 12 percent stake in Stet International, for about $156 million. Telecom Italia Mobile is a telecommunications service provider based in Torino, Italy; it …

Great Britain’s Office of Telecommunications said it is exploring the possibility that wireless phone operators Vodafone plc and Cellnet are charging local telephone operator British Telecommunications plc unfair interconnect rates. …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies announced a new addition to its current Cellular Digital Packet Data system that enables cellular operators to cost-effectively offer data transmission service wherever voice service is …

Lucky-Goldstar won the latest battle between Korean manufacturing titans last week when it captured the only digital Korean phone license being offered to an equipment manufacturer. Foreign entities were not …

The Belgium government said it will require Belgacom S.A. to match the $286 million fee its competitor Mobistar will pay to operate its Global System for Mobile communications system in …

The groundwork for a head-to-head duel between factories is being laid in Brazil, where Nokia Group and Motorola Inc. both are establishing handset manufacturing plants. Brazil has 1.2 million cellular …