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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. introduced SmartDigital service using Time Division Multiple Access Interim Standard 136 technology. SmartDigital provides customers with telephone, answering machine and short messaging capability. As part of the launch, LA Cellular is offering …

LONDON-Orange plc of Great Britain has introduced integrated services dispatch network technology on its personal communications 1800 MHz network. Called ISDN Access, the service allows Orange’s fax and data customers to link to computers and other services when they are …

Picture this. Down at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the space shuttle Columbia sits on the launch pad. The astronauts have run tests for months in preparation for the big day. Now they are strapped into their …

PLEASANTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services will let its San Diego subscribers roam free of charge for the next six months in New York City, Honolulu, Portland, Ore., Salt Lake City, Knoxville, Tenn., Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C. Those are all cities …

Sixteen wireless operators have made the cut to be considered possible partners for Greece’s government telephone company. Watching the success of the country’s two private cellular providers, the government has awarded a third mobile license to its own landline entity, …

When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor. AirTouch Communications Inc. said it will launch its Code Division Multiple Access cellular network on the …

OCTOBER 28-29 Mergers & Acquisitions in Media and Communications, by Management Circle. The New York Helmsley, New York. (800) 338-3004. 28-29 New Paradigms in Telecommunications Research & Development: Rapidly Bringing New Telecom Products and Services to Market, by the Institute …

NEW YORK-Fraud fighter Coral Systems Inc. plans to go public in an offering that could raise more than $20 million. Coral, which provides client-server software to help wireless carriers reduce fraud and churn, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission …

Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its worldwide operations showed record subscriber growth during the third quarter, adding more than 62,000 new cellular subscribers. The company said this is its sixth record-breaking quarter. Millicom’s subscriber base has grown from 208,807 in …

OCTOBER 7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050. 7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Bally’s, Las Vegas. (301) 694-5243. 7-9 Technology Forecasting for the …

SEPTEMBER 16-17 CDMA System Design, Engineering & Optimizations, by the Wireless Institute of Technology. Holiday Inn, San Francisco, Calif. (510) 490-6459. 16-17 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Embassy Suites Hotel, …

In response to customer discontent and criticism among consumer groups, WaveTech Ltd. of the United Kingdom introduced Happy Talk. The service is a new way to do wireless, expected to accomplish what its name implies. Lengthy service contracts and stringent …

Orange plc, one of the United Kingdom’s two 1800 MHz personal communications providers, announced it established a roaming agreement with the Swiss Post, Telephone and Telegraph. Concurrently, Colin Tucker, group technical and operations director, said he believes dual band phones, …

NEW YORK-In Latin American countries, “where completion of a phone call is cause for celebration in some cases,” rising gross domestic product signals increasing financing demands for wireless communications infrastructure buildout. “GDP and demographics look good; there is a correlation …

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 by Orange. “It’s good to win the court case, but …

Eurotel Praha s.r.o., Bell Atlantic Corp.’s cellular provider in the Czech Republic, has launched commercial Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in that country. The service covers 43 percent of the licensed territory and 63 percent of the population, …

IRVINE, Calif.-Cox California PCS Inc. said it will purchase about $500 million in personal communications services network equipment and services from Lucent Technologies. The company said it will employ digital Code Division Multiple Access technology and will integrate existing cable …

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, we are trying to head off any agreements or the …

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. “Oftel is concerned that Cellnet and Vodafone may be exploiting …

JUNE 17-19 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Stouffer Hotel, Austin, Texas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887. 17-19 Billing ’96, by TeleStrategies Inc. The Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050. 18-19 Advanced Technical Training: Strategic …

Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. is trading its Orange County, N.Y., market to PriCellular Wireless Corp. in return for Ohio properties that Vanguard feels will fit nicely into its West Virginia metro cluster. “The people in that area [Orange County] have …

Jim Wolfinger, president and chief executive officer of Phoenix-based Choice Cellular, has been named president of the National Wireless Resellers Association. Wolfinger will serve a two-year term as president. Russ Kohlman, owner and principal executive of CellNet Communications, was named …

MAY 27-28 High Speed Information Services: Strategies to Win the Race to the Home, by ICM Conferences. The Mart Plaza, Chicago. Call Thomas Serafine at (312) 540-5698. 29-31 Canadian Wireless ’96, by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. Metro Toronto Convention …

MAY 6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050. 6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row …

APRIL 28-1 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference ’96, by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The Westin Peach-tree Plaza, Atlanta. (908) 562-3870. 30 The Telecom Act of 1996: Myths and Markets, by Creamer Dickson Basford. Sheraton Hotel, Needham, Mass. Call Christine Campbell at …