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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.-Hearing-aid manufacturer Starkey Laboratories Inc. said testing of a new antenna design from RangeStar International Corp. and a new model Starkey hearing aid showed reduced audio interference by …

SONY Sony Electronics’ Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Samsung Telecommunications America and Tecore announced they will partner to offer Code Division Multiple Access equipment to small personal communications services markets. “No one is targeting the D, E …

HEWLETT PACKARD A complete test solution for installing and maintaining radio-frequency infrastructure systems for Cellular Digital Packet Data and mobile data base station equipment was introduced by Hewlett-Packard Co. at …

Global information technology spending will increase at a 10-percent compound annual growth rate from $1.59 trillion last year to $2.62 trillion in 2002, according to a study from Killen & …

Last month marked the first anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission’s revised radio-frequency radiation guidelines. Those guidelines constituted the first major overhaul of RF rules in nearly a decade and …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications demonstrated its High Speed Circuit Switched Data technology on a Global System for Mobile communications network, which boosted data speeds from current 9.6 kilobits per second to …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. changed its name to OmniAmerica Inc. and now trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under a new ticker symbol, XMIT. The company was formed in April …

UltraTek, a Torrance, Calif.-based telecommunications equipment research company, has filed patent applications for a global wireless telecommunications system that would turn commercial airplanes into flying cell sites. The company has …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. has created a Telemetry Strategic Business Unit as part of its strategy to extend in-progress ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network to more “off-the-hip” applications and …

Lucent Technologies Inc. said scientists at its Bell Labs research and development arm have developed a technology that could boost capacity of some wireless links by a multiple of 10 …

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc., New York, is beta testing in Washington, D.C., a point-to-multipoint system with Optical Carrier level-3 (OC-3) radio capacity, said Randy Domolky, the company’s general manager for …

GLOBECOM SYSTEMS Globecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made …

Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an antenna inside of it to fill …

PETAH TIKVA, Israel-ECI Telecom Ltd. and Tadiran Telecommunications Ltd. signed an agreement in principle to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction, pending a definitive agreement the companies expect to execute by …

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it has closed the sale of its transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. for $170 million in cash. MobileMedia diverted the fee for the 163 …

WASHINGTON-Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) shortly plan to introduce new legislation that would repeal federal pre-emption of local zoning regulation, encourage alternative technologies in lieu of large …

NEW YORK-Venture-backed investments in the second quarter reached an all-time high of $3.7 billion, breaking the prior record of $3.3 billion set in the last quarter of 1997. These investments …

WANDEL & GOLTERMANN RadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The long-awaited launch of cellular service in Botswana is expected to have a huge impact on the country’s communications and business sector. Botswana’s small population of 1.47 million …

The race is on for local multipoint distribution service carriers to launch service, but many players remain confused about which services to offer and which markets to target. “One of …

NEW YORK-As mergers among telecommunications giants tear around the track at breathtaking speed, it may seem that domestic deregulation, intended to promote competition, has instead achieved consolidation. However, a glance …

NEW YORK-After dramatically reducing the size and price of its initial public offering, Crown Castle International Corp., a Houston-based wireless tower company, sold 14 million shares at $13 each Aug. …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it published a new performance guideline for cellular Time Division Multiple Access and personal communications services networks. Interim Standard-727, or “TDMA Cellular/PCS-Radio Interface-Minimum Performance …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and wireless operator Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH began a live trial of adaptive antenna technology-both downlink and uplink-on Mannesmann’s Global System for Mobile communications network in Germany. Adaptive …