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WASHINGTON-Hardcore opponents of the new hybrid radiofrequency radiation standard, believing federal regulators will reject calls to repeal it, are already considering putting a consortium together to challenge the safety guideline …

Motorola Inc. unveiled the XTS 3000, its next generation portable radio. The XTS 3000 is smaller than the Astro Saber portable and has several enhancements. The radio comes in two …

Corsair Communications Inc. appointed Dr. Donald R. Oestreicher vice president of engineering. Oestreicher will direct Corsair’s efforts in product engineering, research and development. Oestreicher’s background includes engineering management with Dow …

NEW YORK-Telecom Analysis Systems Inc., founded by Bell Labs’ alumni in 1984, introduced two new wireless communications testing products Sept. 10 that the company says are industry firsts. The TAS …

Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and …

More than a half million Paging Network Inc. customers started receiving news briefs from CNN Interactive for free last week. Subscribers to PageNet’s alphanumeric service, via Motorola Inc.’s Advisor and …

Some Personal Communications Services contenders are looking to differentiate themselves in the new age of wireless competition with data services based on the established Global System for Mobile communications standard. …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-The Wireless Messaging Group of Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Paging Network Inc., a wireless messaging company with 7.9 million subscribers, teamed up to install Motorola Inc.’s InFLEXion voice messaging …

Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has named G. Ron Olexa chief operations officer with overall responsibility for the company’s Reach receiver front end products. Olexa also will manage the company’s relationship …

NEW YORK-Venture capitalists invested more than $160 million in 30 wireless industry companies during the second quarter, according to a survey by Price Waterhouse Technology Industry Group, Dallas. Overall, venture-backed …

While FLEX has paraded across the globe, gaining recognition as the new global paging standard throughout the Americas, Asia and Middle East, the Motorola Inc. technology has met resistance in …

The wireless division of WorldCom Inc. aspires to be present in all major U.S. markets, indicating that the nation’s fourth largest long-distance company seeks to be the country’s fourth most …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced it has published a variety of interim standards for wireless networks, including 1800 MHz personal communications services systems, public mobile systems, wideband spread spectrum …

LEWISTON, N.Y.-New York Power Authority trustees have approved an agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to allow the personal communications services operator to install antennas on NYPA transmission towers. NYPA said …

NEW YORK-Investors who want up-to-the-minute financial information beamed directly to them will benefit from two recently introduced products from PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas, and Wireless Financial Services Inc., New York. …

Laws and fairness in Poland’s wireless sector are a hot topic this month, as three separate authorities investigate current business practices. A Polish news publication reported the Anti-Monopoly Office in …

AirNet Communications Corp. named Dr. Lee Hamilton vice president of product engineering. Hamilton will be responsible for developing and implementing AirNet’s wireless broadband base station and related infrastructure equipment products. …

CHICAGO-CenterPoint Properties Corp., a publicly traded real estate investment trust, announced it has reached an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to grant the cellular company a master lease covering …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. has named Andrew Sukawaty chief executive officer. Sukawaty is known for his work helping launch a personal communications services network in the United Kingdom. Sprint …

NEW YORK-Aided by strong growth in its mobile phones and telecommunications business groups, Nokia Corp. reported strong second-quarter net sales Aug. 8 of nearly $1.9 billion, a 17 percent increase …

AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks. The card enables wireless data transmission linking Nokia’s digital mobile phones …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s adoption last week of a sweeping local-competition docket at best opens the door for some wireless carriers to become true head-to-head competitors with local exchange carriers, …

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. …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it is working with the Chinese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, various MPT design institutes, the Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission and the Mobile …