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A U.S.-owned company is up against competition in its bid for digital dispatch radio spectrum in the United Kingdom, while also facing implementation of the never-deployed TETRA standard. National Band …

Deutsche Telekom AG has expanded its presence in Asia through a strategic alliance in Malaysia. Deutsche Telekom will buy 21 percent equity interest in Technology Resources Industries Berhad, which operates …

Digital TU-KA Chugoku Co. Ltd. launched commercial service in the Chugoku area of Japan, serving the capital city, major highways and the railway line. AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 4.5 percent …

NEW YORK-Group Communication Services, Canada’s second-largest specialized mobile radio operator, plans an initial public offering of common stock to help finance most of a major expansion project to deploy digital …

Telecom Finland has contracted with L.M. Ericsson to build a new DCS-1800 system and expand Telecom Finland’s existing Global System for Mobile communications network. Ericsson values the contract at $105 …

It’s quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do. That’s how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.’s …

WASHINGTON-At a time when Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. is scraping for cash to determine whether pocket telephones pose a potential public health risk, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is pumping …

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced the completion of a fully redundant wireless messaging transmission network that will be able to recover quickly from network snags that may occur, including circuit, uplink or …

TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems has formed an alliance with Redsat S.A. of Mexico and TeleComm de Mexico to market its FM Cubed satellite transmission technology and equipment in Mexico, Central America, …

NEW YORK-Excel Communications Inc., which plans to begin offering nationwide paging services this summer, sold an initial public offering May 10 with the share price rising dramatically by the end …

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a paging wholesaler that went public in March, experienced net losses of $1.5 million during the first quarter of 1996, the price for investment in rapid …

The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable. “It’s all ones and zeros now, so you have to be …

NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services. “Most of the research …

When MCI Communications Corp. asked him to build a radio tower on top of a mountain using a helicopter, 21-year-old wireless newcomer Michael Budagher said yes. Fifteen years later, his …

WASHINGTON-With the huge capital costs of spectrum, infrastructure and marketing playing a major part in the rollout of new personal communications services, PACS technology may become an attractive option for …

Expenses were significant for Qualcomm Inc. in the second quarter, deeply affecting its earnings and sending its stock down 10 points. The San Diego company said it expects to build …

Rapid progress to market for Canada’s personal communications services licensees is marked by Industry Canada’s recent release of license conditions and Bell Mobility’s announcement to use Code Division Multiple Access …

DALLAS-The Toronto-based subsidiaries of Paging Network Inc. and PageMart Inc., both headquartered in Dallas, started offering paging services in Canada. PageNet said this is its first entrance into a market …

BellSouth Mobility said it expects to sell an additional 1 million minutes of airtime per day during the 1996 Olympic Games that begin in three months in Atlanta. The symbolic …

NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing “Go” means collecting a lot more than $200. Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new …

After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was ready to hang up his spurs. …

DALLAS-Air Communications Inc. is offering an automatic personal identification number security solution for its all-in-one AirCommunicator cellular telephone. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced the phone last fall. It uses …

“The Internet is the killer app!” declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps ’95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas. He was …

STAMFORD, Conn.-GTE Corp. has announced it intends to get a foothold in the Brazilian cellular phone market through an alliance with a Brazilian investment group and a Brazilian equipment manufacturer. …

I’ve got a scoop! I think I now know how President Clinton plans to balance the budget. By selling the budget-all five volumes of the fiscal ’97 spending plan for …