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American Cellular Corp. [ACC] has completed its merger with PriCellular Corp. [PC] in a deal valued at more than $1.4 billion. The former shareholders of PriCellular will receive $14 per [...]

Safety not only is the top reason that consumers report for acquiring cellular phones, but also wireless carriers and manufacturers are pointing to safety to provide phones and air time [...]

Infonxx has received the 1998 SuperQuest Wireless Public Network Award for its 411 Plus enhanced directory assistance service that provides callers with one-stop-shopping for all of their information services needs. [...]

Geoworks Corp. [GWRX] has joined the WAP Forum, a consortium of wireless phone manufacturers and service and application providers in an affiliation that directly will involve Geoworks in the ongoing [...]

AT&T Wireless Services [T] will be operated by a new division of the firm that would be formed with its merger with Tele-Communications Inc. [TCIVAI, according to an agreement for [...]

VLSI Technology Inc. [VLSI] wants wireless phone manufacturers to know that while it is offering an option to what has been the only CDMA technology available, it also is offering [...]

A leading mobile computer software manufacturer, Psion PLC, is joining forces with the three top cellular phone manufacturers, Ericsson Inc. [ERICY], Nokia Inc. [NOK/A] and Motorola Inc. [MOT], to form [...]

Bill shock should no longer be an excuse for customers with Sonera in Finland. Sonera launched a reminder service to inform its customers when they have reached certain limits. GSM [...]

The wireless industry will be interested in the results of J.D. Power and Associates' survey of wireless customers' opinions of their providers, but carriers and manufacturers' curiosity also may be [...]

Churn is a key problem for mobile operators across Europe. Yet customers often still must pay to change from one tariff to a more appropriate plan from the same operator. [...]

Orange PLC's [ORNGY] new Daily Talk plan will give wireless networks even more to compare well to fixed networks. The plan offers 20 minutes inclusive off-peak call minutes for 50 [...]

More follow me services have been launched by SingTel in Singapore. It has extended its call transfer service to give international diversion services to its customers. The interactive voice response [...]

Barak I.T.C., which provides international telecommunications services in Israel, has signed an agreement with Cellcom Corp. [CLCM] under which Cellcom's approximately 1 million subscribers may place international telephone calls through [...]

Motorola Inc.'s [MOT] Cellular Infrastructure Group (CIG) has commercially deployed and activated a PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system, which uses RF fingerprinting to detect and disconnect calls from counterfeit or [...]

Safco Technologies Inc., a Salient 3 Communications [STCIA] company, has initiated a quality-of-service study of more than 10,000 phone calls on the major Israeli wireless telephone networks in Tel Aviv, [...]

Cellnet, the mobile telecommunications operator 60 percent owned by British Telecommunications PLC [BTY] and 40 percent by Securicor Holdings PLC, has set back the June launch of its prepaid packages [...]

Cellular equipment manufacturers were represented for the first time this month as voting members on the board of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA). Although cellular manufacturers and suppliers have [...]

The office of the Director of Telecommunications in Ireland reported that it expected to announce the country's third license for wireless phone service on June 19, after we went to [...]

Ameritel Communications Inc., a wholly-owned operating subsidiary of USCI Inc. [USCM], has initiated the planned addition of digital cellular service and within 60 days will provide subscribers in the metro [...]

Lucent Technologies Inc. [LU] has unveiled an enhanced, high-density version of its TransTalk 9000 Digital Wireless System. The TransTalk 9000 System has been upgraded to support as many as 30 [...]

Ericsson Inc. [ERICY] has purchased the General Electric Co. [GEl subsidiary that held GE's remaining interest in Ericsson-GE Mobile Communications Inc. Ericsson and GE formed the joint venture in 1989 [...]

SignalSoft Corp. has unveiled its Location Sensitive Billing (LSB) software product, which helps carriers target new market segments by enabling them to price differentially based on location. With LSB, carriers [...]

Lucas Control Systems, a business of LucasVarity plc's Electrical and Electronic Systems Division, has been awarded the first-ever Regional Quality Award for 'Outstanding Electro-Mechanical Supplier' in North, Central and South [...]

Lightbridge Inc. [LTBG] has completed a nationwide deployment of Telesto, its network of integrated customer acquisition solutions designed to streamline and standardize the customer quali-fication and activation process, for AT&T [...]

Bell Atlantic Mobile [BEL] (BAM) President and CEO Dennis F. Strigl has received the Achievement Award for Outstanding Leadership from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) Foundation. Strigl was honored [...]

Rosanna Cavallaro has been appointed Rogers Cantel Inc.'s [RCN] vice president, marketing communications. Cavallaro will be responsible for the strategic development and execution of all media advertising, promotions, point of [...]

Westower Corp.'s [WTW] receipt earlier this month of a $75 million revolving line of credit is part of the increasingly strong signal that radio antenna tower operators are prepared to [...]

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) agrees with the FBI's motion to dismiss CTIA's petition for standards to implement the assistance capability requirements of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement [...]

InnoWave Tadiran Telecom Wireless Systems Ltd. [TTELF] of Israel and Shanghai Bell Telephone Equipment Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (SBELL) of the People's Republic of China have reached an agreement in which [...]

The wireless industry scored a legislative victory early in the year with the passage of the Wireless Telephone Protection Act and has touted other pending bills for their importance to [...]

In a contract valued at more than $800,000, Brite Voice Systems [BVSI] is expanding the prepaid service offered by Celulares Telefonica, the wireless division of Puerto Rico Telephone Co. (PRTC), [...]

Federa, the new Dutch telecom operator owned by France Telecom Mobiles International [FTE], ABN Amro Bank and Rabobank, has selected Northern Telecom [NT] (Nortel) to supply more than $60 million [...]

Nokia's [NOK/A] 6150 GSM 900/1800 dual-band mobile phone, which incorporates all the features of Nokia's 6100 product family and is the smallest GSM 900/1800 dual-band phone on the market, will [...]

ArrayComm has expanded the capabilities of its IntelliWave wireless local loop (WLL) system that further enables wireless operators to expand new markets in less time, with greater flexibility, and with [...]

Infonxx received the 1998 SuperQuest Partner Wireless Public Network Award for its 411 Plus enhanced directory assistance service that provides callers with one-stop-shopping for information services. Evolving Systems Inc. [EVOL] [...]

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) has submitted a standards requirements document to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) designed to establish a standard for linking wireless phones to the existing [...]

IBM Corp. [IBM] plans to enter the wireless communications market, with a digital chip for cellular phones, a move that would heighten competition in the $3.13 billion market for digital [...]

What the world needs more than anything else right now is an explanation of the argument over third-generation wireless standards that everyone can understand. Next-generation wireless technology is an astonishingly [...]

ATLANTA - Cellular and PCS carriers are increasingly looking at corporate accounts to bring in more revenues, the Yankee Group's David Berndt said June 10 during an International Communications Association [...]

China Unicom has awarded contracts totaling more than $10 million to Northern Telecom [NT] (Nortel) for expansion of the existing GSM digital wireless network in Chongqing, and for a new [...]

Matthew Volk has been named vice president for global strategic business development by Philips Consumer Communications L.P. (PCC). Volk had been vice president of marketing for PCC Americas. He will [...]

Tele2000, a Peruvian telecommunications company operated by BellSouth Cellular Corp. [BLS], has won the bid for the concession to offer cellular telephone service to more than 17 million people in [...]

MT&T Mobility on June 2 began CMDA service in the metropolitan Halifax area, the first in Atlantic Canada, in a deal valued at Can. $13.5 million. Northern Telecom [NT] (Nortel) [...]

SLP InfoWare Inc. has announced that Mobistar, Belgium's second largest GSM provider, has selected SLP's Churn/Customer Profiling System (Churn/CPS) to help reduce its subscriber churn rate. Churn/CPS is an automated [...]

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) is asking the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) to review possible enhancements to the public safety capabilities of wireless phones in response to the Ad [...]

AirTouch Cellular [ATI] has deployed its digital phone service, Powerband, to a corridor in Ohio stretching from Cincinnati to Cleveland. AirTouch is investing about $60 million to deploy digital technology [...]

Bosch Telecom GmbH of Germany has begun North American marketing of its World 718 handset, with Audiovox Communications Corp. [VOX] as distributor and GSM-1900 operator Omnipoint Communications Inc. [OMPT] announcing [...]

Centurion International Inc. has been named 1997 Exporter of the Year by the Midwest International Trade Association (MITA), based on the company's exports as a percentage of total sales and [...]

On May 26, the day that the FCC's customer proprietary information network information (CPNI) rules went into effect, 26 wireless carriers and other telecommunications businesses filed petitions asking the commission [...]

Kevin Niemi has been named vice president of engineering for Metapath Software Corp., which provides mediation, provisioning and subscriber information to wireless and other telecommunications carriers. Niemi will be responsible [...]