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Features the Apple Airport Express Wi-Fi base station for wireless applications.

Reports on the possibility of mergers in the telecommunication equipment industry. Views of investors on the mergers; Impact of the changing relationship between carriers on suppliers; Increase in the spending on wireless equipment.

Features Cidco Inc.'s Merge which integrates cellphone and home phones in order to receive both land-line and cellular calls from any extension in the house.

Features the Delphi SkyFi 2XM satellite radio receiver designed for car or home stereo systems.

Introduces the LG VX7000 video-enabled wireless telephone. Features and functions.

Reports that more Americans are willing to buy used cellular telephone handsets. $29.99 for a refurbished Siemens C56 offered by AT&T Wireless; Customer interest in lower price tags than in multimedia messaging or games; Popularity of used cellphones in prepaid wireless plans; Phones collected by charities; Retailers' overstocks and trade-ins; Dexter, Michigan-based ReCellular resells four million handsets in bulk worldwide each year; Tracfone Wireless' free reconditioned Nokia 5100 series phone.

The Nortel Networks Corporation, the telecommunications equipment company, said Friday that its quarterly loss tripled on revamping charges and currency exchange losses, and it warned that a tough market in the United States was choking wireless spending by carriers. The loss widened to $113 million, or 23 cents a share, from $37 million, or 7 cents a share, a year earlier. The latest results included $67 million in revamping charges. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports the October 29, 1998 announcement by Motorola Inc. of its investment in a European joint venture that is developing an operating system for a future generation of digital wireless telephones. Backing of the alliance known as Symbian by Nokia of Finland, Ericsson AB of Sweden, and Psion PLC of Great Britain; The telecommunications industry's interest in establishing an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE operating system.

Features cellular phones with computer-style keyboards. Blackberry from RIM; Treo 600 from PalmOne; Sidekick from Danger.

Discusses the debate in the U.S. Senate on whether to extend a tax moratorium on Internet services. Lack of taxes for customers who acquire broadband access from a cable modem; How users of high-speed access through telephone digital subscriber lines must pay state and local taxes monthly; Suggestion that the taxes are discriminatory because they give the advantage to a certain type of technology; Argument from Senator George Allen that the taxation of digital lines distorts the market.

Examines the race to install high-speed wireless Internet access in the United States. Opportunities and risks; Examples of competition in the Salt Lake City area of Utah; The growing number of small entrepreneurs who want to use wireless technology to bypass the telecommunications infrastructure; Steady growth of Internet subscribers who have broadband connections; Competition between telephone and cable companies; Comcast's marketing campaign; Overview; Outlook.