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AT&T, Cingular swap licenses

AT&T Wireless, the third-biggest U.S. carrier, will acquire Cingular Wireless' operations on Kaua'i, the companies said today.

The move was one of several license swaps AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless LLC announced, saying they would enable both mobile-phone companies to carry calls in larger areas of the country.

AT&T Wireless will also gain licenses in Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma and Mississippi. Cingular Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile carrier, gains licenses in five southern U.S. states.

No cash will change hands, the companies said.

Utility gets new board member

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc. said yesterday that Shirley J. Daniel has been elected to their boards of directors, effective yesterday.

Daniel is a tenured professor of accounting at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's College of Business Administration and also serves as managing director of the Pacific Asia Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business and director of the Pacific Asian Management Institute.