DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced Andrew Weisheit, formerly vice president of the company's carrier service division, has been named vice president of national accounts.PageMart said this move points to its goal of becoming a carrier's carrier and its focus on large corporate accounts. Weisheit has...
NEW YORK-Instead of viewing paging as a dying industry, wireless telephony providers should recognize it as a service enhancement and growth catalyst, said Andrew Weisheit, vice president of the carrier service division of PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas."Many folks we talk to on the facilities-based...
LAS VEGAS-Sierra Wireless Inc. introduced a new type of wireless data modem at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas last week that combines Circuit Switched Cellular and Cellular Digital Packet Data services.The 3-watt modem allows transmission of CDPD protocol-based packets over circuit...
RogersRogers Corp. introduced thin versions of its Poron urethane foam designed for making thin gaskets and pads used in pagers, personal organizers, cellular phones and global positioning systems. The Poron 4701-50 materials are cast in thicknesses down to 0.017 inch (0.43 mm), which produces...
California-based paging carrier/reseller Power Page L.L.C. and its marketing arm, Wireless Marketing Inc.-profiled last June in RCR for its uncommon practice of enlisting independent marketing associates to help it acquire customers-declared bankruptcy April 2.Rod Kahn, president and chief executive of Power Page and president...
NEW YORK-Rumors of analog's death are premature, according to a group of former IBM Corp. executives who have joined with other industry veterans to form a new company to exploit high-speed analog transmission, first over plain old copper wire and later over the airwaves.Innovative...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
Aiming to attract alphanumeric paging subscribers wary of dictating messages to a dispatch operator, GoComm Wireless Corp. created a device called the MessageSender, currently being shipped to distributors.The MessageSender is a portable Qwerty keyboard about the size of a checkbook on which users can...
Despite protests from the country's current cellular operators, the Colombian Ministry of Communications is working on plans to auction personal communications services licenses by this spring.Fabiola Montealegre, analyst with ATC ConsulTel Americas in Cali, Colombia, said the ministry is reviewing a working document that...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it anticipates signing up its 1-millionth subscriber this week. The company also said its personal communications services subscribers used more than 1 billion minutes of airtime during 1997.Sprint PCS' average minutes of use and revenue per subscriber figures...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said last week it will not relocate to the Portals unless building security is beefed up. The issue adds a new wrinkle to a controversy that has mushroomed into a full-blown congressional investigation of whether President Clinton's 1996 campaign manager...
AUSTIN, Texas-The microwave and radio-frequency components industry had a good year for earnings, but stocks did relatively poorly in 1997, primarily because of a severe price-per-earnings multiple contraction caused by the ongoing currency turmoil in the Far East, according to an annual overview by...
The effects of Bell Nino, which jumped on the radar screen in Wichita Falls, Texas, New Year's Eve, are being felt in the nation's capital.The Bells and U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall prove venue shopping has its rewards. Thanks to Good Ol' Joe, the...
SAN DIEGO-Continental Express Inc. signed a multimillion dollar contract to purchase 750 OmniTracs satellite mobile communications systems from Qualcomm Inc. over the next five years, Qualcomm announced.Continental Express, an irregular route general commodity common carrier, plans to equip its entire fleet of trucks with...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it completed its purchase of the remaining shares in its partnership with American Personal Communications to make the venture wholly owned by Sprint Spectrum.Also, cellular and personal communications services pioneer Wayne Schelle-APC's founder and chairman-announced his retirement and...
Giving the wireless data industry some important momentum to start the new year, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it plans to acquire Motorola Inc.'s Ardis data messaging business, which combined potentially could create the most ubiquitous coverage of any wireless data company.Under terms of...
One big-name credit-card company believes it can help accomplish every wireless carrier's objective: to gain brand recognition, target high-end users, simplify billing, reduce churn and perhaps entice customers to spend more money.American Express has been teaming with telecommunications carriers for about five years to provide...
WASHINGTON-Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), one of the House GOP leaders caught on a radio scanner last December strategizing how House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) could sidestep congressional ethics sanctions, said last week he turned down settlement offers from intermediaries of the Democratic congressman suspected...
It's always uneasy when a new group of people in power take over, whether it's at the local city council, Congress or the Federal Communications Commission. Certainly the people in the new position are more aware of that uncomfortableness than anyone. So while the...
WASHINGTON-House Republican Conference Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio), troubled by the lackluster pace of a Justice Department probe of an intercepted cellular phone call last year that proved politically embarrassing to GOP leaders, plans to sue Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) and perhaps others, charging them...
WASHINGTON-Congressional investigators appear poised to probe whether the Federal Communications Commission's controversial move to new headquarters across town next year is the product of a generous Democratic campaign contribution and political influence peddling by close associates of Vice President Gore with ties to former...
Could this be "the" year?The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, with the CDPD Forum and Andrew Seybold's Outlook, will hold the Wireless APPS '97 Convention and Exhibition Product Showcase this week in the technological mecca of Seattle. The show is in its third year focusing...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a five-year strategic alliance that will allow Alltel to offer its customers PageMart's numeric and text-based paging services.Alltel is a wireless and wireline service provider that offers Internet access, wireless services, voice mail and local...
BOULDER CREEK, Calif.-Andrew Seybold, an expert and consultant in the computing and communications fields, said he has formed a new company.Seybold announced he has partnered with two other information technology experts to form the new firm, Andrew Seybold Consulting Group Inc.David Weilmuenster and Barney...
