PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc., an enhanced directory assistance provider to the wireless telecommunications industry, signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., allowing the carrier to offer Metro One services in certain regions."We are very pleased to expand our relationship with AT&T Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Overarching economic, trade and political policies evolving in the United States and abroad are likely to eclipse telecommunications policy as the key drivers of wireless commerce in the next century.The trend toward telecommunications deregulation around the world is making telecom policymakers less relevant and...
Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission opened the market for local phone service last week, which has wireless players ecstatic.The CRTC has "issued a strong endorsement of the role wireless carriers will play" in the local market, said Microcell Telecommunications Inc. of Montreal."What you will...
Since the narrowband personal communications services licenses were awarded nearly two-and-a-half years ago, many companies have pushed ahead with plans to offer commercial service. Yet others seem to be creeping slowly, biding their time by determining market position or waiting for commercial grade equipment.The...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. President Steve Hooper and Vice Chairman Wayne Perry resigned last week, but the duo will remain kissing cousins with the old regime through a new venture into the local exchange business.Hooper and Perry will lead OneComm L.L.C., a start up...
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. filed with the Federal Communications Commission for relief from what it calls outdated regulatory burdens."Comsat is the only U.S. international communications carrier that is still regulated by the FCC as a dominant carrier and required to conduct business under a public...
WAYNE, N.J.-AT&T Corp. appointed Daniel Somers chief financial officer to replace Richard Miller, who left the company last month. Most recently, Somers was chairman and chief executive officer of Bell Cablemedia plc, Bell Canada's British unit.Somers will be charged with easing concerns of financial...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Blue Ridge Investors L.P. completed a management-led buyout of Cherokee Wireless Services Inc., which provides program and contract management services for tower and antenna needs.Based in Cornelia, Ga., Cherokee Wireless has six branch offices throughout the Southeast. The company's customers include BellSouth Mobility...
More than a year after the Internet burst into the wireless space, the big story in mobile data continues to be how the industry is responding to this communications phenomenon.While circuit-switched cellular still is the standard for wireless data connectivity-offering near-universal access for dial-up...
DENVER-Personal communications services operator Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream service last Thursday in Denver, promising rates at least 20 percent lower than AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s digital cellular rates.The company said it's Global System for Mobile communications network, supplied by Northern Telecom Inc.,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Bloomberg Financial Markets announced they will begin offering financial news and market updates to users of AT&T's PocketNet phone this summer.Information available from Bloomberg will include daily financial, general and company news and market index performance including percentage change,...
WASHINGTON-Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's choice for Justice Department antitrust czar, appears headed for Senate confirmation despite mild grilling at last week's hearing for approving the Bell Atlantic Corp.-Nynex Corp. merger without the kinds of conditions imposed by some New England states on the...
Cellular carriers in the city of Grand Forks, N.D., said their systems are faring well despite massive flooding that has forced most of the city's 50,000 residents to leave their homes for higher and dryer ground.Western Wireless Corp., operating a network under the Cellular...
DENVER-Western Wireless Corp. said it plans to launch personal communications services based on Global System for Mobile communications technology May 1 in Denver. The company plans to open several VoiceStream Wireless retail outlets along the Front Range.Western Wireless will compete with digital cellular carriers...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Company rankings are based on the total number of subscribers for their majority-held or controlled markets. All subscriber numbers reflect year-end 1996 figures reported by each company.AirTouch Communications Inc....
Wireless pricing in competitive markets with at least one personal communications services operator on average is 18 percent lower than in markets with no PCS competitors, reported the Yankee Group.More than 40 markets in North America have three broadband wireless voice providers and 10...
Billing and customer care are hailed by industry analysts, vendors and service providers as keys to success in a highly competitive wireless market. The recent focus in this area has been on making better software, training personnel, integrating systems and ultimately how these components...
A C-block enterprise created by two Alabama telephone companies is methodically slipping into position to rival big-name wireless players in the Gulf Coast area.The telephone companies believe if they are going to lose landline customers to wireless offerings, they want to lose business to...
SAN ANTONIO-ATX Technologies Inc. selected AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division to provide the wireless communications for its OnGuard product.OnGuard uses wireless communications and Global Positioning System technology to provide vehicle tracking and directional assistance, the company said. New OnGuard products will use...
NEW YORK-Wall Street, once ebullient about wireless stocks, is somewhat gloomy these days about the prospects for new personal communications services carriers to raise public equity.A convergence of global and local factors is at play in a situation that portends at least temporary troubles...
Oh, the C-block PCS auction is becoming one of life's little ironies.Consider this: Congress in 1993 demanded that spectrum be set aside for smaller companies that want to participate in the nation's wireless telecommunications business. The C-block auction is dubbed the "entrepreneurial" auction in anticipation...
The Federal Communications Commission announced three appointments in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. David Horowitz was named chief of the Private Wireless Division of the Bureau, which he joined in 1995 as deputy chief. He joined the commission in 1998 as a staff attorney with...
Tough competition from other operators has led to increased costs for cellular carrier Palmer Wireless Inc., fueling speculation that the carrier is up for sale.Fort Myers, Fla.-based Palmer won't comment on what it calls "a market rumor" that it is looking for a buyer....
Comsat Corp. said its offer to repurchase 8.13 percent debentures due April 1, 2004, was concluded April 9. The company repurchased $89.5 million of the $160 million in principal amount of debentures outstanding.Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd.'s board of directors declared a two-for-one split on the...
