NEW YORK-TeleTech, a Denver-based customer care service provider, planned to go public last week with 4 million shares of common stock priced from $14.50 to $16.50 each.At the end of the first quarter, AT&T Corp.'s cellular unit was TeleTech's single largest customer and accounted...
Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the Clinton administration later this year."The time seems right for me to tell you and the president that I have decided,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's adoption last week of a sweeping local-competition docket at best opens the door for some wireless carriers to become true head-to-head competitors with local exchange carriers, and at least will help lower prices wireless carriers and subscribers pay for service.Aug....
Hong Kong's dominant cellular operator Hongkong Telecom said it deeply regrets that the government failed to award it one of six new wireless licenses, and intends to discuss the matter with Hong Kong officials.Fourteen companies bid for the 10-year personal communications services licenses offered...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet Inc. signed an agreement to interconnect their wireless data networks.Both networks use Cellular Digital Packet Data technology and combined can provide data service to more than 65 million potential customers in 34 cellular markets, AT&T said. Account...
WITCHITA, Kan.-IFR Systems Inc. has begun shipping its new Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular radio protocol analyzer.The analyzer is the first test platform available to verify TDMA standards compliance for wireless cellular radio equipment, said IFR. The new system was...
Not wanting to be elbowed aside by rival new suitors, cellular carriers are beginning to serenade subscribers with their own chorus of "Digital! Digital! Digital!"But unlike emerging personal communications services networks that are digital by design, incumbent cellular carriers have some unexpected leeway in...
From Wall Street to Main Street, the outlook for the cellular industry remains positive, especially for major players abroad and minor players at home that exploit markets with lower competition and penetration levels.The new Telecommunications Act has unleashed forces that could transform the entire...
NEW YORK-Cellhire Global Phone Rental plc, headquartered in York, England, will open its first office outside the United Kingdom, Aug. 1, on Broadway near Wall Street in the financial district of New York City.The wholly owned American subsidiary, Cellhire Global Phone Rental USA, first...
WASHINGTON-At night, when most people are asleep, Dan Akerson thinks about Rubik's Cubes. Relating the colors and squares on the device to possible marketing strategies, he toys with going beyond the colored surfaces and into the deeper relationships that connect the pieces.The new chairman...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is on a collision course with Congress over encryption policy, as policymakers try to balance law enforcement and national security needs with privacy and commercial interests.The latest White House proposal, outlined by Vice President Al Gore in a briefing with reporters...
DALLAS-MobileWare Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to participate in joint sales and marketing activities for MobileWare software and wireless data services from AT&T's Wireless Data Division.Under the agreement, MobileWare and AT&T Wireless will train sales and technical field support, as...
SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. is developing enhanced 911 applications that will help wireless carriers and emergency dispatchers determine the location of wireless callers.These groups don't have to reinvent the wheel, said Kenneth Arneson, president and chief executive officer of Xypoint. Arneson was formerly vice president of...
I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did I use?"Sprint," I told him. Then I thought to myself, "Is it Sprint? No wait, maybe it's MCI."Hold on a...
PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation's first multistate personal communications services network, and the country's fourth PCS system activation.Service was launched in a cluster that involves three states-metropolitan Charlotte, N.C., which borders South Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., southeast of Charlotte; and the Tennessee...
PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
NEW YORK-Electric utilities are taking a close look at wireless communications as a means to enhance revenues and operating efficiencies in their recently deregulated and competitive business environment.A variety of wireless opportunities and applications are under review or newly in use among electric power...
Software developer Unwired Planet Inc. introduced an Internet access solution that promises to be a "Killer App" for wireless data services, beginning with Cellular Digital Packet Data.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company said its UP.Link open software platform will enable cellular phone and two-way pager...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and lobbying shift that sources attribute to pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency.The hybrid RF standard the Federal Communications Commission plans...
WASHINGTON-In what the U.S. Secret Service said is the largest seizure of stolen cellular telephone numbers ever in the United States, the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force arrested Abraham Romy and Irina Bashkavich in Brooklyn, N.Y., for breaking a federal law which prohibits...
If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless operators are obligated to pass the call, according to new government rules.Cellular operators who are not happy about that say...
CellStar Corp. said it has a tentative Fortune 500 buyer for its kiosk business located in 347 Sam's Club stores nationwide, the expenses of which led to the company's disappointing first-quarter results.The investment community had estimated CellStar's net income would be at least $5...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is offering a 60 percent price reduction for its Packet Data Service, which uses Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, which is optimized for short "bursty" data transmissions.AT&T is offering five service plans: $22 for an allowance of 200 kilobytes per month,...
