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,...
CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time.The Schaumburg, Ill., telecommunications equipment giant was expected to announce today that it has smoothed over the rough spots of its...
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc's. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service to Cellular One customers.Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Wireless and Cellular One will design and deploy a Cellular...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission said cost savings should be considered regularly in antitrust analysis of high-tech mergers, such as the multimillion dollar deals sweeping the telecommunications industry. But it is not clear whether the policy changes being contemplated will help or hurt consumers and...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets.CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T's cellular coverage area, according to Clayton Foster, the product manager for AT&T Wireless' wireless data division. "The growth of CDS...
L.M. Ericsson announced it will deliver a Global System for Mobile communications network, valued at $77 million, to the Indian cellular operator Birla Communications Ltd. Birla Communications is a joint venture between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Indian company A.V. Birla Group. Its...
Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. is trading its Orange County, N.Y., market to PriCellular Wireless Corp. in return for Ohio properties that Vanguard feels will fit nicely into its West Virginia metro cluster."The people in that area have more in common with the other...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. ordered more than one million of Lucent's Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phones to be supplied during the next two years. The companies said the contract is valued at more than $300 million....
