Repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling cellular phones is the business of ReCellular Inc.The company brings phones sent in by carriers, dealers and other clients back to new condition. And while some phones are serviced for return to the owners, ReCellular's livelihood is derived from...
After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was ready to hang up his spurs.That was four years ago. Today Cooper, along with the esteemed scientist and engineer who...
ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Florida announced it will market wireless telephones using an automated kiosk that dispenses ready-to-use cellular phones directly to the customer.The Interactive Retail Information System, developed by Lightbridge Inc., is fully automated and provides a number of customer services,...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is set to intervene shortly in a Democratic Party power struggle for leadership of the new Telecommunications Development Fund, a potentially huge pool of money small businesses can tap into for wireless projects and other telecommunications ventures.The controversy, according to sources,...
Consolidation in the cellular industry is galloping ahead-now spurred faster by the 1996 Telecom Reform Act-but toward an uncertain future.The ten largest cellular carriers served nearly 27 million subscribers at year-end 1995, not counting the subscribers in the markets where they hold minority stakes....
On the same day last week, the nation was a painful witness to high technology's fork in the road.In some remote hills of spacious Montana, federal agents picked up a bearded 53-year-old Harvard-educated math whiz named Ted Kaczynski on suspicion of being the elusive...
NEW YORK-With a push from the new federal telecommunications deregulation law, SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group announced April 1 the first merger ever between two Baby Bells.In this friendly takeover, SBC Communications Inc., based in San Antonio, Texas, has agreed to acquire...
NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. launched itself into the public equity market last Thursday with an initial public offering of more than 112 million shares of common stock priced at $27 per share, reportedly the largest IPO in U.S. history. At the end of the...
"The Internet is the killer app!" declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps '95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas.He was referring to the long-sought application for wireless data-a Holy Grail of sorts-that would be so...
First wedding of Baby Bells has many eyes on their siblings ... Ameritech sees no value in mergers ... BellSouth says plans unchanged in wake of SBC-PacTel deal ... U S West not seen bidding for PacTel ... SBC-PacTel deal whets industry appetite for...
If London-based Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc merge, the new enterprise could descend upon an auspicious Asian market and create a shake up among globally-footed wireless giants."This whole merger move is based on a wireless view of the world, because East...
WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, an aggressive promoter of telecommunications abroad and a strong advocate of minority advancement in high technology, was among the 35 passengers killed last week in a plane crash off the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik.Brown was escorting American business executives...
DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and local law enforcement launched...
California Microwave Inc. announced it is expecting earnings per share for its 1996 fiscal year third quarter ending March 31 to be in the range of 5 cents to 10 cents as a result of lower than projected bookings and related sales in its...
STAMFORD, Conn.-GTE Corp. has announced it intends to get a foothold in the Brazilian cellular phone market through an alliance with a Brazilian investment group and a Brazilian equipment manufacturer.The trio has its eyes on one of the B-band cellular licenses the Brazilian government...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nippon Telephone and Telegraph and AccessLine Technologies organized a venture to bring one-number services to Japan's personal communications services market.One Number Service Inc. is being launched by the two companies as well as AT&T Corp., France Telecom, several NTT subsidiaries, Korea Telecom, Korea...
DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and local law enforcement launched...
NEW YORK-The total number and dollar volume of mergers and acquisitions in the global telecommunications market reached an all-time high in 1995, according to a report by Broadview Associates L.P. of Fort Lee, N.J.Cable and wireless transactions accounted for 69 percent of this activity...
After discontinuing a five-year relationship with AT&T Corp., HighwayMaster Corp. has formed a new alliance with GTE Corp. and continues to work with IEX Corp. to revamp its network platform.Dallas-based HighwayMaster's mobile communications and fleet information management system operates nationwide using existing cellular infrastructure...
WASHINGTON-"Let's not fool ourselves-the number one issue is money," said Carl Thompson, the new president and chief operating officer of Vienna, Va.-based North American Wireless Inc., who pulled no punches as to what it will take for the small business or entrepreneur to participate...
Toll Free Cellular is rapidly building a profitable business by marketing its #800 number service to the businesses cellular users want most to but are least likely to call because of airtime charges.The Seattle-based company introduced its #800 number service in the greater Seattle...
Last month's passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 heralds the industry's most fundamental structural change since AT&T Corp. was split up in 1984. Traditional barriers separating industry sectors are crumbling. Wireless will play a key role in the industry's transformation. While few provisions...
NEW YORK-While wireless enterprises pose risks for and depress the credit ratings of their parent telecommunications companies, they also expand the overall market to the benefit of both entities, according to Frank Plumley, a director of Standard & Poor's Corp.Prompted by accelerating competition and...
Ron Boillat is now vice president of sales and Lee Sarbo has been named director of sales for the Eastern region at Frontier Cellular, the wireless subsidiary of Frontier Corp. Boillat joined Frontier in April 1995 with 14 years experience in the telecommunications industry....
