Like parallel rails that run straight into the distance but seem to touch at the horizon, wireless telecommunications and mobile computing have each made great strides into the future. Now leading companies from both sectors are working together to make sure their convergence is...
NEW YORK-Wireless links may play a crucial role for long-distance, regional Bell operating companies and cable TV firms seeking competitive advantage in the newly deregulated landscape.Deregulation is occurring in an environment of technological convergence of voice, data and video communications, said speakers at "The...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
U S West Inc.'s board of directors has declared a regular, quarterly dividend of 54 cents per share on the common stock of U S West Communications Group. U S West said the dividend is payable May 1 to shareholders of record of U...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Eighty-two percent of business cellular subscribers want a single wireless handset that can be used as an office phone indoors and as a mobile phone outdoors, concludes a two-year study conducted by Alexander Resources Inc.Alexander said the biggest threat to cellular and personal...
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...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum's bankruptcy is pending in the...
WASHINGTON-In a move that could chill other potential bidders, Sprint Corp. has taken itself out of the running for a multiyear federal government wireless provision contract that could be worth "a few hundred million" because it claims the General Services Administration already has decided...
WASHINGTON-The gloves finally are off in the fight for the most desirable C-block broadband personal communications services markets. Instead of taking the battle outside to duke it out, certain C-block bidders are using the Federal Communications Commission as the venue of choice.In a March...
Dear Editor: The Telecommunications Act is now law. The President's pen unlocked doors to fair and free telecommunications competition that had been closed in some key areas for decades. Business and residential users, and our economy, will be the big winners if we, the communications...
Try this one on for size: You can't pay too much for a good wireless license or a good high-tech executive.This statement, mind you, is totally politically incorrect and goes against the grain of conventional wisdom, what with C-block PCS auction prices and executives' salaries...
SHELTON, Conn.-Engineering and Business Systems Inc., a global intelligent network telecommunications middleware and products provider, announced its merger with NewNet, an advanced wireless solutions provider.The joint company, called NewNet, named former EBS Vice President and General Manager Dilip Singh its president. Singh will focus...
WASHINGTON-Regulatory parity and universal service participation were the two common issues addressed by those who submitted comments regarding the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow commercial mobile radio services operators to provide fixed local-loop services.Most advanced wireless carriers already have the right to provide...
NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in the U.S. marketplace."It's going to be a brutal year," said Francis McInerney, a principal of North River Ventures, New York....
Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks, spawning several potentially lucrative businesses.A system of 24 satellites launched by the U.S. Department of Defense beginning in the late...
Florida cellular customers may soon see a 50-cent increase in their monthly bill, in the form of a fee to fund 911 technology and distance learning. Some cellular carriers indicated they are vehemently opposed to the fee, which is included in Gov. Lawton Chiles'...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. of New York will step up deployment of the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system in its New York metropolitan market. AT&T had installed a limited scale Corsair PhonePrint system last year and will expand the...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. announced PTT Telecom BV, a subsidiary of Royal PTT Netherlands, has licensed General Magic's Telescript technology.The technology is designed to allow users to launch electronic surrogates, called agents, into networks to search for and monitor information and to interact with...
Some big-city markets saw a decrease in cloning fraud last year after implementing personal identification numbers, but the effort hasn't beat the bandits. Cloning criminals have hit the road, scanning for numbers in one market, reprogramming and selling handsets in another-what industry has termed...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services and Ameritech Cellular Services have signed an intercarrier agreement that allows each carrier's Cellular Digital Packet Data customers to use CDPD within the other's cellular network.The carriers' customers will be able to use CDPD...
PITTSBURGH-AT&T Wireless Services announced its customers in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio now have access to the AT&T CellCard, a smart card that extends the reach of a customer's cellular phone outside North America.To use the smart card, traveling customers rent...
SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.-On a clear day, you can look south and see the Manhattan skyline from the landmark hilltop house of Steve Preston, who owns and leases towers for wireless transmissions. But Preston has his sights set north where he sees the chance for...
Proponents of calling party pays believe the service will both generate more airtime and increase the number of incoming calls, but they don't agree on how such a system should be introduced in the U.S. market."We need some movement along these lines and there...
