AT&T Corp.'s systems and technology division received a fresh face last week when it was reintroduced as Lucent Technologies Inc. Concurrently, AT&T announced it began the process to take Lucent public.Lucent, meaning "glowing with light" or "marked by clarity and translucence," suggests clarity of...
As part of AT&T Corp.'s plan to spin off its system and technology business, newly named Lucent Technologies Inc. filed last week for an initial public stock offering, aiming to sell between 15 percent and 20 percent of the company.Lucent also cautions that it...
This year promises to be a transition period for the Latin American wireless market, a year hosting key events necessary to drive the subscriber growth that is projected by the end of the decade.Impending introduction of competition in Brazil and Central America, as well...
The impending liberalization of Brazil's cellular services sector has attracted interest from a host of global carriers clamoring to position themselves in the region's fastest growing telecom services sector.The lucky few that win private cellular operating licenses in Brazil may be jockeying, as well,...
Just as Cellular Digital Packet Data has been slow to take off in the United States, it looks like it will take a little pushing and shoving for the technology to thrive in Latin America as well.So far only a few hundred CDPD terminals...
This year will bring competition to Argentina's interior cellular market, now served only by Compania de Telefonos del Interior under a two-year exclusive license.Owned by GTE Corp., AT&T Corp. and local partners, CTI rapidly built out an Advanced Mobile Phone Service-based system after winning...
A cellular network using Code Division Multiple Access technology is live in South Korea, but so far enduring only a lukewarm reception. Current analog operator Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp. introduced CDMA service Jan. 1 in Inchon, a port city west of Seoul, and plans...
WASHINGTON-Congress passed landmark telecommunications reform legislation late last week, paving the way for the wireless lane of the information superhighway and setting the stage for a fierce debate on a national spectrum policy bill later this year.The measure, which President Clinton is expected to...
Sprint Telecommunications Venture has awarded contracts to build its personal communications services network to AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom Inc. with roughly a 60/40 split of STV's markets. The contracts are valued at more than $3 billion."Today's announcement is a key step...
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands-Philips Electronics said it will dissolve its infrastructure division in the Netherlands and open a new unit in France to manufacture wireless phones, pagers and other personal communications items.AT&T Corp. recently bought the infrastructure assets of Philips in Paris and Nuremberg, Germany. Now,...
Offering customers wireless access inside and outside the office will enable wireless carriers to gain new subscribers, retain current subscribers and generate increased airtime revenue, said Jerry Kaufman, president of Arizona-based Alexander Resources.Kaufman believes cellular and personal communications services providers that supply "dual domain...
The Cellular One Group intends to expand the scope of the Cellular One brand name to paging, local and long-distance service, and will offer licensing to B-side cellular carriers, personal communications services operators and resellers as well."Customers want to turn to Cellular One for...
A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world.Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to providing consumer pocket telephony as well as plain old telephone service. Right now, many of...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Three American companies are working through the U.S. Embassy in Ireland to determine how an Irish long-distance company won the country's second cellular wireless telephone license last fall.Motorola Inc., AT&T Wireless Services and Southwestern Bell Corp. want the Irish government to explain why...
Sprint Cellular Co. may not have completed its anticipated spinoff from Sprint Corp., but it is confident enough of its future to choose a new name.The Chicago-based company will become Three-sixty Communications Co. if the spinoff is successful. The deal is expected to close...
Dial Page Inc.'s stockholders have approved a merger proposal and agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., Nextel announced. The Federal Communications Commission's final approval on the merger is expected to be made in late January, Nextel said. The transaction is scheduled to close Jan. 31....
WASHINGTON-In a potential blow to Omnipoint Corp.'s planned initial public offering this week, wireless investor James Valentine has asked federal regulators to investigate whether the small Colorado firm is violating its pioneer's preference for a personal communications services license in New York. Valentine claims...
Motorola Inc. pulled out of equipment negotiations with Sprint Telecommunications Venture last week, saying financial and commercial terms proposed by Sprint were extraordinary."We made every effort to reach an agreement, and put our best and final offer on the table," said Motorola spokesman Scott...
AT&T Corp. formally named Alex Mandl president and chief operating officer of the new AT&T and a member of the company's board of directors. Mandl has headed the company's long-distance services business since 1993 and was AT&T's chief financial officer from 1991 to 1993.AT&T...
NEW YORK - With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on an upward trajectory in competitive urban markets in the East, representative for major carriers report."It is in this next tier...
Memphis, Tenn.-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent for a secondary underwriting with Barron Chase Securities of Boca Raton, Fla. Chadmoore said the offering, which is scheduled to take place in the second quarter, will be structured as...
Two divisions in AT&T Corp.'s systems and technology company last week unveiled a communications system the company said will provide customers wireless phone access in the office or on a campus and analog cellular service wherever else they go, all using their current cellular...
Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is expected to be first to offer commercial personal communications services in Canada, launching in at least two cities by September, predicts the Yankee Group, a Boston-based research and consulting group.Four companies recently won PCS licenses in Canada. Recipients of 30-megahertz...
WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to $70 billion.Dole's latest salvo against the broadcasters could, if combined with other factors, cause...
