As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...
Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new player in the U.S. paging market but is a leading manufacturer in South Korea...
Brad Busse is now the chief operating officer at Daniels & Associates. Prior to his appointment, Busse served as executive vice president of Daniels' Mobile & Telephony division. Busse will continue to manage the mobile group, address the day-to-day operational issues of the firm...
WASHINGTON-The regulatory environment for personal communications services is still evolving as policymakers try to determine how next-generation pocket telephone systems fit into a telecommunications industry undergoing historic change and evaluate what that means to society.The issues are complex, with advocacy groups on all sides...
LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc., which introduced the Wildfire Electronic Assistant product one year ago, signed on AT&T Wireless Services and Pacific Bell Mobile Services to develop Wildfire as a network-based system.Valued at $3 million each, the contracts with AT&T and Pac Bell are non-exclusive...
Stung by a Sept. 22 lawsuit from its erstwhile strategic partner U S West Inc., Time Warner Inc. shot back with its own bitter accusations in a countersuit filed Oct. 11 with the Delaware Chancery Court.The month-long legal battle involves Time Warner's proposed merger...
Wireless operators continue to line up behind one of the seven technologies that will be used for personal communications services, solidifying the formation of PCS technology camps and leading to several arms-length partnerships.The most recent protocol announcement came from Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Inc.,...
Wireless technologies are critical to introducing true competition into the country's last bastion of telecommunications monopoly, according to market research by Action Information Services. Unlike today's analog cellular services that merely supplement traditional wireline service, new digital cellular and personal communications services will begin...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Wireless activity in Indonesia is heating up as two more telecommunications giants jump into the market.L. M. Ericsson and Indonesian partner PT Erindo Utama received a contract from Indonesian operator PT Telkom to deliver a Digital European Cordless Telephone radio access system to...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry told the Federal Communications Commission it will work with the hearing-impaired community, hearing aid manufacturers and audiologists during the next six months to develop short-term and long-term solutions to hearing aid interference and compatibility problems posed by digital pocket telephones."We...
AT&T Corp. announced new executives to head the three companies resulting from the split of AT&T announced a month ago by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Allen.Allen will continue in his posts at the new AT&T and Alex Mandl, currently president and CEO...
AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. announced they will begin combining their domestic cellular operations Nov. 1, initially by using the same support services. The companies will continue to remain separately owned, however, because of federal restrictions.The companies' Wireless Management Co., formed...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati last week stayed the entrepreneur block auction for broadband personal communications services licenses after Radiofone Inc., a cellular operator in New Orleans, challenged PCS-cellular cross-ownership rules.The Federal Communications Commission planned to auction the...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services is introducing AT&T wireless circuit data service in New York and New Jersey.Circuit data service allows cellular customers with portable computing devices to access corporate databases and e-mail with throughput comparable to landline connections, according to AT&T.The company is conducting...
GENEVA - AT&T Network Systems Inc. introduced its AT&T AirLoop digital wireless loop system that connects central offices to homes or businesses using fixed wireless equipment rather than the traditional copper wire loop.The system provides the same basic and enhanced voice and data features...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt directed the wireless telecommunications industry to develop a plan by next week to address interference from European-designed digital pocket telephones to hearing aids.Hundt, according to sources, met last Monday with representatives from the Personal Communications Industry Association, the...
BATON ROUGE, La.-Eatelcorp Inc. will partner with Mercury Cellular and Paging of Lake Charles, La., and contract assistance from Louisiana State University to conduct a trial of AT&T Network Systems Inc.'s Code Division Multiple Access wireless technology for a new personal communications systems network.The...
SNET Cellular Inc. awarded AT&T Network Systems Inc. a contract valued at $35 million to supply and install an Autoplex System 1000 for SNET in its Rhode Island and the Bristol, Mass., area markets, which operate under the Cellular One brand name.Autoplex provides customers...
OCTOBER9-11 Technology Forecasting for the Telecommunications Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Stouffer Hotel, Austin, Texas. For information call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.10-12 CES Mexico '95, by the Consumer Electronics Group of the Electronic Industries Association. Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City. For information...
Of all the recruits at the Hundt-led Federal Communications Commission, perhaps none has received fewer headlines and contributed more than Christopher Wright.Wright, deputy general counsel, successfully defended entrepreneur block rules for personal communications services licenses that were made race-and gender-neutral by the FCC after...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Lin Broadcasting Corp. shareholders voted to approve a merger agreement with AT&T Wireless Services at the annual shareholder meeting.Lin shareholders will receive approximately $129.90 in cash for each Lin share. The total value of the merger is about $3.3 billion.AT&T acquired Lin on...
Marriages and divorces are accenting the wireless telecom industry today.The biggest telecom provider of them all, AT&T Corp., announced late last month it would split its businesses into three different companies. Chairman Robert Allen said the company wanted to avoid the perceived conflict in...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of terrestrial-based, two-way mobile data operators based on interviews with industry contacts. The chart is arranged alphabetically since many of the companies are just starting to offer mobile data service.Although most cellular and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission early next year will hold a spectrum summit as policymakers rethink fundamental programs that have governed the airwaves for a half century, instead turning to the marketplace for answers.The all-day conference, inspired and organized by Commissioner Susan Ness, will address...
