WASHINGTON-The GOP-led Congress this fall will tackle landmark budget and telecommunications bills as part of a legislative agenda so sweeping and historic in scope that the outcome may well determine the success or failure of the year-old Republican revolution and provide an early barometer...
Incidents of cloning fraud and associated revenue loss have dropped more than 80 percent in Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile's cellular markets since the company started aggressively using personal identification numbers and implementing other fraud control measures, said Nick Arcuri, the company's vice president of...
Fueled by increasing safety concerns and customer demand, the cellular market has become the fastest-growing segment for speech-recognition use in the United States, according to industry analysts.Being able to command a cellular phone to "call office"-instead of requiring users to fumble for their handsets...
WASHINGTON-Congress, in a move that has raised constitutional questions, is pushing legislation that would end entrepreneur block auction litigation and open the way for the sale of more personal communications services licenses in early December.A provision in a House Commerce Committee plan to raise...
Solectek Corp. of San Diego offers a high-speed wireless bridge system that can link local area networks up to 25 miles apart in an ideal setting, or 7 miles apart in an urban area, using spread spectrum radio technology at 2.4 GHz.Airlan/Bridge Ultra eliminates...
SEATTLE-The Aviation Communications Division of AT&T Wireless Services announced the domestic offering of new ground-to-air service on its all-digital, inflight telecommunications system."Consumers now have the option of being reached in flight for business or personal matters," said Randy Ottinger, vice president of marketing for...
Scientific-Atlanta Inc. will supply its Skylinx.DDS Digital DAMA telephony system to help create a network to support cellular satellite communications in the interior of Argentina-South America's second largest country.While one of the fastest-growing telecommunications markets in Latin America, Argentina has the same problem as...
PLANO, Texas-ProNet Inc. said depreciation and amortization expenses associated with eight acquisitions since last March are related to its net loss of $335,000, or 5 cents per share, for the six month period ended June 30. The company's net income for the comparable period...
SEATTLE-Midcom Communications Inc. intends to acquire all the outstanding securities of Cel-Tech International Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., in exchange for about 142,000 shares of unregistered Midcom common stock.The acquisition, valued at more than $2 million, will be accounted as a pooling of interests. A...
WASHINGTON-The level of frustration over entrepreneur block auction litigation is running so high at the Federal Communications Commission that Chairman Reed Hundt is willing to lose in court if it means getting bidding for 493 personal communications services licenses back on track before year's...
Cellular operators may have to continue to price digital service lower than analog to capture and keep customers until digital service matures and can offer advanced features, said cellular phone analyst Herschel Shosteck. But digital service has been accepted by users more quickly than...
Paging Network Inc. completed the purchase of the paging assets of California-based International Paging Corp. effective Sept. 1. PageNet said it will acquire 50,000 IPC paging customers in California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Utah for a cash purchase price of $15 million. "We...
In concert with the European Union's directive to liberalize the telecommunications market in Europe, Austria plans to permit a second, privately owned mobile phone license by the end of the year.Austria's Ministry for Public Economy and Transport recently issued a tender for a Global...
Final tender documents for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses in Poland will be available next month, and several U.S. firms intend to figure prominently in the deal.Bids will be accepted until the end of October. Both licenses should be awarded by the...
Safety and security may be among the top reasons people buy cellular phones, but these features often fall short in one area: 911 service. But the state of Washington is hoping to remedy that situation with a new law that makes cellular carriers offer enhanced...
It appears the next wave of paging is as diverse as its players. While SkyTel Corp. is only a short time away from launching its network, other large players systematically continue researching messaging technologies. Motorola Inc. has penetrated the new two-way market with its...
An AirTouch Communications Inc. consortium is scheduled to launch Spain's first private cellular system on Oct. 3, on the heels of the government operator's launch of a similar service.The Airtel consortium defeated at least five other consortia last fall, paying $705 million to win...
SEOUL, South Korea-Under a contract valued at $540 million, AT&T Corp. said it plans to supply Korea Mobile Telecom with wireless infrastructure equipment for KMT's nationwide cellular network.Terms of the multiyear agreement call for AT&T Network Systems to install its Autoplex wireless communications infrastructure...
WASHINGTON-Stepped-up lobbying by city, state and county officials and support from a top House Republican likely will weaken the Klug-Manton antenna siting amendment in the House-Senate conference on telecommunications reform legislation this fall.Rep. Thomas Bliley, R-Va., chairman of the Commerce Committee and chief sponsor...
PARSIPPANY, N.Y.-AT&T Corp. is introducing this month a line of wedge-shaped numeric pagers that target teenagers and meet consumer demand for personal-use devices.Model 3517 will come in bright yellow, Tazmanian red and bright cobalt, and will be sleek and compact, AT&T said. Model 3512...
Kicking off a game of wireless executive leapfrog, George F. Schmitt jumped ship from PCS PrimeCo L.P. to join the personal communications services team at Omnipoint Communications Inc. as president-a post Omnipoint Corp. had sought to fill "since we won our pioneer's preference," said...
WASHINGTON-The federal government is trying to mend its rocky relationship with the public-safety community, following a series of flare-ups between the two during the past year.Last week, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration named Washington, D.C, lawyer Philip Verveer...
August is supposed to be a slow month in the nation's capital, but even though Congress and the president are out of town there is movement on other fronts. There's some noise, too.Didn't you hear the giant suck-up sound from Dallas, where Democrats and...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. said it has begun testing switching equipment from AT&T Network Systems Inc. and L.M. Ericsson in two markets. McCaw plans to purchase $450 million dollars worth of switching equipment during the next several years from the two companies to...
