SAN FRANCISCO-When people in Atlanta think of the top two wireless service providers, BellSouth Wireless Services and Sprint PCS come to mind. In Minneapolis, the top two are AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS. And in San Diego, it's Sprint PCS and Vodafone...
CANCUN, Mexico-The big push to interoperate GSM and TDMA standards is well under way, allowing customers using either standard to roam around the world and giving U.S. TDMA operators a breath of life in their ongoing struggle with CDMA carriers for domestic market share.The...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. replaced BellSouth Mobility's existing Time Division Multiple Access infrastructure in Nashville, and Chattanooga, Tenn., and Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette, La.The five markets are the first of 17 in which Ericsson will provide and install switches, base stations, software, services...
DENVER, United States-The United States' official position going into the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) supports designating three frequency bands-1710 MHz to 1885 MHz, 2500 MHz to 2690 MHz and 698 MHz to 960 MHz-from which to allocate additional third-generation spectrum for terrestrial services. It...
DENVER, United States- BellSouth and SBC Communications finally ended weeks of speculation, announcing plans to create a wireless joint venture that will become the second-largest wireless operator in the United States, serving 16.2 million subscribers and reaching 175 million potential customers.And, with the exception...
WASHINGTON-With the House up for grabs this fall and a slew of high-tech bills pending before Congress, the high-tech lobby is flexing its muscle on Capitol Hill and shaping the debate on key issues important to the wireless industry such as China trade, high-tech...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission was criticized last week by specialized mobile radio operators and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association regarding its proposed regulatory fee schedule for fiscal-year 2000.Congress, which sets the amount of regulatory fees to be collected each year, told the FCC to...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS is offering customers a variety of new options for their wireless telecommunications needs.The first is the company's new Rollover Plan, which allows customers to roll over unused minutes from their monthly plans to the following month."When a customer buys minutes, they...
Now that wireless phone providers have jumped on the Wireless Application Protocol bandwagon, it seems only fitting that the dedicated data network providers should follow suit.And they are, with help from Neomar Inc., a start-up firm in San Francisco that has created a WAP...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission asked for Capitol Hill's blessing to delay until September the 700 MHz auctions after large wireless carriers said the spectrum was too heavily encumbered to be of any value."I have serious concerns about the compressed timing for these auctions ......
While wireless executives in North America plot in their war rooms about how to sell the wireless Web in an already highly penetrated Internet market, executives just south of the border are wringing their hands in anticipation that the wireless Internet will explode in...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported revenues for the first quarter ended March 31 of $6.5 billion, an 8.6-percent increase from 1999's first-quarter revenues of $5.97 billion.The company recorded net income of $1 billion, or 53 cents per share, compared with net income of $615 million, or...
The Federal Communications Commission should lift the spectrum cap placed on companies bidding in the 700 MHz auction and the C- and F-block re-auction of PCS spectrum.It pains me to say that. From its infancy in the early 90s, I have rooted for the...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. is acquiring NetSearch L.L.C., a wireless e-commerce provider, for $25 million in cash at closing and up to an additional $654 million payable over 13 months if NetSearch meets certain revenue targets.Aether said it wanted to gain access to...
Concerns over the effectiveness of Research In Motion Ltd.'s distribution partners came to a head last week, as expectations of flat revenues in the face of increased spending forced the company's stock down 44 percent, despite positive earnings and new product and partnership announcements.The...
NEW YORK-Because of their relative scarcity, augmented by their growth history and potential, wireless carriers seeking financing enjoy elevated status in the eyes of investors, even in volatile capital markets.Good timing still matters, particularly since the trickle of initial public offerings in this sector...
WASHINGTON-With prospects uncertain for securing third-generation mobile-phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next month in Turkey and apparent concerns about the Clinton administration's commitment on that score, U.S. wireless firms have turned to Congress for support.A group calling itself the Wireless Spectrum Coalition...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved 35 bidders to participate in this Wednesday's auction of licenses for the 39 GHz band. The 39 GHz band is located at 38.6-40 GHz. Some of the prominent bidders and their up front payments include WinStar Wireless Fiber...
Metrocall Inc. formed a strategic partnering agreement with WirelessMD Inc. to target the medical community. Specifically, the two hope to upgrade existing one-way paging accounts to two-way interactive paging services and products. Metrocall said it will use Wireless MD's proprietary interactive medical data retrieval...
A corporate merger is not unlike a marriage. Two separate parties enter the union with two individual identities, and emerge from the ceremony as one entity, committed to achieving common goals and bearing a common name.The wireless industry witnessed the engagement last week of...
NEW YORK-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is prepared to wage war on two fronts in the battle of the titans for transnational control of wireless telecommunications, John Stanton, VoiceStream's chairman and chief executive officer said.Although focused on expanding its domestic footprint through acquisitions of carriers and...
The flurry of consolidation in the wireless industry leads the industry observer to believe a nationwide presence is a necessity to compete in this market going forward.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. raised the bar in 1998 offering its nationwide plan, the Digital One Rate plan....
It is a match made in heaven. BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications finally ended weeks of speculation, announcing plans to create a wireless joint venture that will become the second-largest wireless operator in the United States, serving 16.2 million subscribers and reaching 175 million...
NEW YORK-The ongoing fight for dominance of the U.S. wireless market flared up once again last week as Bell Atlantic Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch plc said they will commence this year an initial public offering of Verizon Wireless, the joint venture that combines the...
