With tower companies and carriers facing difficulties getting permission to build sites at local zoning boards and collocation increasingly becoming a favored business model, CoLocation Technologies Inc. is marketing a solution designed to facilitate collocation.Based in Atlanta, CoLocation Technologies was formed initially to market...
Advanced Fox WirelessAdvanced Fox Wireless introduced the OEM Style Mini Twin Charger for Nokia Corp. 5100 Series and Nextel Communications Inc. i1000 handsets. The device will charge the battery on the phone while charging a second battery. It is compatible with Nickel Cadmium, Nickel...
Pinnacle Towers Inc. acquired four towers in North Carolina and Texas in two transactions.AirNet Communications Corp. said it is supplying additional infrastructure equipment, including base transceiver stations and a base station controller, to AirLink PCS, enabling AirLink to expand its mobile wireless network in...
The Federal Communications Commission should narrow down in six months which frequency bands it could allocate for third-generation mobile phone services.The World Administrative Radiocommunication Conference is 14 months away, and the United States wants to forge a position on additional spectrum and which frequency...
AT&T Corp. plans to purchase Honolulu Cellular Telephone Co. from BellSouth Corp., another move in AT&T's plan to expand its nationwide coverage.The two companies signed an agreement Friday. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The companies expect the transaction to close in the...
ATLANTA-Wynd Communications Inc. announced an exclusive strategic alliance with the American Automobile Association to deliver national wireless roadside assistance service to deaf and hard of hearing members.With the service, deaf or hard of hearing motorists no longer need access to a wireline teletype machine...
Amid speculation that it could be a takeover target by MCI WorldCom Inc., SkyTel Communications Inc. announced a new pricing plan and a major strategic alliance last week, both designed to better position it for the wireless messaging battle ahead.Most significantly, the company announced...
ATLANTA-Global Wireless Data announced it is the North American distributor for the new Ericsson M3090 Mobitex wireless modem."We chose Global Wireless Data as our North American distributor for the M3090 OEM modem because of their broad experience as a distributor and value-added reseller in...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects.In the last year alone, at least half of the carriers on RCR's 1998 Top 20 cellular carriers' list have been acquired by...
The battle continues at the Federal Communications Commission over whether a waiver of the airborne cellular rule granted to AirCell Inc. is proper.Louisville, Colo.-based AirCell has proposed an air-to-ground communications system for use in general and commercial aviation markets that makes use of existing...
Tensions ran high at the International Telecommunication Union two-week meeting on third-generation technology in Fortaleza, Brazil, as the industry waits for an agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson on cdmaOne patents.Qualcomm and Ericsson won't comment on progress made in negotiating a settlement over...
In the last two weeks alone, Crown Castle International Corp. has more than doubled its tower portfolio in the United States and United Kingdom, securing a top position for itself among independent tower companies.The most recent transactions with Powertel Inc. and the U.K.'s One...
While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 "the year of wireless data," few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year.In 1998, several new devices were introduced that met the form factor and price requirements needed for...
Polson on target regarding public's RF perceptionThank you for Peter Polson's excellent article "Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation," Feb. 8 in RCR. I agree that there is, indeed, a great storm brewing and it is about to break over the wireless...
NEW YORK-As wireless telecommunications heads into the new frontier of electronic commerce, service providers must answer a question posed by an old British rock song: "I really want to know, who are you?"Toronto-based Diversinet Corp. is in business to provide an answer in the form...
Crown Castle International Corp. sealed its second deal to manage a large wireless carrier's tower portfolio with last week's announcement that BellSouth Corp. is selling 1,850 towers to the company for $610 million in cash and common stock.Crown in December formed a joint venture...
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with VeriFone Inc., a division of Hewlett-Packard Co., to develop wireless point-of-sale solutions.The two said they will work together to create end-to-end solutions linking wireless credit card terminals to the BellSouth...
Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld and laptop computers to the Atlanta, Los Angeles and New Orleans markets.Datalink.net announced it can allow companies to extend Web-based...
In what may be the beginning of a trend, BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Paging Network Inc. entered into a strategic alliance last week under which PageNet will resell BellSouth's Interactive Paging Service, effective in May.According to the agreement, PageNet will be the primary...
Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial equipment.BellSouth Cellular Corp. said it selected Compass Telecom Services L.L.C. as its vendor for...
Called one of the largest deployments of mobile computing technology to date, BellSouth Corp. introduced a new, $163 million mobile computing platform created to give its 15,000 service technicians access to customer service and network information in the field.The BellSouth TechPlus System equips technicians...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in particular allow SBC Communications...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector announced it entered into a software alliance agreement with Cerulean Technology Inc. in an effort to beef up its wireless information solutions aimed at public-safety agencies.Under terms of the agreement, Motorola will resell Cerulean's PacketCluster...
