NEW YORK-Consorcio Ecuatoriano de Telecommunicaciones S.A., Ecuador's largest cellular carrier, "may not be able to maintain access to sufficient capital to fully execute its business plans," Moody's Investors Service said.Doing business as Conecel, the Quito-based wireless services company offers analog and digital cellular service...
WASHINGTON-The American novelist Edith Wharton once noted the only thing that distinguishes vice from virtue is point of view. Some might say her comment is an apt description of the current debate about whether the U.S. wireless market should adopt Calling Party Pays (CPP)...
L.M. EricssonBelgium. With KPN-Orange Belgium N.V. for a DCS 1800 network.Value: US$269 millionBrazil. With ATL-Algar Telecom Leste S.A. for a TDMA network.Value: up to US$350 millionEcuador. Five-year contract with BellSouth Ecuador to upgrade its AMPS network to TDMA IS-136.Value: more than US$250 millionEgypt. Contract from Misrfone to...
DENVER, United States-Dramatic consolidation in the U.S. telecommunications industry has marked the first part of the year, topped off most recently with news the nation's largest long-distance and wireless carrier, AT&T Corp., plans to buy the nation's second-largest cable TV company, Tele-Communications Inc.The US$48...
See page 7 for the results of Ireland and Italy's recent tenders.Austria granted 900 MHz GSM licenses to Mobilcom, max.mobile and Connect Austria, a consortium including Tele Danmark.Recently formed Belgian wireless communications company KPN Orange Belgium N.V. was awarded the third license to build...
ECUADORSTOCKHOLM, Sweden - L.M. Ericsson was awarded a five-year frame agreement valued at more than $250 million by BellSouth Ecuador to upgrade its Advanced Mobile Phone Services wireless network to the Interim Standard-136, or digital AMPS, standard.The network migration is scheduled to take place...
CTIA FOUNDATIONThe Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Foundation for Wireless Telecommunications announced Stan Hamm, group president of mobile systems for BellSouth Personal Communications, is the new chairman of its board of directors. Other new board officers include Vice Chairman Matthew J. Desch, president of wireless...
VANCOUVER-Nettech Systems introduced a communications solution called Smart IP that enables Internet and intranet applications to run over wireless networks without the challenges associated with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol connections.Many Internet applications use TCP/IP as the communication protocol to access the Internet and corporate...
The New York Society for the Deaf signed a contract with BellSouth Wireless Data to deploy BellSouth's Interactive Paging Service to allow NYSD's employees, half of whom are deaf, to communicate with each other via the real-time messaging device.The NYSD is a non-profit organization...
ATLANTA-Cellemetry L.L.C., the joint venture between Numerx Corp. and BellSouth Corp., announced it secured agreements with three new cellular carriers.Centennial Cellular Corp., Cellular One of East Illinois and Pioneer/Enid Cellular now offer the Cellemetry service. With these deals, Cellemetry's footprint includes 25 carriers nationwide.
Aeris Communications Inc. announced it signed Bell Atlantic Mobile as its latest MicroBurst carrier partner, increasing its U.S. coverage to 60 percent of the nation.MicroBurst is a short-burst data application transmitted via the cellular control channel. Cellular carriers employing it can offer wireless data...
NEW YORK-In a "three-peat" of its 1995 and 1996 performance, AT&T Corp. again took first place in revenues and net income among carriers last year, despite a marked decline in profits year-to-year.AT&T closed its last fiscal year with $51.32 billion in revenues, up 1.53...
WASHINGTON-CTIA last week at its fourth annual Cellular Telephone Industry Association Foundation Achievement Awards Dinner paid tribute to Dennis F. Strigl, Newt Gingrich and the 50 winners of its Vita wireless samaritan awards who all used wireless phones to help people in danger or...
Bell Atlantic MobileBill Davidson was named vice president of wireless data marketing and sales for Bell Atlantic Mobile. In his newly created position, Davidson will be responsible for the overall strategy of the wireless data business and for daily operations of its marketing teams,...
Motorola Inc. said the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium elevated its Cellular Subscriber Sector from general member to board member of the organization. UWCC represents 106 telecommunications carriers and vendors to promote the use Time Division Multiple Access technology and UWC-136 digital air-interfaces complemented by...
Wireless carriers that bill for services through local phone companies may be affected by cramming, the latest consumer billing scam to hit the telecommunications industry.Cramming is when customers are charged for services they didn't order from communications companies other than the local phone provider...
NEW YORK-Instead of viewing paging as a dying industry, wireless telephony providers should recognize it as a service enhancement and growth catalyst, said Andrew Weisheit, vice president of the carrier service division of PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas."Many folks we talk to on the facilities-based...
Many wireless carriers last week participated in Wireless Safety Week by encouraging subscribers to help out in emergency situations and use their wireless phones responsibly while driving. Carriers used everything from radio public-service announcements to celebrity endorsements to spread the safety message heading into...
MetawaveMetawave Communications Corp. appointed Scot B. Jarvis to its board of directors. Jarvis helped build McCaw Cellular Communications cellular business through aggressive acquisitions of cellular licenses. During his nine years with McCaw, Jarvis held many positions including vice president of McCaw Development Group, vice...
SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. last week announced a stock-for-stock merger agreement valued at about $62 billion that would give the combined company a local and wireless presence in the West, Southwest, Midwest and parts of the Northeast.The companies seemed to place an...
The number of digital wireless subscribers is expected to increase rapidly this year as more cellular carriers begin to push digital service aggressively.While many cellular carriers last year offered digital service as a way to offer products similar to what their personal communications services...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Cerulean Technology Inc. and BellSouth Wireless Data teamed up to give public-safety agencies access to BellSouth's nationwide wireless data network using Cerulean's PacketCluster Patrol software, BellSouth said.PacketCluster software gives officers instant access to local, state and national law-enforcement databases from laptop computers in...
The wireless telecommunications industry has grown up more quickly than many other industries in the United States. The industry likes to boast of its relatively quick acceptance in the marketplace, comparing its acquisition of 50 million customers in just less than 15 years to...
ATLANTA-A consortium led by BellSouth Corp. and Grupo Safra were scheduled to begin offering cellular service today in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Construction on the Time Division Multiple Access network was completed in nine months, said the companies.The consortium, BCP, held a pre-service lottery to identify...
