The regional telephone companies, as well as AirTouch Communications Inc. and GTE Corp., have collectively invested more than $10 billion in international telecommunications ventures, according to a report issued by Decision Resources Inc.In 1996, the regional telephone companies together had 4.9 million proportionate international...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Bellcore announced that BellSouth Cellular Corp. has become the first wireless service provider to license its NetPilot system, which automates local number portability translations and configuration management for the Signaling System 7 network across equipment types.By automating SS7 configuration management, the NetPilot system...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-SourceOne Wireless Inc. signed an agreement to market the interactive paging service of BellSouth Corp. business venture RAM Mobile Data L.P., RAM announced.SourceOne initially will resell the interactive paging service in its recently acquired 30 retail outlets in Chicago under the SourceOne Wireless...
DENVER-Personal communications services providers have overall customer satisfaction levels significantly higher than traditional cellular carriers, according to a new J.D. Power and Associates study that analyzed 18 PCS markets in the United States.The study, "Analysis of Personal Communications Services Report," explored in depth three...
The effects of Bell Nino, which jumped on the radar screen in Wichita Falls, Texas, New Year's Eve, are being felt in the nation's capital.The Bells and U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall prove venue shopping has its rewards. Thanks to Good Ol' Joe, the...
NEW YORK-SBC Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. won their legal challenge to the constitutionality of part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.The carriers had asked Judge Joe Kendall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Wichita Falls...
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Patrick Stephenson, a principal of Houston-based Cellular 99, bought the cellular reseller, C99 Prepaid Cellular Telephone, from Global Venture Funding Inc., both parties announced.C99, a reseller offering prepaid services to customers with poor credit, has reseller agreements with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and...
1. Jan. 6NextWave awarded its PCS permitsIn a decision almost surely headed for the appeals court, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday conditionally awarded NextWave Personal Communications Inc. its C-block licenses after NextWave submitted a plan to bring its foreign-ownership percentages into federal compliance.2....
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard, under fire from Capitol Hill, last week defended a compromise with the Clinton administration to protect U.S. spy satellite frequencies by shifting around spectrum and awarding free spectrum licenses to wireless startups headed by wealthy telecom moguls Craig...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Thomas M. Dougherty was promoted to regional president for Sprint Spectrum L.P.'s next phase of Sprint PCS market launches, expected to begin next year.In Dougherty's new role, he will be responsible for the deployment of Sprint PCS service in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston...
WASHINGTON-As key House and Senate GOP lawmakers probe whether licenses valued at more than $1 billion were given away to Teledesic Corp. and Teligent Corp. as part of a back-room deal that policy makers justified on national security grounds, questions just as serious have...
NEW YORK-Competition among wireless carriers has driven down per-minute use charges by 6 percent on average, with some carriers slashing prices by more than a third, according to a new study by Paul Kagan Associates Inc., Carmel, Calif.A closer look at the most competitive...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Several wireless carriers selected Illuminet's Cellular Administration and Operations Support Service to manage seamless roaming in new markets and to establish roaming with other carriers, said the company.Companies that signed on to use the service include United States Cellular Corp., BellSouth Cellular Corp.,...
Shortly after the Venezuela telecom regulatory agency Conatel was forced to lift the ban prohibiting the country's two cellular operators from adding new subscribers, sources have said the agency now plans to auction a third cellular phone license in January.But analysts say the political...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced a regular quarterly dividend of 36 cents per share last week.The dividend, payable Feb. 2, is the 56th consecutive quarterly dividend declared by BellSouth since its formation in 1984, said the company.BellSouth is a $19 billion company providing wireless communications, telecommunications,...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. announced it will begin selling its wireless, wireline and Internet telecom services by phone 24 hours a day and seven days a week through its local business offices.Customers will be able to order on a one-stop shopping basis any wireline and...
SAN DIEGO-Science Applications International Corp. said it finished its acquisition of Bell Communications Research Inc. after receiving regulatory approvals from state public utility commissions.New Jersey-based Bellcore previously was owned by regional Bell holding companies Ameritech Corp., Bell Atlantic Corp., BellSouth Corp., Nynex Corp., Pacific...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. and SCC Communications Corp. formed a strategic alliance to enhance BellSouth's 911 safety system. BellSouth said it is improving the capabilities of its 911 system in order to eliminate unnecessary delays for callers getting emergency assistance."With our 911 enhancements, public-safety answering agencies...
ATLANTA-Two cellular cloning suspects were arrested last month in the culmination of an investigation dubbed "Operation Cottontail," a cooperative effort between three wireless communications carriers in the Atlanta area.Price Communications Wireless Inc., AirTouch Cellular and BellSouth Mobility Inc. used directional finding equipment and other...
As wireless industry leaders continue to tout convergence as the next frontier for the industry, one Southeastern carrier has quietly pulled itself ahead of the game.Alltel Communications Inc. significantly increased its wireless footprint as a result of the D-, E-and F-block personal communications services...
Nearly one year after British Telecommunications plc and MCI Communications Corp. announced plans to merge, MCI last week terminated the agreement and accepted a $37 billion stock offer to merge with WorldCom Inc.The agreement, which is subject to approvals from the Federal Communications Commission,...
AirCell Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that has developed a system to provide ground communications for aircraft using cellular channels, has been in a holding pattern since early this year.The company, which for two years had been testing its system under experimental authority from...
CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. announced it has completed the exchange transaction with BellSouth Corp. pursuant to agreements entered into in February.USCC acquired controlling interests in a 12-market cluster that provides cellular service to most of Wisconsin and parts of northern Illinois, including Milwaukee, Madison,...
ATLANTA-TWS Inc., a developer and distributor of wireless telecom software, announced a deal to offer BellSouth Mobility DCS customers with TWS' new bulletIN e-mail technology directly on wireless phones.BellSouth Mobility DCS customers will receive and reply to e-mail messages on their personal communications services...
