TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said it will provide its Access S&E roaming administration service to BellSouth Mobility DCS. The service provides settlement and exchange of roamer billing information among personal communications services providers in North America, Latin America and Europe.GTE TSI will serve...
Asia Pacific Cable Network, a submarine telecommunications cable network, began its link up to nine Asian countries. The project, valued at $580 million, is a joint investment of 51 telecommunications entities worldwide. Companies that initiated the venture include Cellular Communication Network of Malaysia, Communication...
Aether Technologies L.L.C. announced it will use a Cellular Digital Packet Data network supplied by GTE Corp. to provide information and integration services to the financial and transportation industries. Owings Mills, Md.-based Aether provides turnkey solutions for accessing mission-critical data via handheld wireless devices...
The hefty number of strong, new competitors entering the handset market doesn't intimidate longtime terminal supplier Audiovox Communications Corp."Look how many have exited in recent years, like Clarion, Sharp, Panasonic, Sanyo, NovAtel," said Philip Christopher, president and chief executive officer of the Hauppauge, N.Y.-based...
WASHINGTON-Raking in a net total of $2.52 billion, the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction closed Jan. 14, bidding farewell to the last of the broadband spectrum that will be sold by the Federal Communications Commission."With the A, B, C, D, E...
Israel's two cellular operators are working hard to sign up as many customers as possible while the government continues to ponder details for licensing a third cellular operator."The (technology) standard of the third license hasn't been determined yet. The ministry has had a lot...
InterCel Inc. wants to learn if cellular customers who are familiar with rate plans will behave differently when let loose on a 1900 MHz system for a flat $50 a month."We'll be able to analyze usage in an unlimited threshold," said Ed Horner, chief...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced a public tender offer to purchase 54 percent to 64 percent of Peruvian communications company Tele 2000. The bid is contingent upon BellSouth acquiring at least 54 percent of Tele 2000's outstanding shares at a price of $1.50 per share.Tele 2000...
WASHINGTON-The restart of the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services license auction in the new year has begun not with a bang but with a trickle. New bids and new high bids have settled into a single-digit pattern for the 10 rounds per...
California Microwave Inc.'s Microwave Network Systems division won a contract from Cellcom Israel Ltd. to expand its Time Division Multiple Access cellular network. California Microwave said it values the contract at $2 million. Cellcom previously purchased 300 links of 34 Mbit/s, 8 GHz, 18...
NEW YORK-Seven key developments promise significant changes in the telecommunications industry in 1997, according to a newly released global outlook by A.T. Kearney, Arlington, Va.(1) Merger activity within and across markets will be accompanied by skyrocketing demand for high-capacity networks. As a result, regional...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility Inc. launched its TextMessaging service last month. The service allows short messages to be sent from a personal computer to a digital cellular customer with no airtime charges to the recipient, the company said.The sender can forward a text or alphanumeric message...
The Secretary of Communications in Argentina announced concrete plans to award two personal communications services licenses in early to mid-1997.Initially, the two PCS licenses will be granted for 30 megahertz, with an option for an additional 5 megahertz, but a total of 120 megahertz...
NEW YORK-As 1996 drew to a close, the impact of the Internet on wireless communications manifested itself in a flurry of announcements from an array of providers."It's all about making the Internet easier to use. The customers coming on line today are not information...
Pocket Communications Inc. named three new executives to its corporate management team.John A. Hoffman is the new chief operating officer. He has been given responsibility for the day-to-day activities of the company's operations in each of its markets including local personnel, sales and marketing....
WASHINGTON-Santa did not bring the much-wanted end of the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction by the start of the holidays, but he did slow things down a bit during the last few rounds leading to the two-week bidding hiatus, which ends...
Denmark's government has accepted bids for personal communications licenses and is pleased with the amount of interest it received, reported the U.S. Department of Commerce.Five entities filed tender documents for one of perhaps five nationwide Digital Cordless Services 1800 licenses, which were expected to...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. signed a contract to install its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems' Texas markets.Corsair will install the system in the Dallas, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Laredo and Rio Grande valley markets during the first quarter.PhonePrint...
As European countries progressively open and grow their wireless markets, the contest for licenses is hot. But in Germany, only one group entered a bid for a second personal communications network license by deadline, which leaves questions as to the viability of launching a...
Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company's wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director at AT&T Wireless Services...
MobileMedia Corp. announced Motorola Inc. discontinued product shipments to the carrier until it secures the credit to "assure payment of $34 million past due accounts payable."The Ridgefield Park, N.J.-based company also said it skipped a $5.6 million interest payment due Dec. 9 in an...
Less than a year since licenses were awarded, PCS is live in Canada.Microcell Telecommunications Inc. turned on its personal communications services network in Montreal and is offering service at low rates.The Montreal-based company is targeting the mass market with its wireless service, branded Fido....
Mapping software, such as that offered by MapInfo Corp., has become a core component in many radio frequency monitoring and propagation modeling programs."Since our product is being used as a key component in their products, we want to make sure we are addressing the...
Powertel Inc. added three new executives to its management team. Michael C. Lothspeich is the new vice president of sales in the company's corporate office. He will be responsible for Powertel's sales and distribution strategy through mass retailers, company-owned retail stores, outside sales and...
