The Chilean supreme court recently dismissed a lawsuit regarding spectrum regulations, which means the government is on track to issue three personal communications services licenses.Isabel Valenzuela, commercial specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, said the PCS licenses are expected to be awarded in...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced it will begin repurchasing the company's shares of stock on the open market."At current trading levels, BellSouth's stock represents an excellent investment opportunity," said Ronald M. Dykes, executive vice president and chief financial officer. "Our decision to repurchase BellSouth stock reflects...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. received an order for its Trilogue INfinity system from BellSouth Mobility DCS.Comverse said the system will allow BellSouth to provide a variety of enhanced telecommunications services, such as call answering and short message service notification, on its new digital wireless...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced its proportionate share of international cellular telephone customers served by its wireless systems in 11 countries outside the United States has surpassed 1 million subscribers.Wireless systems outside the United States that BellSouth owns either wholly or as part of a consortium...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers looking for relief from high interconnection costs may have to wait a bit longer before the proxy pricing suggested by the Federal Communications Commission in its recently voted interconnection order becomes a reality.GTE Corp. and the Southern New England Telephone Co. filed...
Metro One Telecommunications Inc. opened trading on the Nasdaq National Market at $8.50 per share in its initial public offering of 2.4 million shares of common stock, of which the company is selling about 1.68 million shares and existing shareholders are selling 725,000 shares.The...
WASHINGTON-In a highly unusual case involving improper lobbying by the lawmaker who may oversee the telecommunications industry one day, the Federal Communications Commission threw out two Louisiana rural cellular licenses after ruling that a firm's reliance on wireless technology to provide fixed telephone service...
NEW YORK-After many delays, Brazil's B-band cellular license auctions, which will be open to foreign bidders, are likely to begin early next year.The Brazil Senate last month ratified telecommunications deregulation legislation already approved by the House, thereby opening satellite and cellular services to outside...
RALEIGH, N.C.-BellSouth Mobility DCS has launched the second phase of its three-year, $500 million network deployment plan to bring personal communications services to the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee.The company announced PCS service is now available in Raleigh/Durham, Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, Wilmington and Fayetteville in North...
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association won their fights to become designated clearinghouses that will administer the Federal Communications Commission's microwave-relocation cost-sharing plan."We are gratified that the FCC went the way it did," said Fred Day, ITA's executive director...
Germany, one of Western Europe's most developed mobile telephone markets, is preparing to license a fourth operator to further stimulate competition.Parties interested in the E-2 nationwide 1800 MHz digital personal communications network license must submit bids by Oct. 15, said Volker Wirsdorf, commercial specialist...
Wireless analysts say cellular carriers have two distinct goals in releasing a barrage of pricing plans at this time. Get as many customers on contract as possible, and confuse the consumer to avoid price comparisons."Now is the time for cellular operators to lock customers...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's adoption last week of a sweeping local-competition docket at best opens the door for some wireless carriers to become true head-to-head competitors with local exchange carriers, and at least will help lower prices wireless carriers and subscribers pay for service.Aug....
While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong.Western Wireless Corp. last week turned on a PCS network in New Mexico, its third PCS launch in five months....
WITCHITA, Kan.-IFR Systems Inc. has begun shipping its new Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular radio protocol analyzer.The analyzer is the first test platform available to verify TDMA standards compliance for wireless cellular radio equipment, said IFR. The new system was...
Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network using a Nokia PCS phone, Psion's palmtop computer and Palmtop BV's Messenger software. Messenger...
BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation's first multistate personal communications services network, and the country's fourth PCS system activation.Service was launched in a cluster that involves three states-metropolitan Charlotte, N.C., which borders South Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., southeast of Charlotte; and the Tennessee...
MobileMedia Corp. apparently has outgrown the talents of its leaders.Six months after the company purchased MobileComm from BellSouth Corp., MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Gregory Rorke, President and Chief Operating Officer John Kealey and Senior Vice President of Operations Rodolfo Ploder are leaving the company....
Wireless providers are staying busy this summer. By the end of this week, the symbolic torch should arrive in Atlanta, starting the 1996 Olympic Games. Just weeks after that, San Diego plans to play host to the 1996 Republican National Convention, and about two...
If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless operators are obligated to pass the call, according to new government rules.Cellular operators who are not happy about that say...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Personal Communications Inc. has changed its corporate name and unveiled a new logo to promote its Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 service.The BellSouth Corp. subsidiary said it changed its corporate name to BellSouth Mobility DCS to convey the digital format of the...
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. is planning a private offering of convertible preferred stock. The company said it is expecting the offering will raise between $100 million and $150 million.Proceeds of the offering will be used to fund working capital requirements and for other general...
Tessco Technologies Inc. said it has acquired Cincinnati-based Cartwright Communications for cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The transaction is valued at $3.8 million plus the net value of inventory, receivables and payables. Cartwright is a value-added distributor of radio communications equipment serving...
The wireless arms of the regional Bell operating companies are riding a new wave of revenue by offering long-distance service to their cellular customers.Until the Telecommunications Act was passed in February, RBOC wireless companies could not deliver calling services across LATAs. By law, interLATA...
