NEW YORK—Enlisting the support of four heavy hitters in professional sports and in retailing, Samsung Electronics America Inc., Ridgefield Park, N.J., launched on May 16 its "Four Seasons of Hope" fund-raiser for charity.For the first week of the donation drive, Samsung will remove its...
Deutsche Telekom expects to obtain approval of its proposed purchase of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. by the first quarter of next year, according to a report in German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The deal, valued at $37 billion, still requires U.S. regulatory approval.Lucent Technologies...
MINNEAPOLIS-Verizon Wireless services will be offered at more than 350 Best Buy stores nationwide beginning in October, complementing the retailer's current national wireless two-way messaging and paging relationship with Verizon Wireless.The agreement includes Verizon's wireless products and services, including the company's recently introduced mobile...
NEW YORK-AirLink PCS, the E-block fledgling of a century-old local exchange carrier, has found a niche providing its prepaid "Super Cordless" service for calling from and within a six-county area of Michigan."We've had visits by dozens of people from the E- and F-block licensees,...
Two-way messaging took a leap forward last week as Motorola Inc. introduced a new two-way pager and JP Systems Inc. implemented a mobile Internet portal service.Motorola unveiled its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, which features a full Qwerty keyboard, a flip-top screen and a...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Voice-Stream Wireless Corp. launched its personal communications services system in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.The company's Global System for Mobile communications service will be sold through 11 company-owned retail stores, Best Buy stores, local dealers and through master distributors QDI, Advantage Wireless and...
NEW YORK-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, Tuesday plans to debut its first commercial market, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, La., at Wireless '99.Later in the quarter, TeleCorp, an F-block personal communications services carrier, expects to roll out commercially its...
PageMart Wireless Inc. reported the Synapse Pager Card production delays have been worked out and shipments are underway in the volume expected.PageMart began shipping units in July, but reported in its third-quarter earnings release that "significant manufacturing problems" of the Synapse card were affecting...
As the popularity and penetration of wireless communications spreads throughout North America, wireless carriers increasingly will use mass-market retail outlets and their own direct channels to distribute handsets and services. Wireless consumers might put a cellular phone on their shopping list along with a...
DALLAS-In response to a recent study finding that nearly half of potential wireless users want to purchase phones from more familiar retail outlets, Southwestern Bell has introduced a complete wireless phone package, called Go-Kit.Go-Kits include a Motorola Profile 300 handset, a battery, a charger/transformer...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets.CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T's cellular coverage area, according to Clayton Foster, the product manager for AT&T Wireless' wireless data division. "The growth of CDS...
