WASHINGTON-The cellular industry and leaders of state and local government groups took to the road last week with their efforts to pass legislation to mandate that wireless subscribers be taxed based on a single address.This time, they took their message before the House Judiciary...
Reuters Group plc and Aether Systems Inc. launched their Sila Communications European wireless data joint venture, created to host, design and manage content and services for wireless customers. Headquartered in London, Sila will initially focus on financial services, providing Reuters content, Internet-based information and...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-Celulares Telefonica Inc., a Puerto Rican wireless carrier, implemented Amdocs' Ensemble solution for customer care and billing to support all of its cellular and paging operations.
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The commercialization of mobile data services continues its headlong rush as cellular operators look to differentiate themselves in the market. The heavy promotion of an ever-increasing portfolio of data services by many of Europe's leading operators is setting the trend for others...
Personal communications services operator Powertel Inc. reached positive operating cash flow in the first quarter and added a company-record 110,000 subscribers.The Southeast PCS company, which analysts suspect soon may be gobbled up by VoiceStream Wireless Corp., said its growth in prepaid customers helped propel...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Utility companies across Europe are entering the mobile communications business, hoping to simultaneously grab a slice of an extremely lucrative market and diversify their operations. But analysts are undecided on whether the companies have the requisite technical expertise or resources to effectively compete...
NEW YORK-Managing solely for the bottom line can come back to bite companies at tax time, with the perverse result of hurting the financial statements so important to existing and potential stakeholders.The adage that there is never time to do it right but always...
Dear Editor: This is in response to an article on call rounding ("NYC legislators work to combat rounding up," RCR, April 10, page 34).While I'm sure the citizens of New York will be suitably impressed by their officials' implementation of the impressive- sounding "Wireless Consumer...
Wireless resellers are a hardy breed. Their success or failure teeters on the shoulders of carriers that tightly control the supply of the product they need to survive. Whether warranted or not, carriers harbor fears that resellers will steal customers and sap resources, and...
WASHINGTON-Accenting its message with pastel-colored beanbag mobile phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told Capitol Hill last week that competition is king.The trade association again delivered a set of nine stuffed phones-representing the number of potential wireless licensees in a market-to members of Congress,...
FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving its members wireless access to real-time stock quotes as well as other financial market information. The company noted it does...
IRVINE, Calif.-Primal, a provider of Internet-enabled customer management software to the communications industry, signed an order to provide Metrocall Inc. with its customer care and billing system, Connect CCB.According to Primal, the new system is a Web-based, Internet Protocol and wireless customer care and...
WASHINGTON-What to do with the often confusing tax structures of both mobile phones and the Internet collided in back-to-back hearings by the House telecom subcommittee on Thursday.The collision occurred because Internet taxation has been met with a divided commission report and mobile-phone taxation has...
NEW YORK-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is prepared to wage war on two fronts in the battle of the titans for transnational control of wireless telecommunications, John Stanton, VoiceStream's chairman and chief executive officer said.Although focused on expanding its domestic footprint through acquisitions of carriers and...
The flurry of consolidation in the wireless industry leads the industry observer to believe a nationwide presence is a necessity to compete in this market going forward.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. raised the bar in 1998 offering its nationwide plan, the Digital One Rate plan....
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., a customer care, billing and order management provider, completed its previously announced acquisition of Solect Technology Group Inc., a provider of Internet Protocol customer care and billing software."This merger establishes the industry's most complete business systems solution for communications and Internet...
SAN FRANCISCO-Even as the tech-heavy Nasdaq stock market was spinning out of control and dragging down telecom shares last week, wireless network and marketing managers here were brimming with optimism about a industry whose biggest challenge is keeping up with fast-paced growth and all...
Paging Network Inc. told the Securities and Exchange Commission it must delay filing its 10-K Annual Report and fourth quarter results for 1999 until April 14, past the March 30 due date.Officially, the company said its ongoing merger with Arch Communications Group Inc. has...
NATICK, Mass.-edocs Inc., a provider of Internet billing and customer management software and services, introduced a bill presentment and payment distribution module for Palm Inc.'s Palm VII handheld computer, allowing the delivery of bills, statements, trade confirms and other transactional documents to the device...
NEW YORK-The American wireless marketplace needs a healthy dose of innovation jump-started by foreign intervention to drive user penetration, said Hans R. Snook, chief executive of Orange plc.At the moment, Orange is otherwise engaged, so it cannot put momentum into this immodest proposal straight...
Atlanta-based LHS Group Inc., a provider of billing and operations support software and services, agreed to merge with Europe-based Sema Group plc, an information technology services company, for approximately $4.7 billion in stock.The new company, which maintain the Sema name, will become a leader...
LAUREL, Md.-ASC Billing Solutions Inc. reported that its Sentori billing and customer care system was successfully deployed by ClearTalk in Grand Junction, Colo., and Moab, Utah.ClearTalk is the operating company for one of several C-block licenses obtained by NTCH in the re-auction. The company...
Star One AG, a Germany-based wireless broadband telecommunications company, received $72 million in its second round of funding from investors headed by Incepta International. Star One was awarded 158 license areas to build and operate a point-to-multipoint broadband wireless network in Germany, with plans...
Looking to join the wireless portal game, Internet infrastructure software firm Inktomi Corp. inked several deals last week with industry players in an effort to collect all the pieces necessary to build wireless portals for carriers and others.Inktomi provides Internet backbone technology like traffic...
