ST. LOUIS-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Amdocs announced a global alliance reseller agreement under which Amdocs will resell and support the Sun platform.Under terms of the agreement, Amdocs' Ensemble customer-care and billing system will be deployed in the Sun environment using Sun Enterprise servers running...
AirTouch Cellular plans to unveil a new version of its calling party pays service later this month.AirTouch will launch the new service first in Colorado, followed by rollouts in all of its service areas. The product will address several problems carriers experience with CPP...
Despite the economic problems that struck Asia since Telecom '95, Scott Erickson, vice president of Lucent's Wireless Access Group, Asia-Pacific, sees the region as leading the wireless industry on several fronts. "Telecom growth has survived in Asia," Erickson said. "Korea was hit the hardest,...
NMT 450 operators are to decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include CDMA technology, which could give cdmaOne technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group (DIG)-an assembly of operators tasked with evaluating...
While Motorola's Woody Ritchey admitted that, at the time of Telecom '95, the company did have cellular infrastructure architecture that included Internet Protocol (IP), it was only at the drawing board stage. "We were not talking publicly about IP at the exhibition, and neither...
SAVANNAH, Ga.-H.O. Systems announced it signed a long-term agreement with Leap Wireless International Inc. in which H.O. Systems will provide billing and customer care for Leap's domestic wireless markets, served by Leap's subsidiary, Cricket Communications Inc.H.O. Systems provides order processing, outsourcing services for intercarrier...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is on the verge of arguably its biggest victory since congressionally mandated state deregulation in 1993: liability protection.Congress is poised this fall to give wireless carriers liability protection on par with wireline carriers across the country.In California state court, carriers have nearly...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. signed a three-year contract with Nextel International to upgrade all six Nextel International properties to the newest release of LHS' customer care and billing software, LHS said. In addition to new functionality, LHS said it will provide a comprehensive set of...
ATLANTA-Alltel Corp. announced its AS/400-based Virtuoso customer care and billing software has been enhanced to support the provisioning and billing of multiple telecommunication services, as well as automated measures to ensure data accuracy."The latest version of Virtuoso prevents mismatching one type of service with...
NEW YORK-Comparatively few of the hundreds of telecommunications billing companies in business today are publicly traded, but that list could grow by one if Daleen Technologies Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., proceeds with a planned initial public offering scheduled for late this month.The company views...
CULVER CITY, Calif.-DSI Technology Inc. said it will begin selling its new Adserver Internet platform at the Personal Communications Showcase in New Orleans this week.The Adserver allows paging carriers to offer customers what DSI calls "Totally Free Paging." Integrated into an existing paging terminal,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week largely kept in place rules that restrict how much spectrum a carrier can control in any geographic area to no more than 45 megahertz. The FCC relaxed the cap to 55 megahertz in rural service areas.Additionally, at its...
Joining several other third-party developers creating applications for the Wireless Application Protocol, CMG Telecommunications introduced its WAP Service Broker, a platform designed to connect wireless phone users to WAP-based content.The WSB is a platform that carriers can place in their networks to complement WAP...
Wireless carriers could deploy commercial location services in advance of the phase II enhanced 911 services deadlines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.Gary Ritter, wireless offer manager, location services, for Lucent Technologies Inc., said many commercial services could be deployed today because they don't...
Portals have a hidden agenda to capture the wireless e-commerce market.Carriers had better beware.Greek mythology chronicles the fall of the once-prosperous city of Troy, misled by the promise of a gift in the form of a Trojan horse. Looking back, it seems hard to...
Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz operators will decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include Code Division Multiple Access technology, which could give Interim Standard 95 technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group-an...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. announced Sept. 6 it plans to acquire International Telecommunication Data Systems Inc., Stamford, Conn., for about $182 million in Amdocs stock.Amdocs provides customer care, billing and order-management solutions for telecommunications carriers. ITDS offers outsourced and service bureau solutions to them."In our...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to consider rules for the deployment of enhanced 911 automatic location identification technologies.The rules will come at an FCC Open Meeting on Wednesday, when the commissioners also will vote on whether or not to lift the...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has converted customers in Boston; Chicago; Kansas City, Kan.; St. Louis; and Omaha, Neb., to its Centers of Excellence infrastructure.The Centers of Excellence are a customer support system providing telephone customer service, order fulfillment and billing from PageNet's centralized...
NEW YORK-North American telecommunications carriers rank below manufacturing, consumer products and financial services companies in their adoption of Internet-enabled enterprises, concluded a recent report of American Management Systems, Fairfax, Va."eCommerce in the Telecommunications Industry: Trends and Innovations" is a study based on AMS' evaluation of...
Besieged by doubts over the very existence of a market for satellite-based voice services, low-earth-orbit carriers are starving for some kind of positive development to feed investors and customers alike.The bankruptcies of LEO carriers Iridium L.L.C. and ICO Global Communications L.P. have reduced confidence...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. said it is introducing services that allow customers to use two telephone numbers on one wireless handset.The first, called Appear Local, allows customers to have two local phone numbers in two different area codes-on a hometown number and the other...
NEW YORK-As the Internet accelerates the globalization of telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions among traditional and nontraditional players have eclipsed initial public offerings as the preferred strategy for retaining competitive advantage."In the United States, the Internet economy generated $301 billion in 1998 and will generate...
