ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd. expanded its Fraud Management product offering by adding two new products-Sleuth and Integrity+, said the company. Sleuth is a software system that provides control and detection of a wide spectrum of alternately billed telephone fraud, including credit and calling cards, said...
Latin AmericaCellular/personal communications services handset shipments to Latin America showed a significant technology shift from analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service to digital Time Division Multiple Access technology during the first three months of 1999, according to results from The Strategis Group's report, "Strategis dataBank...
MONTE CARLO, Monaco-Seemingly lost in the breakneck expansion of the cellular industry is a largely forgotten fact-it was cellular operators wanting a common digital voice standard that drove the rapid adoption of GSM, not the technology developers.This market pull appears to be missing from...
MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic U.S. carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by the burgeoning data traffic at home."Many of the U.S. carriers I follow have not...
HandsetsKyoceraKyocera plans to begin marketing at the end of July in Japan its VP-210 VisualPhone, a PHS phone with a built-in camera that can transmit and receive images in real time at a rate of two frames per second. The handset incorporates a CMOS...
In response to wireless customers' demands that they be able to use their cellular phones outside their home calling area, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in the United States decided to develop a way for wireless carriers around the world to communicate customer and...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it acquired Saville Systems plc, a worldwide provider of customer-care and billing software solutions.Under terms of the agreement, each ordinary share of Saville will be exchanged for .358 of an ADC share. At ADC's closing share price of $50.13 on...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. announced it is teaming with IBM Corp. to market and deliver billing and subscriber management solutions for the wireless industry.The alliance provides carriers with billing and subscriber management software, systems integration and infrastructure, including Convergys' Precedent 2000 billing software, which is capable...
Scandinavian Softline to license WAPHELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavian Softline Technology has agreed to license Nokia Corp.'s Wireless Application Protocol technology to deliver value-added data solutions for wireless carriers.SST has developed several products for the short messaging service and smart messaging markets, and said it intends to...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. said it has established a new branch office in New Delhi, India. The office is a branch of LHS Asia Pacific based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia."The India branch office will focus on serving existing clients and generating new business in India,...
WASHINGTON-To the delight of the wireless industry, the Federal Communications Commission last week declared that if and when calling-party-pays service is authorized, it will be a nationwide optional service. It is seeking comment on exactly what role states will play-particularly in protecting consumers.The notice...
It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for broadband wireless access in the United States remains positive.As evidence is the amount of...
SourceOne Wireless Inc.'s bankruptcy status may herald the end of the market for calling party pays paging, coming as no surprise to industry analysts, who believe the idea was doomed from the start.Founded in 1994 with the purchase of American Beeper Company, SourceOne pioneered...
Amdocs Ltd., a St. Louis-based provider of billing and related systems to telecommunications carriers, on June 7 sold 20 million shares of its common stock, priced at $22.44 each, in a secondary offering on the New York Stock Exchange.Of the total sale, 18 million...
NEW YORK-The C-block auction for personal communications services radio-frequency licenses "was the only thing I presided over that was seen as a catastrophe," Reed E. Hundt, former Federal Communications Commission Chairman, said last week."There are some other catastrophes that haven't yet come to light,"...
Paging resellers Your Phone Company Inc. of Portland, Ore., and Page Club USA of Seattle last week won a lawsuit against the Oregon branch of Paging Network Inc. and were awarded $66,000 and $78,000 in damages, respectively.The lawsuit by the two former PageNet resellers...
FRANKFURT, Germany-LHS Group Inc. announced licensing agreements with Retevision Movil S.A., Barcelona, Spain, and Telecom Personal Argentina.Retevision Movil selected LHS and joint venture Norsistemas/Endesa/Telesoft in Madrid to deliver a customer-care and billing solution for its mobile telecommunications service, Amena. Under terms of the agreement,...
More than a year after Arch Communications Group Inc. first offered to buy MobileMedia Communications Inc., the merger between the two companies has been completed.The result is the second-largest paging carrier in the country, with 7.1 million subscribers and pro forma revenues and cash...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is in full preparation for the paging license auction set to begin before the end of the year.Meantime, the FCC must grapple with a host of other issues of interest to paging carriers, including interconnection, numbering and how customer information...
WASHINGTON-Paging Network Inc., the nation's top paging carrier, said the Federal Communications Commission should condition any approval of the $57 billion merger between SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. on SBC immediately entering into interconnection agreements with wireless operators."Neither of these companies have been...
NEW YORK-All eyes are on Omnipoint Corp., which one investment banker has likened to a poster child for personal communications services.What will be the final chapter in Omnipoint's search for a strategic partner, and how soon will it be written? How might this conclusion...
ST. LOUIS-Amdocs Ltd., a provider of billing and related information systems to telecommunications carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a secondary offering of 20 million shares of its common stock, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange.Of the total...
As deregulation slowly takes hold of the U.S. electric utility industry, many companies are beginning to take a look at wireless telecommunications as a way to hold on to their customers.With strong brand names, customer bases and billing capability, electric utility companies could prove...
NEW YORK-Executives of Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., announced initiatives May 5 designed to advance outsourcing of computing at the enterprise level by using the Internet to deliver software applications, electronic commerce transactions and network services."The most critical core competency is understanding what...
