As telecommunications carriers' revenues are under attack in light of increased competition, BellSouth Corp. has found a way to generate billions marketing its intellectual property to other companies."BellSouth is spending millions developing state-of-the-art technologies like Caller ID for traditional customers," said Scott M. Frank,...
VLSI Technology Inc. said it received a major order from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. for its OneCT single-chip Global System for Mobile communications baseband solution. The order is valued at $19 million. Mitsubishi will use the OneCT product in its Trium GSM phones.Northern Telecom Ltd....
MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by burgeoning data traffic at home."Many of the U.S. carriers I follow have not spent a...
Motorola Inc. announced Office Depot will begin carrying the PageWriter 2000 two-way pager in more than 600 retail locations nationwide.TSR Wireless L.L.C. said it has built a ReFLEX 25 two-way messaging network on the West Coast, adding coverage in southern California and into Nevada....
NEW YORK-Amid good news about resurging American investments in Latin American mutual funds and the gradual rebound of Brazil's economy, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette International announced it has started covering the region's wireless telecommunications carriers."In order to initiate coverage on the Latin American cellular...
DUBLIN, Ireland-In the wake of the phenomenal success of "ready-to-go" prepaid packages, many European mobile phone subscribers are concerned they are paying more than they need to for their service. This issue came to a head earlier this year in the United Kingdom where...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's recent adoption of truth-in-billing practices was endorsed by the Clinton administration before the vote was taken and it appears many of the administration's suggestions were incorporated into the final rules.Although the final rules have yet to be released (they are...
MIAMI-Intellisoft Inc. announced it has sold 4,000 of its Beep Plus billing and accounting software suites.The software integrates control of daily operations and financial data for smaller and mid-sized paging carriers and resellers. The company said it is in the process of launching a...
United KingdomL.M. Ericsson and U.K. operator One 2 One signed a $320 million contract under which Ericsson will supply radio base stations and base station controller equipment to expand One 2 One's Global System for Mobile communications network.CanadaPhilsar Electronics announced an agreement with IBM...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. formed an alliance with Amdocs, a customer care and billing provider, to implement new technologies to facilitate roamer data processing.The first solution to be implemented will be an improved wholesale roaming rating service, which will provide new services such...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week told wireless carriers that bills to their customers must include their name, a phone number where billing questions can be answered, and carriers must use standardized language regarding federally mandated charges listed separately on bills.Wireless carriers are excluded...
Don Buzzelli, president and chief executive officer of MessageLink Inc., Duluth, Ga., is looking to make a play in the paging industry's current consolidation stage.His plan is fairly simple-buy up a bunch of small but profitable paging carriers in lower-tier markets, unify them with...
NEW YORK-Carriers, resellers and handset makers involved in domestic prepaid wireless services have much in common with ancient mariners navigating the narrow Straits of Messina where the mythical monsters of Scylla and Charybdis threatened them on either shore."Carriers recognize there is something to this...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects.In the last year alone, at least half of the carriers on RCR's 1998 Top 20 cellular carriers' list have been acquired by...
WASHINGTON-New truth-in-billing rules under consideration at the Federal Communications Commission could be devastating to wireless carriers, which see the mandate as another instance of wireline regulation being imposed on the wireless sector in the name of fairness.The FCC is expected to address the matter...
NEW YORK-World Access Inc. announced March 22 it completed the sale of its manufacturing operations in Alpharetta, Ga., to U.S. Assemblies in Georgia Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Matco Electronics Group Inc."Outsourcing the manufacturing function is consistent with (our) long-term plan to...
Globalstar L.P. announced it successfully launched an additional four low-earth-orbit satellites on a Soyuz-Ikar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Globalstar now has 16 satellites in orbit. The total constellation will consist of 48 satellites, as well as four spares. The company hopes...
South KoreaCentigram Communications Corp. announced it signed a $2.4 million agreement with South Korea-based Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. to expand the voice-messaging capabilities on Shinsegi's Code Division Multiple Access network. Shinsegi purchased three additional servers for its Pusan, Kangnan and Kangbuk branches, bringing its total...
3Com Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to develop co-branded home networking products that initially will include traditional ethernet and home-phone-line networking kits, with radio-frequency and power-line kits to follow. Using a single Internet connection, two or more family members can simultaneously surf...
Global wireless gatekeepers have been on high alert in recent weeks, preparing for next month's publication of a U.K. study linking mobile phones to short-term memory loss and prepping for an April 5 court date on appeals to the FCC's radio-frequency radiation exposure standard.A...
Taqua Systems Inc., a Centerville, Mass., company founded one year ago, introduced a new switching architecture called Open Compact Exchange, designed to provide what it calls the 'missing link' between voice and data networks.The telecommunications industry has been bombarded with various proposed solutions to...
Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace.Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies to semiconductor manufacturers. One segment that has been particularly active during the last several months...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced a new service plan for business customers that combines the use of multiple customers to provide a consistent and predictable wireless plan costing 10 cents per minute, including long-distance service.Powertel's Group Billing Plan requires businesses and organizations to pay...
