ORLANDO, Fla.-In an effort to move from a provider of mere product to that of end-to-end solutions, Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced at PCS '98 an enhanced services platform designed to help paging carriers offer higher-cost services to customers.Lee Ellison, vice president of worldwide sales...
DataLink Systems Corp.-a company providing real-time turnkey information services-introduced two new information services this week, expanding its portfolio of personalized Web-based content.Sports2Go, offered in conjunction with ESPN, delivers sports scores at intervals of the customers choosing-at a pre-selected time, every hour, by inning/period/quarter, after...
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.-DST Systems Inc. and USCS International Inc. announced an agreement to merge USCS with a wholly owned subsidiary of DST in a transaction valued at about $874 million. The deal is intended to be a tax-free reorganization accounted for as a pooling...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. plans to begin trials in Europe late this year of CardFone, which it hopes will be the first handset available commercially to give users access both to automated teller machine (ATM) capabilities and conventional wireless telecommunications."We are basically taking the momentum...
RICHARDSON, Texas-TransData announced it has created an electric meter that integrates national two-way automatic meter reading technology completely under glass using American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s Ardis data network.The MARK-V AMR DATA-PRO platform communicates billing data, load profiles, power quality and outage-notification reports. It integrates...
"There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza, dear Eliza, There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza, my love. Then fix it, dear Henry ..."Many telecommunications carriers face Eliza and Henry's dilemma. There's a hole in their money bucket-their revenue stream-and they lack...
Today's volatile wireless telecommunications market compares to a Roman sports arena with every service provider in hand-to-hand combat-fate hanging in the balance. It doesn't take a despotic emperor to know who gets the "thumbs up" or the "thumbs down."The winners will be those who...
PELHAM, Ala.-Computer Resources Inc. said it completed several international projects for Motorola Inc.CRI said it interfaced a Motorola Smart Zone mobile radio system to provide to the Rome Police Department, allowing them to reconstruct radio conversations.In Capetown, South Africa, CRI interfaced a Smart Zone...
NEW YORK-Take heed wireless telecommunications carriers! The chickens have come home to roost, and royalties are due for the systems that run up to 90 percent of all prepaid telecommunications services in the United States.After a seven-year review, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc., New York, is beta testing in Washington, D.C., a point-to-multipoint system with Optical Carrier level-3 (OC-3) radio capacity, said Randy Domolky, the company's general manager for carrier sales. A commercial service launch is anticipated for sometime next year."We have announced...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
Though intense competition for second-tier cellular carriers is some time away, a Westbrook, Maine, company is looking to help these carriers get ready for future competition.Infotech Solutions Corp. since 1997 has offered Voyager, a scalable client-server Windows 95 application that uses UNIX-based relational databases...
VENEZUELANokia Corp. was awarded a multi-year contract valued at up to $105 million to supply a turnkey 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Corporacion Digitel C.A. in Venezuela. Nokia said it will provide mobile switching centers, home location registers, base station...
BUENOS AIRES-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a $52.5 million contract with CTI Movil of Argentina to provide equipment, services and software for another expansion of CTI Movil's Advanced Mobile Phone Services network.Under CTI Movil's "Millennium Project," as the expansion has been dubbed, Lucent will install...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The United Kingdom likes to portray itself as a pioneer in cellular. Certainly it was early on the scene, with two analog TACS (Total Access Communications System) networks entering commercial service in January 1985.In mid-1992, the United Kingdom was at the front...
Across most of the world's regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered one of the leading contributors to current subscriber growth.Some carriers now are getting more than half of new subscribers through...
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NEW YORK-As mergers among telecommunications giants tear around the track at breathtaking speed, it may seem that domestic deregulation, intended to promote competition, has instead achieved consolidation.However, a glance in the rear-view mirror reveals a bevy of new competitive wireline local and interexchange carriers...
In the past year, paging companies have engineered a striking makeover designed to change their "look" to better meet the business style of the new millennium.Just as the parachute pants and spiked haircuts of the 1980s are out and the khaki pants and George...
WASHINGTON-Saying he was responding to constituent complaints about non-itemized billing, Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) recently introduced legislation requiring all commercial mobile radio service providers to itemize customer bills.This itemization is to include: the date, origination time, origination and destination numbers, length of call, charge for...
Motorola Inc. said it created a new start-up services business to focus on developing and providing integrated communication and information services.The Internet and Connectivity Services Division is part of the Internet and Networking Group, which is part of another new Motorola unit called the...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced its billing and customer care system was chosen as Telecom Italia Mobile's international telecom billing solution.As a member of the Telecom Italia Group, TIM is a dominant Global System for Mobile communications telephone operator in Europe and Latin America, said...
MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. announced Paging Network Inc. has awarded it a three-year contract to handle all of PageNet's reseller billing and provisioning nationwide.According to the agreement, PageNet will use the company's In-Touch II paging billing and management system to handle the close...
