Geotek Communications Inc. announced an 85 percent increase in subscribers during the third quarter, to almost 10,000. The company pointed to improvements in its 12 regional networks-consisting of 60 cities and counties-as well as coverage improvement and enhanced sales and marketing efforts. Geotek said...
One of the more significant developments in the paging industry this year was the announced merger between ProNet Inc. and Metrocall Inc., expected to create the second largest paging carrier in the country.Of the many ramifications this mating will likely have, one in particular...
Clearnet Communications Inc. launched its Mike enhanced specialized mobile radio network in Ottawa-Hull. The Ottawa-Hull, Ontario, network covers nearly 1 million people in the region-on the Ontario-Quebec border-including Aylmer, Barrhaven, Chelsea, Cumberland, Gatineau, Gloucester, Kanata, Manotick, Nepean, Orleans, St. Onge, Stittsville and Vanier as...
NEW YORK-Pennsylvania State University, Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom have launched a campus-wide network that is the basis for a joint effort of at least four years to study digital wireless information technology."No one has ever assembled such a diverse team to...
Nettech Systems Inc. formed an alliance with Racotek Inc. to deliver mobile computing solutions leveraging Racotek's Systems Integration and production support services with Nettech's InstantRF middleware product family. Racotek said it will integrate its applications, interface tools and network management software with the InstantRF...
LONDON-The cellular market in Japan is booming in both the consumer and business sectors, according to a report titled, "Mobile Communications in Asia and the Pacific 1997," by London-based CIT Research.The country's consumer sector jumped from 3.7 million at the beginning of last year...
OCTOBER6-7 Wireless Directory Assistance & Enhanced Services, by AIC Conferences. The Hotel Monaco, San Francisco. (800) 409-4AIC.6-8 Billing & Customer Care in Telecom, by International Quality & Productivity Centre. Holiday Inn on King, Toronto. (800) 882-8684.6-8 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology...
IBM Corp. and Geotek Communications Inc. announced they will join forces to provide integrated mobile communications services, equipment and software to business customers in the United States and some international markets.The agreement will see the two companies working together in two areas: technology, and marketing...
With the advent of competition in the wireless marketplace, many carriers are focusing on building networks or protecting and acquiring their customer bases. A white paper released by Arthur Anderson L.L.P. indicates carriers need to focus on establishing strong business processes in order to...
Bell Atlantic Corp.'s Carrier Services has teamed up with Metrocall Inc. to launch a calling party pays numeric paging service.The four-month trial service will be available to residents of the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas. Called "Free 2 Me Paging," the service bills...
Startel, a wireless network operator in Chile, launched digital service on its network using Interim Standard 136 Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service technology provided by L.M. Ericsson. The new digital services are being introduced initially in Santiago and later will be expanded to cover...
Boston Communications Group Inc. reached an agreement with RadioShack to jointly distribute wireless prepaid services. "RadioShack displays a strong commitment toward wireless prepaid services, and because of this, the impact across the industry is significant," said Kevin Thigpen, vice president of prepaid distribution for...
CHICAGO-Aerial Communications Inc. will launch the first phase of its personal communications services network today in Tampa, Fla., covering 3 million people, announced the company.Once the Global System for Mobile communications network is completed later this year, Aerial will cover about 80 percent of...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated with the Denver Summit...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. has revealed a plan to build, launch and operate a satellite-based video and data network aimed at going head-to-head with the Bill Gates/Craig McCaw-backed Teledesic Corp. Paperwork filed at the Federal Communications Commission June 13 asked permission to compete against Teledesic on...
Aerial Communications Inc. launched personal communications services June 2 in Kansas City and Pittsburgh-the latest of five markets the PCS provider has rolled out in the last 11 weeks.Aerial's initial coverage of the Kansas City area encompasses nearly 70 percent of the major trading...
JUNE1-5 Supercomm '97, by the Telecommunications Industry Association. New Orleans. Call Susan Krys at (703) 907-7981.2 Wireless Interconnectivity and Standards Issues Seminar, by the Telecommunications Industry Association. New Orleans. Call Stephanie Jones at (703) 907-7735.2-5 Expo Comm Wireless USA 97-including WirelessWorld Expo and BroadBand...
DALLAS-InterVoice Inc. and Open Development Corp. reached an agreement to develop a platform for multivendor calling card and prepaid services.The Original Equipment Manufacturer agreement calls for the pair to develop an application programming interface between InterVoice's Network Services Platform 5000 and Open Development's openMedia...
Affordable Message Center is introducing Simplicity One today, a prepaid one-number service that offers users protection from over-calls on their cellular phone bill."You are protecting your cellular number," explained Alexander Ott, president of Next Century Communications Inc., AMC's parent. "No other (one-number) service does...
MOORESTOWN, N.J.-Securicor Telesciences Inc., a billing data collection and traffic management systems provider, said it formed an Original Equipment Manufacturer relationship with AG Communications Systems, a joint venture of Lucent Technologies Inc. and GTE Corp.The partnership allows AG Communications to resell Securicor's Sterling 500...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service announced May 21 it raised the investment grade ratings on the outstanding senior unsecured debt of Cincinnati Bell Inc. to A2 from A3.A key factor in the New York-based rating agency's upgrade decision is the status of a significant subsidiary...
TAMPA-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. signed a contract to provide its Access Services clearinghouse system to PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P.GTE also will provide its RoamerXchange database management system to PrimeCo, which operates a Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services network.The Access Services system determines...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service announced May 21 it raised the investment grade ratings on the outstanding senior unsecured debt of Cincinnati Bell Inc. to A2 from A3.A key factor in the New York-based rating agency's upgrade decision is the status of a significant subsidiary...
MAY28 Evolving Markets & Marketplaces in Telecommunications, by UCSD Connect. Sheraton Grande Torrey Pines, San Diego. (619) 534-6114.28-29 Wireless Data-Network Implementation, Management and Applications to Achieve Marketable End-to-End Business Solutions, by ICM Conferences Inc. Chicago Hilton and Towers, Chicago. Call Kimberlee Mulherin at (312)...
