NEW YORK-With an initial public offering just completed and a move to larger facilities in Provo, Utah, imminent, NACT Telecommunications Inc. is moving ahead at full throttle to exploit its switch niche.Formerly known as National Applied Computer Technologies, the company began operations in Orem,...
One clear strategy in marketing wireless phones to consumers is keep it simple. The phone is not just a business tool but an easy, fun device that keeps you in touch and could save your life.But how simple is it?Industry is challenged when it...
WARREN, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Saville Systems have agreed to co-market Lucent's software applications with the Saville Convergent Billing Platform, according to a general teaming agreement.The resulting end-to-end billing and customer care system will be able to collect call detail records from the network...
In between the land of resellers and the land of licensed wireless providers lies a place where MCI Telecommunications Corp. lives all by itself.The company prefers not to be called a reseller and was reluctant to be included on RCR's Top 20 Cellular Resellers'...
Natural MicroSystems Corp. announced the latest member of its TX family of communications resource boards, the TX3000. The TX3000 is an ISA bus card that provides a powerful and highly flexible hardware platform for a wide variety of data communications and networking applications, including...
NEW YORK-With at least several hundred billing and customer care systems providers out there today, wireless carriers, especially new players, are suffering an embarrassment of riches. The trick is to separate out the gold from the pyrite.The playing field has broadened on both supply...
Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code Division Multiple Access standards. The company said it functions as an up/down converter for...
SAN FRANCISCO- In two weeks, Japanese cellular customers will gain the ability to roam internationally for the first time, using their own phone.GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. of Tampa, Fla., and Tokyo-based NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., known as NTT DoCoMo, last week signed formal...
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services will continue to provide statement production services to Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. A new contract extends the companies' original agreement by five years.IBS has worked with CBIS for seven years, providing services including management of statement data...
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WILMINGTON, Mass.-Priority Call Management added pre-paid cellular applications to its Oryx Platform. The pre-paid function includes on-line recharge capability."A major challenge for cellular service providers has been providing service to all individuals with a stringent credit qualification process," said Andrew Ory, founder and president...
ELGIN, Ill.-The National Cellular Safetalk Center, a nonprofit wireless industry advocate, has introduced a car phone safety public education program.The new program is based on Safetalk's successful high school driver education program sponsored by 11 carriers in 16 states and one Canadian province, Nova...
Four years ago Systems/Link Corp. introduced RoamEx, which "allowed carriers with fraud problems in big cities access to what was going on," said Diane Sammer, president of Systems/Link.Today RoamEx is rapidly becoming the ticket to global roaming.RoamEx exchanges caller data between different wireless carriers'...
Celcore Inc. introduced a Global System for Mobile communications system, designed specifically for emerging markets around the world-at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The system is built around a compact GlobalSwitch, which integrates the functions of the mobile switching center, base station...
German wireless phone operators continue to drop prices and restructure calling plans following the award of a fourth mobile phone license and growth in the consumer market.Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH, which operates the D2 Global System for Mobile communications 900 network, and E-Plus Mobilfunk, the...
NEW YORK-Led by technology companies in communications and software, 1996 was a record year for venture capital investments, and it may therefore be a tough act to follow."Venture capital investments exceeded $9.5 billion in 1996, a 25 percent increase over calendar (year) 1995, with...
A small Westbrook, Maine, company plans to carve its niche out of the giant telecommunications industry by focusing on the billing and customer care needs of small- and medium-sized carriers.The founders of Infotech Solutions Corp., which include President David Packhem and Bill Oliver, vice...
The laws of physics cannot be persuaded by politics, pricing or PR. And some economic principles are equally unyielding.Hence, economics and engineering considerations are both important to a sound U.S. spectrum policy.The Federal Communications Commission last week voted to auction spectrum at 2.3 GHz...
CORAL GABLES, Fla.-When it comes to customer service, Barry Winkle aspires to have the role of the lonely Maytag repairman.Winkle is executive vice president of marketing for Pocket Communications Inc., Washington, D.C., which plans a full-scale commercial launch of it personal communications services network...
Since the passage of the telecom act, telecommunications providers have taken significant steps toward offering bundled services on one bill.Nearly a year ago, regional Bell operating companies' cellular divisions began offering cellular long-distance service to their cellular customers and a few of the RBOCs...
Wireless segments post strong growthFRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The cellular, personal communications services and paging industries had strong growth in 1996, according to a study conducted by IDC/Link Resources. Cellular growth was higher than in most sectors. However, the company said there are signs the market's expansion...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.-"Until a few weeks ago, I was under the impression that the outlook for TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) was quite different than it is today," said investment banker Brad Peery at last week's TDMA Global Summit here."Qualcomm (Inc.) has done...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. completed the acquisition of Mercury Paging & Communications Inc. and its affiliated companies. Mercury Paging is a New York-based paging operator that provides coverage of radio common carrier 931.3125 MHz paging licenses in New Jersey, New York and Southern Connecticut.Preferred Networks...
