Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service."Everyone has a different edge or weakness" when it comes to price, coverage, technology and features, said Bukasa...
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MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator, will expand its "friendly user" network trial by several hundred people in the New York City metropolitan area.The users will test such things as proper network coverage and voice quality, service features including two-way...
There won't be many big-time losers among the A- and B-block carriers, wireless analysts say."They'll probably all make it, but the question is how well will they make it," said John Bensche, equity researcher for CS First Boston's wireless communications division.More than a half...
CINCINNATI, Ohio-Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. will provide billing services to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Cellular One joint venture through the year 2001.Under the contract, Cincinnati Bell will transfer wireless services data it processes to AT&T's bundled billing system, which can integrate...
The Northeast regional office of ProNet Inc. is raising prices for some of its smaller resellers to $5 per number. The company believes the rate increase may drive these resellers to do business with ProNet's larger, preferred resellers.The new rate, which goes into effect...
NEW YORK-Fraud fighter Coral Systems Inc. plans to go public in an offering that could raise more than $20 million.Coral, which provides client-server software to help wireless carriers reduce fraud and churn, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week for permission to...
Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network in the Philippines.Motorola said the network will supply service in the southern and western Mindanao regions, located in the southern...
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The wireless industry is primed to woo holiday shoppers this season to their stable of products, offering service that is inexpensive and easy to use, with no strings attached.In the past, a shopper trying to decide between a pager and a blouse, or a...
NEW YORK-Cellular subscribers said they are most satisfied with customer service from AT&T Wireless Services Inc., according to J.D. Power and Associates' second annual survey of customer satisfaction in the cellular telecommunications sector.AT&T's move to market services as AT&T Wireless contributed to its higher...
Cellular One of Michigan and Ohio will adopt the AirTouch Cellular name and bring the number of states offering cellular service under the AirTouch brand to 17."Our strength as a regional and local company is enhanced by a broader connection to a national company...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. installed its Modular Voice Processing system for PennSel Communication Services, a division of R.F. Communications. PennSel will offer MVP services to its customers in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, the company said. The MVP system provides paging users with voice and fax...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. debuted its prepaid cellular program in its BellSouth Mobility southern Florida market.Because airtime is paid in advance, the service is ideal for customers who are budget conscious, the company said.Customers can either purchase a new phone, or use a phone that...
LAS VEGAS-Telemetry applications made a strong showing at last week's Wireless Apps '96 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.Skywire Corp. announced a trial to monitor several hundred soda vending machines throughout Southern Nevada for J.W. Costello Beverage Co. in partnership with cellular...
FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems has introduced what it says is the first Internet-based customer care and billing tool for telecommunications companies.AMS said its UNIView application links a carrier's World Wide Web site to its back-end databases to provide key account and service information to...
Northern Telecom Ltd. announced Telemig, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, has signed two contracts valued at $95 million to purchase Nortel cellular network infrastructure equipment. According to the first contract, Telemig will buy DMS-MTX SuperNode switching, cell site equipment and voice channels to expand its...
WASHINGTON-The five-year, $25 million industry-funded research program on potential cancer risks from pocket telephones will come to a screeching halt unless wireless carriers and manufacturers agree to indemnify scientists named in several pending lawsuits, according to the project director."This is a serious issue for...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Bellcore said its board of directors has not yet approved the sale of the company, although a California defense contractor is believed to be close to making the buy.Bell Communications Research Inc. was created in 1984 by the regional Bell operating companies following...
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services will provide statement processing and presentment services to Powertel Inc. for its new base of personal communications services customers, under a five-year agreement.Powertel, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCel Inc., is a PCS provider licensed to offer service...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-There were 38.2 million cellular and personal communications services subscribers at the end of June, a penetration rate of 14.5 percent, according to a new survey from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.More than 10 million new customers signed up for service during the...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Go Wireless International Ltd. announced it will offer prepaid cellular service to customers who do not qualify for conventional cellular service. The service will be provided through major cellular carriers, resellers, agents, dealers and affinity groups.Potential customers who would normally require high deposits...
Orange plc, one of the United Kingdom's two 1800 MHz personal communications providers, announced it established a roaming agreement with the Swiss Post, Telephone and Telegraph.Concurrently, Colin Tucker, group technical and operations director, said he believes dual band phones, which operate at 900 MHz...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
