Comsat Personal Communications, a business unit of Comsat Corp., has chosen International Telecommunication Data Systems Inc. as its strategic information systems supplier. Comsat Personal Communications plans to provide personal satellite communications services globally via its Planet 1 service and the Inmarsat satellite network. ITDS...
Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless communications project in Indonesia. Photocomm said its solar systems will provide power to an extensive communications network linking remote sites...
Comcast Cellular One has named David S. Levine director of marketing communications. Levine will be responsible for all marketing functions for the Cranbury, N.J.-based cellular provider, including advertising, promotion, public relations, research and new product development. He was previously director of marketing for Micro...
I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did I use?"Sprint," I told him. Then I thought to myself, "Is it Sprint? No wait, maybe it's MCI."Hold on a...
Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network using a Nokia PCS phone, Psion's palmtop computer and Palmtop BV's Messenger software. Messenger...
Sales and marketing practices in the wireless communications industry are substandard and could cause carriers worldwide to lose as much as a third of their revenues to new competitors over the next three years, according to a new global benchmarking study from Andersen Consulting.For...
Paging Network Inc. of Dallas is introducing a paging service that allows its customers to receive unlimited pages with no monthly fees.What's the catch? Value Page is a caller pays paging service.The motivation behind Value Page is much like that of caller pays in...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. will deploy Cincinnati Bell Information Systems' Precedent 2000 Wireless Business Management Solution for its personal communications services network.Sprint Spectrum said it has signed a five-year contract with CBIS that also covers providing CBIS' Precedent 2000 to Sprint Spectrum affiliate...
WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal International Corp. filed a complaint late last month in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on four different...
Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement with Paging Network Inc. to offer PageNet's wireless messaging services, including the company's line of alphanumeric and numeric pagers. PageNet will provide Comcast with customized equipment and other turnkey programs that can include pager leasing,...
NEW YORK-Electric utilities are taking a close look at wireless communications as a means to enhance revenues and operating efficiencies in their recently deregulated and competitive business environment.A variety of wireless opportunities and applications are under review or newly in use among electric power...
JUNE17-19 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Stouffer Hotel, Austin, Texas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.17-19 Billing '96, by TeleStrategies Inc. The Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050.18-19 Advanced Technical Training: Strategic Solutions for a High-Tech Telecommunications Workforce, by ICM...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. signed a letter of intent to provide unilateral roaming services in Canada to Hongkong Telecom customers."Hongkong Telecom's customers had expressed a desire for seamless cellular service in their travels to Canada. We are now examining the implementation...
It has been about seven years since the disintegration of the Soviet empire. During that time, some former Eastern bloc countries have built a thriving telecommunications business despite obstacles.Cellular and wireless local loop services are being implemented as quick, economical alternatives to post-communist wireline...
A new retail outlet for cellular is opening nationwide, but there won't be any sales people and you won't find the address in the yellow pages.Denver-based nLYTn Technologies Corp. is opening Cellmart on the World Wide Web, a virtual store where consumers can find...
ISLANDIA, N.Y.-Affordable Message Center has found the gospel of alphanumeric paging and is spreading the word by taking its show on the road nationwide.From an end-user standpoint, alphanumeric paging provides greater speed than two-way paging, greater message capacity than digital and greater privacy than...
Geotek Communications Inc. is a new kid on the block, not tied to any traditional distribution system and not bound by "this is the way we've always done it" thinking.Unlike its two-way radio competitors, Geotek has no previous customer base - no analog customers...
BALA CYNWYD, Pa.-The Associated Group Inc. and Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. announced they will launch a trial this summer in New Jersey of the TruePosition Cellular Location System.The service trial will span a 50-mile stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike, including Burlington, Camden, Gloucester...
MAY27-28 High Speed Information Services: Strategies to Win the Race to the Home, by ICM Conferences. The Mart Plaza, Chicago. Call Thomas Serafine at (312) 540-5698.29-31 Canadian Wireless '96, by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada. Call Catherine Hopwood at...
A cellular carrier loses the equivalent of its entire customer base in three to five years, say industry estimates. Not only does churn amount to missed revenue, but increasing industry competition, high subscriber acquisition costs and sinking revenue per subscriber equates to serious loss.Churn...
The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition.According to the most recent "Report Card" issued by the CDPD Forum, carriers are deploying Cellular Digital Packet...
NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services."Most of the research we've looked at and most of what our customers tell us is that local, long...
MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050.6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Joan Milan at...
Lightbridge Inc. recently activated two new weapons for fighting subscription and true identity cellular fraud. Fraud Sentinel is the complete package including Postalpro, Fraud Detect and the company's hallmark product, ProFile.Carriers "were clamoring for analysis on the front-end," said Michelle Wheeler, product manager for...
