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...
Centennial Cellular Corp. began marketing its cellular communications products and services under the name Centennial Wireless throughout its properties. The company formerly used the Cellular One trademark. Centennial is bolstering the name change with an advertising campaign including newspaper, radio and television advertising.TekNow Inc....
NEW YORK-PriCellular Wireless Corp. plans to issue $140 million in senior unsecured debt, mostly to finance its acquisition of four clustered rural cellular properties in Kentucky from Horizon Cellular Group.PriCellular, based in New York, agreed to pay $116.5 million in cash and stock to...
HighwayMaster Communications Inc. announced it reached an agreement with SBC Communications Inc. for a $20 million equity investment in HighwayMaster. The company said SBC's initial investment will be in preferred stock, which is convertible into common stock at the rate of $12.50 per share....
Luis M. Larralde is the new international area manager for Hutton Communications Inc. His responsibilities will include establishing new accounts and generating business in the South Florida market as well as in Central and South American and in the Caribbean. He has been involved...
NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. has a not-so-modest proposal and concrete plans to execute it: a prepaid wireless roaming network for the Western Hemisphere.Already the company is in various stages of a rollout of its C2C wireless prepaid roaming network for four cellular carriers: Southwestern Bell...
Judging from information provided in Form 175s submitted prior to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, small rural telephone companies-backed by established telecom heavy hitters-are taking advantage of this last big sale of spectrum. Even though...
NEW YORK-Sygnet Wireless Inc. sold a $110 million issue of 10-year senior unsecured notes Sept. 19 to help finance its acquisition of Horizon Cellular Telephone Co.The notes were priced at face value, with an interest rate of 11.5 percent, according to Donaldson, Lufkin &...
Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August.Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of scorched emptiness. T.E. Lawrence-"Lawrence of Arabia"-had described it as "the most inhospitable desert" in the Middle-East. The Bedouin had abandoned...
GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One has started "FreedomPlus" service in the Washington D.C./Baltimore, Md., area. FreedomPlus is designed to operate between cellular and landline networks to deliver calls to a customer's cordless phone at home or a cellular phone away from home using only one number."FreedomPlus...
Ameritech Cellular Services has joined several other carriers in deploying authentication technology to combat cloning fraud.Concurrently, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has extended authentication fraud protection into its eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island markets.Authentication is seamless to customers and Ameritech Cellular and other...
Cellular phones seem to have pervaded the lives of Americans just like baseball, hot dogs and apple pie.The Cellular One Group said it set out several months ago to find intriguing and funny stories involving cellular phones by sponsoring a contest called "Cellular One's...
ANI Site Development announced its new web site available to antenna site location professionals. Users can get a visual representation of ANI's sites by clicking on any part of the Southeastern United States. Users also can access licensing information, maps and site pictures by...
FORT WAYNE, Ind.-Centennial Cellular announced plans to establish a Midwest operations headquarters in Fort Wayne, Ind., that would employ 150 workers. Centennial said it will consolidate its three Fort Wayne Cellular One offices into a $1 million, 15,000 square-foot facility in Constitution Office Park.
NEW YORK-AirTouch Communications Inc., San Francisco, announced last week it completed its acquisition of Cellular Communications Inc.At a special meeting, 99 percent of shareholders voting, representing about 82 percent of outstanding CCI stock, approved the merger.Cellular Communications' primary business interest is its 50 percent...
WESTWOOD, Mass.-Cellular One in Boston has launched a no-credit-required calling card service that allows cellular phone users to pay in advance for airtime.With the prepaid calling card, customers establish a minimum of $50 balance. Each time customers place or receive a call, the costs...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.'s net income for the second quarter increased 58 percent to $61.2 million, or 12 cents per share, from $38.7 million, or 8 cents per share, for the second quarter 1995."During the quarter, worldwide demand for wireless services exceeded our most...
Cellular One of Washington, D.C./Baltimore is introducing an off-the-shelf, no-contract cellular service package called Speak Easy.The package costs about $200, includes Motorola Inc.'s TeleTac phone and a free one-year subscription for analog cellular service. The monthly access charge is about $15 thereafter.Calls made within...
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...
Wireless providers are staying busy this summer. By the end of this week, the symbolic torch should arrive in Atlanta, starting the 1996 Olympic Games. Just weeks after that, San Diego plans to play host to the 1996 Republican National Convention, and about two...
Paging Partners Corp. announced it was honored as New Jersey's eighth fastest growing technology company at The New Jersey Technology Fast 50 Awards, held at Newark's Gateway Hilton. Paging Partners said it posted revenue growth of 1,138 percent from 1991 to 1995.Illinois Superconductor Corp....
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc's. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service to Cellular One customers.Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Wireless and Cellular One will design and deploy a Cellular...
The wireless arms of the regional Bell operating companies are riding a new wave of revenue by offering long-distance service to their cellular customers.Until the Telecommunications Act was passed in February, RBOC wireless companies could not deliver calling services across LATAs. By law, interLATA...
CHICAGO-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems said it started authentication service in its Chicago market, which operates as Cellular One. The technology is expected to wipe out cloning fraud as it is known today.Called CloneBlock, Chicago's Cellular One analog and digital subscribers will not pay any...
