Although sizable telecom rivals in cellular, personal communications services and paging markets nationwide, AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. hold hands in the San Francisco Bay Area, where business as usual is a balancing act.Erin Eggleton, spokeswoman for Cellular One of San...
Kevin Mitnick, a convicted computer hacker, recently plead guilty to charges of illegally using stolen mobile phone numbers. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina arranged the plea as part of an agreement when he was arrested last year after three years on the run. Mitnick,...
When MCI Communications Corp. asked him to build a radio tower on top of a mountain using a helicopter, 21-year-old wireless newcomer Michael Budagher said yes. Fifteen years later, his company is one of the industry's leading infrastructure builders.Budagher quit his job as a...
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of class A common shares that is expected to raise about $200 million.The company also plans to file a concurrent debt offering for up to...
NEW YORK-The urge to merge struck again with an Easter weekend announcement that AirTouch Communications Inc. would pay about $1.65 billion to buy the 60 percent of Cellular Communications Inc. it doesn't already own.The proposed AirTouch takeover of CCI follows closely on the heels...
It has been a year since I left a high-tech computer magazine to join RCR Publications. After five years as a techie writer and editor, I decided to try something new. I chuckled when a colleague said I was foolish to leave the growing...
Where did the 60,000 new subscribers come from that were acquired by Sprint Spectrum in its Washington, D.C./Baltimore operation?About half were stolen from incumbent cellular operators, and the other half are new wireless users, said Scott Schelle, chief executive officer of American Personal Communications.APC...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
Ron Boillat is now vice president of sales and Lee Sarbo has been named director of sales for the Eastern region at Frontier Cellular, the wireless subsidiary of Frontier Corp. Boillat joined Frontier in April 1995 with 14 years experience in the telecommunications industry....
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
Eighteen months after being blown off course in the stormy seas of the cellular industry, the MobiLink alliance has taken a new bearing as a developer of advanced roaming services.MobiLink was formed by 15 B-block cellular carriers in 1993 to help build a common...
Eighty percent of major U.S. cellular carriers employ Systems/Link Corp.'s RoamEx product to fight cellular fraud, but until now the decade-old Jackson, N.J., company has kept its nose to the grindstone and quietly gone about its business.Diane Sammer, president of Systems/Link said the company...
New Haven, Conn.-SNET Mobility Inc., under the Cellular One brand, introduced a personal identification number fraud protection program in Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass.SNET said the program requires the use of a four-digit PIN number, similar to those used at bank automated teller...
The Cellular One Group intends to expand the scope of the Cellular One brand name to paging, local and long-distance service, and will offer licensing to B-side cellular carriers, personal communications services operators and resellers as well."Customers want to turn to Cellular One for...
Memphis, Tenn.-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent for a secondary underwriting with Barron Chase Securities of Boca Raton, Fla. Chadmoore said the offering, which is scheduled to take place in the second quarter, will be structured as...
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Washington/Baltimore Cellular L.P.-doing business as Cellular One-alleging that the company is attempting to levy increased interconnection fees on its subscribers in violation of their service contracts.The plaintiff attorneys, Ward, Kershaw & Milton, filed the lawsuit Dec....
WASHINGTON-With the idea of wireless communications as a complement to traditional wireline residential and business service still fresh in the public's mind, the move toward wireless as a purveyor of local-loop service is closer than most people think.With some areas of Illinois, New York...
From the bidders' view of the post-C-block auction landscape, not only the Goliaths but also the Davids seem likely to gain ready access to financing to construct personal communications services systems.The wireless spectrum auction was designed initially to give women- and minority-owned businesses a...
The Federal Communications Commission and the rest of the federal government could re-open this week but close again later this month if the GOP-led Congress and the Clinton administration fail to agree on a seven-year balanced budget plan.A House Republican proposal, which Congress was...
NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. announced it has entered into an agreement with U.S. Cellular Corp. to acquire the New York-6 rural service area consisting of about 111,000 pops in Greene and Columbia counties between Albany and New York City. The RSA was acquired for $178...
Palmer Wireless Inc. said it signed up its 200,000th cellular phone customer. Eight years ago, Palmer began operating its first cellular system in Fort Myers, Fla., and now owns and operates 15 nonwireline cellular telephone systems in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, covering...
WASHINGTON-Stores are crowded. Literature is disappearing. Customer service is forced to beef up. Product is in short supply. The holidays are around the corner. Overwhelming success is a double-edged sword.But it is this sword that Sprint Spectrum, the personal communications service joint venture between...
CellStar Corp. said it formed a distribution relationship with Cellular One Group. The company said the agreement is a nationwide strategic cellular accessory program encompassing original equipment manufacturer products from Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Oki telecom, as well as...
Securicor Wireless Networks has named Greg Kleven vice president of worldwide sales. Kleven will plan, implement and head all global sales programs for the company. Previously, Kleven worked for Sequent Computer Systems where he created its Telecommunications American Operation, which consists of major account...
