NEW YORK-AAPT Ltd. announced last week it awarded Samsung Electronics of South Korea a $205 million turnkey contract to design, construct, operate, maintain and provide systems integration services for its new Code Division Multiple Access network in Australia.The carrier plans to launch commercial CDMA...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. launched its first ever cross-branding effort that unites all of RCC's wireless companies, which traditionally have not communicated a consistent marketing message, said the company.Television commercials, titled "Promises," began airing Aug. 2, and will be followed by radio advertising in...
CHICAGO-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Inc., operating under the Cellular One brand name, introduced two new services to the Chicago market-Digital Edge SharePaks and Money Manager.Digital Edge SharePaks lets up to five people draw on the same pool of minutes, said the company. Customers also...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-CMT Partners Inc., the owner and operator of Cellular One Kansas/Missouri, launched Easy Connect, a directory assistance service that enables customers to access names, addresses, telephone numbers and zip codes by dialing 411 on their wireless phone.Easy Connect has four main categories...
NEW YORK-By July, Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. plans to launch service under the Cellular One brand in Bermuda, a tax-haven country with the third-highest per-capita income in the world and average monthly cellular phone bills of $89.The holding company, based in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin...
ATLANTA-Cellemetry L.L.C. announced it signed agreements with Cellular One Kansas/Missouri and Coastel Communications Co., extending Cellemetry's footprint to needed areas in the Kansas and Missouri markets, as well as Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico.
NEW YORK-Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. and SBC Communications Inc. announced May 3 they would jointly purchase Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico Inc. for $814 million from CoreComm Inc., New York.Under terms of the transaction SBC and Telmex will acquire CCPR through a...
CHICAGO-SBC Communications Inc. introduced its Cellular One Digital Edge Right Rate minute packs that eliminate long-distance charges for calls placed from Cellular One's home coverage area in Chicago, north central Illinois and northwest Indiana.The company said customers can choose from plans starting at 30...
Sprint PCSSprint PCS named Steve Geldmacher president of its new north central region. Prior to this position, Geldmacher was area vice president for north Texas and Oklahoma. He joined Sprint PCS as the company's first area vice president in 1996, having just served as...
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a hamburger and French fries? Probably McDonalds.Think of a pair of tennis shoes, and you probably picture the Nike swoosh. Or a pair of jeans, and you probably think of Levi's....
WASHINGTON-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Cellular One Group are two of several companies offering telecommunications products and services on telezoo.com, the newly opened e-commerce Web site.According to telezoo, the digital marketplace has been under development for more than a year. As new vendors, systems integrators,...
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) said he will pursue early passage this year of legislation to improve wireless E911 service and foster antenna siting on federal land, a move likely to re-energize opposition from local officials, conservationists and from environmentalists who last...
Western Wireless Corp. said it is adding customers to its wireless local loop service in Regent, N.D., even though customers cannot receive phone calls because of a dispute with the local exchange carrier there.Consolidated Telephone Cooperative, the rural landline phone company in Regent, population...
A clash between cellular operator Western Wireless Corp. and a rural telephone company in North Dakota could set a precedent with the Federal Communications Commission concerning wireless competition with landline service.Consolidated Telephone Cooperative, a rural landline phone company in North Dakota, last week disconnected...
DALLAS-Cellular One celebrated its 15th anniversary Dec. 16. On the same day in 1983, Cellular One initiated wireless service in Washington, D.C."Before cellular technology, there could only be a handful of mobile telephone callers at a given time in the largest metropolitan areas. The...
Paging Network Inc. announced it signed an agreement with SmartRoute Systems to offer SmartRoute's real-time personalized traffic information system to paging subscribers. PageNet said it initially will roll out the SmartRoute service in eight markets, expanding to additional markets throughout next year.Comverse Network Systems,...
When all is said and done and the Federal Communications Commission has fully relocated to the Portals II building in Southwest Washington next year, the real catastrophe for the telecommunications world may not be the distance to the FCC (and the possibility that taxis...
Let the battle for the high-end mobile phone users begin.Sprint Spectrum L.P. late last week introduced three new all-inclusive national pricing plans that eliminate roaming and long-distance fees on its digital network nationwide. The plans charge $70 per month for 600 minutes, $100 per...
As an industry, we are all too aware of the fundamental changes in our business. The days of high average revenue per minute of use, phenomenal subscriber growth numbers, low churn rates and duopoly markets are long gone.Industry transformation has resulted in eroding economics: decreasing...
SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. announced it received contracts from Price Communications Wireless Inc. and Cellular One in San Francisco to provide its enhanced 911 solution, which delivers the 10-digit number and general location of wireless emergency callers to public safety answering point operators.Both carriers will use...
MOBILEMEDIAMobileMedia Corp., dba MobileComm, promoted several people in management positions. Steven Gross was named executive vice president of sales and marketing. He joined MobileComm as senior vice president of sales and marketing in 1996, and since has been responsible for new product introductions, including...
Bell Atlantic Mobile is expected to announce next month rate plans competitive with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate plan-a move that could trigger price wars for valuable high-end users.Sources indicate BAM's airtime plans will eliminate roaming and long-distance charges like AT&T's plans,...
In Chicago, where the mobile phone penetration rate is one of the highest among the nation's most populous markets, cellular carriers Ameritech Cellular Services Inc. and SBC Wireless have made aggressive moves to match offers coming primarily from their PCS counterpart, AT&T Wireless Services...
WASHINGTON-Saying he was responding to constituent complaints about non-itemized billing, Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) recently introduced legislation requiring all commercial mobile radio service providers to itemize customer bills.This itemization is to include: the date, origination time, origination and destination numbers, length of call, charge for...
