Metrocall Inc. is conducting technical and market trials of Omni-Voice Technologies Inc.'s digital voice paging technology, according to OmniVoice. The OmniVoice platform allows compressed voice messages to be sent over FLEX paging networks, along with text and data. The company also is working on...
Applied Cellular Technology Inc. formed an executive search committee to fill the position of president and chief executive officer. The committee, made up of several outside board members and Richard Sullivan, chairman and CEO of Applied Cellular, will work with an independent top-tier executive...
ATLANTA-Cellemetry L.L.C., the joint venture between Numerx Corp. and BellSouth Corp., announced it secured agreements with three new cellular carriers.Centennial Cellular Corp., Cellular One of East Illinois and Pioneer/Enid Cellular now offer the Cellemetry service. With these deals, Cellemetry's footprint includes 25 carriers nationwide.
Aeris Communications Inc. announced it signed Bell Atlantic Mobile as its latest MicroBurst carrier partner, increasing its U.S. coverage to 60 percent of the nation.MicroBurst is a short-burst data application transmitted via the cellular control channel. Cellular carriers employing it can offer wireless data...
SecurFone America Inc., a company specializing in prepaid communications, said it plans a major market expansion of its Buy-the-Minute prepaid cellular handset solution. Bill Stueber, president and chief executive officer of SecurFone, said the company during the next 45 days plans to add markets...
In an effort to create consistency among the many markets nationwide that use its brand name, Cellular One has been regularly monitoring customer satisfaction in each of its markets through customer surveys conducted each year.Sixty-six wireless carriers use the Cellular One brand name in...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), ranking minority member of the House telecommunications subcommittee, will not engage in the controversy surrounding antenna siting in Rock Creek Park, said Colin Crowell, a member of his staff. "The (National) Park Service was told at a hearing (on March...
LAS VEGAS-General Magic Inc. said it plans to begin commercially offering July 30 its integrated voice and data virtual assistant network service via local, regional and national value-added resellers.The service, previously code-named Serengeti, is officially renamed Portico. The Portico brand name now will appear...
ATLANTA-GTE Wireless Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to purchase in cash Bell Atlantic Mobile's interest in Virginia Cellular L.P. GTE also agreed to sell to Bell Atlantic Mobile its Asheville, N.C., metropolitan service area business, GTE Mobilnet of Asheville Inc.Bell Atlantic will...
Sygnet Wireless Inc. said it is exploring strategic alternatives, including the possible sale of the company, and has retained Lehman Brothers Inc. as its financial adviser. The company said the decision comes after the increasing pace of consolidation in the cellular industry. Several second-tier...
The story on Rock Creek Park antenna siting in the April 10 issue (page 3) misidentified the companies of two executives. Maureen Kane is the manager of site acquisition for Cellular One of Washington, D.C.-Baltimore and Mike Mause is director of real estate for...
WASHINGTON-For the second time in as many weeks, the National Park Service has returned an antenna-siting application to a wireless carrier as incomplete and in doing so may have unwittingly bolstered chances for E911 federal property antenna-siting legislation that House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy...
WASHINGTON-Despite all the hoopla surrounding antenna siting legislation, wireless anti-fraud, privacy and tax-repeal bills stand a far better chance of being passed by Congress and enacted into law this year.President Clinton is expected shortly to sign legislation that will outlaw unauthorized mobile phone cloning...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-PriCellular reported revenue of $49.8 million and record net subscriber additions of 28,200, as well as a net loss of $7.6 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31.Annual revenue grew about 60 percent, from $112.6 million in 1996 to $181 million...
NEW YORK-The share price of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc., Greensboro, N.C., closed up $1 at $17.13 per share March 11, the day it announced it plans to sell its Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Wilmington-Jacksonville, N.C., properties.The big bump in the stock price wasn't coincidental,...
Rural cellular carrier PriCellular Corp. last week agreed to be acquired by American Cellular Corp. for approximately $1.4 billion, including about $811 million cash and $600 million in debt repayment.PriCellular shareholders are scheduled to receive $14 for each common share.Robert Price, the company's founder...
Cellular One Group in the United States commissioned a national telephone survey of 600 Cellular One customers who use their phone primarily for business or for business and personal use equally. Cellular One found the following results about how people use their cellular phones: ...
TRANSCRYPT INTERNATIONALTranscrypt International Inc. named Craig Huffaker senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. Huffaker's 20 years of financial management experience include 12 years as CFO for publicly traded companies. Huffaker, a certified public accountant, most recently was CFO of TIE Communications.CellStar...
WASHINGTON-A lobbying campaign is underway to kill anti-cloning legislation and cast it as an industry-orchestrated effort to monopolize the cellular phone extension business."CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association) has sponsored S.493 and H.R.2460 for the express purpose of eliminating competition," said the Independent Cellular Services...
BOSTON-U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern announced that Germaine Matos of the Dominican Republic was sentenced Feb. 3, by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, to two years in prison for his part in a large cellular cloning conspiracy.Matos, who used a Boston electronics business...
WASHINGTON-Cellular Concepts Inc., one of Cellular One of Washington/Baltimore's largest dealers in the Washington, D.C., area, filed a lawsuit against the carrier Jan. 29 in Montgomery County (Md.) District Court, asking for $28 million in damages.The lawsuit in part charges Cellular One with requiring...
SAN ANTONIO-While it added more than 1 million wireless subscribers during 1997, SBC Communications Inc. reported slight increases in revenue and decreases in net income during the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31.Fiscal 1997 net income dropped 55 percent from $3.3 billion in...
Wireless carriers mobilized their resources earlier this month to maintain cellular service when an ice storm in upstate New York and northern New England left thousands without power or wireline phone service. Record wireless usage during the height of the storm also was reported.Eight...
SBC Communications Inc. and Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. last week executed a definitive agreement to merge in a $4.4 billion stock transaction.San Antonio, Texas-based SBC, a regional telephone company that has several wireless markets in the Northeastern United States, said SNET's wireless markets...
