MADISON, Wis.-Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois said it will provide cellular phones and airtime to homeless people again this Thanksgiving so they can speak with family and friends.More than 70 Cellular One employees volunteered for the fifth Annual Thanksgiving Day Phone Calling...
I wonder how many Americans fired up their cellular phones last Thursday morning to see if a call to 911 would go through. I know I did.If ABC's Nov. 12 "Primetime Live" segment didn't put the fear of God into everyone who ever went...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. signed a letter of intent with Nokia Corp. and extended an alliance with L.M. Ericsson to distribute wireless phones in the United States.Under terms of the agreement with Nokia, Brightpoint will become the sole authorized distributor of Nokia wireless phones in the...
AirCell Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that has developed a system to provide ground communications for aircraft using cellular channels, has been in a holding pattern since early this year.The company, which for two years had been testing its system under experimental authority from...
Pre-Paid Solutions said it introduced a new debit conversion technology for the prepaid cellular market. The technology will be available this month under the name Pre-Cell Technology and Pre-Cell Chip. Pre-Cell Technology offers prepaid cellular through chip-based phone conversions. Pre-Cell Chip allows customers to...
It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking economic growth with them.Beginning with the devaluation of the Thai baht in July, currency values have spiraled downward by as...
NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of Cellular Additions. On the basis of that law, the Riverdale, Ga., company has built...
NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.NEO Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate Lucent's Inferno, a distributed inter-networking operating system, into its StreamProcessor, a network forwarding product line....
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc. want to keep things comparatively simple within the handset as demands on its capabilities grow more complex.With that goal in mind, the two companies announced an agreement last week that will permit delivery of Sun's Java...
With so many wireless carriers competing for potential customers, marketing techniques have become an important tool to attract clients.One of the more recent marketing trends seems to be the phenomenon of corporate sponsorships-companies donating money and products to community organizations-all in an attempt to...
WASHINGTON-In a surprisingly candid admission, the head of the cellular industry's cancer research project said he will leave the six-year, $28 million program in mid-1999 without conducting either short-term or long-term animal exposure studies.Last week's revelation, which Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George...
PanaVise Products Inc. introduced a combination mounting kit designed to keep cellular phones secure while driving, but quickly release the phone for easy removal from the vehicle. The PortaGrip 2000 cellular phone holder can be used alone to prevent a phone from sliding around...
WASHINGTON-InTouch USA Inc. announced it has taken its wireless equipment rental service worldwide, primarily to offer carriers with holes in their roaming capabilities access to foreign networks.The company said its rental equipment is compatible with virtually all of the world's wireless networks, including international...
MILAN-Omnitel Pronto Italia, a private Global System for Mobile communications operator in Italy, introduced a rechargeable GSM Subscriber Identity Module card that will allow users to make international calls from Italy and in foreign countries, and does not have a recharge fee.The card, called...
Nettech Systems Inc. formed an alliance with Racotek Inc. to deliver mobile computing solutions leveraging Racotek's Systems Integration and production support services with Nettech's InstantRF middleware product family. Racotek said it will integrate its applications, interface tools and network management software with the InstantRF...
Lucent Technologies Inc., the equipment division spun off by AT&T Corp. last year, and Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V., one of the world's largest electronic companies, announced plans to combine their consumer phone equipment operations in a joint venture sure to create the largest phone...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated with the Denver Summit...
PHILADELPHIA-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. recently presented the city of Philadelphia's Office of Emergency Management with free cellular phones as part of its Disaster Relief and Preparedness Program.The Disaster Relief and Preparedness Program was created more than two years ago in an effort to provide...
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. offered free cellular phones to lifeguards on New Jersey and Delaware beaches in an effort to make the Memorial Day holiday a safe one, said the company.Comcast's Lifeline program began last summer in Ventnor, N.J., where more than a...
VALLEY FORGE, Pa.-Nearly half of Americans surveyed indicated they would support legislation banning cellular phone use while driving, according to a nationwide survey sponsored by the Colonial Penn Safe Driver Center.Of those in favor of a ban, 82 percent do not own a cellular...
A class action lawsuit charging Los Angeles cellular carriers with price fixing is set to go to trial July 7 in Orange County Superior Court, nearly four years after it was filed.Arthur Garabedian, who sells cellular phones and service for cellular resellers and agents...
AURORA, Colo.-Two people were arrested for their alleged involvement in a cellular telephone cloning scam.Sarkis Bitaryan and Eleanora Chepshyan were arrested, processed and released pending an additional investigation, said Alan Geary of the Aurora Police Department. The police department is expected to charge the...
Telecel-Zambia announced plans to launch a Code Division Multiple Access system next week in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. The initial launch will cover 450 customers, and a broader launch a month later will provide service to the general public. The company said...
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. introduced its Direct Link one-number service, which integrates voice, fax, messaging and "find me" capabilities into a customer's cellular phone number.Calls can be routed to a customer's mobile, office or home phone number, or to a pager, fax machine...
