WCS auction slows, could end earlyWhile bidding started out with a bang last Tuesday for the Wireless Communications Services auction, pledges round by round since that time have been on a downhill slide, and the auction could end as early as this week. With...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission accepted 27 applications for participation in its Wireless Communications Services auction of 128 licenses, scheduled to begin April 15; 16 other applications have been returned for correction, and they are due no later than April 4. Also due April 4...
NEW YORK-With at least several hundred billing and customer care systems providers out there today, wireless carriers, especially new players, are suffering an embarrassment of riches. The trick is to separate out the gold from the pyrite.The playing field has broadened on both supply...
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services will continue to provide statement production services to Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. A new contract extends the companies' original agreement by five years.IBS has worked with CBIS for seven years, providing services including management of statement data...
Since the passage of the telecom act, telecommunications providers have taken significant steps toward offering bundled services on one bill.Nearly a year ago, regional Bell operating companies' cellular divisions began offering cellular long-distance service to their cellular customers and a few of the RBOCs...
At 29, Kashif Hassan is the president of Wyrex Communications Inc., a small Toronto-based wireless consulting company with a clientele including some of the biggest players in the U.S. personal communications services market.As the framework for PCS developed, Hassan-an electrical engineer and veteran of...
WASHINGTON-Certain parts of the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local exchange rules dealing with negotiations between local exchange carriers and commercial mobile radio service operators will not be included in the current stay that prevents FCC pricing restrictions from being implemented.Responding to an emergency...
Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service."Everyone has a different edge or weakness" when it comes to price, coverage, technology and features, said Bukasa...
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...
NEW YORK-Fraud fighter Coral Systems Inc. plans to go public in an offering that could raise more than $20 million.Coral, which provides client-server software to help wireless carriers reduce fraud and churn, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week for permission to...
Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...
SAN DIEGO-NextWave Telecom Inc. has signed a non-binding letter of intent to negotiate the sale of several billion minutes of use from its personal communications services network to Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co."Our preliminary agreement with Cincinnati Bell marks the beginning of what we hope...
Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. will deploy Cincinnati Bell Information Systems' Precedent 2000 Wireless Business Management Solution for its personal communications services network.Sprint Spectrum said it has signed a five-year contract with CBIS that also covers providing CBIS' Precedent 2000 to Sprint Spectrum affiliate...
Don Winters has been named vice president of business development at Coral Systems Inc. Winters will be responsible for all business development efforts, including Coral's partnership with Cincinnati Bell Information Systems. Prior to joining the company, he held several key positions at AirTouch Communications...
NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services."Most of the research we've looked at and most of what our customers tell us is that local, long...
DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems announced PCS PrimeCo will deploy CBIS's Precedent 2000 Customer Care and Billing Systems in its personal communications services network.The companies said Precedent 2000, a third-generation UNIX-based solution, will offer PCS PrimeCo increased processing efficiency, architectural flexibility,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will go forward with the C-block personal communications services auction and allow Radiofone Inc. and several others that had sought waivers of PCS-cellular cross ownership rules to bid Dec. 11, but vowed to challenge a recent federal appeals court decision...
Sue Cardillo was named manager of public affairs at AT&T Wireless Services. Cardillo will be responsible for media relations, charitable giving, community relations and employee communications. She has 10 years experience in the public relations field, most recently as the senior media/community relations specialist...
22-24 TEK-21 Conference, by Cincinnati Bell Information Systems. Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas, Dallas. For information call (800) 23-TEK-21.31-2 RadioComm: Creating the New Age, by RadioComm Association of Canada. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto. For information call Catherine Hopwood at (613) 233-4888.JUNE1 PACS: A Seminar...
APRIL25-27 International Wireless Communications Exposition, by Argus Trade Shows. Sands Exposition Center, Las Vegas. For information call (800) 828-0420.MAY1-5 International Symposium on Integrated Network Management '95, by the International Federation for Information Processing and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Red Lion...
