Applied Cellular Technology Inc.'s board of directors approved a strategic plan aimed at growing its earnings per share by 20 percent that calls for the divestiture of non-core business units and the repurchase of 5 million shares of its common stock. Applied also intends...
WASHINGTON-Under even the most abnormal of normal circumstances, it usually is possible to handicap odds for passage of wireless legislation before Congress adjourns.But these are not normal times.An American president is under siege, and the global stage is imploding with financial meltdowns, political unrest,...
WANDEL & GOLTERMANNRadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values established by control boards and gives an alarm if the levels are exceeded. The monitor...
Like a teenager desperately trying to find the right "look," industry associations focused on the mobile data field continue to tweak their strategies for marketing the enigmatic technology.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association recently announced it renamed its annual mobile data show Wireless Information Technology...
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-The Personal Communications Industry Association filed comments last week at the Federal Communications Commission seeking to halt any merger of SBC Communications Inc. and Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. until SBC stops charging paging carriers for SBC-originated traffic."When it comes to interconnection, SBC has...
WASHINGTON-Just who is WNP Communications Inc. in Earlysville, Va., and where did it come up with a $100 million upfront payment for the upcoming local multipoint distribution services auction, set for a Feb. 18 start date?This earnest-money payment eclipsed those forwarded by BCK/Rivgam L.L.C....
SAN DIEGO-Jabra Corp. said it has partnered with Samsung Telecommunications America to provide its EarSet and Smart Adapter for Samsung's wireless SCH-1000 personal communications services handsets.Samsung and Jabra plan to co-market the products as separate accessories that will be sold through Samsung's distribution network,...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration has recommended to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) that more research be conducted on possible health risks from mobile telephones, but the agency left unclear whether it believes the issue is important enough to warrant funding by the Clinton administration."The...
NEW YORK-Taxes generally may be one of life's two certainties, but there is plenty of ambiguity surrounding the application of specific Internal Revenue Service code provisions to the commissions wireless carriers pay their retailers.Calling for clarity and equity, Thomas Wheeler, president and chief executive...
Sprint Spectrum L.P. has teamed up with former Pittsburgh Steelers running back and NFL Hall of Famer, Franco Harris, in a regional advertising campaign named after his 1972 game-winning catch, the "Immaculate Reception," that sent the Steelers to the playoffs for the first time....
WASHINGTON-For the wireless telecom industry, 1998 will be a pivotal year.A continuation next year of this year's policy retreats and defeats at the Federal Communications Commission, on Capitol Hill and in the courts could make the wireless industry even more wobbly on Wall Street...
WASHINGTON-While wireless local loop technology is taking off in such countries as South Africa, Great Britain, India and China, the United States continues to lag behind in deploying what could be the most cost-effective, time-sensitive means of providing everyone in this country with dial...
NEW YORK-A year after enactment of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995-designed to prevent frivolous shareholder lawsuits-the caliber of the federal cases brought is improving, but the overall numbers of suits aren't dropping because of a shift to state courts.That was the...
Now that many personal communications services providers are operating in several cities, most are advertising better call clarity than users received with cellular analog service. But will call clarity remain an issue once cellular carriers begin to aggressively market the same digital features?If customers...
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...
WAYNE, Penn.-GroupTalk, a new technology designed by Comcast Cellular Communications Inc., provides customized dispatch and work group capabilities for a variety of business and campus environments.GroupTalk, which consists of cellular phones programmed to reach work group members using a four-digit extension, allows customers to...
The company had a new phone system installed in the Washington office a week ago, and for days I wondered if it worked. My phone didn't ring, there were no messages in voice mail, I never had two lines going at once. I was...
After reorganizing the business two years ago, Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. today boasts a market capitalization of $38 million and is moving toward becoming a giant in the specialized mobile radio industry.On the basis of spectrum, Chadmoore ranks third behind Nextel Communications Inc. and...
NEW YORK-Wireless links may play a crucial role for long-distance, regional Bell operating companies and cable TV firms seeking competitive advantage in the newly deregulated landscape.Deregulation is occurring in an environment of technological convergence of voice, data and video communications, said speakers at "The...
WASHINGTON-TheUnited States Telephone Association last week attacked the Federal Communications Commission's interim wireless-wireline interconnection proposal, calling the plan misguided and the cellular industry's campaign for such reform misleading."The process seems to be a little screwy," said Roy Neel, president of USTA and a former...
Dear Editor: Once again, in the interest of accuracy, I am compelled to respond to a letter to you from Mark Ross, Ph.D. (SHHH) in the Feb. 10 issue of RCR.First of all, I do not know whom Mr. Ross had the imaginary conversation with,...
MONTVALE, N.J.-In a role reversal for the high-tech communications revolution, 27 million blue-collar workers nationwide are targeted as the early adopters for Geotek Communications Inc.'s spring rollout of enhanced mobile workstations and supporting networks.Last week, Geotek introduced the commercial start-up of its digital, spread-spectrum...
AT&T Corp.'s systems and technology division received a fresh face last week when it was reintroduced as Lucent Technologies Inc. Concurrently, AT&T announced it began the process to take Lucent public.Lucent, meaning "glowing with light" or "marked by clarity and translucence," suggests clarity of...
