So it was that FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell last Monday delivered his lyrical oratory about why he would continue to forbear from deliberations of the $79 billion AT&T-BellSouth telecom deal. Democrats on Capitol Hill hailed McDowell, a Republican, for maintaining his integrity amid the...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell officially disqualified himself from consideration of the stalled $79 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp., blasting the agency's top lawyer's legal argument supporting his participation and denying Chairman Kevin Martin the tie-breaking Republican vote to possibly...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will not act on the $79 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. until after the Nov. 7 midterm elections, scrapping a Nov. 3 scheduled vote on the deal due to Chairman Kevin Martin's failure to strike a deal...
Comptel Corp., which provides network management services and software, has announced an agreement to supply its services to Easterbrooke Cellular Corp., a mobile service provider in central West Virginia. Easterbrooke operates an 850 MHz wireless network under the Cellular One brand. According to Comptel,...
ELKINS, W. Va.-Comptel Corp., which provides network management services and software, has announced an agreement to supply its services to Easterbrooke Cellular Corp., a mobile service provider in central West Virginia. Easterbrooke operates an 850 MHz wireless network under the Cellular One brand. According...
HELSINKI, Finland-Comptel Corp. and CSG Systems have partnered to offer complementary provisioning and billing solutions. Comptel will provide its InstantLink provisioning solution as well as its OnlineLink solution for real-time charging and content management. The products will be offered within CSG's Kenan FX framework...
WASHINGTON-The merger of the Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel) and the Association for Communications Enterprises (Ascent) was approved Sept. 22 by the membership of both organizations."In addition to having many members in common, CompTel and Ascent have long shared similar perspectives on the policy issues...
WASHINGTON-The Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel) and the Association for Communications Enterprises (ASCENT) announced they will merge, pending a vote of approval by their respective memberships in the coming weeks. The combined organization will continue under the CompTel/ASCENT Alliance label."The pending merger of CompTel and...
WASHINGTON-The Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel) and the Association for Communications Enterprises (ASCENT) announced they will merge, pending a vote of approval by their respective memberships in the coming weeks. The combined organization will continue under the CompTel/ASCENT Alliance label."The pending merger of CompTel and...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking member on both the Senate Commerce Committee and the appropriations subcommittee with control over the Federal Communications Commission's budget, said he would not seek re-election and would retire when his term expires in January 2005."With all of this...
VIENNA, Va.-Cramer Systems will provide Chile's Entel PCS Telecomunicaciones S.A. with an inventory management solution to manage its nationwide network and to automate delivery of services. "Cramer has had an outstanding record in winning new mobile business because operators know we understand how to...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.), ranking member on both the Senate Commerce Committee and the appropriations subcommittee with control over the Federal Communications Commission's budget, said Monday he would not seek re-election and would retire when his term expires in January 2005."With all of...
Finnish company Comptel Corp. said it won a global contract with Telefonica Moviles for Comptel's mediation and provisioning software. Under the agreement, Comptel's technology will be available to all companies in the Telefonica group. The value of the contract was not disclosed. The contract...
HELSINKI, Finland-Finnish company Comptel Corp. said it won a global contract with Telefonica Moviles for Comptel's mediation and provisioning software. Under the agreement, Comptel's technology will be available to all companies in the Telefonica group.The value of the contract was not disclosed.Juan Perales, director...
HELSINKI, Finland—Finnish vendor Comptel said Telecom Italia Mobile Peru has acquired its cost and credit control software. The value of the agreement was not disclosed.Comptel Balance Management will provide TIM Peru with tools for flexible and secure cost and credit control, Comptel said. With...
HELSINKI, Finland, and SINGAPORE—Thailand's Advanced Info Service (AIS) announced separate agreements with Finnish company Comptel and U.S.-based Convergys.AIS has purchased Comptel's MDS mediation and provisioning system for the operator's existing GSM network and its future General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network. The value of...
Amdocs will integrate its IAF Horizon billing, rating, customer-care and service management solution with Comptel plc's MDS mediation software to provide mobile Internet Protocol service providers with an integrated billing mediation, rating and billing solution together with service activation and customer care. Motorola Inc....
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission needs a "shot clock" when reviewing mergers, said Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)Kohl, who owns NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, has sponsored a bill with Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) to require the FCC to make a decision on proposed mergers within seven months.The...
WASHINGTON-The Competitive Telecommunications Association, also known as CompTel, planned to celebrate the third anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Feb. 8 with a celebration including blasts of confetti, balloons, the Morehouse University Marching Band and more than 1,800 participants, including William Kennard, chairman...
The Personal Communications Industry Association and a coalition of alphanumeric paging dispatchers have filed petitions to either stay or reconsider, respectively, the Federal Communication Commission's Pay Telephone Compensation Remand Order.PCIA believes the ruling will cause economic and competitive harm to the paging industry, and...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court has closed the book on any further appeal to vacate a stay of certain interconnection and local competition rules adopted last August by the Federal Communications Commission. The court last week denied for the second time a petition for such...
Northern Telecom Ltd. announced Telemig, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, has signed two contracts valued at $95 million to purchase Nortel cellular network infrastructure equipment. According to the first contract, Telemig will buy DMS-MTX SuperNode switching, cell site equipment and voice channels to expand its...
