NumereX Corp. announced Cellemetry L.L.C. signed an agreement with Bell Atlantic Mobile, expanding its Cellemetry Data Service footprint into the Eastern corridor. Gordon Ray, chairman, president and chief executive officer of NumereX, said the agreement adds 50 million pops to its coverage, including areas...
Metrocall Inc. and PageMart Wireless Inc. have entered a five-year strategic alliance that is part resale agreement, part shared network buildout relationship.In the first phase of the alliance, to begin immediately, Metrocall plans to resell PageMart's advanced messaging services in areas where PageMart's narrowband...
NEW YORK-Propelled by its Digital One Rate plan, AT&T Corp. said total revenue from wireless services increased 19.4 percent for the third quarter compared with last year.AT&T Corp.'s third-quarter earnings were $1 per share on a diluted basis. Earnings increased 67 percent on the...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. Chairman George Carlo is expected to recommend early next year that basic scientific research be de-emphasized in the future in favor of post-market surveillance.Carlo announced that initial findings from radio-frequency radiation experiments do not appear to have identified a clear...
NABLUS, West Bank-Many who conduct business in this often-troubled region say peace would come much more quickly if they took over the responsibility from politicians. Cooperation in the wireless telecommunications sector appears to support that testimony.When Palestine Telecommunications Co. P.L.C., or Paltel, launches its...
LONDON-The GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) market in Egypt took a positive turn at the beginning of the year with an invitation for bids to build and operate a second mobile network. Now as the year is ending, cellular competition is set to...
Wireless local loop (WLL), originally defined as providing a local loop facility without wires, over the past few years has become synonymous with the term "fixed cellular," technology used to provide telephone service to end users in urban and semi-urban areas with enough potential...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam-While other countries in the region continue to liberalize their mobile phone markets, Vietnam will return to a status of near-monopoly by year-end.The merger of the two GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) providers, Mobiphone and Vinaphone, will tighten the...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The trunked-radio industry in Europe is making confident noises about future growth, with much of this optimism based on development of new applications arising from the TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) digital standard. Proponents hope the voice and data service capabilities of the digital...
SINGAPORE-Malaysia has launched a common antenna system in its newly opened Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), paving the way for future cooperation among cellular operators in projects around the country.The project, which started earlier this year, is the first development in the new regulatory...
WASHINGTON-The old adage maintains it's all about location, that the success of an investment depends on locale. And Latin America has been the locale of choice for investors looking for incredible growth rates and high demand for service. With several countries in the region...
BANGALORE, India-After almost a year of service, radio trunking in India is starting to look promising. Once a given-up segment, the industry had 4,000 subscribers nationwide as of March. And of the 27 companies with trunking licenses, 16 have 31 systems commissioned for services...
NEW YORK-Stock-market volatility has caused 160 companies that filed for initial public offerings this year, half of them in the third quarter, to delay or cancel those plans, according to Securities Data Corp., Newark, N.J.That's the good news. Now many of those same companies...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission agreed with law enforcement that five controversial features of new digital wiretap capabilities are within the law.However, the agency ruled three other capabilities are outside the law and on one other issue, the FCC chose not to make a decision....
NEW YORK-The current public capital crunch has slowed dramatically the buildout of some domestic wireless networks, but it hasn't changed the positive prospects for the wireless tower industry."We think there have been about 1,600 towers (total) awarded (by carriers) under build-to-suit contracts in the...
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Networks Inc. sold the second-largest initial public offering in history Oct. 22, raising $18.4 billion as its stock began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. sold one-third of its stake in the wireless carrier, which does...
Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. introduced three SmartDigital U.S.A. rate plans offering wireless calls for 20 cents to 25 cents per minute without roaming fees in more than 7,000 cities across the country. The monthly plans include 350 minutes of airtime for $60, 700...
WASHINGTON-In a flurry of legislative horse-trading capping the close of the 105th Congress, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) got a provision tucked into the fiscal 1999 omnibus budget bill enabling the Federal Communications Commission to retrieve swiftly licenses of wireless firms that...
While Nextel Communications Inc. remains the darling of the wireless industry these days, other specialized mobile radio operators are beginning to build successful businesses on plain old two-way dispatch voice service."There are people that don't need the bells and whistles and want a very...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry, while failing to get the digital wiretap grandfather date statutorily changed, appears to have been successful in getting written assurances included in the end-of-the-year spending bill that this date should be changed to correspond to the compliance date of June 30,...
While the debate around third-generation wireless technology to date has focused on which air interface to incorporate into the standard, leading wireless vendors brought up a few other crucial points at PCS '98 in Orlando that will have to be addressed at some point.Who...
Motorola Inc., remaining cautious about its financial outlook for 1998, said it likely will reach $7.9 billion in sales with earnings per share around 22 cents for the fourth quarter.The manufacturer, which implemented a restructuring program months ago, last week exceeded Wall Street's estimates...
ORLANDO, Fla.-"We here are circumscribed by a group that accepts and celebrates technology, but we are a very rare breed, a tribe that thinks it is uniquely important because our reality depends on it," said James A. Taylor, chief marketing officer for Iomega Corp.,...
WASHINGTON-An amendment that had the potential to change the outcome of the C-block auction has been killed.The C-block personal communications services amendment was attached to a slamming bill forwarded by the House Commerce Committee. But Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Commerce...
