AURORA, Colo.-Lucent Technologies Inc. has opened a state-of-the-art operations center in Aurora, Colo., to provide a wide range of network management services to telecommunications companies in the local, long-distance and wireless services markets.Called the Lucent Technologies Network Reliability Center, the facility allows service providers...
LONDON-The Cellular Service Provider Group of the Federation of Communications Services in the United Kingdom said it opposes the Office of Telecommunications' mandate that requires mobile phone operators to offer number portability in less than a year.The FCS' CSPG, which represents the interests of...
RESTON, Va.-Constellation Communications Inc. filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch an additional 46 satellites to operate in the 2 GHz frequency bands.The satellites will allow for high-speed digital transmission services at rates up to 28.8 kilobits-per-second, Group 3 facsimile, Internet...
ORLANDO, Fla.-For the first time in seven years, Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, was able to say, "We've turned the corner on fraud."Addressing some 700 attendees of the Wireless Fraud '97 conference here last Tuesday, Wheeler compared the industry's victory...
The whisper on Wall Street is turning into a roar.Suddenly, telecom stocks are "hot" again, springing back to life in recent weeks following a painful and prolonged two-year slump.Telecom stocks-Wall Street darlings during the early 1990s-had been taking something of a beating the past...
WASHINGTON-With last week's House vote supporting presidential renewal of most-favored-nation trading status for China, the focus shifts to Hong Kong-and its huge wireless-driven telecom export market that falls under Beijing rule tomorrow-and to the World Trade Organization.Both China and Hong Kong are strategic wireless...
Power Page L.L.C., an emerging paging carrier and reseller in Los Angeles, is not only giving away free pagers to acquire new customers, but is soliciting the help of all other Americans to do so too.In a half-hour informercial aired in 27 markets across...
MANCHESTER, N.H.-Summa Four Inc. said it intends to work with Dialogic Corp. on co-development and co-marketing initiatives. Dialogic manufactures high-performance computer telephony components.Under the name "Project Summa," the companies will cooperate in an effort to develop an integrated, telco-capable, programmable switching platform based on...
The consolidation of C-block personal communications services license holders has begun earlier than expected as five licensees have combined to form one partnership.Aer Force Communications L.P., Fortunet Wireless Communications L.P., High Country Communications L.P., New England Wireless Communications L.P. and Southeast Wireless, which together...
BALTIMORE-Statistics have shown that some 70 percent of calls made to 911 operators have nothing to do with life-or-death situations. People have been trained to call the number to gain immediate access to someone who may or may not be able to help. Although...
WASHINGTON-Celpage Inc., a top paging company that dominates the Caribbean region, last week challenged the Federal Communications Commission's universal service ruling in federal appeals court here."The FCC erred in its decision to require paging companies to contribute to the universal service fund," said Luis...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. has revealed a plan to build, launch and operate a satellite-based video and data network aimed at going head-to-head with the Bill Gates/Craig McCaw-backed Teledesic Corp. Paperwork filed at the Federal Communications Commission June 13 asked permission to compete against Teledesic on...
BRISTOL, England-Orange plc is introducing a number of communications services packages that address multiple user groups.The new services, which will be available within the next month, include simultaneous voice and text messaging with a number of users, conference calling and sharing of call plans,...
BOSTON-People are still slow to adopt wireless mobile data services, the Yankee Group reported. In fact, there has been no significant increase in the number of people who use wireless data services since last year, according to the company's 1997 Mobile User survey.Only 4...
NEW YORK-In an attempt to raise funds for a worldwide, low-earth-orbit satellite-based digital telecom system, Globalstar L.P. announced plans to sell $200 million of senior notes due 2004 in an exempt-from-registration offering.Globalstar hopes to build and launch 56 LEO satellites, as well as gateways...
NEW YORK-Bulking up for the coming battle of the Titans, Excel Communications Inc. announced it planned to acquire Telco Communications Group Inc. for about $1.2 billion in cash and stock.With $2 billion in revenues and 6.3 million customers, the combined company would be the...
NEW YORK-Iridium World Communications Ltd., which plans to launch a satellite-based global telephone and paging service, went public June 10, raising $240 million in an offering of 12 million shares of Class A common stock at $20 per share.Iridium plans to begin offering service...
NEW ORLEANS-The integration of wireline and wireless capabilities into the local loop "may not happen the way we all envision it," said John Woodward, director of program implementation for GTE Wireless Corp. in Atlanta. Rather, he added, "it may be taken over by such...
NEW ORLEANS-Now that all three of soon-to-be-former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt's Telecommunications Act of 1996 implementation goals-universal service, access-charge reform and interconnection-have been completed in at least bare-bones form, the critics continue to lambaste the commission's decisions as being deterrents to growth...
Smartalk Teleservices Inc. rocketed into the prepaid calling card big leagues last week, virtually doubling in size with the acquisitions of GTI Telecom Inc. and SmarTel Communications Inc."The purchase of these two companies demonstrates that Smartalk is executing on its plan to be a...
In a number of "hot" markets around the country, a tidal wave of demand for new personal communications services is swamping some companies' customer service departments-forcing scores of would-be customers to spend as much as an hour on hold as they try to activate...
GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. has signed a contract for its wireless prepaid calling service with Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, which will offer the service to more than 1 million consumers in a 31-county area in the two states. Cellular One's offering...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s plan for a digital personal communications services nationwide network has finally kicked off.After receiving its long-awaited shipment of dual-band, dual-mode handsets from Ericsson Inc. last month, AT&T began offering its Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz last week in Phoenix...
Noise/Com Inc. introduced its BS-800 Dual Interference Signal Generators to aid in interference testing of Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access base stations. The products include two synthesized CW signal generators and all necessary radio-frequency components including attenuators and switches, to...
