Paging Network Inc. has lowered its already-low prices for VoiceNow voice paging service in Dallas and is testing "a variety of pricing alternatives," said the company.Separately, the company announced it plans to launch VoiceNow service in Northern California and Nevada on April 14. To...
All the hoopla about security in wireless networks is focused, in most cases, on the capture of upfront, signaling information.When those codes are acquired, the phone can be cloned. It's an illegal activity that costs carriers a great deal of money.But what has not...
Aerial Communications Inc. launched its first U.S. personal communications services network in Columbus, Ohio.The company's Global System for Mobile communications service is available through company-owned retail stores as well as several national retailers, including Best Buy, Office Max, Radio Shack, Circuit City and Office...
NEW YORK-Prime Matrix Wireless Communications, a California-based cellular reseller, plans to sell publicly an $80 million issue of senior notes due 2004.Prime Matrix, headquartered in Calabasas, will be the largest cellular reseller in California after completing its announced acquisition of ComTech Inc. in Hayward,...
If you look at maps of the United States that depict the 1900 MHz coverage for the nation's three primary digital standards, it appears each standard will cover a great deal of the country.In the future, that is, because illustrations of coverage footprints are...
NEW YORK-With an initial public offering just completed and a move to larger facilities in Provo, Utah, imminent, NACT Telecommunications Inc. is moving ahead at full throttle to exploit its switch niche.Formerly known as National Applied Computer Technologies, the company began operations in Orem,...
Laws won't stop traffic accidentsDear Editor: I am sure that law enforcement will want to lead the way to safer driving by laying down their mobile radio microphones while operating their cruisers, and motorbikes.Sure they will.The police drive their cars at extreme speeds in all...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration, citing industry funding limitations, recommended the struggling wireless industry-funded bioeffects research program be redirected to give lifetime animal exposure studies highest priority and to expand scientific investigation beyond brain cancer to other diseases.But WTR head Dr. George Carlo said...
John Walier will manage customer sales accounts in Glenayre Western Multiplex's northeast region. He will focus on customers of the company's wireless interconnect products, primarily the Lynx family of spread spectrum microwave radios. Prior to joining Glenayre, Walier spent nine years with Microwave Data...
"The world's smallest PCS phone.""The world's lightest mobile phone.""The smallest and lightest CDMA phone in existence."The battle for the tiniest phone is no longer just a matter of shape and size. The technological standard used by the phone is now a clear differentiator.The new...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. became a licensee of the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. March 13, joining 200 other companies that pay the nonprofit organization to recycle nickel cadmium batteries, a mainstay of wireless communications devices. Products sold by participating electronics manufacturers carry the RBRC "Charge...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. today kicked off a hefty advertising campaign-expected to cost more than $20 million by the end of 1997-for its VoiceNow voice paging service, which started commercially in Dallas-Fort Worth several weeks ago.A mix of television, radio, newspaper, magazine and outdoor ads...
Motorola Inc. has signed another contract with a Chinese company that has been manufacturing and selling Motorola-labeled cellular infrastructure equipment in China since 1991."These arrangements aren't OEM (original equipment manufacturer)," said Tom Hinton, vice president and general manager of Motorola's Greater China Cellular Infrastructure...
WASHINGTON-Wireless industry-funded cancer research will last longer and cost millions of dollars more than originally planned and the Food and Drug Administration will assume a bigger role in establishing the remaining scientific agenda, according to key individuals associated with the program.This week two significant...
WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Wireless reseller NW Communications announced a partnership with Japan Radio Corp. Ltd., a JRC unit that manufacturers prepaid equipment. Together the companies are offering a prepaid cellular service called Pay N' Talk."We want our customers to view prepaid cellular equal to postpaid cellular...
SAN FRANCISCO-Results from a recent survey of wireless phone users showed personal communications services users are more likely younger, male professionals, while cellular users are more often older women, although all wireless users are more likely to use their phones for personal rather than...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO-Market segmentation and minimizing costs are critical success factors for wireless operators, and as countering forces, these topics were hot conversation at this year's Wireless '97 conference. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler hatched dialogue among four of the industry's carrier heads...
Now for some straight talk. Clinton II is over. Gore I may never come to pass. And the Gingrich GOP revolution has gone down in flames. So what. Big deal. Let 'em go. Who needs them, anyway. Good riddance.The real revolution is the spring-time...
SAN FRANCISCO-Noting there have been several false starts in the wireless PBX market, Allen Telecom Group last week introduced its SmartCell Dialogue Cellular PBX at Wireless '97 here.The Allen Telecom product addresses several obstacles cellular carriers have faced when trying to market a cellular...
While many winners of C-block personal communications services spectrum are months away from launching commercial service, Airadigm Communications Inc. is preparing to be the first C-block player to launch."We have 37 people on board that represent 270 years of telecom experience," said Senior Vice...
As buildout battles blossom across the nation, many industry leaders are coming to recognize that success in site acquisition requires a comprehensive strategy for maintaining good relations with communities.The smart money is betting that front-end investments in community outreach always yield far greater dividends...
In January, Greg Rosston and Jeff Steinberg released a staff working paper that clearly articulated how a market-based approach to spectrum management would maximize the public interest. That report informed my congressional testimony on spectrum management in February. The article below illustrates the principles...
Fear is a powerful emotion. It keeps people behind locked doors. It makes them give up their chance to find the love of their lives. It keeps them from pursuing their dreams and reaching their potential.When you consider the incredible impact fear has in...
