VANCOUVER, British Columbia-ADC Telecommunications Inc. has licensed PCS Wireless Inc.'s in-building distributed antenna array product line, Cellular MEX/BEX.MEX/BEX is a low power, radio frequency signal repeater that extends distribution of RF signals from base stations or cell repeaters, said PCS Wireless. The product allows...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry is leery of a new budget-driven, flexible-use auction proposal that could create more competition for carriers on Main Street and Wall Street.The auction of the 2305-2320 MHz and 2345-2360 MHz bands has to begin by April 15 and must be...
ABILENE, Texas-Specialized mobile radio provider Pittencrieff Communications Inc. said recent consolidation of its sales and service centers negatively impacted its third quarter results. However, Warren Harkins, chairman, president and chief executive officer of the company, said he expects the closings and consolidations to enhance...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Tele-communications Services Inc. has designed an animated electronic presentation on computer disk to promote its ChurnManager system.The disk, called "Wireless Romance, or The True Life Story of Senseless Customer Churn," is part of a direct mail campaign that is being distributed to...
When Metrocall Inc. reported third quarter earnings, the company also said it has shifted its course toward increasing revenue per unit and away from expansion in the reseller channel.For the last several years, Metrocall has pursued an aggressive course of acquiring carriers and signing...
WASHINGTON-Pocket Communications Inc. has selected Danet Inc. as its nationwide billing and customer care software provider. Danet will install customized billing software and systems, which will enable pricing and packaging of personal communications services features such as voice mail, data, fax and short messaging."Part...
Digital service may not be the carrot that attracts consumers to personal communications services and digital cellular providers.According to a study by Economic & Management Consultants International Inc., 73 percent of existing wireless phone users in the United States believe they have digital wireless...
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...
The broadband personal communications services auctions held during the past two years have spawned a plethora of novel policy and fiscal issues for policymakers.The reason: $20 billion. Money changes everything, even in ways not altogether obvious. Federal regulators will insist licensing is still bound by...
NEW YORK-DataLink Systems Corp. has launched QuoteXpress securities information service via pagers for commercial use in the United States.DataLink, now a public company headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has more than a thousand customers in Canada where the company was started in 1993, said...
There won't be many big-time losers among the A- and B-block carriers, wireless analysts say."They'll probably all make it, but the question is how well will they make it," said John Bensche, equity researcher for CS First Boston's wireless communications division.More than a half...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Computer Co. plans to target infrastructure monitoring in the wireless sector with its recently unveiled JavaStation network computer.A lower-cost alternative to the personal computer, the JavaStation network computer is available for between $750 and $1,500. Java is Sun's programming language that...
Twelve of the 84 companies that won C-block licenses for personal communications services are still waiting to receive their license in hand.The Federal Communications Commission has issued 10-year licenses to 78 companies for 30 megahertz of spectrum at 1.9 GHz.The conditional licenses were granted...
Centennial Cellular Corp. began marketing its cellular communications products and services under the name Centennial Wireless throughout its properties. The company formerly used the Cellular One trademark. Centennial is bolstering the name change with an advertising campaign including newspaper, radio and television advertising.TekNow Inc....
The introduction of new digital cellular and personal communications services standards in the United States and global markets has brought to bear the issue of multimode and multiband wireless handsets.Shying away from the continuing and unproductive debate between the proponents of various digital standards,...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Corp. decided not to bid on a potentially lucrative government-wide wireless telecommunications contract, called Federal Telecommunications Service 2000, stating the procurement contract put forth by the General Services Administration earlier this year constitutes "de facto regulation of the wireless industry."The giant joins rival...
WASHINGTON-Antitrust policy is adapting to sweeping pro-competitive, deregulatory telecommunications reforms mandated by Congress, but not abandoning traditional oversight safeguards, one of the nation's top regulators said.The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are all shifting their missions, noted...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and the Personal Communications Industry Association filed petitions at the U.S. Supreme Court late last week to vacate the stay imposed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Oct. 15.Specifically, the FCC's petition, filed by the U.S....
Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network in the Philippines.Motorola said the network will supply service in the southern and western Mindanao regions, located in the southern...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum's services. PCS license winners must relocate microwave systems that currently occupy spectrum allocated to PCS by the Federal Communications Commission.According to the agreement, Columbia...
When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor. AirTouch Communications Inc. said it will launch its Code Division Multiple Access cellular network on the same day and in...
DALLAS-HighwayMaster Corp. will install 2,000 mobile communications systems in AmeriTruck Distribution Corp.'s fleets nationwide, HighwayMaster said.AmeriTruck Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lawrence said several options were considered including a satellite system the company already was using. "One of the frequent messages sent on...
The Northeast regional office of ProNet Inc. is raising prices for some of its smaller resellers to $5 per number. The company believes the rate increase may drive these resellers to do business with ProNet's larger, preferred resellers.The new rate, which goes into effect...
