FORT WORTH, Texas-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced plans to establish a national customer care center and a regional headquarters for its personal communications services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.The customer care center, scheduled to open later this year in Fort Worth's Mercantile Center Business Park,...
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with lighter-than-air platforms.Sky Station International Inc. of Chantilly, Va., applied to the Federal Communications Commission...
Great Britain's Office of Telecommunications said it is exploring the possibility that wireless phone operators Vodafone plc and Cellnet are charging local telephone operator British Telecommunications plc unfair interconnect rates."Oftel is concerned that Cellnet and Vodafone may be exploiting the market power they enjoy...
WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and senior discounted notes sale in the near future. What may garner the carrier some unwanted questions in the process are...
WASHINGTON-National Telecom PCS Inc., which continues to battle to regain its C-block personal communications services license for American Samoa rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission, last Friday filed a petition to deny all C-block licenses granted to DCR PCS Inc.In its petition, NatCom charged...
The Belgium government said it will require Belgacom S.A. to match the $286 million fee its competitor Mobistar will pay to operate its Global System for Mobile communications system in the country. However, Belgacom Mobile objects to the fee, and said it plans to...
WASHINGTON-While most wireless operators and manufacturers are planning for only a scant three to five years down the road, the Federal Communications Commission, according to Common Carrier Bureau economist Gregory Rosston, already is wondering how it will make spectrum available to new and incumbent...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission said cost savings should be considered regularly in antitrust analysis of high-tech mergers, such as the multimillion dollar deals sweeping the telecommunications industry. But it is not clear whether the policy changes being contemplated will help or hurt consumers and...
Socket Communications Inc. has introduced PageSoft for ACT!, an add-on software package that employs existing wireless paging networks to deliver time-critical text and data to ACT! mobile users. ACT! is a contact management software package developed by Symantec Corp. PageSoft for ACT! allows users...
WASHINGTON-Wireless services still haven't figured into the unserved, underserved, high-cost and rural area matrix in a significant manner when it comes to universal service.Meeting at the Federal Communications Commission June 5, the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service focused on how much it will...
Smaller C-block licensees with only a handful of permits say they're confident of making a profitable business from the properties they have, disregarding naysayers who claim a wireless business must be big to survive."There's an assumption that small bidders are afraid to go it...
Dear Editor: Once again it is necessary to correct the misinformation which you are giving your readers regarding the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's efforts relative to Wireless Telecommunications Research L.L.C. Your May 27 story, "Research fund may fall $4M short of goal," is wrong, principally...
ArrayComm Inc. announced it received a U.S. patent for its Spatial Division Multiple Access intelligent antenna technology-the brains behind the company's IntelliCell products. The company also announced its IntelliCell Wireless Local Loop system is commercially available.IntelliCell uses spatial and temporal parameters to decipher antenna...
I have the distinction of being born and raised in Williston, N.D., which has the distinction of being won by the man with the fewest bidding options in the recent C-block auction for personal communications services.The man who won the license, Vincent McBride, has...
WASHINGTON-The United States Telephone Association continues to fight against any federally mandated rollback or eradication of interconnection fees that wireless companies must pay to local exchange carriers to terminate wireless calls on LEC networks."We are concerned about the possible direction of the process ......
WASHINGTON-Opinions are split when it comes to shortening the voluntary negotiation period between microwave incumbents and C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licensees. Several commenters on the proposed Federal Communications Commission amendment also would allow reimbursing incumbents to relocate links on their...
Reflection Technology Inc. has completed a $10 million round of private funding from a series of new and existing investors. "This round of financing will allow us to accelerate our growth in the wireless communication and interactive entertainment markets and continue to develop our...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's renewed effort to foster diversity in wireless telecommunications could collide with election-year politics as Republicans that control Congress and Democrats that occupy the White House struggle with the politically explosive affirmative action issue.The FCC, acting on a mandated provision in...
It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...
Geotek Communications Inc. is a new kid on the block, not tied to any traditional distribution system and not bound by "this is the way we've always done it" thinking.Unlike its two-way radio competitors, Geotek has no previous customer base - no analog customers...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
There is enough room in today's marketplace of specialized products for both traditional paging and the handset messaging offered by new 1800 MHz wireless operators and digital cellular operators, analysts say."Consider the microwave oven," said David Abraham of David Abraham & Co., Westport, Conn.,...
It is said that when you provide a valuable service at a fair price, you'll always have customers. Such is the personality of paging.In the last year more than ever, the industry has recognized that two-way paging and other wireless services, feature-rich as they...
NEW YORK-Mentor Graphics Corp. plans this summer to begin selling a new generation of electronic design automation software, developed with Nokia Corp., that officials of both companies say will dramatically speed time to market for new electronics products.Known as Seamless Co-Verification Environment, the new...
