Sorry Jay, the edge this week goes to your friends at CTIA again.That's right. Tom just hired himself some "tall timber" lobbying talent: Steven K. Berry, former chief counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ex-Bush administration lobbyist and now partner in the Holland &...
WASHINGTON-Most of the wireless industry still has not seen the entire Federal Communications Commission report to Congress on spectrum auctions, released Oct. 9, but those who have agree the commission is pushing for additional powers.Eighteen companies and organizations-including most of the industry's associations, a...
WASHINGTON-Following the House's lead, three Senate lawmakers have introduced legislation to curb frivolous class-action securities lawsuits against high-tech firms. Such cases have migrated to state courts since a 1995 law made it more difficult to bring such litigation to federal court.The Securities Litigation Reform...
Now that many personal communications services providers are operating in several cities, most are advertising better call clarity than users received with cellular analog service. But will call clarity remain an issue once cellular carriers begin to aggressively market the same digital features?If customers...
NEW YORK-With production of handsets now hitting the current 300,000 capacity mark during some weeks, Qualcomm Inc. announced second-quarter earnings and revenues April 21 that showed dramatic growth, while gross profit margins declined.Qualcomm, headquartered in San Diego, reported revenues of $586 million during the...
A C-block enterprise created by two Alabama telephone companies is methodically slipping into position to rival big-name wireless players in the Gulf Coast area.The telephone companies believe if they are going to lose landline customers to wireless offerings, they want to lose business to...
LISBON, Portugal-Concert plc, the company formed as part of the merger of British Telecommunications plc and MCI Communications Corp., and Portugal Telecom announced Portugal Telecom will exclusively distribute Concert's voice products in Portugal.Francisco Murteira Nabo, chairman of Portugal Telecom, said the alliance will allow...
Small- and medium-sized dispatch radio operators gathering at the 21st annual International Wireless Communications Expo this week in Las Vegas will recognize each other as the fierce competitors they are by day.But many, whether they know it or not, share a common bond: They're the...
Industry calls Arch one of strongest, most stable paging carriers, and securities analysts rate the company's stock "buy." But unlike other leading players talking up new voice and messaging services, there's no hoopla in Westborough, Mass., where Arch's management ambitiously but discreetly forms plans...
WASHINGTON-Vice President Gore's major-and questionably legal-role in Clinton administration fund raising raises more questions about whether telecommunications and trade policies continue to be compromised by campaign contributions from donors seeking a lane on the Information Superhighway.Gore, the most influential telecommunications policy voice in the...
The free-trade global telecom pact inked in Geneva two weeks ago represents the emergence of commerce as a powerful new diplomatic tool the United States will employ to export a broad range of democratic ideals and to advance strategic geopolitical goals abroad.What makes the...
WARREN, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. will use Agile Networks' data networking products to allow telecommunications service providers to combine voice and data services over a single public network.Lucent will combine the voice capabilities of its DDM-2000 Sonet multiplexer with the data capabilities of Agile's ATMizer-2000...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest Hollings (R-S.C.), in what amounts to a showdown with the Clinton administration, is mounting a campaign to condition Senate confirmation of U.S. Trade Representative-designate Charlene Barshefsky on passage of an amendment requiring legislation to implement the new global telecom pact and future...
MONTREAL-Dataradio Inc. purchased E.F. Johnson Co.'s Data Telemetry Division and formed the Johnson Data Telemetry Corp. to focus on the wireless data communications sector."This combination will have a tremendous impact on the market both in terms of services offered to customers around the world...
To the cynic, walking away from AT&T Corp. and the prospect of being chairman of the world's biggest telecommunications company to head a wireless start-up with unproven technology was no big gamble for Alex J. Mandl.Start with a $20 million signing bonus to launch...
NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast, according to participants in a panel Nov. 20 on wireless technology."No intelligent network platform is as reliable as a switch....
PARAMUS, N.J.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it reduced wireless telephone fraud in metropolitan New York City by 90 percent so far this year, using its authentication system and Corsair Communications Inc.'s PhonePrint radio frequency fingerprinting system.The company also announced it has reduced the lifespan...
Service Merchandise has agreed to add store-within-a-store facilities to 131 of its locations to sell Wireless Communication Centers Inc.'s wireless communications services and products. Wireless Communication Centers is a subsidiary of USCI Inc., a cellular and pager activation company. Bruce Hahn, chairman of USCI,...
WASHINGTON-The pending $21 billion merger between MCI Communications Corp. and British Telecommunications plc will turn on a relatively new foreign ownership policy and be shaped by powerful political forces that are conspiring to liberalize telecom markets for heavyweight global competition in the 21st century.The...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Advanced Signal Inc. has licensed the entire FLEX family of paging protocols from Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group. Advanced also is developing test equipment for the narrowband personal communications services market.The test equipment, named SIGNALpro, allows users to characterize the outbound...
WASHINGTON-An innovative government-subsidized program is placing schools, libraries, hospitals, local governments, public safety agencies, community organizations and other groups at the cutting edge of new wireless and wireline telecommunications applications.The Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program awarded 210 grants in 48 states, the District...
Hughes Network Systems Inc. aspires to accomplish a great deal more than just to supply $1 billion of network equipment to NextWave Telecom Inc."This goes beyond equipment supply. That's why we took the equity position," said Pradeep Kaul, executive vice president of Hughes Networks...
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...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Bellcore said its board of directors has not yet approved the sale of the company, although a California defense contractor is believed to be close to making the buy.Bell Communications Research Inc. was created in 1984 by the regional Bell operating companies following...
