Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of Westlink Holdings Inc. The acquisition expands Arch's operations to a total of 38 states and 90 of the largest markets in the United States, the company said."We're clearly in the top tier now...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's new application freeze has created a major rift in the paging industry, the second major wireless sector to feel the big chill from Chairman Reed Hundt's auction embrace.The latest application freeze, imposed Feb. 9 on all paging carriers except those...
Motorola Inc. has introduced a lightweight, flip-top cellular phone that can be worn on a belt holster or armband. Weighing 3.1 ounces, the StarTac operates on two miniaturized batteries. When one battery's power is depleted, the other battery automatically provides power without interrupting a...
Low-tier systems that bill themselves as "the way PCS was supposed to be" are entering the market with the hope of providing low-power, low-cost personal communications services.The industry's second PACS partnership has formed between NEC America Inc. and Bell Communications Research Inc. The two...
Editor's Note: This letter was sent to several U.S. Congressmen by the owners of Americell Communications.To the Editor: Americell Communications is a medium- to small-sized specialized mobile radio company operating in the 800 MHz frequency spectrum. We started our business on May 25, 1991, with a...
Wireless operators continue to line up behind one of the seven technologies that will be used for personal communications services, solidifying the formation of PCS technology camps and leading to several arms-length partnerships.The most recent protocol announcement came from Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Inc.,...
A new industry association has been formed to promote and advance the Personal Access Communications System standard as the preferred solution for the emerging 1.9 GHz personal communications services market in the United States.The PACS standard is based on Time Division Multiple Access digital...
Yet another wireless technology is knocking on the door of the U.S. personal communications services marketplace, with the promise of wireline quality voice service.Actually, the low-power, microcellular PACS Edge system is making a few distinctive claims. It doesn't claim to offer full-blown PCS or...
FORT LEE, N.J.-Tri-State Radio Co. announced deployment of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX high speed paging protocol on its East Coast and West Coast regional paging networks."The rapid growth of our markets necessitated an advanced protocol solution. We chose the FLEX protocol because it is the...
InterDigital Communictaions Corp. said it received an order for UltraPhone digital wireless local loop equipment valued at $17.6 million from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. Installation in metropolitan Manila is scheduled to begin the second half of this year. The Myanma Posts and...
True, America views the nation's capital with a jaundiced eye. And well it should. The system is broke and needs fixing. Lobbyists, special interest money and lawmakers-for-life control the ways and means by which business-as-usual is carried out on Capitol Hill. It is pronounced...
Recent research on cellular subscriber churn conducted by customer satisfaction powerhouse J.D. Power and Associates calls into question the industry's "more-is-better" approach to retail distribution of service.J.D. Power for years has conducted customer satisfaction studies for a broad range of consumer products and services,...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-The ability to transmit video over cellular will give two U.S. television stations the edge in receiving breaking news from remote sites, according to two cellular carriers.Bell Atlantic Mobile said it has teamed up with cable station Newschannel 8 in the Washington, D.C.,...
Superconducting Core Technologies of Golden, Colo., believes it has developed an industry first-a superconductor that is automatically tuned by microprocessors to allocate frequencies and improve channel re-use."We are committed to demonstrating that so-called virtual manufacturing companies can efficiently work with the public laboratory system...
As the dust settles from the recent double-header, pre-auction alliance ballgame, another Mighty Casey is in position to crack the bat at December's auction of broadband personal communications services licenses.Sprint Corp. recently announced a grand slam alliance with three cable companies-Tele-Communications Inc., Comcast Corp....
The price GTE Corp. is offering for publicly held Contel Cellular Inc. shares was set arbitrarily, does not take into account that the company's profits are expected to increase and places an artificial lid on the market price for the stock, enabling GTE to...
Cellular carriers and manufacturers need to appreciate the value of analog technology well into the future if they want to succeed, said industry consultants at an annual strategic cellular and wireless radio seminar.For the first time in the seven-year history of the seminar, presented...
