NEW YORK-In its five-year history, Sales Staffers International Inc., Andover, Mass., has carved an unusual niche in the broader market of outsourced services for large corporations.Companies like AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., GTE Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. deploy its staff of veteran sales people...
As the popularity and penetration of wireless communications spreads throughout North America, wireless carriers increasingly will use mass-market retail outlets and their own direct channels to distribute handsets and services. Wireless consumers might put a cellular phone on their shopping list along with a...
This year's financial outlook appears gloomy for Motorola Inc., which released poor first-quarter results last week and told analysts this quarter's results won't look much better."The primary factors likely to prevent sequential earnings improvement include further gross-margin pressure from higher shipments of new cellular...
NEW YORK-Anyone who has tried to find a wireline pay phone or use a wireless handset at crowded public entertainment events can understand why International CellComm Corp. has found a lucrative niche providing portable cellular pay phone services.The Titusville, Fla., company was founded in...
BOSTON-Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it launched Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services in Washington, D.C./Baltimore alongside the company's Global System for Mobile communications network.Customers can trade in their existing GSM handsets for $25 credit toward a CDMA handset, said Sprint PCS. The company...
SnapTrack Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is attracting attention from some industry heavyweights with its Global Positioning System-based method for providing location-based services, including enhanced 911 service.Seven Code Division Multiple Access carriers are taking a serious look at what SnapTrack has to offer....
While the world continues to debate the mechanics of third-generation technology, many industry watchers wonder what business case, if any, this new technology will have for carriers.The International Telecommunications Union, a part of the United Nations that has put itself in charge of setting...
BOSTON-In terms of dollars and labor, wireless number portability will cost wireless carriers more than any other single issue, according to the Yankee Group in its recently released report, Wireless Number Portability: A Bowl of Cherries for Competition ... but Just the Pits for Everyone...
HALLANDALE, Fla.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced it expanded its Global System for Mobile communications network coverage to include Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Fla., and opened a flagship retail store in Coral Gables, Fla.Pricing plans start at $10 per month and handsets with...
BOSTON-The future of wireless reselling is based on the resellers' ability to realize economies of scale, provide a wide scope of services and achieve brand awareness, according to a recently published report by the Yankee Group.Titled "Wireless Resale: Is There a Future?," the report estimated...
Initially used as a tool to tap into the credit-challenged market, many carriers are finding that prepaid service is attracting more than those with bad credit.Many personal communications services carriers are reporting that as much as 50 percent of their subscriber bases are made...
Cellnet, a United Kingdom-based cellular operator, selected Brite technology to deliver its traffic information services to its subscribers. Cellnet's Traffic Line provides in-car traffic reports on a digital network direct to a mobile phone. A small receiver placed in the car notifies customers of...
HANOVER, Germany-Nokia Corp. introduced three new handsets for the 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications market this week at the Cebit '98 exhibition in Hanover, Germany.The Nokia 8810 weighs less than 3.5 ounces and features built-in data communications capabilities with infrared connectivity, call...
A new group consisting of personal computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies is developing a protocol for wirelessly connecting home appliances to PCs.The Home Radio Frequency Working Group's mission is "to enable the existence of a broad range of interoperable consumer devices by establishing...
The United Kingdom continues to dominate news related to Trans European Trunked Radio technology, as a company there recently took steps to offer the first and only commercially available network based on the technology.Dolphin Telecommunications, formerly known as TetraLink Telecommunications Ltd., announced it plans...
NEW YORK-Philips Consumer Communications L.L.P., has embarked on plans at home and abroad to market aggressively its new ISIS Advanced Mobile Phone Service/Narrowband Analog Mobile Phone Service handsets.The Dallas-based joint venture between Lucent Technologies Inc. and Philips Electronics North America Corp. began selling ISIS...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it reached an agreement with US/Intelicom and SecurFone America Inc. to provide prepaid cellular solutions for the U.S. market.The prepaid solution, called Buy-the-Minute, is scheduled for market launch on March 1. The service features USI-150 handsets with debit software provided by...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc. has put its money where its mouth is to support Internet content providers, whose creativity and innovation it sees as critical for sustaining and expanding the wireless telecommunications revolution."That is why is investing $100 million in a technology development...
ATLANTA-A new technological concept, branding campaign and line of products kicked off Sony Electronics Wireless Telecommunications Co.'s vision called D-WAVE for Digital Wireless Audio Visual Entertainment, at the Wireless '98 show here last week.The company's goal is to introduce, possibly by 1999, the D-WAVE...
BANGKOK-Although Thailand is the first country outside Japan to embrace PHS as a low-cost alternative to conventional mobile-phone service, commercial rollout of the system has been delayed until April at the earliest-five months after its scheduled launch.The operator, TelecomAsia Corp. plc, attributes the delay...
SINGAPORE-Lost accounts, lost jobs, lost profits, lost confidence: These words have been used to describe Indonesia's wireless industry, but they may not necessarily be true.Although it is undeniable that wireless telecommunications operators, such as Telkomsel and Satelindo, have been slapped with problems, including falling revenues,...
DENVER, United States-Competition in the world's cdmaOne handset markets is expected to heat up this year as more countries deploy commercial systems and manufacturers battle it out for market share.Ray Jodoin, senior analyst with InStat in Scottsdale, Arizona, expects some 8.9 million cdmaOne cellular...
Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under the brand names Praxiphone, Heliophone and Armoricom, announced TIW. With this acquisition, TIW's French...
