Succeeding plans for a two-year network expansion project, Mercury One 2 One intends to launch a multimillion dollar marketing and advertising campaign today aimed at new customers, with three flagship calling packages the company said deliver "the lowest running costs of any mobile phone...
On a recent trip across Europe to visit some of the major operators and manufacturers of the blossoming cellular industry there, I was asked to describe the state of the industry in the United States. Of course I spoke of the great advancements we...
Fueled by increasing safety concerns and customer demand, the cellular market has become the fastest-growing segment for speech-recognition use in the United States, according to industry analysts.Being able to command a cellular phone to "call office"-instead of requiring users to fumble for their handsets...
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...
The road to launching the first commercial personal communications services network in the United States, which American Personal Communications plans to do this fall, began at the Personal Communications Industry Association (then called Telocator) annual convention in Washington, D.C., in 1989. It is fitting...
Allen Telecom Group hopes that four new applications for its SmartCell will allow the company to attract business in areas that other manufacturers have ignored."I'm not sure the cellular carriers have adopted the microcell idea as they are looking for ways to improve capacity,"...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile is using the INReach wireless, in-building communications system developed by Motorola Inc. in its Wallingford, Conn., office.INReach is an interior wireless solution that connects digitally with private branch exchange or Centrex systems. The system uses a base station...
Cellular operators may have to continue to price digital service lower than analog to capture and keep customers until digital service matures and can offer advanced features, said cellular phone analyst Herschel Shosteck. But digital service has been accepted by users more quickly than...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel PCS Partners L.P. has selected Global System for Mobile communications technology for the personal communications services network that will be built by Powertel.Powertel paid $124.5 million for licenses for three major markets, Memphis, Tenn., Birmingham, Ala. and Jacksonville, Fla. InterCel Inc.,...
The Intercarrier Service Bureau of GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. and Radio Shack have teamed up to offer consumers out-of-market cellular network activation, GTE announced. Retail stores previously have only activated cellular phones for customers living within the store's market area. Radio Shack customers buying...
Launching personal communications services with a multitude of standards may be the way for industry to sort out the benefits of each technology, but it could set consumers up for chaos and confusion, said longtime wireless architect Jesse Russell.The AT&T Bell Laboratories engineer is...
WASHINGTON-Recent studies showing cellular telephones can interfere with cardiac pacemakers have prompted industry-funded research to see if next-generation, digital pocket phones pose a public health problem in the United States.Wireless Technology Research, a group financed by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and organized two...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association donated $50,000 worth of advanced telecommunications testing equipment to the U.S. Secret Service as part of an ongoing industry-government effort to crack down on wireless telephone fraud by small hackers and organized crime alike.The high-tech gear will be used...
More than 50 million people in the Asia-Pacific region will be subscribing to cellular services by the year 2004, and as many as 66 million will be carrying pagers, according to a new report from London-based CIT Research Ltd.In "Mobile Communications in Asia &...
An international cellular operator and a U.S. paging equipment provider have cellular and paging service up and running in Bulgaria, despite the former Eastern bloc government's sluggish efforts to privatize business.A Bulgarian joint venture led by Cable & Wireless plc purchased a cellular license...
Time Warner Telecommunications announced it will begin offering cellular phone service in Rochester, N.Y.-the company's largest cable television market-by reselling service from the city's B-side carrier, Rochester Telephone Mobile Communications.This will be the company's first move into the wireless market. Time Warner has conducted...
Gearing up for upcoming personal communications services auctions, Qualcomm Inc. has introduced several products based on its Code Division Multiple Access digital technology, including the company's first portable phone for the PCS market.Qualcomm's eight ounce QCP-1900 transmits radio frequency power at extremely low levels,...
WASHINGTON-With the number of people using mobile telephones increasing each year, federal regulators want to improve 911 emergency service for calls made over the airwaves, and could force carriers that fail to meet future government standards to put warning labels on handsets indicating their...
Nextel Communications Inc. is in search of a strategic partner to help finance its nationwide wireless communications network. But since MCI Communications Corp. backed out of its relationship with Nextel, the wireless operator has spent considerable time trying to calm Wall Street.Analysts dialed into...
A Boulder, Colo.-based company has teamed up with several North American cellular operators to develop standards that could lead to the development of so-called intelligent vehicle products.CellPort Labs Inc. plans to create, develop and license technology and products to expand wireless voice and data...
