NEW YORK-The Telecommunications Executive Leadership Council, a group of 18 executives, is working with Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. and The Economist to analyze factors critical to success in the next century.The council has met twice, most recently in February, to identify key issues for...
WASHINGTON-Spain's Telefonica has announced it will partner with United States-based WorldCom and MCI in a partnership for future business ventures in Europe and the Americas. This follows the collapse of Telefonica's planned relationship with British Telecommunications plc.The three companies said the new relationship builds...
Consumers in Cincinnati for the first time will be able to purchase local, long-distance, personal communications, Internet and satellite TV service from one provider and receive their charges on one bill. The service begins May 1.Cincinnati Bell Wireless, the subsidiary of local phone provider...
Ameritel Communications Inc., a wireless reseller owned by USCI Inc., has quickly and quietly become a weighty presence in the resale industry. The company, which began last year with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, now estimates it supports about 40,000.At the end of the third...
DALLAS-3COM PalmPilot users can send numeric or alphanumeric pages and personal or group e-mail messages directly, using One-Touch software by JP Systems Inc., the software provider announced.The One-Touch application is a combination of software and cable products that integrate wireless communications with AccessLink two-way...
WASHINGTON-While call blocking may be the easiest and quickest way of preventing pay-phone operators and long-distance carriers from charging excessive access fees on toll-free calls to messaging providers, all three industries realize that implementing this feature may be impossible in a global sense, and...
Many telecommunications companies are banking on the fact that consumers want their long-distance, local, Internet, wireless and cable TV services-or some combination of these-bundled on one bill.Regional Bell operating companies, as well as long-distance and wireless companies slowly are moving toward the process, offering...
WASHINGTON-NAACP President Kweisi Mfume last week predicted "widespread boycotts" of major wireless firms that are found to have poor records of hiring and promoting African Americans.The Economic Reciprocity Initiative, which also covers wireline carriers and eventually could encompass the entire telecom industry, follows the...
By focusing on technology strengths and weaknesses, industry veteran Kevin Reynolds believes his newly created consulting firm-PCS Maze Inc.-can safely guide a company through the technical labyrinth that causes so many to lose their way.Reynolds has a long history in the communications industry. He...
AT&T Corp. is expected to announce to analysts today its operating strategy for the year that will include as many as 19,000 layoffs, management restructuring and the integration of its wireless business with its long-distance, local and Internet service divisions, reported the Wall Street...
NEW YORK-Allen B. Salmasi, chairman and chief executive officer of NextWave Telecom Inc., went to Wall Street on Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday to seek support for use of tax certificates to encourage minority business ownership of radio-frequency licenses.The occasion for Salmasi's presentation was...
NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc.'s early October offer of $35.28 billion for MCI Communications Corp. was by far the single largest merger of any kind announced not only during the fourth quarter of 1997 but also for the entire year.The WorldCom-MCI pairing accounted for nearly two-thirds...
The effects of Bell Nino, which jumped on the radar screen in Wichita Falls, Texas, New Year's Eve, are being felt in the nation's capital.The Bells and U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall prove venue shopping has its rewards. Thanks to Good Ol' Joe, the...
NEW YORK-SBC Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. won their legal challenge to the constitutionality of part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.The carriers had asked Judge Joe Kendall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Wichita Falls...
MCI Telecommunications, the communications services unit of MCI Communications Corp., has indicated some of its wireless employees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area may soon be looking for new jobs.In a letter obtained by RCR written to Dallas-area wireless companies, the wireless reseller giant announced...
1. Jan. 6NextWave awarded its PCS permitsIn a decision almost surely headed for the appeals court, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday conditionally awarded NextWave Personal Communications Inc. its C-block licenses after NextWave submitted a plan to bring its foreign-ownership percentages into federal compliance.2....
WASHINGTON-The government is expected to begin collecting subsidies from all eligible telecommunications providers this week for the universal service fund.The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted an order outlining the amount of money it plans to raise during the first six months of 1998 for...
Sprint Corp. reportedly is intensifying its search for a European partner to construct a possible merger or partnership scheme that could give the long-distance carrier enough cash to buy out its cable partners in the personal communications services business.Analysts close to the situation indicate...
Reps. Tom Bliley (R-Va.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) apparently have had it with rope-a-dope delays by Franklin L. Haney. Haney, as you may recall, is the Tennessee investor-developer and pal of Al Gore who is suspected of paying $1 million to Peter Knight, another...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced users of the AccessLink two-way data messaging pager, made by its recently acquired wholly owned subsidiary Wireless Access Inc., can connect to 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot via the One Touch application software and cable from JP Systems Inc.The connection...
ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for building and enhancing strategic partnerships and corporatealliances as well as developing pre-initial public offering strategies and communications for the privately...
Nearly one year after British Telecommunications plc and MCI Communications Corp. announced plans to merge, MCI last week terminated the agreement and accepted a $37 billion stock offer to merge with WorldCom Inc.The agreement, which is subject to approvals from the Federal Communications Commission,...
The country's three largest long-distance phone companies-AT&T Corp., MCI Communications Inc. and Sprint Corp.-have each announced they are offering their 800-number customers the ability to block toll-free calls originating from pay phones.This blocking service is considered crucial to the paging industry, which has been...
As far as first press conferences go, new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard did well. In fact, he was nearly flawless as far as these thing go. Relaxed, composed and confident (good eye contact and understated head and hand movement), Kennard was in...
