SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-NextWave Telecom Inc. added to its growing resale distribution chain last week by signing up prepaid provider One-Stop Wireless of America Inc., a move further enhancing resale's credibility and visibility in the wireless industry.One-Stop, of Irvine, Calif., agreed to buy 5 billion minutes...
President Clinton's electoral landslide victory over Bob Dole was anticlimactic for sure. "Building the bridge to the 21st century"-the Clinton-Gore campaign mantra-could be just as boring. It's what lies on the other side of the bridge that beckons great expectations.The telecommunications industry thinks it...
NEW YORK (AP)-British Telecommunications plc is negotiating to buy its U.S. partner MCI Communications Corp., CNBC reported Friday.The report said a deal could be announced as early as today and one analyst valued such a takeover at more than $20 billion.MCI confirmed the rumor...
The broadband personal communications services auctions held during the past two years have spawned a plethora of novel policy and fiscal issues for policymakers.The reason: $20 billion. Money changes everything, even in ways not altogether obvious. Federal regulators will insist licensing is still bound by...
WASHINGTON-Although oral arguments regarding the stay of the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection pricing plan are not scheduled until sometime in January, sparring on the issue continues between those who are benefiting from the stay and those who think they will be hindered."The telecom act...
The Mexican government has almost finished its first ever auction of radio spectrum for communications services.Mexico's new Federal Telecommunications Commission began taking bids on Oct. 21 for 36 paging licenses-nine nationwide and 27 regional-in the 900 MHz to 932 MHz range, said Gina Dalma,...
WASHINGTON-Antitrust policy is adapting to sweeping pro-competitive, deregulatory telecommunications reforms mandated by Congress, but not abandoning traditional oversight safeguards, one of the nation's top regulators said.The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are all shifting their missions, noted...
Tomorrow has always been a bit tricky to forecast. Did John Walter know on his first day at R.R. Donnelley that one day he would be picked to run AT&T Corp?Keeping that in mind, I give you my predictions for RCR's Top 20 PCS...
Powertel, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCel Inc., launched its personal communications services network in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and plans to launch service by Oct. 30 in Memphis, Tenn. PCS service began in Montgomery, Ala., and Jacksonville Fla., earlier this month, the company said. Several...
With its purchase of 355 kiosks in Sam's Club stores nationwide, MCI Communications Corp. has hands-on access to the consumer customer it seeks.Before obtaining entrance into Sam's, MCI's retail presence as a wireless reseller consisted of 37 storefronts. The stores originally belonged to Nationwide...
Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications" have invested perhaps $20 billion based on my promises about Code Division Multiple Access technology. This might be flattering if...
HighwayMaster Communications Inc. announced it reached an agreement with SBC Communications Inc. for a $20 million equity investment in HighwayMaster. The company said SBC's initial investment will be in preferred stock, which is convertible into common stock at the rate of $12.50 per share....
NEW YORK-Citing numerous customer complaints, the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Dallas has expelled Excel Communications Inc., a large reseller of wireline and wireless telephone services, from its membership.Excel officials met with Better Business Bureau representatives Sept. 23 to appeal the decision, but no...
NEW YORK-Within two years, AT&T Corp. and Sprint Corp. "will be the dominant wireless players," said Michael Elling, senior telecommunications analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., at a press conference Sept. 26.Today, he said, the United States telecommunications market is balkanized like the former Yugoslavia....
American Tower Corp. is expected to close soon on the acquisition of Prime Communication Sites L.L.C., which will give Texas-based American nearly 200 additional tower sites and complete the company's goal of creating "the first nationwide rental tower company."American Tower is the nation's largest...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded glory.While political action committee...
NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 1996.In a letter to shareholders, Robert E. Allen, AT&T chairman, said the company anticipates...
WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission's local competition and interconnection order in hopes of killing, or at least delaying, commission rules that they view as being anti-states' rights. And in the midst...
Sprint Corp., Sprint Spectrum L.P. and RadioShack announced they are teaming up to provide one-stop shopping for all Sprint-branded products.The companies have developed a "store-within-a-store" concept, whereby 15 percent of all RadioShack store floor spaces will be dedicated to Sprint products. Customers will have...
DALLAS-MCI Communications Corp. said it now can package business services a little more tightly under the networkMCI One program.MCI One is a suite of services offered to residential customers; networkMCI One is a similar package of services for businesses."We've been offering business these things,...
Corsair Communications Inc. appointed Dr. Donald R. Oestreicher vice president of engineering. Oestreicher will direct Corsair's efforts in product engineering, research and development. Oestreicher's background includes engineering management with Dow Jones & Co., Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Valid Logic Systems and Xerox Corp....
WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee last week scrutinized pending mergers involving four of the seven regional Bell telephone companies, setting the stage for a broader debate on whether the new telecommunications law is fostering competition or limiting it.There are strong views on both sides of...
NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, said it plans to go public by early autumn.The road show for the 5-million-share initial public offering of Class A common stock was under way last week, and the...
There is a plus side to targeted marketing, where companies and conservative groups have created win/win situations-where nobody gets hurt and nothing is compromised.Case in point: Vienna, Va.-based Cable & Wireless Inc., the U.S. arm of Britain's Cable & Wireless plc, recently struck a deal...
