MCI Communications Corp. is breaking out as an early favorite in the race to market with a one-bill offering.Washington, D.C.-based MCI has launched a one-number, follow-me service that includes cellular phones and pagers. It is branded MCI One and is being advertised nationwide."Americans feel...
May day, May day! Air-to-ground communications has just flattened out. That is, GTE Airfone Inc. is introducing flat rate pricing of $15 per call on any domestic call including voice, fax and data communications. The new plan will go into effect Wednesday.The average length...
NEW YORK-The success of Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile played a key role in prompting the recent merger agreement between Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp., said Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr., vice chairman of Bell Atlantic.Under terms of the April 21 definitive agreement, approved unanimously...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is set to intervene shortly in a Democratic Party power struggle for leadership of the new Telecommunications Development Fund, a potentially huge pool of money small businesses can tap into for wireless projects and other telecommunications ventures.The controversy, according to sources,...
Consolidation in the cellular industry is galloping ahead-now spurred faster by the 1996 Telecom Reform Act-but toward an uncertain future.The ten largest cellular carriers served nearly 27 million subscribers at year-end 1995, not counting the subscribers in the markets where they hold minority stakes....
MCI Communications Corp. surprised the industry when it opted not to participate in the 1994 government auction of new wireless licenses.But while MCI's competitors were giving billions of dollars to the U.S. treasury for that market opportunity, MCI was cracking a deal to buy...
If London-based Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc merge, the new enterprise could descend upon an auspicious Asian market and create a shake up among globally-footed wireless giants."This whole merger move is based on a wireless view of the world, because East...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. plans to offer cellular service in 20 new major markets by year's end, including Atlanta, Detroit and Miami. MCI currently buys cellular from both A- and B-side carriers and resells it in 10 markets covering 25 percent of the population. The...
Last month's passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 heralds the industry's most fundamental structural change since AT&T Corp. was split up in 1984. Traditional barriers separating industry sectors are crumbling. Wireless will play a key role in the industry's transformation. While few provisions...
WASHINGTON-The gloves finally are off in the fight for the most desirable C-block broadband personal communications services markets. Instead of taking the battle outside to duke it out, certain C-block bidders are using the Federal Communications Commission as the venue of choice.In a March...
Try this one on for size: You can't pay too much for a good wireless license or a good high-tech executive.This statement, mind you, is totally politically incorrect and goes against the grain of conventional wisdom, what with C-block PCS auction prices and executives' salaries...
Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible for customer acquisition and dealer development through the distribution and retail channel for AirTouch inland California and northern Nevada markets....
WASHINGTON-Regulatory parity and universal service participation were the two common issues addressed by those who submitted comments regarding the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow commercial mobile radio services operators to provide fixed local-loop services.Most advanced wireless carriers already have the right to provide...
An Indiana-based company bidding in the ongoing C-block auction of broadband spectrum asked the Federal Communications Commission to waive rules that prevent it from speaking to investors in entities that have dropped out of the auction.At press time, the FCC had not responded yet...
NEW YORK-Two major credit rating agencies have issued alerts about Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. securities following the company's Feb. 22 release of disappointing year-end 1995 financial results.Mtel, headquartered in Jackson, Miss., is the sixth largest paging company in the United States. Its core operation...
With two recent large acquisitions tucked under its belt, Arch Communications Group Inc. now intends to knit its coast-to-coast properties together with a common name to give the entity a collective feel and spark the interest of resellers.Last summer, Arch bought USA Mobile Communications...
To borrow an adage from the real estate business, the most important rule in the wireless communications industry is going to be brand name, brand name, brand name.In the quick aftermath of President Clinton's signing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, telecommunications giants are moving...
Two long-distance telephone service rivals have announced initiatives to provide wireless data access to their high-speed transmission networks.MCI Telecommunications Corp. said it will implement circuit-switched cellular access to its HyperStream Frame Relay network by the end of March. "MCI's HyperStream remote LAN dial access...
WASHINGTON-With the idea of wireless communications as a complement to traditional wireline residential and business service still fresh in the public's mind, the move toward wireless as a purveyor of local-loop service is closer than most people think.With some areas of Illinois, New York...
Sprint is the newest name in pag ing. Sound familiar? Yes, well that's the idea. Through a reseller agreement be tween Sprint Telecommunica tions Venture and Paging Net work Inc., Sprint Corp. plans to sell PageNet's services to its long-distance customers and others.The deal...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. made a $25 million loan to personal communications services hopeful U.S. AirWaves Inc., according to an interview with MCI's President Gerald Taylor published by Dow Jones Investor Service.Taylor reportedly said the loan was not an equity investment in the company. An...
CellStar Corp. said it formed a distribution relationship with Cellular One Group. The company said the agreement is a nationwide strategic cellular accessory program encompassing original equipment manufacturer products from Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Oki telecom, as well as...
WASHINGTON-Congress this week is expected to approve a controversial securities litigation reform bill that would limit the ability of investors to sue firms in the wireless telecommunications industry and in other high-tech sectors that fail to make good on bullish earnings and growth projections.The...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. introduced a package of network design and operation services the company says will let any local operator build and run a wireless business.Called networkMCI WIN (Wireless Integrated Network), the package will be offered to existing wireless companies and to companies that...
