IFR Systems Inc. has named Dr. Samual Kyehung Lee director of business development for the Pacific Rim. He will also be the management contact for all IFR distributors in mainland Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.Dr. Lee joined IFR in 1987 as...
Short forms are due today for designated entities, marking a giant and-finally-tangible step toward the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction of nearly 500 personal communications services licenses set for Dec. 11.About 25 DEs will actually make it to auction, and only a handful will...
Wireless technologies are critical to introducing true competition into the country's last bastion of telecommunications monopoly, according to market research by Action Information Services. Unlike today's analog cellular services that merely supplement traditional wireline service, new digital cellular and personal communications services will begin...
WHEATON, Md.-Replacement sales of cellular phones has emerged as a key market segment, yielding profit opportunities, according to market research analyst Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd., in the company's latest issue of "The Retail Market of Cellular Telephones."The quarterly study reported that from 1990 through...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, having failed to win support for switched wireless resale at an oversight hearing he chaired earlier this month, might pursue the issue as a member of the House-Senate conference committee on telecommunications reform."We're not ruling it out; we're considering it,"...
AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. announced they will begin combining their domestic cellular operations Nov. 1, initially by using the same support services. The companies will continue to remain separately owned, however, because of federal restrictions.The companies' Wireless Management Co., formed...
Kathy Maloney has been named director of the New Product and Service Development Lab at BellSouth Cellular Corp. Maloney previously was with IBM Corp. for more than 20 years, most recently developing international business.The company also has chosen two directors of new products and...
WASHINGTON - MCI Communications Corp. filed with the Federal Communications Commission protesting a proposed investment by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom AG in rival telecommunications provider Sprint Corp. until French and German telecom markets are opened to competition."Allowing foreign monopolists preferential access to the...
In-Flight Phone Corp. is having reliability problems with the FlightLink phone service it has installed in the planes of three major airlines."We're tracing the problem back to installation and we expect to resolve the matter in the next 30 to 60 days," said In-Flight...
VALLEY STREAM, N.Y.-Nationwide Cellular Service Inc. has scheduled a special meeting of its stockholders for Sept. 19 to vote on the proposed merger of Nationwide with MCI Communications Corp. Stockholders of record July 24, 1995, will be eligible to vote.MCI will pay about $190...
Editor's Note: The following information is a protion of a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released Aug. 10. From time to time, RCR prints investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., our Top Pick for...
WASHINGTON-Stepped-up lobbying by city, state and county officials and support from a top House Republican likely will weaken the Klug-Manton antenna siting amendment in the House-Senate conference on telecommunications reform legislation this fall.Rep. Thomas Bliley, R-Va., chairman of the Commerce Committee and chief sponsor...
WASHINGTON-Resale could become a powerful force in wireless telephony in the coming years, bringing an odd mix of competition and commerce to facilities-based carriers.Resale has experienced modest success in the 12-year-old cellular industry, but the infusion of more spectrum (120 megahertz) and new competition...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. turned itself into a national wireless powerhouse last week by signing cellular resale agreements with AT&T Corp., GTE Corp., BellSouth Corp., Frontier Corp. and the AirTouch Communications Inc.-Cellular Communications Inc. partnership known as New Par.The resale pacts build on MCI's $190...
MCI Communications Corp. is going to resell cellular service from arch competitor AT&T Corp? What is the world coming to?Chaos, I say.There is no orderly development in this brave new world of wireless telecommunications. Perhaps chaos is a side dish to progress.Even as the...
As the cellular marketplace prepares to shift from a duopoly to a business where more than a handful of providers may offer service, industry analysts agree competition for wireless customers is likely to ignite. Key cellular carriers that won big in the personal communications...
WASHINGTON-The cellular industry continues to be shaped by the forces of deregulation and regulatory parity mandated in 1993 legislation passed by the then Democratic-controlled Congress and implemented on an on-going basis by the Federal Communications Commission.The same trends are expected to continue as the...
The purchase of Nationwide Cellular Service Inc. is a good short-term strategy for MCI Communications Corp., but the nation's second largest long-distance company will need to acquire some infrastructure to become a competitive wireless provider, said a Virginia-based communications analyst.MCI announced plans to become...
WASHINGTON-U.S. District Judge Harold Greene will decide whether AirTouch Communications Inc., a wireless spin-off of Pacific Telesis Group, is held to restrictions imposed on the seven regional Bell telephone companies by the 1982 consent decree that broke up AT&T.San Francisco-based AirTouch, a top paging...
Thomas A. Barlett was named president of the Northeast regional territory for the Bell Atlantic Mobile and Nynex Mobile joint venture. Barlett will be responsible for sales, marketing, engineering, asministration, finance and network systems in the region, which includes all of New England and...
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee last week approved creating an industry-government panel to craft federal antenna siting guidelines and temporarily derailed a wireless resale proposal to regulate commercial mobile radio carriers like regional Bell telephone companies.The antenna siting measure, offered by Scott Klug, R-Wis., and...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications reform bill introduced in the House last week would give the seven regional Bell telephone companies more freedom to offer wireless long-distance service than offered by the waiver granted late last month by U.S. District Judge Harold Greene.The House measure, sponsored by...
Wall Street is cautiously optimistic about Craig McCaw's ability to work wireless wonders for Nextel Communications Inc., whose quest to convert radio dispatch systems around the country into one nationwide digital network has been fraught with technical, financial and legal problems in recent years.Despite...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. is seeking permission to make a secondary offering of 35.9 million shares of AT&T stock owned by BT plc.If the move is approved by the securities and Exchange Commission, it could be the largest secondary offering in U.S. history.BT, or British...
