MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communication Corp. signed a contract with OnQue Communications Inc. to supply Global System for Mobile communications wireless infrastructure equipment, which is earmarked for deployment in the Fort Smith and Russellville, Ark., basic trading areas.AirNet said it will supply a complete base station...
NEW YORK-The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission expects to hold a full public hearing at its next meeting, tentatively scheduled for May 20, on a proposed regulation to restrict the use of cellular phones by cab drivers."There has been a flurry of...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. will provide integrated wireless communications services, including cellular, paging and two-way radio, to the participants and organizers of the NATO 50th Anniversary Summit being held in Washington, D.C., April 23-25, the company announced.Motorola Inc. will provide more than 1,400 digital...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. formed an alliance with Amdocs, a customer care and billing provider, to implement new technologies to facilitate roamer data processing.The first solution to be implemented will be an improved wholesale roaming rating service, which will provide new services such...
CHICAGO-STPCS Joint Venture L.L.C., which markets its personal communications services through its D- and F-block licenses throughout south Texas as SOL Communications, joined the North American GSM Alliance L.L.C., becoming its 17th member."Joining the alliance ... gives us the ability to meet the wireless...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will hold a press conference April 19 at the Comdex show in Chicago to unveil what it called a major alliance of paging industry leaders.Although PageMart will not discuss the nature of the alliance, industry insiders speculate it will...
WASHINGTON-The re-auction of personal communications services licenses for the C, D, E and F blocks closed last week with participants bidding $412.8 million in 78 rounds, or about $3.60 per pop, according to BIA Consulting of Chantilly, Va.The Federal Communications Commission celebrated the end...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week told wireless carriers that bills to their customers must include their name, a phone number where billing questions can be answered, and carriers must use standardized language regarding federally mandated charges listed separately on bills.Wireless carriers are excluded...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile signed agreements with Lewiston-Auburn Cellular Inc. and Seacoast Cellular L.L.C. to purchase each company's 33.33 percent interest in the Portland and Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, metropolitan statistical areas.Bell Atlantic owns a 33.33 percent interest in the Maine general partnership, which operates under...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Corp. and Ascend Communications said they received antitrust clearance for their proposed merger from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission.The merger, announced Jan. 13, is expected to be completed in the quarter ending June 30, pending...
WASHINGTON-The Association of Public Safety Communications Officials Inc. last week kicked off National Public Safety Telecommunications Week by honoring two 911 dispatchers involved in lifesaving emergency calls.Missey Hammack of the Knox County Emergency Communications District was honored for her role in rescuing a 19-year-old...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. said it has assumed operations of Durango Cellular Telephone Co. in Durango, Colo., following its acquisition of the company on March 31, and is introducing an expanded calling area in northern New Mexico as well as enhanced rate plans and...
Personal communications services operator Aerial Communications Inc. managed to decrease its historically high churn rate during the first quarter, but customer additions were less than expected.Aerial added 20,000 customers during the first quarter, ending the quarter with 330,000 subscribers. The company's post-pay churn rate...
The Federal Communications Commission should narrow down in six months which frequency bands it could allocate for third-generation mobile phone services.The World Administrative Radiocommunication Conference is 14 months away, and the United States wants to forge a position on additional spectrum and which frequency...
The world's carriers are set to meet in Tokyo this week for another round of discussions on converging Code Division Multiple Access-based third-generation technology.The International Telecommunication Union adopted a framework in March resulting in a single flexible standard with a choice of multiple access...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. reported revenues of $1.1 million for the 1999 fiscal second quarter, compared with no revenues in the second quarter of 1998.Operating expenses for Leap Wireless operating companies for the second quarter were $36.2 million, compared with expenses of $3.6...
Don Buzzelli, president and chief executive officer of MessageLink Inc., Duluth, Ga., is looking to make a play in the paging industry's current consolidation stage.His plan is fairly simple-buy up a bunch of small but profitable paging carriers in lower-tier markets, unify them with...
Bell Atlantic Mobile announced a new flat-rate price plan for wireless Internet access based on its AirBridge Internet Access service. For $25 a month, customers receive unlimited e-mail access and full Internet access for $40 a month. Novatel Wireless Inc. announced a new smaller,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission was given some advice on FCC reform last week as Michael Kennedy of Motorola Inc. suggested the FCC create a spectrum management board comprised of bureau chiefs to examine the "impact of domestic and international spectrum allocation issues."The suggestion of...
NEW YORK-A panel of three federal judges heard arguments April 5 in an appeal of Federal Communications Commission siting and safety requirements for the placement of microwave cell sites for wireless telecommunications.The judges questioned attorneys for both sides critically and closely, allowing the clock...
Building on the convergence of voice and data networks, Wakefield, Mass.-based IPeria Inc. has developed an enhanced services platform designed to blend voice, fax, e-mail and video applications.The IPeria Service Node consists of enhanced services applications, modular software architecture components and industry standard hardware,...
AT&T Corp. plans to purchase Honolulu Cellular Telephone Co. from BellSouth Corp., another move in AT&T's plan to expand its nationwide coverage.The two companies signed an agreement Friday. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The companies expect the transaction to close in the...
L.M. Ericsson said it supports the third-generation TDMA proposal and a group of 3G CDMA technologies that accommodates three different modes and various chip rates.The statement comes just weeks after ending the deadlock with Qualcomm Inc. over rights to CDMA-based technologies. Ericsson and Qualcomm...
WASHINGTON-A federal court granted a stay request from the telecommunications industry for a 60-day hold of a lawsuit against the federal government over the implementation of the digital wiretap act.Briefs in the case were due last week, but on April 2 the Cellular Telecommunications...
