HOUSTON-Equiva Services L.L.C., an affiliate of Shell, and TruePosition Inc. signed an agreement to jointly develop and market location-based services and applications using the TruePosition Wireless Location System.Under terms of the agreement, the companies will combine efforts to accelerate deployment of wireless location systems...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc., a provider of chipsets, software and intellectual property to the wireless industry, said it received investments from two venture capital firms.Boston-based Greylock and Lucent Venture Partners, the capital arm of Lucent Technologies Inc., are collaborating in the PrairieComm investment, said...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission set the stage for auctioning nearly 500 returned C-block personal communications services licenses next March, agency lawyers successfully fought lenders Friday in Baltimore bankruptcy court to recover most of the 43 licenses held by Pocket Communications Inc.Judge E. Stephen...
Alltel Corp. said it acquired Armstrong Cellular Inc.'s 15-percent interest in a network the two companies operate in Charleston, W.Va. Alltel now has 100 percent control of the operation. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company also said last month it launched...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced Mark Golden, senior vice president of industry affairs, is leaving the association as of Dec. 3 to become executive director of the National Court Reporters Association.Golden served as acting PCIA president in 1994 and was responsible for...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration will brief the Senate Finance Committee this week on mobile phone trade and standards policy, a meeting prompted by intensified lobbying by Global System for Mobile communications advocates and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to Congress and the White...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson unveiled a mobile positioning system for Global System for Mobile communications networks that uses network idle time to calculate the position of a mobile subscriber on a given network.The server-based technology allows positioning services to be deployed in any GSM network...
The mere idea it may one day be possible to connect computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices to share voice and data transmissions without the need for cables has brought together some of the industry's heaviest hitters under the umbrella of the Bluetooth...
Three personal communications services licensees last week agreed to consent decrees with the U.S. Department of Justice concerning alleged collusion during the Federal Communications Commission's 1996 D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auctions.The consent decrees reached with Omnipoint Corp., Mercury PCS II L.L.C....
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it plans to brand the AT&T name in Los Angeles by next year.The company recently gained management control of Los Angeles Cellular under an agreement with BellSouth Cellular Corp. to consolidate ownership of their jointly owned cellular properties...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it plans to brand the AT&T name in Los Angeles by next year.The company recently gained management control of Los Angeles Cellular under an agreement with BellSouth Cellular Corp. to consolidate ownership of their jointly owned cellular properties...
Rural Cellular Corp. Rural Cellular's revenues increased 103 percent to $34 million from $16.8 million during last year's third quarter. Net loss for the quarter totaled $4.5 million, or 50 cents per share, compared with net income of $621,000, or 7 cents per share,...
While Iridium L.L.C. continues work to improve the technical prowess of its low-earth-orbit satellite-based global phone service, the company also must turn its attention to its global sales and marketing effort.In the first week following the system's commercial activation, several of Iridium L.L.C.'s international...
WASHINGTON-Franklin Haney, a Tennessee developer closely tied to Vice President Gore and a central figure in Portals investigations, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of setting up straw donors to contribute to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign and the campaigns...
NEW YORK-Conventional wisdom may hold that scale is superior when it comes to carriers and miniaturization is most desirable when it comes to handsets. However, neither attribute necessarily implies long-term profitability, said David A. Freedman, managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., New...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced expansion contracts with Singapore Telecom and Chongqing Telecom and the Hebei PT in China.Ericsson plans to expand SingTel Mobile's Global System for Mobile communications network to another 800,000 subscribers, under a contract valued at more than $35 million. SingTel's network...
WASHINGTON-Well, the game is over and the fat lady has sung. But who won and what does it mean for the wireless telecommunications industry?The easy answer is that nothing has changed really. Indeed, since Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.)-ranking Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee-won...
Cellular carriers have made significant progress in their efforts to upgrade their 800 MHz analog networks to digital technology.Consumers' appetite for digital features is demonstrated by the success of digital pricing plans such as AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate plan, said industry...
Aggressive digital pricing plans are quickly driving the migration of customers from analog service to digital service, say analysts."We attribute today's successful migration directly to rate plans combined with solid products," said Richard Siber, head of Andersen Consulting's wireless practice in Boston. "The features...
CHICAGO-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. lowered the senior debt rating of Sprint Corp. from A to BBB+.Sprint's commercial paper rating also has been lowered from D-1 to D-2. Likewise, Sprint Capital Corp.'s senior debt rating has been lowered from A to BBB+, and...
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. announced new national and regional service plans that provide service for one low rate, without roaming or toll charges.Rates for the new Digital PCS (personal communications services) plan are as low as 10 cents per minute. The regional plans...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp., Carrollton, Texas, announced Nov. 5 it has signed a memorandum of understanding to settle with the State of Wisconsin Investment Board lawsuits filed against the company for alleg'ed securities fraud in 1996. The state of Wisconsin was the lead plaintiff in...
WASHINGTON-In the post-telecom-act era, the cellular telephone industry continues to face intertwined challenges of policy and perception.On the one hand, the Federal Communications Commission wants to foster the local competition goal of the 1996 telecom law.To date, the only evidence of telecom service choice...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Despite its drive for a competitive and liberalized market, Brazilian regulatory agency Anatel finally succumbed to market pressures and postponed to Jan. 15, the tender of licenses to operate one long-distance and three fixed-line "mirror," or competitive, companies because of the financial...
