WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile refuses to throw in the towel on antenna siting and continues to fight for sites the company claims are necessary for coverage. In two cases, opponents see their actions as intransigent and perhaps even threatening. In another case, BAM has been...
ADC Telecommunications Inc. said the NewNet CALEAserver tests on JSI Telecom's digital collection platform used by policing agencies, called VoiceBox, were successful for compliance with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act."Deployments of the CALEAserver offering will begin in 1999. Law enforcement agencies equipped...
SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. announced it received contracts from Price Communications Wireless Inc. and Cellular One in San Francisco to provide its enhanced 911 solution, which delivers the 10-digit number and general location of wireless emergency callers to public safety answering point operators.Both carriers will use...
ATLANTA-UPS Worldwide Logistics said it established the Wireless Industry Group to create supply-chain management solutions for cellular equipment manufacturers, retailers and wireless network providers.The group's mission is to make it possible for UPS' wireless customers to extend the life of their existing products, deliver...
MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. announced it reached a definitive agreement to purchase AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Norfolk, Va., personal communications services operations for an undisclosed amount. The Norfolk market will add 1.8 million pops to Triton's subscriber base, bringing it to more than 14...
The House Commerce Committee last Thursday added three wireless amendments to a bill to protect consumers from unauthorized changes by their long-distance providers. The amendments are intended to stem the C-block debacle, ensure competition in three rural areas and set a deadline for the...
BOULDER, Colo.-SignalSoft Corp., a software developer for wireless services, launched its local.info product, a location-based application that will provide personalized, localized information to wireless customers.Local.info will provide to subscribers real-time information from the Internet via voice recordings or live through call centers, said the...
WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee, amid legislation to shift satellite export licensing from the Commerce Department to the State Department and new signs that China plans to curtail wireless telecom trade, last week downplayed the prospect of including alleged technology transfers in any impeachment inquiry...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is at a "watershed point," and is now beginning to compete in earnest with wireline telephony, said Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. The industry is entering the fourth wave of its development, Wheeler said, noting the four...
CHICAGO-Ameritech Cellular Services and IBM Corp. announced they have agreed that IBM will offer Ameritech's wireless data communications as part of IBM customers' systems integration projects.Under terms of the agreement, IBM will market Ameritech's Cellular Digital Packet Data service through its Global Services organization....
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced it gave its Network Services Division a new name-PNI Access Services-effective immediately."The name change ... better reflects the broader scope of our service offering," said PNI Access Services President Gary Park.The division provides network services to about 1,800 companies that...
UltraTek, a Torrance, Calif.-based telecommunications equipment research company, has filed patent applications for a global wireless telecommunications system that would turn commercial airplanes into flying cell sites.The company has proposed a system that initially would make use of airplanes flying between North America and...
BEDFORD, Mass.-PinPoint Corp. unveiled 3D-iD, its real-time wireless asset-tracking and personnel-management system using location techniques similar to those used by the global positioning system satellite network.PinPoint's 3D-iD network is a local positioning system combining both hardware and software that leverages the customer's existing computer...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The SuperSession on the second day of the Personal Communications Showcase '98, "Connect to Competition, the Business of Success," will feature keynote speaker David Golden, managing director and co-director of investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist.Golden will discuss the guidelines investment bankers and...
CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. announced a cost-cutting restructuring program that eliminates about 10 percent of its global work force, affecting approximately 120 full-time employees. In addition, members of senior management will take a 10-percent salary reduction, said P-Com.P-Com makes network access systems for the wireless...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. has created a Telemetry Strategic Business Unit as part of its strategy to extend in-progress ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network to more "off-the-hip" applications and customers.The new unit already has entered into an exclusive strategic alliance with Interactive Technologies...
WASHINGTON-Manufacturers and fixed wireless users are poised to launch a campaign on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission to advocate "spectrum-impact studies" as a prerequisite to frequency reallocations and other actions that impact the wireless landscape of today and tomorrow.Spectrum-impact studies, a...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-Powertel Inc. launched wireless personal communications services in Chattanooga, Tenn., expanding its market to 27 metropolitan areas and major highway corridors throughout 12 Southeastern states with 11 million pops.The Chattanooga market includes Chatsworth, Chickamauga, Dalton, Fairview, Fort Oglethorpe, Rossville and Trenton in Georgia;...
NEW YORK-Domestic wireless carriers "now have prepaid (services) fully introduced throughout their geographic territories," but they lag behind their peers abroad in fully tapping its potential, said Scott R. Cassell, president of Globalnet Communications, an Indianapolis consulting firm."It's exciting to see prepaid take off...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. was awarded a contract to supply a turnkey 1900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Pinpoint Communications, which successfully bid in the D-block auction as Cambridge Telephone Co.Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.Pinpoint will offer personal...
In the paging industry today, money talks.Carriers know this and are pursuing every avenue available to bulk up the bottom line. One relatively new road eyed by some carriers is prepaid paging.At first it sounds suspect, as prepaid services traditionally cater to low-tier, credit-challenged...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry this week is preparing to argue before a federal appeals court in Oklahoma City that the Federal Communications Commission's rules requiring wireless number portability were enacted improperly and should therefore be reversed.Portability refers to telephone subscribers keeping their telephone number when...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it completed $6.53 million in financing, consisting of $5.03 million in new equity funds, $1 million from a new lease line and $500,000 that was released from a prior leasing agreement.Conductus issued 1.9 million shares of preferred stock and about...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems announced it has agreed to supply BellSouth Corp. with universal messaging infrastructure for BellSouth's Advanced Intelligent Messaging 2000 initiative.BellSouth hopes AIM 2000 will give customers the ability to send and reply to voice messages, receive Internet messages and interwork different...
