NEW ORLEANS-The wireless industry should expect the Federal Communications Commission to better understand the differences between the wireless and common carrier industries, said Tom Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, in his maiden voyage before the wireless industry.There has long been a...
NEW YORK-GTE Network Services, Irving, Texas, rolled out a program last month to move wireless directory assistance off the shoulder of the road and into the fast lane of the telecommunications revolution.GTE's Wireless Directory Assistance is intended to take the Catch 22 out of...
Power ProductsPower Products Unlimited Inc. selected Ken Donofrio as its new marketing director. He will orchestrate all aspects of the company's marketing and carrier services program. Donofrio previously was director of marketing and carrier support for Cliffco Wireless.WirelessNorthWirelessNorth promoted its market development coordinator, Heidi...
Paging Network Inc. announced it acquired Calabasas, Calif.-based Silverlake Communications Inc., and it has integrated the company into its Advanced Wireless Integration Group. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Silverlake is a wireless software development and consulting firm emphasizing wireless messaging software and...
New Enterprise AssociatesNew Enterprise Associates, a Palo Alto, Calif. venture capital firm, appointed Nobel Laureate Arno A. Penzias as a partner. Penzias is the senior technology adviser for Lucent Technologies Inc. He has written two books, Ideas and Information and Digital Harmony. Penzias won...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Competition in the South African wireless telecommunications sector is likely to be fierce this year, with two new cellular operators scheduled to enter the arena. This will delve a blow to existing operators MTN and Vodacom, which have had exclusive preserve of...
SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp., a provider of wireless intelligent network services for enhanced 911, asked the Federal Communications Commission to condition the mergers of SBC Communications and Ameritech Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. on providing access to wireless E911 service.Xypoint issued the request...
SEATTLE-Thirteen states passed enhanced 911 legislation this year, according to Xypoint Corp., a wireless intelligent network services provider that tracks legislative efforts on E911 across the country.A total of 27 states have adopted some form of E911 legislation since the Federal Communications Commission mandated...
ADC Telecommunications Inc. completed its acquisition of Teledata Communications Ltd. for $15.75 per share, or about $200 million in cash.Omnipoint Communications Inc. launched commercial roaming with NPI Wireless of Traverse City, Mich. NPI operates Global System for Mobile communications services in the northern Michigan...
For some time, the paging industry has looked to information services as one possible means to increase revenue, but several technological obstacles have restricted the level of customization required for such services to offer real value.Last week, those obstacles were cleared when 11 paging...
American Tower Corp. last week bolstered its leading position among independent tower companies when it announced plans to acquire TeleCom Towers L.L.C. and OmniAmerica Inc., the latter considered a major player in the tower industry.When completed, the mergers will add about 1,036 towers to...
WASHINGTON-GTE Network Services announced it is adopting an anti-cramming policy that it defines as the toughest in the industry.Cramming is the practice of adding unauthorized charges to customers' telephone bills, such as for paging services or voice mail. With the growing popularity of bundling...
Motorola Cellular Service Inc. announced it achieved operational and marketing certification to become a North American service provider of Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite communications services. MCSI will offer Motorola Satellite Series phones and pagers with the full range of Iridium services.Nextel Communications Inc. launched enhanced...
Wireless intelligent network deployments remain slow in the United States as mobile phone carriers have focused on building out digital networks and spending money on switching and radio-frequency infrastructure.That is about to change, indicate WIN vendors, as more competitors enter the mobile phone market,...
NEW YORK-Coded Communications Corp., a Carlsbad, Calif., developer and supplier of wireless mobile data systems, announced an agreement to acquire Boston-based NetCore Technologies Inc., which provides remote network management and desktop support services.Under terms of the agreement, NetCore-a privately held subsidiary of Azia Core...
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...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc.'s Network Services Division signed agreements with Goldblatt's and the Farmer Jack's food-store chains to provide calling-party-pays paging services for their respective Chicago and Detroit retail locations.The department store and food-store chains will market "Priceless Page" pagers to their customers, who will...
EuroTel Praha awarded Nokia Corp. a three-year frame agreement valued at almost $200 million to continue as the sole supplier to expand its 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network. Nokia said it will supply base stations, base station controllers and high-capacity mobile...
CROWN COMMUNICATIONSJohn P. Kelly was named chief operating officer of Crown Communications, the domestic operating subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp. Robert Crown will continue as president and chief executive officer of Crown Communications for the next several months, during which time Kelly will...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. said it will provide network services and solution development to Checkpoint Systems Inc. for a nationwide wireless field-service application.Under the terms of the agreement, Checkpoint will deploy more than 200 customer service engineers on AMSC's Ardis wireless data network.
AustraliaThe Australian Communications Authority said it prepared a recommendation to the Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts, for a nationwide reallocation of spectrum in the 3.410 GHz to 3.6 GHz band. The intent of the proposal is to support the government's...
Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd., said the company. Comverse said it is the first vendor exclusively dedicated to providing network operators with enhanced services platforms to join WAP. WAP is a non-profit organization,...
RESTON, Va.-Checkpoint Systems Inc. will use the Ardis network to deploy Checkpoint's network services and solution development support for a nationwide wireless field-service application, according to American Mobile Satellite Corp. AMSC owns the Ardis system.Checkpoint plans to deploy more than 200 customer-service engineers on...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have changed over time, but the predicted boom has always been present, always just about...
