AT&T Corp.'s announced acquisition of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. has raised some questions as to what AT&T plans to do with Vanguard's paging operations.Many analysts expect AT&T to sell off the business unit, just as it did its own paging business-AT&T Wireless Inc.'s Advanced...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said the Justice Department has made initial queries regarding Nextel Communications Inc.'s request to lift a 1994 antitrust consent decree so the nation's largest dispatch operator can acquire more licenses, possibly those of bankrupt Geotek Communications Inc.In fact,...
NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. and Japanese trading group Itochu have readjusted their ownership schemes in a consortium led by Spain's Telefonica, which successfully bid for Brazilian A-band cellular operator Tele Sudeste Celular Participacoes.DoCoMo, which initially had an 8.5-percent stake in the consortium, reduced...
WASHINGTON-An amendment that had the potential to change the outcome of the C-block auction has been killed.The C-block personal communications services amendment was attached to a slamming bill forwarded by the House Commerce Committee. But Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Commerce...
The campaigning efforts in Washington, D.C., are set to heat up within the next few months as the International Telecommunication Union enters the decision-making process for third-generation technology.The CDMA Development Group's operator members recently submitted a letter to 21 key government officials stressing the...
Let the battle for the high-end mobile phone users begin.Sprint Spectrum L.P. late last week introduced three new all-inclusive national pricing plans that eliminate roaming and long-distance fees on its digital network nationwide. The plans charge $70 per month for 600 minutes, $100 per...
LONDON-Orange plc said it will offer the equivalent of any competitor's digital package on its network under a new program called the Orange Value Promise.The U.K.-based operator has studied its competitors' pricing and believes its packages-which customers can switch back to for free-give the...
British Telecommunications plc announced plans to acquire a 23.49 percent stake in South Korean mobile operator LG Telecom.The company said it will spend about $392.1 million for the stake. BT said the acquisition is in line with its commitment to the Asia Pacific region....
NEW YORK-Long Distance International Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., announced Oct. 1 a merger with Stockholm-based NETnet International S.A. that will add 90,000 business customers to LDI's portfolio in Europe, of which 65,000 are cellular and 25,000 are long-distance subscribers.Terms of the transaction, announced at...
HEWLETT PACKARDA complete test solution for installing and maintaining radio-frequency infrastructure systems for Cellular Digital Packet Data and mobile data base station equipment was introduced by Hewlett-Packard Co. at the Personal Communications Showcase '98 trade show last week in Orlando, Fla. The solution is...
Price Communications Corp.'s president Robert Price said his company is not pursuing a merger agreement with Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. despite recent reports that suggested the company might be interested in such a deal.A Toronto Dominion report dated Sept. 15 quoted Dow Jones News...
SAN DIEGO-OmniVoice Technologies Inc. announced plans to commence beta trials of its digital voice paging technology with Mexican paging provider Digitel.OmniVoice's technology allows paging subscribers to send text and voice pages without the assistance of an operator over a standard FLEX network. Digitel joins...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Software companies Mobile Systems International and Metapath Software Corp. last week announced plans to merge in an effort to help carriers create "customer-adaptive" networks."Bringing these two companies together will allow us to provide the wireless operator with an integrated suite of products that...
CANADARogers Cantel Inc. said its prepaid offering will be sold by Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix under a new retail agreement between the companies. "Cantel AT&T Pay As You Go" will be available in 650 of Shoppers Drug Mart's 850 stores across Canada by the end...
NEW YORK-Paris-based France Telecom Group reported Sept. 17 that its Itineris Global System for Mobile communications customers totaled 4.26 million at the end of August, giving it a 51-percent market share.The carrier said its cellular customer base doubled between June 30, 1997, and June...
Seventy years ago, the mobile radio industry was born when the Detroit Police Department installed the first one-way radios in their squad cars. Today there are approximately 19 million two-way radios in use in the United States, including 3.1 million specialized mobile radio units.Cellular...
INDIANAPOLIS-KG Telecommunications Co. Ltd., a wireless network operator in Taiwan, selected Brightpoint Inc. to provide inventory management and fulfillment services for handsets, accessories and prepaid cards to be retailed through cellular dealers and 7-Eleven convenience stores, said Brightpoint.
Investors are nervous when it comes to pricing competition in the mobile industry.
Just look at the effects of a Wall Street Journal article in April that described the competitive Jacksonville, Fla., mobile phone market. That article, in addition to AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s introduction...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it won a $53 million contract to expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in China's Sichuan province.Motorola CIG will supply network equipment to cellular operator Sichuan Posts and Telecommunications Administration through Eastern Communications Co....
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its French subsidiary, Regiocom SA, has acquired S3RP, the specialized mobile radio operations of Bouyges marketed under the brand name Orbicom, making it the only national SMR operator in France.The acquisition adds about 6,500 subscribers to Dolphin Telecom plc,...
Wireless operators seem to be reacting to AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate plan, but have fallen short of offering plans that mimic AT&T's.As reported by RCR Aug. 31, Bell Atlantic Mobile announced last week single rate plans. Only one pricing plan-which offers...
Reuters reported the Turkish Transport Minister said the country plans to offer two new Global System for Mobile communications licenses at 1800 MHz to complement the existing GSM 900 MHz licenses in operation.One of the licenses will be the subject of an international tender...
VENEZUELANokia Corp. was awarded a multi-year contract valued at up to $105 million to supply a turnkey 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Corporacion Digitel C.A. in Venezuela. Nokia said it will provide mobile switching centers, home location registers, base station...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts valued at $38.8 million to replace another vendor's existing cellular Global System for Mobile communications networks and to expand Motorola CIG's GSM and analog cellular systems in China's Jilin province.The contracts, awarded through...
