Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service."Everyone has a different edge or weakness" when it comes to price, coverage, technology and features, said Bukasa...
While some narrowband messaging companies have been busy marketing products and services, one company has worked diligently and discreetly to acquire more spectrum, form distribution partnerships for its voice paging network and design a marketing strategy fit for a new competitor among rooted paging...
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NEW YORK-DataLink Systems Corp. has launched QuoteXpress securities information service via pagers for commercial use in the United States.DataLink, now a public company headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has more than a thousand customers in Canada where the company was started in 1993, said...
PanaVise Products Inc. debuted PortaGrip 2000, a cellular phone holder that features four-way adjustability. The side jaws move back and forth, while the support slide moves up and down, the company said. PortaGrip adjusts to hold any size or shape cellular phone. Three models...
Centennial Cellular Corp. began marketing its cellular communications products and services under the name Centennial Wireless throughout its properties. The company formerly used the Cellular One trademark. Centennial is bolstering the name change with an advertising campaign including newspaper, radio and television advertising.TekNow Inc....
The Mexican government has almost finished its first ever auction of radio spectrum for communications services.Mexico's new Federal Telecommunications Commission began taking bids on Oct. 21 for 36 paging licenses-nine nationwide and 27 regional-in the 900 MHz to 932 MHz range, said Gina Dalma,...
NEW YORK-"The summer of 1996 was when high-yield (debt) investors decided they're not in the venture capital business. They prefer cash flow now, not cash flow in five years," said Richelle Elberg, analyst for Paul Kagan Associates Inc., Carmel, Calif."The returns demanded are in...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Dataquest, a global market research and consulting company, predicted the U.S. cellular market will grow 30 percent in 1996, from 32.1 million subscribers to 41.8 million, and could reach as many as 69.8 million subscribers by 2000. Nearly half of these subscribers...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Skywire Corp. and Ameritech Cellular and Paging will jointly provide wireless monitoring for vending machines throughout the Midwest.The service will combine Skywire's software package, called Vendview, and Ameritech's cellular network to provide vending companies with daily information from their machines. Operators can determine...
LONG ISLAND, N.Y.-Affordable Message Center said it will offer Mercury Paging & Communications Inc. services to its New York and New Jersey resellers. Mercury Paging operates on the 931 MHz frequency band and is available in 1200 baud, 2400 baud and Flex paging speeds....
Arch Communications Group Inc. named Carol E. Burns vice president of human resources. Burns has been director of human resources since she started with the company in July 1995. Before joining Arch, Burns was director of human resources at the Au Bon Pain restaurant...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and NEC Corp. have teamed up to develop a core process for manufacturing integrated circuits with features as small as 0.18 microns. The current standard in the semiconductor industry is 0.5-micron features.The smaller features will allow integrated circuits to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to unveil a new plan to auction $3 billion of spectrum for wireless Internet access and other applications, according to officials.Bidding is set to begin next spring.MCI Communications Corp. and Microsoft Corp., according to a published...
WASHINGTON-For years, wireless resellers have been fighting carriers, regulators and Congress for a little respect.In the future, they may command it.The infusion of spectrum, deregulation and competition is changing marketplace dynamics, making resale an increasingly attractive distribution channel in the new world of one-stop...
WASHINGTON-Antitrust policy is adapting to sweeping pro-competitive, deregulatory telecommunications reforms mandated by Congress, but not abandoning traditional oversight safeguards, one of the nation's top regulators said.The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are all shifting their missions, noted...
Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network in the Philippines.Motorola said the network will supply service in the southern and western Mindanao regions, located in the southern...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum's services. PCS license winners must relocate microwave systems that currently occupy spectrum allocated to PCS by the Federal Communications Commission.According to the agreement, Columbia...
Ericsson Inc. introduced a lightweight, palm-sized cellular phone which delivers up to 90 minutes of talk time and 24 hours of standby time, the company said. The phone, named AF 738, uses Advanced Mobile Phone Service. Features of the new phone include 99 speed...
WASHINGTON-Almost 60 percent of paging customers said they would be interested in subscribing to a guaranteed voice messaging service, according to a recent study by Economic and Management Consultants International Inc.A total of 12 percent of nonusers said they would be interested in the...
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. put off plans to report third quarter financial results until Nov. 1 because the new company president said he wanted to take another week to prepare for the announcement.MobileMedia, which originally planned to release financial information Oct. 24, said it...
PCS Development Corp. has changed its name to Conxus Communications. The company believes the new name will better reflect its voice and messaging business.Conxus-pronounced connects us-plans to provide a range of portable voice and data messaging products and services on its narrowband personal communications...
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