NEW YORK-In what is believed to be the first and only such endeavor to date, Working Assets this summer introduced an affinity program in which it donates a percentage of paging charges to nonprofit groups.Working Assets, San Francisco, has become a customer and reseller...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Cnet Inc., a Plano, Texas-based provider of engineering software tools for wireless communications systems.Glenayre said the purchase will consist of a tax-free exchange of an undisclosed number of new shares of Glenayre common...
NEW YORK-After many delays, Brazil's B-band cellular license auctions, which will be open to foreign bidders, are likely to begin early next year.The Brazil Senate last month ratified telecommunications deregulation legislation already approved by the House, thereby opening satellite and cellular services to outside...
Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group said Shanghai Guomai, the largest paging carrier in China, is operating using Motorola's FLEX protocol-based paging system in Shanghai. Guomai has close to 1 million subscribers in service in the city and outskirts of Shanghai. The new FLEX protocol-based...
Paging stocks have been taking a beating lately as ratings agencies and some analysts worry that plain old paging won't be able to compete in the sophisticated two-way messaging and personal communications services market that beckons the mass consumer.Earlier this month, Moody's downgraded Metrocall...
The paging industry is celebrating the Federal Communication Commission's recent ruling on interconnection rates-for the most part.The new regulations are expected to save paging carriers money, but new state level arbitration authority could prove time-consuming and expensive.The FCC mandate means not only that paging...
WASHINGTON-A recently released Federal Communications Commission order now prohibits states from singling out wireless carriers for service- or technology-specific area code overlays.States will be able to institute all-services overlays only if 10-digit dialing is mandated for all local calls affected by an area-code change...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investor's Service Inc. downgraded certain outstanding debt of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Jackson, Miss.The New York-based rating agency downgraded its speculative grade rating to B3 from B2 on Mtel's $265 million issue of 13.5 percent notes due 2002. It also changed its...
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. has developed a system that will allow subscribers to roam all over the world with a special cellular phone.Customers buy or rent a Worldwide phone and are issued a Subscriber Identity Module card to go with it.Users turn off...
A government summary outlining the reclassification of specialized mobile radio operators "may pose more questions than it answers," said SMR organization leader Alan Shark."Reclassified operators are being thrown into competition with huge new services without really knowing where they stand. It has often appeared...
AUGUST19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 771-2012.19-21 Wireless Communications Conference, by The Microelectronics Society. Regal Harvest House, Boulder, Colo. (303) 497-3037.21-22 The Wireless Buildout '96, by Shorecliff Communications. Hotel Del Coronado, San...
Preferred Networks Inc. said it has signed an agreement with NationsBank for a $20 million revolving credit facility. The money will be used primarily to finance the acquisition of paging networks and capital expenditures for the company's nationwide network construction, said Atlanta-based Preferred.Carlson Design/Construct...
WASHINGTON-In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has focused the bulk of its attention on meeting and beating congressional telecom-reform mandates, the most recent of which involved adopting an order outlining the regulatory structure of local competition. Many commission projects-including several far-reaching wireless dockets-have...
NEW YORK-The establishment of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission by Aug. 10 heralds the advent of significant new foreign ownership opportunities south of the border for wireless services companies."Joint auctions for personal communications services and local wireless access are contemplated for year-end 1996," said Carlos...
NEW YORK-Given "some ridiculous pricing in reseller channels," Metrocall Inc. "dramatically altered the distribution strategy" this spring, and results started to show by the end of the second quarter, said William Collins III, company president.At $4 per pager, (reseller) net revenues are excellent, at...
MobileMedia Corp.'s board of directors has appointed Michael K. Lorelli chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. Previously, he was president of the Americas Division of Tambrands Inc. since September 1994. Prior to that, he spent nine years at PepsiCo...
France Telecom Mobiles International has signed two digital cellular phone contracts with Chinese operator China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom). The contracts call for the expansion of a 1995 system to add an additional 41,000 subscribers in the city of Guangzhou in Canton and...
Although LHS Communications Systems Inc. was formed only a year ago, the company is not new.The U.S. operation, which provides billing and customer care systems to wireless carriers, is an offspring of LH Specifications, started in Germany six years ago by former IBM executives...
WASHINGTON-Following the formal release Aug. 8 of intricate interconnection rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission, incumbent local exchange carriers will have nine months following any request for interconnection from a commercial mobile radio services carrier to resolve any differences and to begin providing...
WASHINGTON-At the close of business today, 203 wireless communications veterans and hopefuls could be accepted to participate in the D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auction set to begin Aug. 26; 1,479 licenses are at stake.Of the initial applications filed earlier this...
AUGUST13-14 Wireless Interconnection '96, by Bellcore. Westin Hotel San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, Calif. Call Pam Dunn at (800) 521-CORE.13 & 20 Semiconductor Conference, by the New York Society of Security Analysts. NYSSA Headquarters, New York. (212) 912-9249.19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by...
Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. of Givatayim, Israel, announced it has signed an agreement with Academy D.O.O., a Yugoslavian security services company, to deploy Nexus' automatic vehicle location and tracking system in Yugoslavia. Deployment will begin during second quarter 1997, said Nexus. The first stage...
Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the Clinton administration later this year."The time seems right for me to tell you and the president that I have decided,...
ProNet Inc. of Plano, Texas, released bleak second-quarter financial results, said its proposed merger with Teletouch Communications Inc. was mutually terminated and is fighting a class action lawsuit filed by some of its stockholders.For the three-month period ended June 30, ProNet's net loss was...
