NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. of Atlanta plans its debut in the public capital markets early next month to finance its expansion as a provider of systems integrating various modes of communications into one device.The company is one player in a larger trend toward communications...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. announced its net income for the fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, more than tripled to $11 million, increasing 261 percent when compared with the $3 million reported Dec. 31, 1994. The company's net income for the year ended Dec. 31,...
ISELIN, N.J.-Dusting off patents shelved by Bell Laboratories due to commercialization prohibitions, Telecommunications Premium Services Inc. hopes to gain competitive advantage in the frontier of anywhere, anytime communications.Founded less than two years ago by David L. Turock, a Bell Labs alumnus, TPS' service offering...
L.M. Ericsson said it has received an order to supply switches and base stations to Westel 900 GSM to expand the carrier's Global System for Mobile communications network in Hungary. The new contract continues the relationship the two companies began in 1990 when Ericsson...
Topping the chart for return on investment is WinStar Communications Inc., whose stock in trade is providing digital wireless links that bypass local exchange carriers.Through its Avante-Garde affiliate, WinStar has received exclusive rights to use Federal Communications Commission licenses in the 38 GHz band...
In a Feb. 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen volunteered his group's help as Congress begins to formulate its broadcast analog spectrum-auctioning policy next month, exhorting that "the days of spectrum being given free...
WASHINGTON-The fence between common-carrier and private-carrier paging will come down with the approval of a notice of proposed rulemaking that streamlines the regulation and licensing of Part 22 and Part 90 paging entities. The NPRM, however, puts a hold on new paging applications during...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced it will market turnkey systems based on the new personal air communications technology standard for the narrowband personal communications services market.The company said it signed a multimillion dollar contract to implement the technology for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AT&T won...
Editor's note: Following are five charts ranking major players in the wireless telecommunications industry according to revenues, net incomes, percent change in revenue from 1994 to 1995, percent change in net income from 1994 to 1995 and two-year total return on investment to shareholders.Nordby International...
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it has reached an agreement with Shaw MobileComm Inc., a Canadian paging company, to coordinate and integrate network building activities.The agreement will allow the companies to make wireless messaging services available using narrowband personal communications services technologies.
Although paging has existed for decades in major Latin American and Caribbean countries, developments during the past few years have placed these markets on an unprecedented growth path.If paging service prices decline-widening the market beyond business customers-and marketing and distribution improve, the region is...
AUSTIN, Texas-Texas State District Judge Scott McCowan ruled a fee imposed on wireless providers to finance the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund is disproportionate to commercial radio service providers and therefore unconstitutional.The amount the fund asks CMRS companies to pay was determined to be a...
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands-Philips Electronics said it will dissolve its infrastructure division in the Netherlands and open a new unit in France to manufacture wireless phones, pagers and other personal communications items.AT&T Corp. recently bought the infrastructure assets of Philips in Paris and Nuremberg, Germany. Now,...
Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., a cellular provider in Mexico, announced it has registered an average rate increase of 30 percent with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport. The price increase, which takes effect this month, is a result of rising inflation and is...
NEW YORK-The financial services industry is developing new kinds of snapshots for a clearer picture of paging companies' underlying strengths and weaknesses in the brave new world of increased competition.Market share is fast becoming a key criterion for predicting success, "because the gain or...
NEW YORK-Get ready for "PSC"-not to be confused with PCS, and for the "information sky way"-not to be mistaken for the information superhighway. Comsat Mobile Communications announced last week that it will launch the first two-way "personal satellite communications" system by mid-year.Known by the...
Taiwan's new telecommunications law will give wireless companies the chance to break into that country's communications market, but a 20 percent ownership limit may disappoint some businesses.Taiwan is making liberalization strides in hopes of becoming an Asia-Pacific regional operations center, as well as fulfilling...
Six months of executive infighting at Metrocall Inc. has led to a top-level management shake-up at the paging carrier, an eventuality the company discounted just three weeks ago.Among the changes, Richard M. Johnston will replace Harry L. Brock Jr. as chairman of the company's...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest international paging markets by country based on information supplied by the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Telecommunications, the Personal Communications Industry Association and the International Telecommunications Union.Ranking is...
Digital Microwave Corp. announced it has received purchase orders valued at $5 million to supply digital microwave radios to Smart Information Technologies Inc., a cellular firm and local exchange carrier in the Philippines. Digital Microwave said its products will be used to support the...
WASHINGTON-Bidders returned to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of C-block broadband personal communications services and 900 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses with renewed fervor last week, following complications from the government's second furlough and the East Coast Blizzard of '96.While there continues to be...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it has received a contract from L'Office National des Postes et Telecommunications, the government-led telecommunications company in Morocco, to provide paging infrastructure equipment and installation services.The equipment will be used for a paging system capable of supporting all existing high-speed...
WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to $70 billion.Dole's latest salvo against the broadcasters could, if combined with other factors, cause...
Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group was a victim of its own success during the last five months of 1995. A variety of factors caused significant delays in the shipments of its popular one-way and two-way pagers, according to several major paging companies.The backlog, which...
