Kathy Maloney has been named director of the New Product and Service Development Lab at BellSouth Cellular Corp. Maloney previously was with IBM Corp. for more than 20 years, most recently developing international business.The company also has chosen two directors of new products and...
WASHINGTON - The structure of the wireless telecommunications industry will be in a constant state of flux for the near future due to evolving regulatory, technological and economic changes, according to a new government report.Nevertheless, according to Congress' Office of Technology Assessment, the role...
WASHINGTON-The GOP-led Congress this fall will tackle landmark budget and telecommunications bills as part of a legislative agenda so sweeping and historic in scope that the outcome may well determine the success or failure of the year-old Republican revolution and provide an early barometer...
With the dramatic changes that are occurring in every sector of the telecommunications industry, analysts and investors on Wall Street and elsewhere are re-evaluating the industry, its sectors and its participants. Their conclusions will determine the capital available to your company. Exactly how will...
LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. showed second quarter revenues of $29 million, a 58 percent increase compared with earnings of $18.4 million a year earlier.For the three-month period ended June 30, Millicom reported a net loss of $4.2 million, or 9 cents per share, compared...
Editor's Note: The following information is from a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released Aug. 9. From time to time, RCR prints investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.AirTouch Communications Inc., rated buy, medium risk, recently reported its...
True to its claim that it would launch two-way paging by mid-year, SkyTel Corp. is turning on commercial service Sept. 19 in 30 to 50 markets throughout the country.With this launch, SkyTel will be the first paging operator to commercially offer two-way paging. SkyTel...
JACKSON, Miss.-Prince, the Holland, Mich., supplier of automotive interior systems, and SkyTel Corp., the Jackson, Miss., wireless messaging service provider, said they have agreed to form an alliance to develop and manufacture an advanced, affordable automotive security and communications system.Prince will produce hardware components...
The wireless industry is certainly capturing a few people's attention these days.The House has designed legislation that would supersede arguments on the legalities of an entrepreneur auction. If the bill is passed-and it obviously would have to pass both Houses and receive the president's...
American Paging Inc. is restructuring three of its key operating areas - sales and marketing, administration and customer service - to achieve an improved customer mix, reduced administrative costs and improved customer service."Our plan is simple - to add and retain high-quality customers and...
Paging operators using an Israeli technology can plug a spread-spectrum return path into their present systems to facilitate low-end, two-way paging at a fraction of the cost of full two-way infrastructure and without purchasing a narrowband license, according to American Messaging Services.Dallas-based American Messaging...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Dial Page Inc. has closed the sale of its paging business to MobileMedia Corp. for $188.5 million consisting of cash and the assumption of Dial Page's $85 million in senior notes.MobileMedia gains about 365,000 pagers in service in seven southern states through the...
PLANO, Texas-ProNet Inc. said depreciation and amortization expenses associated with eight acquisitions since last March are related to its net loss of $335,000, or 5 cents per share, for the six month period ended June 30. The company's net income for the comparable period...
In-Flight Phone Corp. is having reliability problems with the FlightLink phone service it has installed in the planes of three major airlines."We're tracing the problem back to installation and we expect to resolve the matter in the next 30 to 60 days," said In-Flight...
Westlink Paging has acquired the assets of Telecomm Systems Inc., a paging firm based in Portland, Ore., representing 85,000 additional paging units in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Colorado. The purchase of Telecomm Systems brings Westlink's total subscribers to 430,000, said Daniels &...
Leon Hensen has been named senior vice president and general manager of Palmer Wireless Inc. of Fort Myers, Fla. Hensen will be responsible for the overall operation of the company. Hensen joined Palmer Communications Inc., the former parent company of Palmer Wireless, in 1987....
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. plans to acquire the assets of Message Center Beepers, a privately held paging company with more than 280,000 subscribers in the Northeast.The transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter 1996; financial terms were not disclosed.Message...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging Inc. has begun providing service in El Paso, Texas, announced parent company AirTouch Communications Inc."El Paso is a natural extension of our service commitment in Texas and the southwest," said Charlie Jackson, AirTouch Paging's president and chief executive officer, noting that...
WASHINGTON-The level of frustration over entrepreneur block auction litigation is running so high at the Federal Communications Commission that Chairman Reed Hundt is willing to lose in court if it means getting bidding for 493 personal communications services licenses back on track before year's...
German powerhouse RWE Energie AG has its telecom engine revving, awaiting a license to drive. The diversified conglomerate has an extensive telecom network already in place and is gearing up to compete head-to-head with Deutsche Telekom, currently the monopoly telephone operator.As a European Union...
If you were one of the many who stood in line to buy a copy of Windows 95 at midnight Aug. 24, (or even if you're not one of them), you'll appreciate this look at what happened to the great "cellular data rush" of...
NORWELL, Mass.-Europe's mobile communications services market is expected to jump to $30 billion by 1998, while the continent's mobile communications equipment market will see sales revenue of $8.1 billion by 1998, according to a survey by BIS Strategic Decisions Inc.The cellular telephone market is...
DENVER-RCR Publications Inc. announced the newspaper will be printed weekly beginning Jan. 1 to keep its readers better informed about the constantly changing wireless telecommunications industry."The wireless industry is at a crucial turning point in its history," said RCR Publisher John Sudmeier. "Even as...
WASHINGTON-The number of mobile data subscribers can be expected to double by 2000 as more equipment and data networks become available, according to a new study by Economic & Management Consultants International Inc.Industry will resolve existing problems that got mobile data off to a...
