WASHINGTON—Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani has decided to run for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico—one of several elective posts she was considering when she left the Federal Communications Commission on Sept. 7.Tristani will be running against GOP Sen. Pete V. Domenici.Domenici will be...
HACKENSACK, N.J.—Wireless data provider GoAmerica Inc. said it is establishing a team to assist new subscribers who migrate to GoAmerica from other wireless data and Internet services providers.A spokeswoman for the company said the move was partly due to the situation at wireless service...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. reported strong results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 with revenues of $63 million, an increase from the $45.4 million reported for third-quarter 2000.The company reported a net loss of $49.1 million, or $1.03 per share, compared with...
Pinnacle Holdings Inc. painted a grim picture during its third-quarter earnings call last week, as executives tried to offer some hope that the company is going to survive even though two of its customers have disappeared and another is about to call it quits."Pinnacle...
Editor's Note: Since 1993, RCR Wireless News has chosen one person who most impacted the wireless industry that year. As part of our celebration of 20 years of covering the wireless industry, here is a look at past inductees:1993
Editor's note: In 2000, RCR Wireless News founded the Wireless Hall of Fame to honor those individuals who have made significant contributions to the wireless industry. Following is a look at each of the inductees:
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.—Shorecliff Communications and RCR Wireless News announced the finalists for the 2001 Excellence in Business Awards, scheduled to take place Oct. 30 at the 2001 Tower Summit and Trade Show at the Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas.The awards recognize leadership and...
Avesair Inc. may be just shy of its first birthday, but its proven technology has years behind it and its executives are industry veterans.In fact, the expertise and experience behind the company and its founders are exactly what led to $16 million in venture...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission expects to begin releasing data on consumer complaints by the middle of next month, Rosemary Kimball, director of media relations for the FCC's Consumer Information Bureau, told RCR Wireless News on Thursday.Information on the amount and type of wireless complaints...
Despite the flailing economy and its recent battering of the wireless industry at large, wireless platform application provider Air2Web has pushed on and is now announcing the release of the third version of its already successful Mobile Internet Platform."In fact, we're doing quite well,"...
The headline on the wireless emergency alert story in the July 16 issue of RCR Wireless News on page 3 was incorrect. Cingular Wireless phones were used in the July 11 test in Austin, Texas, but the carrier has not decided whether to endorse...
With less than two years in the game, software platform provider Stick Networks has already made a name for itself with its flagship Personal Digital Network, a wireless platform that incorporates seamless integrated communications with advanced content delivery capabilities, to offer end users a...
Editor's Note: The RCR Wireless News editorial staff has compiled this list of the 20 largest international paging markets by country, ranked by the estimated number of subscribers in each country.Subscriber statistics were obtained from the Strategis Group, the European Mobile Messaging Association, Taylor Nelson...
To witness the merciless effects of today's bear market, one should look no further than Broadband2Wireless Inc., an unlicensed wireless broadband provider in the Boston area that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy just two months after launching service.The company hoped to capitalize on the...
The difficulties of the paging industry caught up with wholesale paging carrier PNI Technologies Inc., forcing the company into filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia.PNI said it had hoped to restructure its...
WASHINGTON-In the world of wireless enhanced 911, the Fourth of July fireworks were not just up in the sky. Carriers, public-safety officials and government spent the holiday week reacting to a strongly worded letter from Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet...
I hesitate a bit to write a column about driver distraction since the last time I did so a few readers found it necessary to disparage me on our letters page. Around Christmastime I had advocated carriers including a hands-free kit (an ear-bud at...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) officially asked the General Accounting Office to probe growing mobile-phone service problems in the United States, a move likely to produce additional data that could bolster the lawmaker's consumer wireless bill. "Unfortunately, a growing number of wireless phone users are...
After months of struggling to beef up its customer base and emerge, even slightly, from debt, Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it's officially open to the possibility of a sale, merger or recapitalization of the company.The company said it has received unsolicited interest in potential...
As the Virgin Mobile rumor factory continues to pump out news stories, Sprint PCS finally brought some substance to the situation. The wireless carrier issued a brief, two-sentence release confirming that the two companies were in discussions, but that no definitive agreement had been...
A few years back RCR Wireless News ran a story that said AT&T Corp. was exploring-just studying the possibility, mind you-of implementing a CDMA overlay onto its TDMA network, and we incurred the wrath of AT&T CEO John Zeglis.My, how times have changed.Today carriers...
NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. shareholders approved June 7 the creation of separate tracking stocks, which pursued separate pricing paths at the close of their first day of trading on Nasdaq June 8.Under the plan, each share of WorldCom was converted into one share of WorldCom...
As predictable as ants at a picnic, the summer of 2001 finds the mainstream press proclaiming the death of the paging industry. This time around, they are wrapping it inside their coverage of the dot-com deathwatch. However, industry professionals and trade press know the...
WASHINGTON-While the wireless industry steadfastly maintains the safety of cell phones, top mobile-phone manufacturers during the past decade have quietly sought-and received-patents to reduce the kind of radiation absorbed by the human head that some research suggests could be linked to brain cancer and...
