BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation's first multistate personal communications services network, and the country's fourth PCS system activation.Service was launched in a cluster that involves three states-metropolitan Charlotte, N.C., which borders South Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., southeast of Charlotte; and the Tennessee...
Sales and marketing practices in the wireless communications industry are substandard and could cause carriers worldwide to lose as much as a third of their revenues to new competitors over the next three years, according to a new global benchmarking study from Andersen Consulting.For...
Paging Network Inc. of Dallas is introducing a paging service that allows its customers to receive unlimited pages with no monthly fees.What's the catch? Value Page is a caller pays paging service.The motivation behind Value Page is much like that of caller pays in...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest wireless equipment dealers in the United States based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts.Ranking is based on estimated gross product sales for the past 12 months. This...
DALLAS-A new chain of communications superstores called Communications Expo is scheduled to open its first store in Dallas next month, announced Paging Network Inc., which plans to distribute its line of one-way and two-way paging products, including VoiceNow, through the store.The giant retailer will...
Could the obstacle-plagued auction that took forever to start be near its end?It seems so, although a part of me believes the C-block auction for personal communications services will never end.For the record, the C-block auction was originally scheduled to begin in the spring...
WASHINGTON-Of the 89 winners of C-block personal communications services licenses last May, only four were singled out by seven other entities who seek to have the Federal Communications Commission either deny their licenses or to institute hearings on their suitability to own spectrum.DCR PCS...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Personal Communications Inc. has changed its corporate name and unveiled a new logo to promote its Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 service.The BellSouth Corp. subsidiary said it changed its corporate name to BellSouth Mobility DCS to convey the digital format of the...
IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems announced the IBM 2488 Model 800, the latest offering in its line of rugged, wireless handheld computing devices. IBM Mobile said the line is integrated with wireless modems from IBM for the Ardis, Cellular Digital Packet Data and RAM...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics has won significant handset contracts from Sprint Spectrum L.P. and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., with a combined value of $850 million.The Sprint Spectrum agreement requires that Qualcomm begin shipping Code Division Multiple Access phones next month, a tall order for a...
Great Britain's Office of Telecommunications said it is exploring the possibility that wireless phone operators Vodafone plc and Cellnet are charging local telephone operator British Telecommunications plc unfair interconnect rates."Oftel is concerned that Cellnet and Vodafone may be exploiting the market power they enjoy...
WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and senior discounted notes sale in the near future. What may garner the carrier some unwanted questions in the process are...
NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. hit the ground running last fall with its nationwide SkyTel 2-Way paging launch, stumbled over unforeseen obstacles and has now dusted itself off and resumed the race to commercial operation.That was the self-evaluation provided by Mtel Chairman John Palmer...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets.CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T's cellular coverage area, according to Clayton Foster, the product manager for AT&T Wireless' wireless data division. "The growth of CDS...
Tessco Technologies Inc. said it has acquired Cincinnati-based Cartwright Communications for cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The transaction is valued at $3.8 million plus the net value of inventory, receivables and payables. Cartwright is a value-added distributor of radio communications equipment serving...
CHICAGO-Paging Network Inc. and software developer Ex Machina Inc. announced the rollout of a wireless, Internet-based news, entertainment and messaging network called AirMedia Live!PageNet said it will carry AirMedia Live! network broadcasts and individual alerts over its nationwide FLEX-enabled frequency this summer. The service...
The wireless arms of the regional Bell operating companies are riding a new wave of revenue by offering long-distance service to their cellular customers.Until the Telecommunications Act was passed in February, RBOC wireless companies could not deliver calling services across LATAs. By law, interLATA...
WASHINGTON-DCR Communications has changed its name to Pocket Communications Inc.The Washington, D.C.-based firm, which walked away from the C-block spectrum auctions with personal communications services licenses for 43 markets, covering 35 million people, also introduced a new blue logo that includes an illustration of...
It has been about seven years since the disintegration of the Soviet empire. During that time, some former Eastern bloc countries have built a thriving telecommunications business despite obstacles.Cellular and wireless local loop services are being implemented as quick, economical alternatives to post-communist wireline...
NEW YORK-Group Communication Services, Canada's second-largest specialized mobile radio operator, plans an initial public offering of common stock to help finance most of a major expansion project to deploy digital technology.Known as CS Group, the Montreal-based company plans to spend $91 million (Canadian) to...
A new retail outlet for cellular is opening nationwide, but there won't be any sales people and you won't find the address in the yellow pages.Denver-based nLYTn Technologies Corp. is opening Cellmart on the World Wide Web, a virtual store where consumers can find...
NEW YORK-In its first application outside paging, Motorola Inc.'s FLEX chipsets will be used in Ex Machina Inc.'s AirMedia Live information services product, the companies announced.AirMedia Live will allow computer users to access Internet services without going online. For instance, a light will signal...
Motorola Inc. said it has worked out the glitches and is in full production again on the RSVP, its slim cellular phone battery that contains a pager.The product was introduced last October. It fits on both the Motorola MicroTac flip phone and the Retail...
DALLAS-ProNet Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Georgialina Communications Co. and affiliates for about $11.6 million.The company also signed a letter of intent to purchase substantially all of the assets of Oklahoma-based...
