DENVER-Advantage Cellular Inc., a cellular specialty store that offers AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s cellular service, announced the opening of two licensee locations in Colorado Springs and downtown Denver. The new locations raise the number of Advantage Cellular retail openings in Colorado to five stores...
Alcatel Network Systems and Sprint Corp. have completed a network upgrade with a five-node synchronous optical network in Fayetteville, N.C. The ring, with a circumference of more than 100 miles in and around the city, more than doubles the previous capacity, Alcatel said. Sonet...
The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the user to go where...
WASHINGTON-Alexandria, Va.-based Metrocall Inc. made good on its promise to "add strategic geographic and synergistic acquisitions during the first half of the year" by signing definitive agreements to purchase two more radio common carriers. The company reported three other buys in February.Metrocall, which had...
NEW YORK-Fast on the heels of resignations by two chief financial officers and a director this year, CellStar Corp. recently braced the investment community for a first-quarter earnings report "significantly lower than analysts' estimates."Securities analysts had estimated that first quarter net income for the...
The quartet of three regional Bell operating companies and one former Bell announced two brand names it will use coast-to-coast in its personal communications service and cellular markets.Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., U S West Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. will offer TalkAlong and...
ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Florida announced it will market wireless telephones using an automated kiosk that dispenses ready-to-use cellular phones directly to the customer.The Interactive Retail Information System, developed by Lightbridge Inc., is fully automated and provides a number of customer services,...
Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless services to jump start the lagging interactive video and data services market.Having completed its research and development program for its...
MCI Communications Corp. surprised the industry when it opted not to participate in the 1994 government auction of new wireless licenses.But while MCI's competitors were giving billions of dollars to the U.S. treasury for that market opportunity, MCI was cracking a deal to buy...
Starting a wireless communications company was probably the most ambitious undertaking I have ever initiated in my life. Many people question whether or not a small business can survive in today's ever changing wireless marketplace filled with major retailers and carriers. I suggest that...
NEW YORK-While wireless enterprises pose risks for and depress the credit ratings of their parent telecommunications companies, they also expand the overall market to the benefit of both entities, according to Frank Plumley, a director of Standard & Poor's Corp.Prompted by accelerating competition and...
Ron Boillat is now vice president of sales and Lee Sarbo has been named director of sales for the Eastern region at Frontier Cellular, the wireless subsidiary of Frontier Corp. Boillat joined Frontier in April 1995 with 14 years experience in the telecommunications industry....
Wireless resellers say they aren't sure what will happen when personal communications services enter the marketplace next year, but if PCS launches a price war with cellular operators, everyone's margins will be squeezed."It's hard to say what the carriers will do, but right...
Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible for customer acquisition and dealer development through the distribution and retail channel for AirTouch inland California and northern Nevada markets....
John Dolan, principal of C-block personal communications services bidding interest North Coast Mobile Communications Inc., filed an amended Form 175 application with the Federal Communications Commission that names his uncle, Cablevision chairman Charles Dolan, as the provider of a secured loan he used for...
NEW YORK-High-tech, start-up companies-like those in wireless-accustomed to searching for capital may be surprised to know that international capital is searching for them.Bolstered by money pouring in from abroad and by newly strengthened securities laws, the Vancouver Stock Exchange has recently identified a niche...
MONTVALE, N.J.-In a role reversal for the high-tech communications revolution, 27 million blue-collar workers nationwide are targeted as the early adopters for Geotek Communications Inc.'s spring rollout of enhanced mobile workstations and supporting networks.Last week, Geotek introduced the commercial start-up of its digital, spread-spectrum...
The number of mobile phone subscribers is rising quickly in Europe, but an increasing proportion of low-volume users and competition among operators could wrench profits over the next decade, forecasts CIT Research Ltd."For the first time in 12 years, we are sounding a real...
NEC Corp. is marketing a new Personal Handyphone System terminal for Japan and other markets under the Juwacky brand name.Juwacky is priced at about $400, and NEC said it expects to sell 5,000 units per month. A digital home adapter is available for about...
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...
The Cellular One Group intends to expand the scope of the Cellular One brand name to paging, local and long-distance service, and will offer licensing to B-side cellular carriers, personal communications services operators and resellers as well."Customers want to turn to Cellular One for...
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...
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...
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...
