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...
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...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-With its most recent acquisition, Alltel Mobile Communications of the Carolinas Inc. said it will be able to provide continuous cellular coverage from central North Carolina to central Florida. Alltel acquired a majority interest in a cellular partnership that will operate the...
Air Communications Inc. has unveiled an all-in-one cellular voice-data-facsimile telephone called the AirCommunicator that uses a proprietary protocol to transmit on circuit-switched analog cellular networks."We've pioneered a product that works as a fully featured data communications tool-in essence, replicating the user's desktop environment," said...
Cellular operators may have to continue to price digital service lower than analog to capture and keep customers until digital service matures and can offer advanced features, said cellular phone analyst Herschel Shosteck. But digital service has been accepted by users more quickly than...
Channel surfing-Although most consumers still purchase cellular service through cellular carriers, the retail sales channel is creeping up in popularity, according to a survey on cellular buying last year by BIS Strategic Decisions Inc. Consumer electronics superstores lead the pack, claiming 47 percent of...
The Intercarrier Service Bureau of GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. and Radio Shack have teamed up to offer consumers out-of-market cellular network activation, GTE announced. Retail stores previously have only activated cellular phones for customers living within the store's market area. Radio Shack customers buying...
PARSIPPANY, N.Y.-AT&T Corp. is introducing this month a line of wedge-shaped numeric pagers that target teenagers and meet consumer demand for personal-use devices.Model 3517 will come in bright yellow, Tazmanian red and bright cobalt, and will be sleek and compact, AT&T said. Model 3512...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. turned itself into a national wireless powerhouse last week by signing cellular resale agreements with AT&T Corp., GTE Corp., BellSouth Corp., Frontier Corp. and the AirTouch Communications Inc.-Cellular Communications Inc. partnership known as New Par.The resale pacts build on MCI's $190...
MCI Communications Corp. is going to resell cellular service from arch competitor AT&T Corp? What is the world coming to?Chaos, I say.There is no orderly development in this brave new world of wireless telecommunications. Perhaps chaos is a side dish to progress.Even as the...
As a continuing national success story, the cellular telecommunications industry for 12 years has enjoyed phenomenal growth in a duopoly market-highlighted in 1994 by 50 percent growth, 24 million subscribers and record revenues totaling more than $14 billion.Now the cellular industry stands poised to...
Cellular phone advertisers in Southern California recently received a written warning from legal authorities there about the alleged use of deceptive sales practices, such as large-print misleading statements and bait-and-switch tactics."Our goal is to ensure industrywide understanding of the relevant false advertising and unfair...
The purchase of Nationwide Cellular Service Inc. is a good short-term strategy for MCI Communications Corp., but the nation's second largest long-distance company will need to acquire some infrastructure to become a competitive wireless provider, said a Virginia-based communications analyst.MCI announced plans to become...
The Federal Communications Commission ruled earlier this month that state public utilities commissions can no longer regulate local rates of commercial wireless carriers. This ruling affects not only the cellular industry, but the paging, specialized mobile radio and new personal communications services industries as...
BellSouth Cellular Corp. is marketing cellular phones in Kroger supermarkets. Once purchased, the phnoes can be activated within 10 to 20 minutes in the store. Kiosks and cellular salespeople already are stationed in stores throughout BellSouth's Indianapolis, Nashville, Huntsville, Ala., and Clarksville, Tenn., markets....
Growth in the paging industry exploded this year, led by public companies that have pushed boldly across market borders, stepped confidently into marriages of convenience and reaped tremendous opportunities from serving a new consumer-oriented market.The result is a 38 percent industry growth rate at...
As the telecommunications industry continues to blur lines that traditionally have separated different trade segments, competitive access providers are poised to be active players. But CAPs already are distinguishing themselves through a variety of niche-market, wireless endeavors.Denver-based IntelCom Group Inc. offers teleport and competitive...
Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...
As one company fine-tunes its debut for narrowband personal communications services, others bide their time by determining market position and devising rollout strategies.SkyTel Corp.-through its PCS bidding entity Destineer Corp.-plans to activate its nationwide two-way advanced messaging service during the second half of the...
WASHINGTON-In a major setback for states, the Federal Communications Commission ruled public utility commissions cannot regulate local rates of commercial wireless carriers.The FCC on May 11 rejected petitions from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Ohio seeking to retain rate regulation of...
Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...
WHEATON, Md.-The threat of personal communications services encroaching on the cellular telephone industry and a good economy with an expanding consumer market led to accelerated growth in the cellular phone industry last year, according to a report by Hershel Shosteck Associates Ltd.Shosteck recently released...
The decision by the California Public Utilities Commission to allow bundling of cellular telephones gives the commission a card to play as it seeks permission from the Federal Communications Commission to maintain control of cellular rates."It is one way we can show that California...
