MIAMI-WealthHound.com Inc. introduced its Wireless Stock Quote Application to the Palm VII wireless organizer from 3Com Corp.A version of the solution for Wireless Application Protocol-enabled devices is expected soon, the company added.The WealthHound service allows users to access stock quotes and online trading, as...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Prepaid cellular phone service took a step forward this holiday season with Shared Technologies Cellular's announcement that it achieved a one-day record for phone activations.STC, a national cellular service provider of rental, prepaid and activation services, signed up approximately 7,000 new prepaid cellular...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. introduced CellEase 2000, an Internet-based system that will allow retailers to activate prepaid cards at point-of-sale terminals."What prompted our development of CellEase 2000 was the success of our prepaid cellular offering at retail outlets nationwide and industry statistics showing...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the use of mobile communications in Europe continues to grow beyond everyone's wildest expectations, the latest bid of $140 billion by Vodafone AirTouch plc for the Mannesmann empire has caused many a jaw to drop in stunned amazement.This record-breaking bid has...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Service providers and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are viewed by many network operators as parasites feeding off their infrastructure investment. At the same time, many consumers view them as developers of value-added services that drive down costs in the market.Service providers do...
The Jan. 10 issue of RCR will feature the "Top 20 Wireless Resellers," which will include personal communications services and cellular resellers ranked by number of subscribers.If you would like your company to be considered for the list, please provide the following information to...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will enter the third millennium A.D. as the envy of the telecommunications industry. It is arguably the most competitive sector. It is innovative, with three different digital standards and third-generation wireless becoming reality. And it has conquered a huge nemesis: cloning."Cloning is...
NEW YORK-Diginet Americas Inc., Washington, D.C., a wireless broadband access provider in Latin America, signed a $100 million vendor supply and credit facility agreement with Lucent Technologies Inc.The company plans to serve as the Teligent Inc. or Winstar Communications Inc. of Latin America. Under...
NEW YORK-Tritel Inc., a Jackson, Miss.-based personal communications services affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., plans to go public just in time for Christmas.Tritel registered Nov. 18 for an initial public offering of 9.375 million shares in a price range of $15-$17 each. Goldman...
LetsTalk.com launched its Web site Dec. 2, offering a variety of wireless products and services in conjunction with Let's Talk Cellular and Wireless' 260 nationwide retail stores."We have seen the Internet as the best way to present information to consumers and allow them to...
NEW YORK-Stratos Global Corp., Toronto, has begun obtaining presale purchase agreements from customers for its new Inmarsat-M4 service, which will provide Integrated Services Digital Network communications by satellite.Stratos said M4 will fill a gap in existing Inmarsat services, whose equipment lacks the ISDN connectivity...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Furthering its goal of becoming a complete communications provider, Metrocall Inc. announced an alliance with Covad Communications as the first step in providing high-speed Internet services through the newly formed Metrocall.net division.Through Covad, Metrocall will provide digital line subscriber services to those customers...
Wireless carriers are gearing up for the upcoming holiday shopping season with several promotions, most of them aimed at consumer and family gift giving."We're obviously in a situation now where demand far exceeds supply, but nevertheless, this will probably be the most robust Christmas...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Voice-Stream Wireless Corp. launched its personal communications services system in Austin and San Antonio, Texas.The company's Global System for Mobile communications service will be sold through 11 company-owned retail stores, Best Buy stores, local dealers and through master distributors QDI, Advantage Wireless and...
NEW YORK-The average person does not use latitude and longitude to determine or describe where he or she is and neither, for that matter, do pilots of private aircraft.Lee Hancock, an attorney by profession and pilot by avocation, is founder and president of Go2...
WASHINGTON-Competition in the local loop does not need to come from wireline competitive local exchange carriers, it can come from wireless carriers, a high-level executive told the Senate communications subcommittee last week."We truly do fulfill the intent of the in the markets where...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net announced several agreements at the Wireless I.T. show last week, including the deployment of its Microburst cellular control channel technology by Echoport Inc. and NeoTech Products Inc.Echoport licensed the technology to introduce a wireless data imaging solution for remote information acquisition...
Authentix Inc. will begin final carrier testing on SimplySay 1.0, its voice-activated e-mail and wireless portal system, the company said. The system allows users to access their e-mail via any telephone and hear text-to-speech translations of their e-mail messages.The Telecommunications Industry Association adopted a...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. said it signed a letter of intent to add Metrocall Inc.'s CountDown prepaid paging to its CellEase prepaid services portfolio.According to the agreement, Metrocall will supply pagers from both Motorola Inc. and Cirkisys to STC so both may distribute...
BellSouth Corp. last week announced plans to restructure the company to better position itself to provide bundled services.The move comes just weeks after BellSouth failed in a bid to acquire Sprint Corp., which agreed instead to merge with MCI WorldCom Inc.Jeff Battcher, a spokesman...
Fueled by United States Cellular Corp.'s strong financial results, parent company Telephone and Data Systems Inc. increased revenues and operating cash flow by 17 percent and 28 percent, respectively, in the third quarter.U.S. Cellular said service revenues, compared with the same period last year,...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. announced it entered into a technology license agreement with Novatel Wireless under which Novatel will sell wireless modems based on Metricom's Ricochet technology to portable computer users.Novatel is the first to license the Ricochet technology for direct retail products. The...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced its subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand entered into agreements with subsidiaries of Vodafone AirTouch plc in those markets.Under terms of the Australian agreement, Brightpoint will assist Vodafone in managing its accessories programs for its retail channel in Australia. Brightpoint also...
NEW YORK-"We've done the really easy stuff, and now the fun begins," Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic Corp., said in a keynote address Oct. 7 at Fall Internet World '99.The Internet has evolved rapidly from its genesis as a...
