NEW YORK-Since the launch of carrier competition in the duopoly wireless market, third-party distributors have had to work hard to manage increasingly complex distribution issues. Carriers, meanwhile, are dealing with this same level of complexity-trying to improve sales processes for existing distribution channels while...
TeleCorp PCSTeleCorp PCS Inc. hired Raul Burgos as vice president and general manager of its Puerto Rican operations. He most recently served as general manager and vice president of operations for Nextel International Inc. in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a 10-year veteran of...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. said it has acquired all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Retail Cellular Inc. from Retail Distributors Inc., a provider of products to retailers, under the "As Seen on TV" banner, and to the public through direct-response...
Poor financial results continue to plague personal communications services operator Aerial Communications Inc., and its spinoff from parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., is moving slower than anticipated. Analysts believe TDS may be better off selling the company.Aerial Communications Inc. added just 15,000...
Alltel Corp. said it signed an integration agreement with Intecom Systems under which Alltel Information Systems will fully integrate Intecom's applications into its customer-care and billing system to provide converged billing, complete billing analysis and full multimedia reporting functionality to the customers of communications...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it agreed to provide a variety of value-added services to Telerj Celular S.A. and Telest Celular S.A., two wireless operators in the Brazilian states of Rio de Janiero and Espirito Santo. CellStar sells wireless handsets in bulk to the carriers.CellStar...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it will begin marketing personal communication services phones and services under a strategic agreement signed with TeleCorp PCS Inc., an affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The deal calls for Metrocall to sell TeleCorp's SunCom digital phone service with voice mail,...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced cellular service provider Cocelco S.A. in Colombia chose CellStar to provide a variety of distribution and value-added services.Under terms of the agreement, CellStar will provide a prepaid operating platform, be responsible for the packaging and distribution of accessory inventory to...
NEW YORK-Telecom Eireann raised about $4.3 billion and erased 10 percent of Ireland's national debt with its initial public offering, which was priced July 7 and began trading July 8 in Dublin, London and New York.Investors were attracted to Telecom Eireann's dominant position in...
Although they believe the future growth of the paging industry lies in advanced messaging, paging carriers continue to search out new ways to attract customers to traditional paging services as the one-way market becomes increasingly saturated.Analysts say distribution is the key to this effort....
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has agreed to resell its paging and messaging services for a five-year period to Sprint Corp.According to the agreement, Sprint initially will offer traditional local and nationwide paging services using devices from Motorola Inc. Advanced services like guaranteed and...
DENVER, United States-After several months of fruitlessly chasing the horizontal market of international roaming business users, Iridium announced a refocused marketing plan aimed at the vertical industrial segments and a new pricing plan featuring flat-rate airtime costs and cheaper handsets.Iridium's new chief executive officer,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the drive to implement Internet e-commerce is being hyped almost on a daily basis, with some justification, as the way forward for almost all future business transactions, the possible success of this application within the mobile world remains less than clear.Many...
NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus '99 that the company plans to offer for sale later this year and early next year.For those who want a wireless communications device rugged enough for...
DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. announced a strategic relationship with 3Com Corp., designed to extend AOL e-mail to Palm Computing handheld devices.3Com said it will bundle AOL's new software in retail packages of certain Palm organizers and PalmModem accessories. As part of a market test,...
AuthentixAuthentix Network Inc. announced David Rowan and Raymond Szull joined the company as regional vice presidents in sales. Rowan will be based in Pennsylvania and will be responsible for eastern sales, and Szull will be based in Illinois, in charge of Midwest sales.Authentix also...
Iridium World Communications Ltd.'s stock plunged last week after an announcement that parent company Iridium L.L.C. had hired Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette to restructure its debt and the company announced it would not meet the subscriber and revenue figures needed to comply with its...
As deregulation slowly takes hold of the U.S. electric utility industry, many companies are beginning to take a look at wireless telecommunications as a way to hold on to their customers.With strong brand names, customer bases and billing capability, electric utility companies could prove...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced OfficeMax Inc. will sell its advanced messaging products and services.OfficeMax operates more than 860 stores in 360 markets throughout 49 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The retail chain will sell PageMart's guaranteed messaging service...
NEW YORK-For status-conscious Americans, Nokia Corp. plans to debut by late summer its Nokia 8800 series phone, carrying a suggested retail price of "under $1,000," the company said May 10.The Nokia 8800 series includes the 8860 tri-mode phone that supports Advanced Mobile Phone Service,...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. introduced a service called eLink, a two-way wireless messaging application with integrated personal information manager functions.Using a modified version of the RIM 950 pager from Research In Motion Ltd., the eLink service will use AMSC's Ardis wireless packet data network.Other...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced it is consolidating its Latin America and North America regions into a new Americas region in an effort to increase growth in the U.S. market and to eliminate nonessential operating costs. The company also centralized the management of its Asia-Pacific...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden Multimedia Corp. began shipping for commercial and retail sale a new portable wireless communications Cellular Digital Packet Data modem, the Uniden Data 2000.The Data 2000 is a battery-powered Type II Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PC card that works with...
Iridium L.L.C.'s first full quarter of operation was marked with handset production delays, distribution problems, low subscriber numbers and a deepening net loss, the aftermath of which has led the company to re-evaluate its strategic focus and upper management team.Since launching in November, Iridium...
