The Jan. 11 issue of RCR will feature the Top 20 Wireless Resellers and include PCS and cellular resellers. If you would like your company to be included, please provide the following to Kristen Beckman at RCR by Monday, Jan. 4. Company name, mailing...
PageMart Wireless Inc. reported the Synapse Pager Card production delays have been worked out and shipments are underway in the volume expected.PageMart began shipping units in July, but reported in its third-quarter earnings release that "significant manufacturing problems" of the Synapse card were affecting...
This year's holiday season promises to be an interesting one for wireless carriers and vendors offering their products to online buyers.Jupiter Communications, a new media research firm, predicts holiday shoppers will spend $2.3 billion online this season, up from $1.1 billion in 1997. According...
BellSouth Mobility Inc. introduced text and alphanumeric pagers with unlimited local service for as low as $10 per month in BMI's one-stop-shop retail stores. "By adding paging to our product mix, we are able to combine a variety of telecommunications services on one, easy...
Motorola Inc. announced a partnership with BMW North America Inc. to create a new telematics cellular phone system expected to be available on all BMW models by late this year.The BMW Mayday Cellular Phone combines cellular telephony with global positioning system satellite location technology...
President Bill Clinton signed into law late last month the federal Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998, which authorizes prison terms of up to three years and fines of up to $250,000 for such crimes. "The new ... law will make it...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. signed an agreement with Boston Communications Group Inc. that will allow STC, in cooperation with Boston's wireless carrier customers, to provide nationwide prepaid service with almost all models of cellular phones, said STC.The agreement also allows STC to provide...
NEW YORK-Plantronics Inc., a Santa Cruz, Calif., manufacturer of hands-free telephone devices, reported its second quarter was a record-setter for the company in income, revenue and cash flow."Both domestic and international business grew, with especially good increases in distribution, , retail and the...
NEW YORK-Stock-market volatility has caused 160 companies that filed for initial public offerings this year, half of them in the third quarter, to delay or cancel those plans, according to Securities Data Corp., Newark, N.J.That's the good news. Now many of those same companies...
NEW YORK-Earlier this month, Charles E. Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of Rogers Cantel Inc., temporarily assumed a new identity as a retail sales clerk to gain first-hand understanding of his wireless customers.After four hours on the job, the CEO concluded, "It's obvious...
NEW YORK-The government of Finland plans to sell a 20-percent stake in Sonera Ltd. through an initial public offering of stock Nov. 17 that it hopes will raise between $1 billion and $1.8 billion.Sonera, formerly called Telecom Finland, derives nearly half of its revenues...
PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has sold its major trading area license and operations in Hawaii to Sprint Corp.-a deal that PrimeCo says has been in the works for nearly 15 months."The Hawaii investment was a good one for us," said Lowell McAdam, president and...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS introduced a handset with a built-in mouse, manufactured by Denso Wireless Systems America, and a headset from Plantronics Inc.The Sprint PCS Touchpoint handset has a large display screen and a mouse to allow point-and-click navigation through menus and options. The...
NEW YORK-Sierra Wireless Inc., a Canada-based maker of wireless data modems, will have commercially available in December its new AirCard CE Cellular Digital Packet Data modem for Windows CE 2.0 handheld personal computers.The modem will be sold through Sierra Wireless resellers and distributors for...
SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides up to 2.3 hours of talk time or up to 45 hours standby time in...
UNITED KINGDOM-Ram Mobile Data U.K. announced it was awarded a three-year contract to provide all nationwide field service communications in the United Kingdom for Lonco Industrial Services Ltd., one of the country's largest retail equipment maintenance contractors.The in-vehicle equipment includes Psion Workabout handheld computers-connected...
CANADARogers Cantel Inc. said its prepaid offering will be sold by Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix under a new retail agreement between the companies. "Cantel AT&T Pay As You Go" will be available in 650 of Shoppers Drug Mart's 850 stores across Canada by the end...
ORLANDO, Fla.-BellSouth Wireless Data disclosed in greater detail its distribution strategy for its Interactive Paging service at PCS '98 last week, where the company also announced a strategic alliance and conducted a developer's seminar.BellSouth released a list of 43 distributors made up of resellers,...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc completed its $1.75 billion cash acquisition of MCI Corp.'s U.S.-based Internet business, including its Internet backbone services, about 1,000 specialist employees, as well as its retail and Internet Service Provider customer base.Cable & Wireless now owns and operates an Internet...
CTIAChristopher Putala joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association as vice president for congressional affairs. Putala worked for nine years with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide variety of law-enforcement issues and served as Democratic staff director and chief counsel for Sen. Joseph R....
AKRON, Ohio-Best Buy awarded Telxon Corp. a contract valued at about $4 million to install mobile computers, portable printers and spread-spectrum wireless networks in its more than 300 retail stores, Telxon said.The contract includes wireless network hardware, installation, more than 900 Telxon PTC-960SL wireless...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS added Qualcomm Inc.'s QCP-1920 Code Division Multiple Access phone to its product lineup. The single-branded personal communications services phone comes with a standard lithium ion battery. The QCP-1920 is available in Sprint PCS stores and other retailers in its distribution...
CHICAGO-Ameritech Cellular Services and IBM Corp. announced they have agreed that IBM will offer Ameritech's wireless data communications as part of IBM customers' systems integration projects.Under terms of the agreement, IBM will market Ameritech's Cellular Digital Packet Data service through its Global Services organization....
Motorola Inc.'s North American Paging Subscriber Division plans to announce several new paging devices at the Personal Communications Showcase in Orlando this week, including a new voice pager.The next-generation portable answering machine, or LS950V, is 40 percent smaller than the original Tenor model. It...
