MOBILEMEDIAMobileMedia Corp., dba MobileComm, promoted several people in management positions. Steven Gross was named executive vice president of sales and marketing. He joined MobileComm as senior vice president of sales and marketing in 1996, and since has been responsible for new product introductions, including...
NEW YORK-TeleData World Services Inc., Atlanta, expects to begin next month providing its TWOS brand prepaid cellular phones and service to 10,000 convenience stores nationwide owned by Lantana Merchants Solutions Corp., Newport Beach, Calif.The Lantana Solutions rollout, announced in late August, followed another just...
So, you want to build a wireless telecommunications network. Then you must be thinking about how to leverage the infrastructures of existing cellular and PCS systems. After all, you figure, the more collocating you do, the sooner your system is on the air.But what...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced the availability of prepaid personal communications services in all of the company's markets."Powertel's prepaid offering is an extension of our simplified, post-paid service plans," said Mike Bashaw, Powertel vice president of marketing. "There will be no credit check, no...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Conferences are an integral part of the mobile communications scene, an ideal platform for catching up with the latest developments and a chance to meet old friends and make new ones. But such networking opportunities have one inevitable consequence. A raging hangover...
SAN DIEGO-SecurFone America Inc. completed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic alliance and distribution agreement with Microwave Designs International Inc., a privately held wireless engineering company, and its affiliate MDI de Mexico S.A. de C.V.The MoU calls for the companies to jointly develop...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc.'s Network Services Division signed agreements with Goldblatt's and the Farmer Jack's food-store chains to provide calling-party-pays paging services for their respective Chicago and Detroit retail locations.The department store and food-store chains will market "Priceless Page" pagers to their customers, who will...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry and the hearing-impaired community appear headed on a collision course over the implementation of the 1996 telecom act's mandate that equipment and service be accessible and usable by persons with disabilities if it is "readily achievable."The readily achievable caveat, among other...
In what is no doubt the single-largest transaction in the history of the paging industry, Arch Communications Group Inc. and MobileMedia Corp. confirmed they have completed a definitive merger agreement under which Arch will acquire MobileMedia for a combination of cash, stock and the...
The emergence of personal communications services providers is putting the often-tenuous relationship between carriers and resellers to the test in more ways than one.PCS once was viewed as the next area where resale would be used widely to increase subscriber numbers quickly. Instead, competition...
CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless announced that it expanded its southwest Ohio operating region by launching personal communications services in Dayton.The launch coincides with the opening of four new Cincinnati Bell Wireless retail outlets. The launch is being coordinated through a management agreement with AT&T Wireless...
The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.'s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging, in which all major paging players will operate some type of two-way network.SkyTel Communications Inc. no longer will be the...
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will give up to two months of free airtime to customers who buy one-way numeric pagers in August at some 17,500 7-Eleven stores nationwide.7-Eleven stores sell Motorola Pronto Flex numeric pagers for a suggested retail price of about $40,...
NEW YORK-Due to orchestrated criminal activity involving illegally obtained subscriber identity module cards, Omnipoint Corp. discounted nearly $10 million-all overseas roaming revenues-its Omnipoint Communications Services L.L.C. subsidiary earned last quarter.In its Aug. 10 earnings announcement for the second quarter ended June 30, Omnipoint Corp.,...
CELWAVECelwave introduced a new antenna and amplifier. The Celwave Optimizer, a log periodic dipole antenna, has continuous adjustment of electrical downtilt with the turn of a dial. With an electrical downtilt of zero to 14 degrees, one Optimizer operates over a frequency range of...
PAGEMARTPageMart Wireless Inc. promoted two executives, Wayne Stargardt and Donna Regenbaum. Stargardt was named vice president of the company's fastest-growing business unit, the Carrier Services Division. Stargardt previously was PageMart's vice president of marketing. Before joining the company, he served as vice president of...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating CellStar Corp.'s compliance with federal securities laws, and the handset distributor said it believes the inquiry is focused on previously disclosed events that occurred in 1995 and 1996.CellStar reported disappointing financial operating results for the first and...
DENVER-Los Angeles-based resellers American Way Paging and Cellular Palace Inc. merged last month into WirelessLines Inc.The combined company has 75,000 paging customers, as well as wholesale and retail operations in Southern California.WirelessLines expects to triple the company's size soon, said Denver-based investment banking firm...
NEW YORK-"One of the humbling things about this business is that, for three out of four years, we are unapproachable and obnoxious, but in the fourth year we have to raise money so we grovel."That is how Ronald White, a partner in Argo Global...
Mobile phone sales during the second quarter gave Nokia Corp. a boost when it released its second-quarter earnings July 24, while its Swedish rival L.M. Ericsson suffered a plunge in its stock prices and several ratings downgrades on news its mobile phone sales were...
NEW YORK-Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent begun with publishing industry-related cases dating back to 1926, the Internal Revenue Service has determined a cellular provider must amortize, or spread out over time, tax deductions it takes for reseller commissions on customer acquisitions.The alternative, preferred by...
NEW YORK-For consumers, the important news out of a Motorola Inc. press conference July 21 is the broad suite of new wireless telecommunications devices the industry heavyweight debuted.For other manufacturers, the big news from the event is the industry giant will seek to partner...
