Consumers in Cincinnati for the first time will be able to purchase local, long-distance, personal communications, Internet and satellite TV service from one provider and receive their charges on one bill. The service begins May 1.Cincinnati Bell Wireless, the subsidiary of local phone provider...
In 1983, there were about 40 cellular cell sites in the Los Angeles area, with just a few hundred countrywide. Early subscribers lined up to pay whatever the price was for a cellular phone-$2,000 to $3,500 was typical-and the question was not, "How much...
NEW YORK-Australian telecommunications giant Telstra Corp. Ltd. announced Feb. 18 that its net profits for the six months ended Dec. 31 rose by 117 percent from the same period a year ago. Net profits totaled $1.08 billion, about $67 million ahead of median market...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. and its retail partner Direct To Retail Associates L.P. announced the launch of a program to provide prepaid cellular phones through major retailers.DTR is working with major retailers to secure floor space and national ads for the prepaid program,...
TRANSCRYPT INTERNATIONALTranscrypt International Inc. named Craig Huffaker senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. Huffaker's 20 years of financial management experience include 12 years as CFO for publicly traded companies. Huffaker, a certified public accountant, most recently was CFO of TIE Communications.CellStar...
NEW YORK-It keeps going and going and going, but it isn't a rabbit or a battery.It's a miniature version of the methanol-powered fuel cells used to run rocket ships. Robert G. Hockaday, inventor of the patented Hockaday Micro-Fuel Cell, promises it will give wireless...
Ameritel Communications Inc., a wireless reseller owned by USCI Inc., has quickly and quietly become a weighty presence in the resale industry. The company, which began last year with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, now estimates it supports about 40,000.At the end of the third...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department is investigating the Federal Communications Commission's planned Portals move, the second probe to examine whether lobbyist and former Clinton-Gore campaign manager Peter Knight got an illegal $1 million kickback for helping a Tennessee developer lock the agency into a 20-year, $400...
NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail stores.Is this a case of product oversupply? No, it's only half the story.Telecommunications equipment...
Aiming to attract alphanumeric paging subscribers wary of dictating messages to a dispatch operator, GoComm Wireless Corp. created a device called the MessageSender, currently being shipped to distributors.The MessageSender is a portable Qwerty keyboard about the size of a checkbook on which users can...
Two developers of handset-based prepaid technology are headed to court over alleged patent and trademark infringement.Telemac Corp. has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., against Topp Telecom Inc. of Miami, charging the company with patent and trademark infringement and unfair...
DENVER-U S West NewVector Group Inc., doing business as AirTouch Cellular, said it will be Ultimate Electronics' sole provider of wireless products and services in all its retail stores where AirTouch provides service.According to AirTouch, the stores carried several competing wireless products before this...
United States Cellular Corp. appointed Paul Henri Denuit to a special committee of the board of directors that will consider how the company should respond to a proposal from its parent organization, Telephone and Data Systems Inc. He has been on the board of...
Just less than a month before the Philippine government plans to hold an auction for new mobile phone licenses, Isla Communications Co. and Globe Telecom Gmcr both launched prepaid Global System for Mobile communications services.The launches represent the first shots of an aggressive nationwide...
WASHINGTON-For Beverly Wilborn, being female and African American has not kept her from climbing the corporate ladder in a telecommunications industry dominated in all respects by white males.In that respect, she is the exception to the rule.Wilborn, 49, is senior vice president of marketing...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said last week it will not relocate to the Portals unless building security is beefed up. The issue adds a new wrinkle to a controversy that has mushroomed into a full-blown congressional investigation of whether President Clinton's 1996 campaign manager...
SAN DIEGO-Jabra Corp. said it has partnered with Samsung Telecommunications America to provide its EarSet and Smart Adapter for Samsung's wireless SCH-1000 personal communications services handsets.Samsung and Jabra plan to co-market the products as separate accessories that will be sold through Samsung's distribution network,...
WASHINGTON-With the first round of universal service payments having been made this month to the government by any service-offering telecommunications operation, there still is controversy surrounding how and why commercial mobile radio service providers that are not in direct competition with local exchange carriers...
Philips Consumer Communications announced Osmo Hautanen, president of the Americas region, will leave the company March 15.Michael Lang, vice president of marketing for the Americas, immediately will assume operational responsibilities for the North American organization on an interim basis. Lang, who has been with...
Motorola announced that its Customer Owned Messaging and JTECH Communications Inc. have signed an agreement to develop new applications for on-premises paging systems for markets such as business offices, retail stores, manufacturing facilities, restaurants and auto dealerships.David Wooldridge, director of operations for Motorola's Customer...
Matrix Systems introduced the Model 7000 Series Coaxial Relay Modules, designed to maintain coaxial switching continuity over a wide range of critical and severe environments and applications. The relay modules feature two to 24 throws, and offer DC up to 800 MHz depending on...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-SourceOne Wireless Inc. signed an agreement to market the interactive paging service of BellSouth Corp. business venture RAM Mobile Data L.P., RAM announced.SourceOne initially will resell the interactive paging service in its recently acquired 30 retail outlets in Chicago under the SourceOne Wireless...
LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk TeleServices Inc. said it completed its acquisition of ConQuest Telecommunications Services Corp., following "overwhelming approval by shareholders of both companies."Under the terms of the acquisition, each share of ConQuest common stock will be converted automatically into the right to receive 7.63 shares...
MIAMI-National Comm Link L.L.C., a prepaid wireless and long-distance services distributor, announced it signed an agreement with Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. to distribute its Wave Communications prepaid wireless phone in all of Comcast's retail stores and authorized dealer locations.The Wave phone requires no programming...
