NEW YORK-Telstra Corp. Ltd. debuted with a bang Nov. 17 on the Australian Stock Exchange, and trading began on the New York Stock Exchange a day later.The hugely oversubscribed initial public offering of 4.3 billion shares of common stock in the country's largest telecommunications...
ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for building and enhancing strategic partnerships and corporatealliances as well as developing pre-initial public offering strategies and communications for the privately...
NEW YORK-Let's Talk Cellular and Wireless Inc., Miami, was scheduled to go public Nov. 21, raising funds to fuel its construction of new stores and its role as a consolidator of independent wireless retailers.In an offering lead managed by Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-After months of being publicly pounded on antenna siting, health concerns, unsafe cell phone drivers and blocked E-911 calls, the wireless industry is responding with an approach that relies on good corporate citizenship and uses the power of advertising to stress the public-safety benefits...
MADISON, Wis.-Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois recently introduced Cellular ONE-4-U, a prepaid wireless service that allows consumers to purchase airtime without a credit check, contract, deposit or monthly bill.All prepaid calls are considered local and billed at one flat rate. Customers are...
DALLAS-In a move the company said would better position it for future competition, PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a reorganization in its executive management structure last week.Ross Buckenham, formerly executive vice president of narrowband personal communications services, was named the company's new president, replacing John...
NORCROSS, Ga.-Ameritel Communications Inc. concluded an agreement with computer superstore retailer CompUSA Inc., which allows CompUSA to sell Ameritel cellular and paging services, said Ameritel parent USCI Inc.Under the agreement, Ameritel's services will be offered to consumers in nine CompUSA retail locations in Atlanta...
Pre-Paid Solutions said it introduced a new debit conversion technology for the prepaid cellular market. The technology will be available this month under the name Pre-Cell Technology and Pre-Cell Chip. Pre-Cell Technology offers prepaid cellular through chip-based phone conversions. Pre-Cell Chip allows customers to...
WASHINGTON-Congressional investigators appear poised to probe whether the Federal Communications Commission's controversial move to new headquarters across town next year is the product of a generous Democratic campaign contribution and political influence peddling by close associates of Vice President Gore with ties to former...
Astronet Corp. announced the promotions and additions of several employees. Dave Segbers was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing, from director of the same division. Max Ohyama was hired as his assistant vice president. Randy Terman was promoted to marketing manager from...
Combining paging technology and personal organizer, PageMart Wireless Inc. announced agreements with Motorola Inc. and 3Com Corp. and with Texas Instruments Inc. to bring messaging capabilities to 3Com's PalmPilot handheld computer and TI's Advantra unit.PageMart said it plans to integrate its messaging network with...
NEW YORK-TSR Paging Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., announced Oct. 29 it has closed on a new $175 million credit facility, which represents a $50 million increase over its existing facility.Syndicated among eight banks, the new credit facility was oversubscribed by 70 percent, TSR said....
OAK BROOK, Ill.-Airport Cellular, a retail store located at Chicago's O'Hare Airport International Terminal 5, will become the first retail outlet to sell GTE Airfone Inc.'s Air-Land prepaid phone cards, said GTE Airfone.The prepaid cards will be sold in various denominations. They will work...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed an agreement appointing Worldwide Direct Inc. an exclusive authorized distributor of STC's prepaid service, called CellEase.Under the agreement, Worldwide Direct will develop, produce and maintain a national television marketing campaign for CellEase using the "short-form" direct...
CHICAGO-Aerial Communications Inc. is trying to lure potential Ohio customers to its personal communications services network as they ponder over pork chops and compare fat content on nutritional labels.Exploring new retail channels, Aerial has teamed up with several Big Bear grocery stores in Ohio...
Customers of two-way paging devices using WolfeTech Corp.'s PocketGenie software now will have access to the information services provided by InfoSpace, according to a strategic partnership announced between the two. Motorola Inc.'s PageWriter 2000 and Research In Motion's Inter@ctive Pager both use the PocketGenie...
Erico Inc. introduced a new line of ground bar assemblies and related products designed for the personal communications services market. Erico ground bars are electrolyptic copper bars manufactured to individual design specifi-cations, said the company. The bars are available with a variety of options...
Cord Communications Inc. selected Mark E. Reed to be its president and chief executive officer. Reed joins Cord from In Focus Systems, a multimedia projection systems company, where he was senior vice president of worldwide sales, marketing and services and president and CEO of...
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its international paging network is now operational, as a result of recent agreements with telecom companies in Mexico, Panama and El Salvador.These agreements-added to those established in Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas-flesh out the international network...
LOS ANGELES-SmarTalk Teleservices Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the retail prepaid business of Frontier Corp. for $35 million cash.Frontier distributes prepaid phone cards in more than 4,000 retail locations including Merit Stations, King Sooper, Southwest Supermarkets, Acme Supermarkets, Qwik Shops...
WASHINGTON-The United States and Japan earlier this month appeared to sidestep a trade war that portended potential devastation for American retailers of wireless products during the busy holiday season.U.S. and Japanese officials reached a breakthrough Oct. 17 that halted Clinton administration plans to block...
Tectonic Engineering Consultants P.C. named Robert E. Lister a supervising engineer, with responsibility for the structural design and analysis of buildings, infrastructure projects and wireless communication facilities. A licensed professional engineer, Lister most recently was responsible for the construction buildout of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s...
Boston Communications Group Inc. signed a corporate agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to provide wireless roaming services to personal communications services customers roaming within Sprint PCS' coverage areas. Boston's Roamerplus service allows non-Sprint PCS subscribers traveling within the Sprint PCS network to place calls...
PanaVise Products Inc. introduced a combination mounting kit designed to keep cellular phones secure while driving, but quickly release the phone for easy removal from the vehicle. The PortaGrip 2000 cellular phone holder can be used alone to prevent a phone from sliding around...
