VoiceTech Communications Inc. announced it has been granted patent approval for its VoiceCue Directory Assistance Call Completion, an application that offers cellular customers fast, easy-to-use call completion from a single, multi-application platform. VoiceTech said the DACC provides direct connection to the regional Bell operating...
L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. say they don't expect to pull workers out of Lebanon at this time, where two digital wireless phone networks are under construction, despite escalating violence in the area.The Israeli military bombed numerous sites in southern Lebanon last week to...
L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with the Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administration for the installation of intelligent networks in the Guangdong province, China. Ericsson said it will implement its latest IN software and hardware. The agreement also includes an IN service...
Rapid progress to market for Canada's personal communications services licensees is marked by Industry Canada's recent release of license conditions and Bell Mobility's announcement to use Code Division Multiple Access technology.Canadian Minister of Communications John Manley announced guidelines for PCS, including stipulations for the...
L.M. Ericsson announced its order intake during the first quarter has continued to increase for the eighteenth consecutive quarter, and by 11 percent compared with the same period last year. Net sales increased by 14 percent. The company said its mobile communications business continues...
The Telecommunications Industry Association wrote the standard for authentication technology five years ago and in March 1995, Tom Berson, a noted cryptologist and president of Anagram Laboratories, completed a study for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Fraud Task Force that determined "in an authentication...
Telemac Cellular Corp.'s cellular debit phone is a product of carriers' wish lists for the ideal prepaid service, said company President Scott McGregor. The SCOTT (Simple Credit Options with Telemac Technology) phone allows roaming and long-distance calling, provides customers various payment options, sends data...
Prepaid cellular represents a huge opportunity for carriers, as demonstrated by the flood of prepaid services inundating the marketplace. More significantly, however, prepaid cellular may prove in itself a new paradigm for conducting consumer business in wireless.Industry estimates show between 20 percent and 30...
MILAN, Italy-Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has reached three new international roaming agreements with Cellnet of the United Kingdom, Airtel Moviles of Spain and Turk Cell of Turkey. The new agreements bring the company's total number of roaming agreements to 20, covering 18 countries,...
DALLAS-According to Ericsson Inc., more than 1 million Time Division Multiple Access wireless customers contract for service worldwide every day. As a result, the Swedish manufacturer unveiled a bevy of TDMA-based products and services at the recent Wireless '96 conference in Dallas.Three new Digital...
DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and local law enforcement launched...
WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc., the international consortium of telecommunications companies funding the development of the Iridium system, has become a charter mobile satellite services member of the Global System for Mobile communications MoU Association, Iridium announced.Through its affiliation, Iridium said it will work to establish roaming...
DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and local law enforcement launched...
WASHINGTON-In a March 29 draft letter to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), who introduced legislation March 28 that would require the Federal Communications Commission to mandate access to 911 services by all commercial mobile services carriers, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler told the...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced its cellular ventures in Germany and Italy have continued to experience strong customer growth. AirTouch said its German cellular venture, Mannesmann Mobilfunk, currently has more than 1.6 million customers. During 1995, Mannesmann Mobilfunk grew by more than 70 percent, ending...
DENVER-ICG Satellite Services said it plans to acquire about 90 percent of Maritime Cellular Tele-Network Inc., a West Palm Beach, Fla.-based provider of cellular communications for commercial shipping.MCN will allow ICG to provide mobile satellite communications services to freighters, yachts, tankers and off-shore platforms...
After discontinuing a five-year relationship with AT&T Corp., HighwayMaster Corp. has formed a new alliance with GTE Corp. and continues to work with IEX Corp. to revamp its network platform.Dallas-based HighwayMaster's mobile communications and fleet information management system operates nationwide using existing cellular infrastructure...
After discontinuing a five-year relationship with AT&T Corp., HighwayMaster Corp. has formed a new alliance with GTE Corp. and continues to work with IEX Corp. to revamp its network platform.Dallas-based HighwayMaster's mobile communications and fleet information management system operates nationwide using existing cellular infrastructure...
PCS Development Corp. is confident in the opportunities for early players in the market for stored voice paging in narrowband PCS. The company just last week announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with Metairie, La.-based Radiofone Inc., a wireless messaging provider with a...
Western Wireless Corp. said aloha to Honolulu's wireless communications market by offering consumers yet another way to communicate-via a personal communications services handset.The Bellevue, Wash.-based company announced it has activated its PCS 1900 network based on Global System for Mobile communications technology in Honolulu...
GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. last week introduced FraudForce, a service aimed at blasting today's most threatening cellular phone fraud, roaming fraud.Initial deployment of FraudForce will include FraudInterceptor, a tool that recognizes customers who are roaming in a high-fraud market, and FraudChallenger, an interactive voice...
Eighteen months after being blown off course in the stormy seas of the cellular industry, the MobiLink alliance has taken a new bearing as a developer of advanced roaming services.MobiLink was formed by 15 B-block cellular carriers in 1993 to help build a common...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International, has teamed with Canadian partners to launch PageMart Canada Ltd., a new nationwide Canadian paging company that will operate on the same 900 MHz frequency that PageMart uses in the United States.The two carriers will...
Cellular theft: A cellular phone is stolen from a legitimate customer and used before the theft can be reported.Subscription fraud: This type of counterfeiting occurs when a person signs up for cellular service using fraudulent information or false identification and does not intend to pay for...
