TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. announced they completed installation of gateways to allow interoperability between Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Personal Digital Cellular wireless networks.GlobalRoam is the first two-way international roaming service between the United States and Japan,...
MEXICOCorsair Communications Inc. recently completed installation of its radio-frequency fingerprinting system for Baja Celular Mexicana in Tijuana, and for Celular de Telefonia in Monterrey, the company announced. Corsair will provide fraud protection for the two companies with its PhonePrint Service Bureau program. Under the...
As 1998 begins and a new century beckons, the wireless industry finds itself riding the wave of landmark free trade agreements that will open telecom and information technology markets and force countries to address the far-reaching implications of the Digital Age.What worldly thinkers have...
Wireless carriers and resellers that are beginning to capitalize on a customer segment previously denied service because of poor credit have a choice when it comes to providing prepaid wireless services.The prepaid functions either can be housed at the switch or within the handset...
NEW YORK-Bundling of multiple prepaid wireless and wireline services is about to get easier and cheaper for small and large carriers, according to InterVoice Inc., Dallas.InterVoice, which produces the Network Services Platform called NSP-5000, announced earlier this month that it expects to complete by...
WASHINGTON-Although a broadband wireless pricing survey performed by BT Alex. Brown Research came up with no definitive trend-all up, all down or all the same-it did find that high-end subscribers have been ratcheting down their minutes of use, that personal communications services carriers include...
DETROIT-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services network in Detroit, using infrastructure equipment supplied and installed by Lucent Technologies Inc.The new system has advanced services including caller ID, paging, e-mail, and voice mail messaging, as well as traditional...
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. announced a roaming agreement with Clearnet Communications Inc. which will expand its PrimeTravel digital service to most major Canadian cities, including Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal by early next year.PrimeCo said it currently is negotiating an agreement with a provider in...
Another wireless carrier has jumped on the Time Division Multiple Access bandwagon with help from AT&T Wireless Services Inc.Oklahoma City-based Dobson Communications Corp., a cellular carrier with about 100,000 customers, has signed an operating agreement with AT&T Wireless to become part of the cellular...
ST. CLOUD, Minn.-Wireless carrier CMS St. Cloud said it will become one of the first operators in the United States to offer customers a choice of Code Division Multiple Access, Time Division Multiple Access and analog wireless service using a network solution from Northern...
DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched its PrimeTravel service, which allows subscribers to roam throughout the nation using dual-mode/dual-band handsets manufactured by Sony Corp.The company also announced it has implemented over-the-air activation.PrimeCo has signed roaming agreements with its parent companies-AirTouch Communications Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp....
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has signed an agreement with Nicaragua's telecommunications service provider, Jamar S.A. of C.V. to expand its international roaming footprint beginning next January."The partnership with Jamar is an integral component of our overall international strategy," said Rick Nelson, president of...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has reached an agreement in principle to provide pagers and paging services to more than 660 OfficeMax Inc. retail locations nationwide.The arrangement is aimed at the small office/home office market, OfficeMax's primary demographic target and a market PageMart has...
Players in the crowded Hong Kong market may finally get a little elbow room, as Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Hongkong Telecom CSL, plans to acquire full ownership of Pacific Link Communications Ltd.Hongkong Telecom signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding...
RCR has some good little elves and once again, they managed to redirect some mail sent to Santa from executives in the wireless industry. Rest assured, no felonious acts of mail fraud were committed to get these documents.Dear Santa,First of all, thank-you for the...
NEW YORK-Competition among wireless carriers has driven down per-minute use charges by 6 percent on average, with some carriers slashing prices by more than a third, according to a new study by Paul Kagan Associates Inc., Carmel, Calif.A closer look at the most competitive...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Several wireless carriers selected Illuminet's Cellular Administration and Operations Support Service to manage seamless roaming in new markets and to establish roaming with other carriers, said the company.Companies that signed on to use the service include United States Cellular Corp., BellSouth Cellular Corp.,...
As the Global System for Mobile communications community celebrates the inroads the technology has made throughout the world, the GSM MoU Association said it will continue to promote the technology worldwide and make sure third-generation technology incorporates a GSM platform and open interface.As of...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications' wireless services customers can roam in Singapore, following a recent operational roaming agreement with Singapore Telecom. The addition of Singapore Telecom raises Omnipoint's number of roaming partners to 34, representing 24 countries outside the United States.
WASHINGTON-U S West Wireless has chosen Cibernet's Financial Net Settlement Program as a means to settle roamer billings between roaming partners, allowing U S West to use a single funds transfer to make or receive payments from all other wireless carriers in the program.Working...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced that Japanese cellular service providers DDI Corp. and IDO Corp. will use cdmaOne as the brand name for their joint Code Division Multiple Access cellular phone service.The two companies, which are members of the CDG, plan to...
MONTREAL-Users of Microcell Solutions Inc.'s personal communication service, Fido, can now roam in France, England, Switzerland, Germany and Hong Kong, said the company.Fido customers in these countries can use their own Fido number. Roaming in other countries will be available soon, said Microcell."Our ultimate...
SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.'s Asia-Pacific Paging Networks Division announced it signed a paging infrastructure contract with Liaoning Province Mobile Communications Ltd. in China.The contract, valued at $14 million, is for a high-speed paging multifrequency roaming network based on its FLEX technology.Under the contract, Motorola said it...
SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Paging Networks Division announced it signed a paging infrastructure contract with Express Telecommunications Co., a regional paging carrier in the central region of Taiwan.The contract, valued at $1.5 million, is for a FLEX-based multifrequency roaming network on the 280 MHz...
