BOSTON-Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched its personal communications services network in Boston, offering competitive service plans like $30 per month for 300 minutes.The company said it also designed home service area calling and local calling areas. The home service area includes five of the six...
The holiday season is just around the corner, and wireless carriers will be looking to cash in by marketing their products and services as gifts to consumers enjoying a strong economy.But another group is waiting to capitalize on wireless service during the season-fraudsters.In the...
BETHESDA, Md.-Personal communications services provider American Personal Communications, which operates as Sprint Spectrum in the Washington, D.C., area, announced international roaming agreements covering six new countries in European countries.The agreements are with Mobilkom in Austria, Tele Danmark in Denmark, Telecom Italia in Italy, Telia...
MINNEAPOLIS-Personal communications services provider WirelessNorth said it signed a roaming agreement with Clearnet PCS Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Clearnet Communications Inc. of Pickering, Ontario, Canada.The agreement is WirelessNorth's second roaming agreement with a Code Division Multiple Access PCS carrier. The company earlier...
WASHINGTON-According to a new book on wireless regulations written by former Industrial Telecommunications Association staffer Fred Day, "In 1993, Congress amended the Communications Act to incorporate a new term, `commercial mobile service,' also referred to as `commercial mobile radio service.' This term is essentially...
Several specialized mobile radio equipment manufacturers announced they agreed to adopt a common enhanced trunking protocol last week at AMTEX '97 in Orlando, Fla.Companies, including Kenwood Corp., Ritron, SEA and Standard Communications, announced plans to incorporate the PassPort protocol developed by Trident Micro Systems.The...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it completed tests for Code Division Multiple Access intersystem network roaming in Beijing.The tests were conducted jointly with China Telecom Greatwall Network, which is a cooperative entity between China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and China...
LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined just how convoluted and contentious Europe's standards process has become.And while CDMA technology seems...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced it published a new interim standard protocol called Intersystem Operations Support for the IS-136 Digital Control Channel.The document recommends giving networking support to systems and mobile stations built according to the TIA/EIA/Industry Standard-136 (Time Division Multiple Access technology) and...
TAIPEI, Taiwan-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it deployed the initial phase of Taiwan's first national Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network, connecting networks for KG Telecom and Tuntex Telecom, two of Taiwan's licensed wireless service providers.Lucent already has installed more than 350 base...
NEW YORK-The Wireless Alliance L.L.C. is testing a dual-mode service that would allow callers to dial one phone number to reach customers on either their cellular or personal communications services handsets.Under the plan, incoming calls will "group ring" both phones. If neither is answered,...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. received an order from Asia Paging Co. Ltd. to build a high-speed FLEX paging network with roaming capability in the central region of Taiwan.
LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced it was awarded an integrated Global System for Mobile communications 900/Digital Cellular System 1800 license in Luxembourg, becoming the country's second mobile operator.Millicom will share Luxembourg's 416,000 population with the current, state-owned telephone company operator, P&T Luxembourg. Millicom said...
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...
KANSAS CITY-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced the availability of dual-band phones to customers nationwide. The new phones will allow customers to roam on analog cellular networks where Sprint PCS lacks 1900 MHz Code Division Multiple Access coverage.Sprint PCS is offering three phones, each priced around...
WASHINGTON-InTouch USA Inc. announced it has taken its wireless equipment rental service worldwide, primarily to offer carriers with holes in their roaming capabilities access to foreign networks.The company said its rental equipment is compatible with virtually all of the world's wireless networks, including international...
To clarify the cost of airtime for Global System for Mobile communications subscribers who use their phones to roam on foreign networks, the GSM MoU Association's global membership voted to accept the principle of an Inter-Operator Tariff (IOT).The fee is effectively a wholesale tariff...
Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne's Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers. Nokia values the arrangement at more than $30 million. Nokia agreed to supply its high-capacity DX200 mobile switching equipment, tropicalized...
BATON ROUGE, La.-C-block license holder Meretel Communications L.P. is expected this week to launch personal communications services in Baton Rouge, La., using dual-mode, dual-band Code Division Multiple Access handsets.Eatel Inc., one of Meretel's owners, is introducing the CDMA service under the Eatel name. The...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Triton PCS formed a joint venture agreement that will expand AT&T's digital coverage in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, the Washington-Baltimore corridor and Georgia.The agreement calls for Triton to obtain financing and build out a Time Division Multiple Access...
NEW YORK-Microcell Telecommunications Inc., a Montreal-based personal communications services provider, went public Oct. 8 with an initial offering of 14.7 million nonvoting shares of Class B common stock.The initial selling price of the cross-border sale was at the high end of the anticipated share...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Services Inc. announced it launched commercial roaming services with Hungary's Westel 900 GSM Mobile Tavkozlesi Rt.The announcement marks the 26th roaming agreement secured by Omnipoint, which has embarked on an aggressive campaign for international roaming partners. Customers within the roaming...
Geotek Communications Inc. announced an 85 percent increase in subscribers during the third quarter, to almost 10,000. The company pointed to improvements in its 12 regional networks-consisting of 60 cities and counties-as well as coverage improvement and enhanced sales and marketing efforts. Geotek said...
The Australian Communications Authority has postponed its planned auction of spectrum for personal communications services until early 1998 to clear up key policy issues that may be ambiguous to potential market entrants.The ACA was preparing to auction spectrum in 1.8 GHz and 800 MHz...
