Clearnet Communications Inc. launched its Mike enhanced specialized mobile radio network in Ottawa-Hull. The Ottawa-Hull, Ontario, network covers nearly 1 million people in the region-on the Ontario-Quebec border-including Aylmer, Barrhaven, Chelsea, Cumberland, Gatineau, Gloucester, Kanata, Manotick, Nepean, Orleans, St. Onge, Stittsville and Vanier as...
WorldCom Inc. last week made an unsolicited offer to merge with MCI Communications Corp. in a deal that would eclipse British Telecommunications plc's planned acquisition of MCI, which has been in the works for nearly a year.If approved, the deal would put the WorldCom-MCI...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Subscription fraud-the practice of assuming another person's identity and possibly his or her credit history-is the successor to cloning in the wireless industry, and carriers are putting in place a number of internal measures to combat the problem as transparently to the subscriber...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Southwestco Wireless L.P. have agreed to settle their highly emotional dispute over in-market roaming in Phoenix.The companies have resumed reciprocal cellular roaming under a new agreement and entered into a tentative settlement to resolve differences over roaming in Phoenix,...
LONDON-U.K. operator Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd. launched Global System for Mobile communications roaming in Canada through an agreement with Microcell Connexions Inc.The Canada deal brings to 38 the number of countries where Orange has international roaming agreements. The company said it hopes to...
VANCOUVER, B.C.-Clearnet Communications Inc. said it officially launched Clearnet PCS, its personal communications services network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology operating in the 1.9 GHz range.The company is the second1.9 GHz PCS provider to launch service in Canada. Microcell Telecommunications Inc. turned...
ORLANDO, Fla.-For the first time in seven years, Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, was able to say, "We've turned the corner on fraud."Addressing some 700 attendees of the Wireless Fraud '97 conference here last Tuesday, Wheeler compared the industry's victory...
IBM Corp. and Geotek Communications Inc. announced they will join forces to provide integrated mobile communications services, equipment and software to business customers in the United States and some international markets.The agreement will see the two companies working together in two areas: technology, and marketing...
The whisper on Wall Street is turning into a roar.Suddenly, telecom stocks are "hot" again, springing back to life in recent weeks following a painful and prolonged two-year slump.Telecom stocks-Wall Street darlings during the early 1990s-had been taking something of a beating the past...
DALLAS-Motorola Inc. won a contract from First International Telecom, a nationwide paging operator in Taiwan, to provide its Wireless Messaging System paging network infrastructure. Fitel plans to launch commercial service early next year.The system will allow Fitel to offer voice mail, emergency paging, confirmed...
NEWTON, Mass.-Personal communications services providers must prevail in the consumer market in order to be successful, said a report issued by Business Research Group.PCS providers focused initially on the business market in an effort to recoup investments on licenses because business users spend on...
Telecommunications Techniques Corp. and Clear Communications Corp. formed an alliance to jointly market customer network management, intelligent surveillance and testing solutions for competitive access providers and wireless communications providers. TTC's test and measurement capabilities will be combined with Clear's expertise in customer network management...
MINNEAPOLIS-AirTouch Cellular launched its prepaid cellular service in Minnesota, which is targeted at customers who have been denied service for credit reasons and those customers wanting to control costs."As the largest wireless company in Minnesota, AirTouch Cellular enjoyed a 40 percent growth rate last...
NEW YORK-After more than two years of effort, standards for interoperability of smart cards for U.S.-based personal communications services received approval May 30."It represents a breakthrough. This is one step forward in the same direction of a universal phone that the ITU (International Telecommunications...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s plan for a digital personal communications services nationwide network has finally kicked off.After receiving its long-awaited shipment of dual-band, dual-mode handsets from Ericsson Inc. last month, AT&T began offering its Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz last week in Phoenix...
TORONTO-Microcell Telecommunications Inc. signed a handful of new roaming agreements with European operators, and announced its Fido personal communications services network will be active in Toronto starting next week.Microcell Connexions Inc., the network subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications, signed roaming agreements with Global System for...
Six months ago, personal communications services came to New York with the promise of revolutionizing the cellular market. But the new digital wireless service has had a rough struggle here.The first entrant, Omnipoint Communications Inc., signed up a mere 16,000 users after four months...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. signed a roaming agreement with Clearnet Communications Inc. of Canada, which will allow Nextel customers to access service wherever Clearnet offers integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network service.An employee trial is planned for July, and commercial roll out is scheduled for September.Clearnet's...
MORRISVILLE, N.C.-Tekelec introduced an international roaming verification system for Global System for Mobile communications networks.Tekelec's product enables GSM operators to comply with the GSM memorandum of understanding recommendation to periodically test the integrity of their networks. The recommended test serves as proof of conformance...
TAMPA-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. signed a contract to provide its Access Services clearinghouse system to PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P.GTE also will provide its RoamerXchange database management system to PrimeCo, which operates a Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services network.The Access Services system determines...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Authentix Network Inc.'s Roamer Verification Reinstatement technology has been recognized by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association."RVR is now recognized as one of the effective solutions of fraud prevention," said Tom McClure of CTIA. "No single weapon can fight fraud effectively under all conditions....
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. launched operational roaming with Hongkong Telecom, which is Omnipoint's 11th international roaming partner.Omnipoint and Hongkong Telecom's Global System for Mobile communications networks operate at different frequencies-1.9 GHz and 900 MHz respectively. Roaming is possible using Subscriber Identity Module smart...
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. reached an agreement to provide analog roaming services to Clearnet Communications Inc. when Clearnet launches its Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services network later this year.Part of the cellular carrier's condition for receiving a PCS license required that the new...
TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it signed an integrated wireless services roaming agreement with Nextel Communications Inc.The agreement will allow customers of Clearnet's Mike network to roam throughout Nextel's digital network in the United States for the same airtime rate they pay at home. Mike...
