NEW YORK-Start-up American companies searching the financing firmament for venture capital might do better by setting their sights upward toward the hidden realm occupied by angels.Angel investors are high-net-worth people whose small, patient investments in fledgling companies play a unique and critical role at...
NEW YORK-Just in time for the holidays, glad tidings have arrived from the Windy City in the form of worldwide telecommunications infrastructure construction and deployment financing.Chicago-based U.S. RealTel Inc., which describes itself as "the nation's largest landlord of pre-leased antenna sites and telecommunications access...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson said it signed a Global System for Mobile communications expansion contract with Guangxi Post and Telecommunication Administration, valued at $160 million.Ericsson said Guangxi PTA began the first of seven expansions on the Total Access Communications System and GSM cellular networks in 1992....
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched its personal communications services network in several key markets as part of the expansion of its nationwide network. Seven of these new markets are using Motorola CIG's Code Division Multiple Access network...
Supra Products Inc. won a contract from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to provide its TRACcess electronic access control system at AT&T Wireless cell sites in its central region, said the companies.The contract follows a previous contract with AT&T Wireless covering the carrier's Western region...
WASHINGTON-The current Federal Communications Commission plan for public-safety digital-only operations in the 700 MHz band (746-806 MHz) will lead to unused spectrum for as long as seven years, the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International warned last week.The FCC adopted rules in September...
WASHINGTON-Any good will House Speaker-designate Bob Livingston (R-La.) hopes to bring to the 106th Congress could evaporate quickly if a deal is not struck with House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) on adding more Democrats to committees that will tackle key wireless issues and...
Horizon Personal Communications Inc. launched its personal communications services network in seven basic trading areas in Ohio and West Virginia, under an affiliate agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. Horizon, which is an affiliate of The Chilicothe Telephone Co., has a management agreement with Sprint...
As I debate again this year whether to actually make mashed potatoes to bring to the family Thanksgiving dinner or whether to buy them and pretend I made them (you cannot use this to blackmail me because my husband already spilled the beans to...
PENSACOLA, Fla.-BellSouth Mobility Inc. launched personal communications services in northwest Florida, including Panama City, Tallahassee, Gainesville, Ocala and Tampa.The company's licenses in northwest Florida include Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties.The expansion will allow BellSouth Mobility customers to use their package minutes in...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. announced it will co-develop and co-deploy an advanced customer-service, billing and financial management business support system for Iridium L.L.C.'s global mobile phone service. According to LHS, the system can process call rates and billing in all major currencies and can operate...
NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission announced it approved the transfer of licenses and authorizations from Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. to SBC Communications Inc., thereby granting the companies' merger application.The FCC concluded "the merger is unlikely to have any anti-competitive effects or any other...
WASHINGTON-At a time other sectors of the telecommunications industry are urging the Federal Communications Commission to go away and leave them alone, Mark Crosby, president of the Industrial Telecommunications Association wants more attention. He wants an advocate fighting for private wireless spectrum inside of...
MELBOURNE, Australia-I am window shopping when my mobile phone alerts me I have a message. Reading it, I learn the store I am standing in front of has a sale on men's underwear. Forever in need of a new pair of boxer shorts, I...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The game of musical chairs between telecom operators vying for a stake in the lucrative German market seems to have slowed down. There is now some semblance of stability following the launch of E2, Germany's fourth mobile phone network, at the end...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The International Mobile Telecommunications Association said its board of directors now is complete following the addition of the Mobile Trunked Radio Operators Association of India."Since its creation, IMTA's goal has been to create a federation of national trade associations and companies who have...
WASHINGTON-For all of the grumbling that some in the communications industry do about the Federal Communications Commission, what would happen if it didn't exist? One leading telecommunications policy maker is finding out.Brian Fontes, senior vice president for policy and administration for the Cellular Telecommunications...
SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides up to 2.3 hours of talk time or up to 45 hours standby time in...
BELLSOUTHBellSouth Corp. appointed Nancy Humphries vice president of investor relations. For the past seven years, Humphries served as executive director of investor relations for BellSouth, responsible for communicating the company's strategies, financial results and management philosophy to both institutional and individual investors. In her...
Is anyone else in the industry weary of the debate over the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994?Finally admitting that you can't put the cart before the horse, the Federal Communications Commission extended the CALEA implementation date from next month to June...
Last month marked the first anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission's revised radio-frequency radiation guidelines. Those guidelines constituted the first major overhaul of RF rules in nearly a decade and the only one since wireless entered the high-tech era of personal communications services, digital...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard vowed to support telecommunications development in Africa, a continent with emerging markets that is looking to wireless technology to leapfrog into the 21st century."I want to work as a partner with you for the simple reason that we...
BANGALORE, India-State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) last year announced its plans to give private cellular operators in New Delhi and Mumbai a run for their money by launching a low-tariff mobile telephone service to cater to the salaried middle-class and students.Ever since MTNL...
The wireless industry currently uses many different customer-retention strategies and retention campaigns, including win-back teams, welcome calls, competitive rate plans and loyalty programs. However, even with these comprehensive programs in place, churn continues to plague the wireless industry and today remains a critical business...
