MOBILEMEDIAMobileMedia Corp., dba MobileComm, promoted several people in management positions. Steven Gross was named executive vice president of sales and marketing. He joined MobileComm as senior vice president of sales and marketing in 1996, and since has been responsible for new product introductions, including...
Though intense competition for second-tier cellular carriers is some time away, a Westbrook, Maine, company is looking to help these carriers get ready for future competition.Infotech Solutions Corp. since 1997 has offered Voyager, a scalable client-server Windows 95 application that uses UNIX-based relational databases...
Iridium L.L.C. announced it will delay its initial Sept. 23 service launch date to Nov. 1, citing the need to "improve operational stability of the network," according to Ed Staiano, the company's vice chairman and chief executive officer.In a briefing with reporters last week,...
Sorry Microsoft Corp., but analyst firm Strategy Analytics predicts the handheld device market in the future will not be dominated by any single standard."Microsoft will not dominate this category as it has with PCs," Matthew Checkley, associate consultant with the firm, said in a...
If all goes as planned, Iridium L.L.C.'s vision of a global wireless phone network-based on a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites interconnected to several terrestrial-based networks-will begin commercial service on 23 September.While the company continues to put the finishing touches on the satellite network,...
Across most of the world's regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered one of the leading contributors to current subscriber growth.Some carriers now are getting more than half of new subscribers through...
Airadigm Communications Inc. signed a contract to sell its entire tower inventory to SpectraSite Communications Inc., said the companies. The purchase price was not disclosed. The contract also includes a provision calling for SpectraSite to build about 125 additional towers throughout Wisconsin and Iowa....
GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it signed an agreement to become a value-added reseller of Information Mechanics Inc.'s line of wireless data applications for smartphones and other handheld devices. Under the agreement, GoAmerica will feature IM's Web product line on its Web@Hand portfolio of wireless...
SnapTrack Inc., together with U S West Wireless, last week staged a live demonstration of its location technology designed to meet phase II requirements of the Federal Communications Commission's enhanced 911 mandate. SignalSoft Corp. and SCC Communications Corp. also participated in the trial.The FCC...
CHICAGO-B-Side Carriers L.P., operating as MobiLink, and Ranger Wireless Solutions announced that Ranger acquired most of the assets and contracts of MobiLink for an undisclosed amount.Ranger Wireless Solutions is a services development company focused on wireless roaming. MobiLink was a development company owned by...
The vast number of players coupled with loads of savvy Wall Street money has set the stage for mass consolidation within the tower industry.The rate of acquisitions has moved quickly within the last year, and industry executives and analysts say only a handful will...
VLSIVLSI Technology Inc. said its president and chief operating officer, Richard M. Beyer, left the company for personal reasons. "We have a very solid team that can weather the current semiconductor industry downturn while we continue to invest in the strategic technologies that position...
No one at Iridium L.L.C. or Motorola Inc. has explained the cause of two satellite failures last month, but the consortium maintains the problem is unrelated to the previous five satellite losses.To date, Iridium has lost seven satellites of the 72 launched. According to...
WASHINGTON-A proposal to assign abbreviated dialing codes nationwide appears to be headed for a major roadblock from the North American Numbering Council. NANC is expected to approve a report in September that will declare no one supports abbreviated dialing codes, said Lori Messing, manager...
Iridium L.L.C. said two more of its satellites failed last week, adding to a list of concerns that caused the company's stock price to fall about $8 following the disclosure.Of the 72 satellites placed in orbit to date, seven have failed. According to Michelle...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it has promoted seven members of its senior management staff to manage the acquisition of American Paging Inc.Frank Lynch was promoted from senior vice president of sales to executive vice president of sales and marketing; Ardon Beahm rose...
The Telecommunications Industry Association's TR-45 Mobile and Personal Communications Systems engineering committee created a new work group that will address fixed wireless access and wireless local loop applications, said the organization.The group-TR-45.4.1-is assigned to the TR-45.4 Radio to Switching Technology subcommittee, which is responsible...
LONDON-The ERMES MoU Association, formerly called ERMES MoU, celebrated its new status as a legal entity with the launch of an ERMES paging system in Sweden, by telecom provider Telia, and by adding a new member to its ranks.Telia launched the numeric and alphanumeric...
NEW YORK-Except for Geotek Communications Inc., wireless telephony companies here and abroad were conspicuous by their absence from the growing number of bond defaults that Moody's Investors Service, New York, reported July 20.Some 54 companies, 21 of them domestic, defaulted on $8.19 billion in...
The success of the personal communications services industry has astounded industry analysts, PCS company executives and cellular carriers alike.The PCS industry is about two years old and already has penetrated the market, driven down prices and earned high revenues faster than anyone had expected."It's...
COMSTREAMJohn F. Hodgson joined ComStream Corp. as vice president of human resources. Before ComStream, Hodgson held the same position with NextWave Telecom, San Diego, and prior to that with General Communications Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. He also has been the director of human resources for...
NEW YORK-AirTouch Communications Inc., San Francisco, plans the public sale of about $721 million in notes denominated in German marks in order to retire bank debt and commercial paper.Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's Corp., both in New York, accorded the proposed issue...
The larger players in the paging industry have bellied up to the consolidation table and, with fork and knife in hand, are poised to dig in.Still digesting its acquisition of ProNet Inc., Metrocall Inc. said its next serving will be the Advanced Messaging Division...
DENVER, United States-Dramatic consolidation in the U.S. telecommunications industry has marked the first part of the year, topped off most recently with news the nation's largest long-distance and wireless carrier, AT&T Corp., plans to buy the nation's second-largest cable TV company, Tele-Communications Inc.The US$48...
