SBC Communications Inc. and Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. last week executed a definitive agreement to merge in a $4.4 billion stock transaction.San Antonio, Texas-based SBC, a regional telephone company that has several wireless markets in the Northeastern United States, said SNET's wireless markets...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. launched eight satellites into orbit Dec. 23, bringing its number of orbiting satellites to 10, the company announced. Satellite controllers at Orbcomm's Network Control Center in Dulles, Va., have established ground communication with all eight satellites and have begun a...
WASHINGTON-Comments regarding the Federal Communications Commission's notice of proposed rule making on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act have one thing in common-moving the compliance date back two years, to Oct. 25, 2000.The Telecommunications Industry Association, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the American...
The Asian currency crisis has created hidden opportunities for providers of cellular equipment and for global carriers and vendors to invest in under-capitalized regional carriers and distributors at enticing rates, said Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. in a recent report.The firm said the current fiscal...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-ComTec International Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, American Wireless Network Inc., said it completed the initial phase of an agreement to purchase seven specialized mobile radio systems from Centennial Communications Inc.Denver-based Centennial sold to American Wireless interests in Birmingham, Ala.; Knoxville, Memphis...
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...
NEW YORK-U.S. Digital Communications Inc., Calabasas, Calif., is a classic example in action of the old saying, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going."After seven years of bad luck trying to develop and market Web TV under the name of VisCorp, the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will kick up the pace of the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio services auction tomorrow to 24 rounds per day in another effort to bring the bidding to a close; each round will last 10 minutes.The commission tried a similar...
WARREN, N.J.-AirTouch Cellular plans to replace its wireless network infrastructure in seven U.S. markets with Lucent Technologies Inc.'s digital wireless platform, announced the companies.AirTouch said it will install Lucent's Code Division Multiple Access technology in Albuquerque, N.M.; Des Moines, Iowa; Spokane, Wash.; Duluth, Minn.;...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. now covers the entire South American continent after signing a service license agreement with Damos SudAmerica S.A.Orbcomm, a provider of global low-earth-orbit satellite data and messaging communications services, plans to deliver services to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. recently announced that shipments of its smallest personal communications services phone are under way this month.The CF 788 weighs 4.7 ounces and stands four inches tall. It provides three hours and 20 minutes of talk time and 60 hours...
WASHINGTON-As key House and Senate GOP lawmakers probe whether licenses valued at more than $1 billion were given away to Teledesic Corp. and Teligent Corp. as part of a back-room deal that policy makers justified on national security grounds, questions just as serious have...
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...
WASHINGTON-With the numbers showing net revenues of $80.7 million at the end of round 142 last Wednesday, and with 14 new high bids garnered, there was hope at press time that the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction would be over by Thanksgiving. Sixteen...
MADISON, Wis.-Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois said it will provide cellular phones and airtime to homeless people again this Thanksgiving so they can speak with family and friends.More than 70 Cellular One employees volunteered for the fifth Annual Thanksgiving Day Phone Calling...
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs Inc. and Ericsson Radio Access announced they will extend their collaboration partnership for another seven years. The terms of the new joint development and collaboration agreement were not disclosed.Under the terms of the companies' original agreement signed in October 1994, Ericsson integrated...
WASHINGTON-What's good for the goose should be good for the gander, commenters say, when it comes to personal communications services financial-restructuring relief offered by the Federal Communications Commission.Forwarding an option menu to C-block winners was a good start, entrepreneurs said, but that plan also...
Corsair Communications Inc. released a follow-on product to its PhonePrint fraud product designed to target subscriber handset problems that could lead to churn.Called PhoneCheck, the product pulls data from the network, including information on dropped calls and phones broadcasting incorrectly, and compiles it into...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. announced it will begin selling its wireless, wireline and Internet telecom services by phone 24 hours a day and seven days a week through its local business offices.Customers will be able to order on a one-stop shopping basis any wireline and...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Crop. announced it has entered into agreements to acquire 24 additional licenses in the 38 GHz band and has received new grants of seven other 38 GHz licenses directly from the Federal Communications Commission.This brings ART's total domestic licenses to...
WASHINGTON-Fourteen subsidiaries of Dallas-based General Wireless Inc., the third-ranked bidder at the C-block personal communications services auction last year, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Company attorneys Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in Washington, D.C.; and Andrews & Kurth L.L.P. in Dallas would not...
Beating other U.S. personal communications services carriers to the punch, Western Wireless Corp. announced Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecommunications Ltd.'s intention to invest about $248 million in its Global System for Mobile communications PCS business.HTL, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. that holds a 49-percent...
NEW YORK-China Telecom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the major cellular carrier in the populous Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, priced its initial public stock offering at HK$11.80 per share Oct. 16, Goldman Sachs & Co., lead underwriter, said. A Hong Kong dollar is worth approximately 0.13...
Lucent Technologies announced it promoted Richard McGinn, current president and chief operating officer, to chief executive officer, effective immediately. McGinn, 51, will replace Henry Schacht, 63, who will remain as chairman. McGinn has been with the company for two years and has a combined...
