SOMERSET, N.J.-Scantron Services Group said it will use Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc.'s MobileDispatch and wireless technology to help it reduce the response time of technicians by as much as 75 percent.The companies announced the successful completion of a field service enhancement project involving...
When questioned about the narrowband wireless local loop market, people in the telecommunications industry offer such differing opinions you expect a hidden camera to be planted somewhere in an attempt to catch your bewildered expression.According to Arnon Kohavi, vice president of strategic business development...
NEW YORK-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. squeaked through its initial public offering May 18, pricing its 8-million-share deal at $11 each, $2 below the low end of the expected range of $13-$15.Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. was lead underwriter for the Nasdaq-listed...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-More than 2 million Japanese customers subscribe to DDI, DDI-Cellular Group, TU-KA Group and IDO's wireless Internet access services "EZweb" and EZaccess," according to Phone.com Inc."We are extremely pleased to see that the number of DDI, DDI-Cellular Group, TU-KA Group and IDO's...
HONG KONG-China Unicom Ltd., China's second-largest telecommunications provider, is planning an initial public offering in June on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges. China Unicom is expected to raise about $4 billion through the offering.The listing essentially means the China-China-foreign arrangements, which...
While the big names in the wireless industry usually get most of the credit for providing wireless coverage across the country, it is the smaller players who often make up the backbone of the much larger beast.Affiliations between large, national carriers and small, local...
Blame it on the glut of recent mergers and acquisitions.Blame it on the abundance and promise of working at a start-up company.But for these reasons and more, recruiters and human resource managers throughout the wireless industry are coming to realize the dynamic job market...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services affiliate, launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Oxford, Miss., and Fort Smith, Ark., bringing the total number of markets with SunCom service to 30."Oxford and Fort Smith are important cities in their own right, and...
CANCUN, Mexico-The big push to interoperate GSM and TDMA standards is well under way, allowing customers using either standard to roam around the world and giving U.S. TDMA operators a breath of life in their ongoing struggle with CDMA carriers for domestic market share.The...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. completed its $125 million acquisition of Texas 9 Rural Service Area encompassing the towns of Brownwood, Stephenville, Hamilton and Hillsboro, Texas."Texas 9 fits well with our existing Texas 10 and Texas 16 cluster," noted Ed Evans, president of Dobson Communications....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. replaced BellSouth Mobility's existing Time Division Multiple Access infrastructure in Nashville, and Chattanooga, Tenn., and Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette, La.The five markets are the first of 17 in which Ericsson will provide and install switches, base stations, software, services...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has changed its name to Motient Corp., with the new Nasdaq symbol MTNT."Motient is information in motion, solutions in motion and instant messaging for business-to-business and business-to-consumers," said Walt Purnell Jr., president and chief executive officer of...
Bell Atlantic Mobile, Vodafone AirTouch plc and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. had a problem when they were going to merge their U.S. wireless assets into a single company. How do you combine three company names, each with strong regional appeal, into a single entity...
WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives passed legislation that would require the Federal Communications Commission to grant cellular licenses to three rural cellular operators denied licenses in 1992 because at that time the applicants did not qualify under foreign-ownership rules.The proposal was attached to a bill...
Large carriers across the country are painstakenly trying to determine what wireless Internet service offerings will attract customers. Surprisingly, some small and rural carriers are on the same page.Smaller operators historically have followed the coattails of their metropolitan counterparts when it comes to deploying...
Wireless resellers are a hardy breed. Their success or failure teeters on the shoulders of carriers that tightly control the supply of the product they need to survive. Whether warranted or not, carriers harbor fears that resellers will steal customers and sap resources, and...
SEATTLE-Point.com, building upon its position as an online retailer of wireless phones, accessories and service plans, unveiled a business-to-business e-commerce solution for companies looking to sell telecommunications products and services online.The Powered by Point program allows companies to leverage Point.com's content, comparison-shopping engine and...
NEW YORK-With an estimated 5 million American customers today, prepaid wireless services have yet to fulfill their promise, but that potential is getting closer to realization.Within the next several years, analysts from The Yankee Group, the Strategis Group and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities...
General Packet Radio Service technology is a powerful proposition for Global System for Mobile communications operators anxious to comb in the huge revenues packetized wireless Internet access promises. That's why they want GPRS handsets this year.Product delays have been part of the wireless industry...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it received two new contracts to provide its NewNet OTAserver over-the-air activation and SMserver short message technologies to regional wireless operators in North and South America.Cellular One, headquartered in Hattiesburg, Miss., and Global Telecom, operating in the Brazilian states of...
When you're moving at Internet-speed, a lot can happen in a year.Those targeting the wireless remote access market found this out quickly. About a year ago, several companies emerged with the intent to provide solutions that would extend corporate data to wireless handsets. At...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's long-overdue plan for protecting wireless systems and other computer-dependent industrial sectors against cyber attacks was criticized on Capitol Hill last week for being ill-conceived and possibly in violation of wiretap laws."Our enemies don't need to risk confronting our powerful military if...
NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile communications products.The vision for smart cards is that they will become the tiny pocket...
NEW YORK-Siemens AG's U.S. business units recorded increases in both sales and orders for the first quarter of fiscal 2000, ended Dec. 31, 1999, compared with the previous year.Sales for the first quarter rose 19 percent from $3.1 billion in 1999 to $3.7 billion...
