BOSTON-Strategy Analytics' recent study, "US Wireless Voice Market Forecast," reports that between 1999 and 2004, wireless minutes of use will grow at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, eventually reaching over 630 billion."Total cellular penetration in the U.S. is now projected to reach...
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a hamburger and French fries? Probably McDonalds.Think of a pair of tennis shoes, and you probably picture the Nike swoosh. Or a pair of jeans, and you probably think of Levi's....
While it would be woefully premature to call 1999 "the year of wireless data," few would disagree the industry has come a long way in the last year.In 1998, several new devices were introduced that met the form factor and price requirements needed for...
NEW YORK- Triton Cellular Partners L.P., Malverne, Pa., completed the acquisition of Blue Mountain Cellular Telephone, which offers wireless telecommunications in south-central and eastern Oregon and southeastern Washington.Triton did not disclose the purchase price. However, it said it closed recently on a $500 million...
With vendors putting their time and energy into the three main U.S. digital standards and into developing standards for third-generation technology, there hardly seems room for commercialization of the more obscure technologies touted years ago."You need volume production and vendor financing behind it," said...
Customers want their questions answered the way they want and in the most convenient manner possible, say mobile phone carriers and analysts. As carriers try to understand how their customers want their questions addressed and problems resolved, many are finding a solution in automation...
Just as paging carriers look to two-way paging as a means of differentiation into the next millennium, so do paging manufacturers.In the past, a one-way pager was pretty much the same all over. Even the new lines of 1.5-way, or guaranteed messaging, pagers based...
Bundling continues to push forward, albeit at a slow pace.A recent Arthur Andersen survey of telecommunications companies found 66 percent of respondents offer bundled services to business customers, and 61 percent are offering these services to residential customers. About 71 percent of long-distance carriers...
WASHINGTON-Wireless policies initiated by William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, during his first year finally will be put in place by the end of the century, predicts the acting chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau."1999 will be an extremely exciting and...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced 32 million of its shares owned by its Dutch subsidiary, Nokia Finance International B.V., will be transferred to Nokia's wholly owned Finnish subsidiary, Nokiterra.In all, 4.5 million Nokia A shares and 27.6 K shares, representing 5.3 percent of Nokia's share...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Despite the reluctance of some carriers to report fraud figures and the inability of many to distinguish fraud from bad debt, a popular consensus is that fraud against wireless telecom providers appears to be declining, at least for now."If we think we can...
NEW YORK-Nickel cadmium batteries, long the mainstay of rechargeable power sources for wireless phones, are fading fast into handset history.Today, nickel metal hydride batteries are emerging at the top of the charts, but this ranking may not last too long. Lithium ion technology, a...
EDISON, N.J.-AAT Communications Corp. will manage the marketing and collocation activities for Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s network of 1,200 towers located along its more 36,000 miles of railroad, under a new agreement signed by the companies, said AAT.Union Pacific has towers and rights of...
Consolidation among heavyweights in the telecommunications industry, including some of the wireless sector's largest carriers, has grabbed the headlines during the last several months. Meanwhile, the tower industry has been experiencing a rapid consolidation of its own.Since the beginning of this month, American Tower...
NEW YORK-The current public capital crunch has slowed dramatically the buildout of some domestic wireless networks, but it hasn't changed the positive prospects for the wireless tower industry."We think there have been about 1,600 towers (total) awarded (by carriers) under build-to-suit contracts in the...
NEW YORK-Satellite Survey Systems Ltd., a Dallas company with roots in oil and gas exploration, has added another notch in its diversification belt by helping wireless companies pinpoint tower locations using global positioning systems.The company's endeavors are part of a trend in the tower-siting...
ORLANDO, Fla.-"We here are circumscribed by a group that accepts and celebrates technology, but we are a very rare breed, a tribe that thinks it is uniquely important because our reality depends on it," said James A. Taylor, chief marketing officer for Iomega Corp.,...
Wireless intelligent network deployments remain slow in the United States as mobile phone carriers have focused on building out digital networks and spending money on switching and radio-frequency infrastructure.That is about to change, indicate WIN vendors, as more competitors enter the mobile phone market,...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced flash-memory technology that can be used in digital signal processors operating at up to 80 million instructions per second.Lucent's FlashDSP can be used for manufacturing cellular phones, pagers, modems and other products in high or low volumes,...
If the promise of enhanced wireless services was a hot-fudge sundae with lots of toppings, about the only thing wireless customers have been served so far is vanilla ice cream sprinkled with nuts.That according to Larry Swasey, senior wireless analyst at Allied Business Intelligence,...
The emergence of personal communications services providers is putting the often-tenuous relationship between carriers and resellers to the test in more ways than one.PCS once was viewed as the next area where resale would be used widely to increase subscriber numbers quickly. Instead, competition...
Flexibility may be coming to a base station near you.Most base stations today are built to accommodate only one or two wireless technologies, but a relatively new concept may allow carriers to reconfigure base stations to support a variety of standards and applications.Software radios...
