MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. said it selected Systems/Link Corp. to provide its RoamEx fraud control platform and FraudTec2000 system to help Triton PCS combat cloning and subscription fraud."Systems/Link's applications work together effectively to combat fraud, meeting a critical need for Triton PCS as we...
CellNet Data Systems Inc. announced it signed a contract with Puget Sound Energy to expand CellNet's 700,000-meter network by another 100,000 meters to extend network meter reading to some 85,000 additional natural gas customers and 15,000 electric customers. Under the terms of the agreement,...
NEW YORK-After a flurry of announced mergers and acquisitions earlier this year, amid booming stock and high-yield bond markets, the deal flow has slowed in tandem with deteriorating conditions in the public capital markets.Even if the appetite of investors remained strong into this quarter,...
While many of its second-tier cellular counterparts have been acquired during the last year in an increasingly consolidated industry, Greensboro, N.C.-based Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. may continue to go it alone.Speculation about potential financial and strategic buyers for Vanguard has abounded during the last...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it has completed the sale of its Myrtle Beach, S.C., property to Triton PCS for about $160 million in cash.The company expects to complete the sale of its 48-percent interest in the operations of Wilmington/Jackson, N.C., during the...
DENVER, United States-Personal Communications Services (PCS) carriers have made significant inroads into the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry, weakening the entrenched cellular carriers' net additions and driving down airtime prices.The total number of PCS subscribers in the States reached 3.1 million during the first quarter...
MALVERN, Pa.-Triton Cellular Partners reached a definitive agreement to acquire 12 wireless operating territories in Kansas, Alabama and Mississippi from U.S. Unwired for about $158 million.Triton's strategy is to acquire rural wireless properties to develop regional rural service area clusters. It currently operates cellular...
NEW YORK-Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., announced the company is considering its options, including selling some or all of its assets.The company, a cellular carrier on the United States mainland and a personal communications services carrier in Puerto Rico, said its board of...
MALVERN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. and Triton Cellular Partners selected National Telemanagement Corp.'s SmartPay Wireless prepaid billing system for its cellular and personal communications services networks, said the company.Under the agreement, Triton Cellular will offer customers a prepaid billing option starting in May, and Triton...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has signed another deal with a wireless company in its quest to fill in the missing links of its nationwide digital wireless network.The company has entered into a joint venture with TeleCorp Inc., an Arlington, Va.-based F-block personal communications...
Another wireless carrier has jumped on the Time Division Multiple Access bandwagon with help from AT&T Wireless Services Inc.Oklahoma City-based Dobson Communications Corp., a cellular carrier with about 100,000 customers, has signed an operating agreement with AT&T Wireless to become part of the cellular...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Triton PCS formed a joint venture agreement that will expand AT&T's digital coverage in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, the Washington-Baltimore corridor and Georgia.The agreement calls for Triton to obtain financing and build out a Time Division Multiple Access...
