NEW ORLEANS-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc., Tampa, Fla., announced at PCS '99 it has developed a universal roaming services agreement to help wireless carriers simplify and expedite their launch of international roaming.GTE TSI said its offering is unique in that it "guarantees payment to serving...
GTE Wireless has taken an aggressive approach to combating fraud in its markets, an initiative that has resulted in an 83-percent reduction in fraud losses during the last two years.The company has a highly integrated, four-pronged approach to dealing with fraud that takes the...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's trade ban against the Taliban in Afghanistan is preventing a New Jersey firm from completing construction of a wireless system in that country, a policy seen by some as ill-conceived and ineffective insofar as rooting out terrorism and introducing progressive reforms.Telephone...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. announced the commercial availability of financial net settlement services for wireless carriers engaged in roaming agreements.Through its Access clearinghouse, GTE TSI now can handle the actual inter-carrier payment or receipt of funds that occurs after clearing and settlement.GTE TSI...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
Winter Olympian Elvis Stojko, the Canadian silver medalist in the men's figure-skating event, is one of dozens of North Americans using GTE Telecommunications Services Inc.'s GlobalRoam technology in Nagano, Japan.GTE TSI last month completed two-way functionality of its GlobalRoam service between North America and...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. announced they completed installation of gateways to allow interoperability between Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Personal Digital Cellular wireless networks.GlobalRoam is the first two-way international roaming service between the United States and Japan,...
GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. has signed a contract for its wireless prepaid calling service with Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, which will offer the service to more than 1 million consumers in a 31-county area in the two states. Cellular One's offering...
SAN FRANCISCO- In two weeks, Japanese cellular customers will gain the ability to roam internationally for the first time, using their own phone.GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. of Tampa, Fla., and Tokyo-based NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., known as NTT DoCoMo, last week signed formal...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. will use T-Netix Inc.'s Voice Verifi-Air speaker verification technology to help fight fraud, according to a contract entered into by both of the companies.Englewood, Colo.-based T-Netix has custom engineered the system, which will be integrated with GTE TSI's FraudForce...
SAN FRANCISCO-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. announced it will begin distributing AccessLine Technologies Inc.'s personal one-number services."This is the first time personal number services like AccessLine have been made available on a nationwide service bureau basis," said Todd Eliason, president of GTE TSI.AccessLine's personal one-number...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said it will provide its Access S&E roaming administration service to BellSouth Mobility DCS. The service provides settlement and exchange of roamer billing information among personal communications services providers in North America, Latin America and Europe.GTE TSI will serve...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Tele-communication Services Inc. signed a contract to provide its roamer administration service to personal communications services provider Western Wireless Corp. GTE TSI also will provide settlement and exchange services to Western Wireless.GTE TSI's Access service provides roamer billing information among cellular and...
