Yet another study has been done on the merits of reselling wireless service. This one, conducted by Professor John Mayor of the Georgetown University School of Business, Mark Burton of Marshall University and David Kaserman of Auburn University, concludes that reselling wireless services contributes...
Poor financial results continue to plague personal communications services operator Aerial Communications Inc., and its spinoff from parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., is moving slower than anticipated. Analysts believe TDS may be better off selling the company.Aerial Communications Inc. added just 15,000...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. named Susan Swenson president of Leap and chief executive officer of Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications Inc.Swenson, who also will join Leap's board of directors, previously served as president and CEO for Cellular One, a joint venture between Vodafone...
Second-quarter subscriber growth in the U.K. mobile-phone market exceeded analysts' expectations as prepaid services continue to provide a growth engine for the industry."The market has been ahead of expectations since the fourth quarter" when carriers introduced aggressive prepaid pricing plans, said Jake Saunders, European...
Pannon GSM Tavkozlesi RT, Budapest, Hungary, was expected last week to place privately about $123 million in euro-denominated bonds it plans to use to refinance outstanding debt.Pannon, which operates a Global System for Mobile communications 900 network, has about 450,000 customers, or about 40...
United KingdomBritish Telecommunications plc said it will buy Control Data Systems Inc., a software company based in Arden Hills, Minn., for $340 million. The purchase will expand British Telecom's service offering. Control Data makes software that links programs from various suppliers, letting companies file...
BERKSHIRE, England-Vodafone Group plc and AirTouch Communications Inc. completed their merger.AirTouch's stock stopped trading on the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the day June 29, and shares of the combined company began trading on the London Stock Exchange June 30. American...
WASHINGTON-An International Telecommunication Union task group in June in Beijing approved a carrier-crafted plan to harmonize competing U.S. and European CDMA technologies for Internet-friendly third-generation mobile phones, paving the way for the compromise to be translated into a new, global-roaming standard by year's end.ITU...
DUBLIN, Ireland-One of the most common complaints from telecommunications companies competing with former monopoly operators is cross-subsidization by the incumbent, particularly in countries where the incumbent also controls a major cellular operator. However, regulators across Europe have been tackling this issue, and it now...
WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Corp. continues to study ways to take its wireless business public, said Dennis F. Strigl, chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic Global Wireless. Strigl also was a featured speaker at the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. conference.Strigl said a spinoff of...
SWINDON, U.K.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Vodafone Group plc announced they made their first third-generation over-the-air trial calls using Lucent's Global Third Generation Code Division Multiple Access technology at Vodafone's headquarters in Newbury, England."These trials, together with Lucent's public demonstrations of over-the-air performance up to...
WASHINGTON-As industry opposition to Pentagon spectrum bills mounts, the Federal Communications Commission confirmed last week it is prepared to suspend the normal regulatory process for deciding how to auction 36 megahertz from TV channels 60-69 if Congress votes to hold the wireless license sale...
HONG KONG-China United Telecommunications Corp.'s plan to deploy Code Division Multiple Access technology ensures its survival into the next generation and creates momentum for cdmaOne technology throughout the Asia-Pacific region, cdmaOne proponents indicated at the CDMA Development Group's fourth annual CDMA World Congress in...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc reported revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31 of $5.4 billion, a 36-percent increase from the $4 billion in revenues reported for the previous year.The company reported earnings of $1.5 billion, or 33 cents per share, compared with earnings of...
WASHINGTON-An International Telecommunication Union task group in Beijing last week approved a carrier-crafted plan to harmonize competing U.S. and European Code Division Multiple Access technologies for Internet-friendly third-generation mobile phones, paving the way for the compromise to be translated into a new, global-roaming standard...
The Operators Harmonization Group, an ad hoc assembly of mobile phone operators from around the world, sent its third-generation technology harmonization proposal to the International Telecommunication Union, which meets in Beijing this week.As RCR reported, the agreement defines a harmonized CDMA standard with three...
Industry executives in February hailed the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue agreement as a major breakthrough in the 3G debate, but today it appears standards bodies have made little progress to pursue this framework, and political infighting among the 3G players remains.Executives in February agreed to...
The U.K. government now plans to auction five third-generation mobile phone licenses early next year, explaining that more competition will drive down prices and spur innovative services.Last year, the United Kingdom plans to auction four 3G licenses by mid-1999, but postponed its auction plans...
WASHINGTON-MCI WorldCom Inc. last week halted talks to buy Nextel Communications Inc. after succumbing to differences over price, putting shares of the No. 2 long-distance telephone company and the last independent national wireless operator on a wild roller-coaster ride for weeks.Some Wall Street analysts...
WASHINGTON-At a time when all the rage on Wall Street is about the Internet, a CEO of a major wireless company contends wireless is bigger.Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, Sam Ginn, chairman and chief executive of AirTouch Communications Inc.,...
The Operators Harmonization Group, an assembly of mobile phone operators from around the world, said they agreed last month in Tokyo to a baseline proposal to harmonize ITU CDMA-based third-generation technology proposals.The proposal needs further refinement, a process that should be completed in the...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter that included a net loss of $9.9 million, or 3 cents per share, compared with a loss of $100,000, or break-even per share, the previous year.Glenayre attributed the decline to a 26-percent drop...
CAMBRIDGE, England-Vodafone Group plc and the Automobile Association in the United Kingdom announced they have agreed to participate in the world's first commercial trial of the Cursor location system designed by Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd.The trial, set for next month, will involve 250 business...
Carriers are keeping quiet about events that transpired during a third-generation harmonization meeting two weeks ago in Japan, but an independent study commissioned by Vodafone plc is seen by cdmaOne players as a smoking gun in favor of their technical parameters.Major carriers from around...
