SkyTel Corp. said its six-year airtime provision agreement with Enron Energy Services Inc. is still on track as planned, despite media reports that the utility company is backing off its marketing plan in deregulated states.The agreement between SkyTel and Enron, a subsidiary of Enron...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late last week was close to approving a new plan to relax conservative parts of its C-block personal communications services debt-restructuring rules and to extend the election date for financing options by as much as 90 days beyond the current...
Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will have spent two weeks on the road before he returns home to Washington, D.C. Wheeler was scheduled to spend the first week in Cannes, France, at the GSM MOU conference and this week hosting...
NEW YORK-James Bond and his high-tech Nokia mobile phone may be Hollywood's idea of the real McCoy. But truth, as journalists well know, often is stranger and scarier than fiction.For a gripping, spine-tingling experience, read this newly published book: "War by Other Means-Economic Espionage in...
If reports that Cable & Wireless plc is considering a takeover bid of Sprint Corp. are true, the wireless industry is seeing a sign of things to come.The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Cable & Wireless met with Sprint's 10-percent owner France...
WASHINGTON-In a four-pronged simultaneous marketing announcement McLean, Va.-based Nextel Communications Inc. will unveil today a $35 million nationwide advertising campaign, the introduction of enhanced specialized mobile radio service in San Francisco, one-second rounding and a half-price phone.The company, which is plunging head-first into the...
Aerial Communications Inc. appointed John Foster and Thomas Wilson Jr. to its board of directors. Foster and Wilson both will serve on Aerial's audit committee and on its stock option compensation committee. Foster is president and founder of Vedra International Associates. Before founding Vedra,...
Editor's Note: No other debate has ignited the wireless telecommunications industry like the one that rages between TDMA and CDMA technology. For several years, the greatest argument against CDMA technology was that it was not commercially available. That changed in 1996 as both cellular and...
Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications" have invested perhaps $20 billion based on my promises about Code Division Multiple Access technology. This might be flattering if...
Kevin Mitnick, a convicted computer hacker, recently plead guilty to charges of illegally using stolen mobile phone numbers. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina arranged the plea as part of an agreement when he was arrested last year after three years on the run. Mitnick,...
Editor: I must take very strong exception to the comments in the April 15, 1996 issue of RCR under the heading D.C. Notes by Jeffrey Silva.These comments are obviously the personal political agenda of Mr. Silva and have very little place in your respected publication....
Two types of brands are expected to emerge as PCS PrimeCo L.P. prepares to announce the product-centered brand name for its personal communications services, as well as a brand to unite the cellular holdings of its owners.An official announcement is expected soon that will...
At some point in most relationships, one partner looks at the other, and instead of seeing Prince or Princess Charming, sees a human ... complete with flaws.The partners in the newly named Sprint Spectrum L.P. are at that point. In other words, the honeymoon...
