Although GSM technology has scant market share in Latin America, the 2000 GSM Association Plenary in Santiago, Chile, in late April was the stage for several Latin American GSM announcements. Juan Carlos Jil, chairman of GSM Association South America, said Nuevatel PCS in Bolivia,...
DENVER-U S West Inc. reported first-quarter financial results ending March 31 that showed its wireless services added almost 135,000 new subscribers during the quarter and an average revenue per user of $54.The company's total operating revenue was up almost 10 percent compared with the...
If someone wants to kill you, chances are they will be able to, given enough time and venom. It is naive to think that any tool, least of all, a four-inch wireless phone, can stand up against the evil that exists in some people....
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp. increased adjusted net income for the first quarter by 10 percent to $1.3 billion from $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 1999.The company also reported adjusted earnings per diluted share rose to 80 cents per share in this year's...
InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for Web sites and devices, said wireless Internet opportunities continue to represent the company's biggest opportunity and fastest-growing area.Within that space, InfoSpace is betting mobile commerce services will play an important role in providing value to its...
WASHINGTON-While most of the nation's 90 million mobile phone subscribers are still without enhanced 911 wireless service two years after the federal deployment deadline, there are signs of progress as a result of key legislative and regulatory actions."I would say Phase I is beginning...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission asked for Capitol Hill's blessing to delay until September the 700 MHz auctions after large wireless carriers said the spectrum was too heavily encumbered to be of any value."I have serious concerns about the compressed timing for these auctions ......
STAMFORD, Conn.-i3 Mobile Inc., a personalized wireless Internet content and commerce services provider, said TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, will offer i3 Mobile services to its SunCom digital wireless customers."This is our first step in offering wireless data, and i3...
Wireless carriers and handset manufacturers could save millions each year if they abided by the common adage-If it ain't broke, don't fix it.Wavetek Wandel Goltermann, a manufacturer of communications test solutions, said a surprisingly high number of handsets returned for repair have nothing wrong...
NEW YORK-Mobilestop.com, the newborn Internet offspring of Strax Inc., a Miami-based wireless phone and accessory distributor, launched its Web site this month and plans operations on four continents within a year. The company intends to be a one-stop shopping and information site for all...
Large carriers across the country are painstakenly trying to determine what wireless Internet service offerings will attract customers. Surprisingly, some small and rural carriers are on the same page.Smaller operators historically have followed the coattails of their metropolitan counterparts when it comes to deploying...
WASHINGTON-The White House is expected shortly to release a belated report advocating the integration of wireless technologies into the nation's Emergency Alert System, a policy that industry, federal regulators and Congress have not aggressively pushed despite the fact that millions of mobile phones today...
SEATTLE-Lucent Technologies Inc. and TeraBeam Networks are entering into a venture to develop and deploy TeraBeam's fiberless optical networking system, which sends data through the air using invisible light, the companies said.TeraBeam is headed by former AT&T Wireless Services Inc. president Daniel Hesse, who...
As carriers develop relationships with wireless portals and content providers, they may find a new and beneficial trend emerging: that is Internet companies battling for the premier spots on wireless phone screens.The favorable spot for those Internet companies is what is known as "above the...
Wireless resellers are a hardy breed. Their success or failure teeters on the shoulders of carriers that tightly control the supply of the product they need to survive. Whether warranted or not, carriers harbor fears that resellers will steal customers and sap resources, and...
The chart on the front page of last week's RCR showing the top wireless carriers in the United States should have indicated that Sprint PCS has about 6 million customers, putting it in fourth place behind AT&T Wireless Services Inc.In the chart on page...
WASHINGTON-With prospects uncertain for securing third-generation mobile-phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next month in Turkey and apparent concerns about the Clinton administration's commitment on that score, U.S. wireless firms have turned to Congress for support.A group calling itself the Wireless Spectrum Coalition...
The flurry of consolidation in the wireless industry leads the industry observer to believe a nationwide presence is a necessity to compete in this market going forward.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. raised the bar in 1998 offering its nationwide plan, the Digital One Rate plan....
It is a match made in heaven. BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications finally ended weeks of speculation, announcing plans to create a wireless joint venture that will become the second-largest wireless operator in the United States, serving 16.2 million subscribers and reaching 175 million...
NEW YORK-A pair of state legislators from New York City has written twin bills, identically worded to ensure expedited review, that would bar wireless phone companies from rounding up airtime charges to the next minute.Assemblyman Scott M. Stringer, (D-Manhattan), and state Senator Guy Velella,...
NEW YORK-The ongoing fight for dominance of the U.S. wireless market flared up once again last week as Bell Atlantic Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch plc said they will commence this year an initial public offering of Verizon Wireless, the joint venture that combines the...
REDMOND, Wash.-British Telecommunications plc, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to work together to create high-speed data applications for mobile devices domestically and abroad.Under the agreement, Microsoft will dedicate a development team to create mobile applications configured for existing and...
A growing number of operators, vendors and analysts are not convinced EDGE technology will make significant inroads in Europe."In Europe, I'm not expecting a major deployment of EDGE," said Lothar Pauly, head of Siemens AG's global wireless business.EDGE, or Enhanced Data rates for GSM...
NEW YORK-With an estimated 5 million American customers today, prepaid wireless services have yet to fulfill their promise, but that potential is getting closer to realization.Within the next several years, analysts from The Yankee Group, the Strategis Group and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities...
