ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. released its new Wireline-Wireless Mailbox, which enables customers to have one integrated voice mailbox for their home and cellular phones.The service, initially available in Atlanta, allows customers to receive messages from their home phone and their BellSouth Mobility wireless phone at a...
BOSTON-AT&T Wireless and the Boston Celtics have teamed up for a new promotional relationship featuring Celtics legend Bill Russell.In addition to featuring the Hall-of-Famer in print, radio and point-of-sale advertising, one fan will win a lunch with Russell at the fan's home."We are extremely...
NEW YORK-In a Valentine's Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had partnered to provide fixed wireless voice and data communications in Germany.Mannesmann AG, which recently agreed to merge with Vodafone AirTouch...
Online retailer Reason Wireless Ware in Denver is hoping to appeal to consumers' logical instincts when it comes to shopping for wireless products and services.At Reasonware.com, consumers use what Jeffrey A. Kohler, Reasonware's chief executive officer and co-founder, coins as the "voice of reason."...
WASHINGTON-Tower-siting bills in the Virginia and Massachusetts legislatures have triggered angry backlashes from local residents and officials who do not want to lose their voice in zoning matters and who suspect political influence peddling may be at the core of legislation in both states.Despite...
BURNABY, British Columbia-Infowave Software Inc., a marketer and seller of specialized software solutions for wireless computing and printing, formed a channel marketing agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The agreement calls for the companies to collaborate on joint sales and marketing activities to promote Infowave's...
Crown Castle InternationalCrown Castle International Corp. announced Michael G. Ramke has been named vice president of business development for the United States and Philip M. Kelley has been named vice president of business development internationally. Ramke served as vice president since April 1998 and...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. expanded its Time Division Multiple Access network to Columbus, Ohio, as part of a 12-month expansion."Our offers have been well-received in the marketplace, and we are expanding our network to meet high customer demand," noted Daniel Hesse, president and...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Wireless One Network L.P. for an undisclosed amount.AT&T said Wireless One's properties will fill a gap in its Florida footprint. Wireless One owns and operates wireless systems in...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-Oral arguments began Feb. 10 in a case that offers a glimpse of the ways some carrier-reseller relationships are strained due to wireless telephony's transition from luxury to commodity.Autosound & Cellular, an Old Bridge, N.J., retail agent, and Palm Springs Auto Resort,...
NEW YORK-Tower companies are sitting pretty and poised for even greater prosperity in 2000 and beyond as domestic demand for their properties grows.Prime movers in this rosy scenario are the "booming" cellular and personal communications services providers, whose voice traffic and subscriber numbers are...
WASHINGTON-A major controversy with national implications has erupted in Massachusetts over draft legislation that would promote antenna siting collocation and streamline siting approval for carriers throughout the state, despite protests from citizens who say the measure effectively guts local zoning rights from the 1996...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS reported earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, of $996 million and $3.18 billion, respectively. This marks a significant increase from the $437 million and $1.23 billion reported for the 1998 fourth quarter and year.For the fourth...
When you're moving at Internet-speed, a lot can happen in a year.Those targeting the wireless remote access market found this out quickly. About a year ago, several companies emerged with the intent to provide solutions that would extend corporate data to wireless handsets. At...
NEW YORK-Dobson Communications, Oklahoma City, sold its 25 million share initial public offering Feb. 4 at a price of $22 each, the top of the expected range.By midday Friday, the stock price had risen to $24.63 in trading on the New York Stock Exchange....
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. is having a busy start to the new millennium, announcing a new merger and adding more towers to its portfolio.The merger, with Galaxy Engineering Services, will provide American Tower with a global turnkey provider of engineering consulting services."We view Galaxy as...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp., GTE Corp. and Alltel Corp. signed an agreement last week to exchange wireless interests in 13 states, eliminating the overlapping cellular properties that would result from the combination of Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch plc, announced Sept. 21, the companies...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. emerged on Groundhog Day from its longstanding ruminations about tracking stocks and, apparently seeing no shadows, registered to take its wireless telecommunications business public in spring.AT&T may sell up to 19 percent of its wireless division and could raise as much...
NEW YORK-Alamosa PCS Holdings Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate, raised $182.1 million Feb. 3 in a 10.71 million-share initial public offering priced at $17 each, $2 above the maximum it anticipated.Salomon Smith Barney was lead manager of the IPO.Headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, the company...
A division, not an exclusion, of interests seems to be emerging between cellular and paging services.Business customers are keeping the paging market in check while the cellular phone continues to be the preferred device for personal use.These trends and others were revealed in The...
Increasing its advertising efforts during the fourth quarter, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. added 440,000 subscribers the last three months of 1999, ending the year with about 12 million subscribers.The carrier had stopped advertising its services in some markets during the third quarter because of...
IRVINE, Calif.-STM Wireless Inc. announced that its 45-percent owned affiliate, SkyOnline Inc., has signed agreements to receive $45 million in new equity from Telfin S.A. and Nouvel Investissement en Technologies S.A.Existing stockholders in SkyOnline-STM Wireless, Pequot Capital Management and Remec Inc.-also have agreed to...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced a contract renewal for prepaid wireless services with Canadian carrier Rogers AT&T Wireless."We are pleased to continue our relationship with Rogers AT&T Wireless," said E.Y. Snowden, president and chief executive officer of Boston Communications. "They truly have embraced...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-UbiquiTel Holdings Inc., a member of the Sprint PCS Network, said it expanded its service area in an agreement with Sprint PCS. The deal calls for UbiquiTel to extend into 10 states, representing a licensed population of more than 7 million people.The...
