NEW YORK-Triton PCS Holdings Inc., Malvern, Penn., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 13 for an initial public offering of up to $125 million.Triton, which had 78,364 customers as of June 30, had begun offering by...
LUTON, England-Cellular penetration in western Europe is expected to surpass 70 percent within five years, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics titled "Mobile Communications Service-Europe."Annual service revenues could grow to more than $150 billion during that time. However, average revenue per user...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Facilities Inc., a San Diego company that helps carriers plan, design and deploy wireless telecommunications networks, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 18 to raise up to $70 million in an initial public offering.The company has applied for a Nasdaq...
Wireless construction company Berliner Communications Inc. said it has begun negotiating with underwriters to commence an initial public offering."We see geographic expansion and further offerings via acquisition of selected companies as the best way for us to continue on the path we have chosen,"...
NEW YORK-Consumers looking to comparison shop on the Internet for wireless services and products will soon have two new choices.CellMania.com said it plans to launch its service Sept. 8 and will offer information, advice and buying opportunities for more than 10,000 service plans and...
ATLANTA-Alltel Corp. said it implemented its electronic bill presentment and payment application with Frontier Cellular of Rochester, N.Y.The system allows Frontier Cellular customers to view and analyze their wireless usage as well as make payments for wireless services via the Internet.Alltel said it will...
The economy is rolling along, wireless subscriber additions are climbing and merger and acquisition activity is heating up.This is good news for the personal communications services industry, which last year found itself suffering from tight financing and a general underperformance in small capitalized stocks....
Personal communications services carriers can be credited with spurring huge demand for wireless service, but they continue to struggle with brand awareness and perceptions customers have about coverage."It's a brand game and a consumer-marketing game," said Andrew Sukawaty, president of nationwide carrier Sprint PCS,...
AerisAeris Communications Inc. added to its senior management team, naming Peter F. Stone chief financial officer and Patricia E. Hart vice president and general counsel.Aeris also announced Douglas M. Pavicich is its new director of operations. Pavicich will oversee all the day-to-day operations and...
NEW YORK-The direct connection between a consumer's choice of wireless services and a carrier's own brand and retail stores is growing, even with the advent of the Internet and expansion of indirect sales channels.At the end of 1998, 52 percent of wireless customers picked...
WASHINGTON-With telephone penetration as low as 20 percent on some Indian reservations, the Federal Communications Commission last week began exploring ways to extend telecommunications services to tribal lands.The lack of telecom services on tribal lands stunned the FCC. By comparison, 90 percent of Americans...
BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. said it has added 195 new base stations to its nationwide network during the first half of the year. The effort is part of an ongoing process of expanding BSWD's Mobitex network to match coverage of existing one-way paging networks,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse says enough is enough when it comes to the press his company has received in recent weeks about capacity problems in New York."It isn't a story anymore," said Hesse in an interview with RCR. "Compared...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched a customized news and information service called AT&T Digital PCS Personal News. The new service allows AT&T Wireless customers to receive news, weather, sports, business highlights and other information services via text messages.Through an agreement with Intelligent Information...
AirCell Inc. received favorable decisions from the Federal Communications Commission that will enable it to move forward with its air-to-ground communications system, targeted for use by general aviation aircraft and regional airlines.Louisville, Colo.-based AirCell has been developing and testing its technology, which uses existing...
TeleCorp PCSTeleCorp PCS Inc. hired Raul Burgos as vice president and general manager of its Puerto Rican operations. He most recently served as general manager and vice president of operations for Nextel International Inc. in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a 10-year veteran of...
The popularity of prepaid wireless services has skyrocketed in the United States, but carriers are experiencing a not-so-pleasant side effect- high churn-and many are challenged by the need to expand prepaid offerings without exposing themselves to this phenomenon.Prepaid wireless service has become an important...
DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Wireless Services will offer its customers roaming capabilities in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Florida, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, said the company.The additional service is the result of a recent roaming agreement between Iowa Wireless and Omnipoint Communications...
Intelligent agent technology has been long considered a potential boon for messaging applications looking to provide meaningful content to wireless devices.Agents are small bits of code capable of monitoring data, recognizing what information is valuable to its user and then transmitting it to a...
The industry has seen AT&T Wireless Services Inc. pick up smaller cellular carriers in order to fill in gaps and avoid paying high roaming fees, and Vodafone AirTouch plc's acquisition of rural cellular carrier CommNet Cellular Inc. indicates other carriers are feeling the roaming-fee...
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...
LUTHERVILLE, Md.-Americom Wireless Services opened its fourth wireless handset repair and refurbishment center located in Hartford County, Md.The 33,000-square-foot facility in the Lakeside Business Park just north of Baltimore will provide testing, dispositioning, refurbishment and repair of wireless handsets for multiple technologies, said Americom....
SEATTLE-XyPoint Corp. and Wireless Services Corp. said they have formed a technology alliance to develop a secure technology platform called WebWireless, which will enable consumers to conduct transactions through Internet-based businesses.WebWireless will enable the consumer to monitor, control and respond to Web content, events...
