ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. acquired AT&T's Puerto Rico personal communications services license, said the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed."Wireless growth in Puerto Rico is equal to the U.S., and monthly usage is like that of landline. With our AT&T affiliation and...
A dispute between the Greater Harris County (Texas) 9-1-1 Network and Houston Cellular concerning a Phase II enhanced 911 deployment in Houston could be headed to court.GHC 9-1-1 last week filed a lawsuit claiming one of Houston Cellular's owners, BellSouth Cellular Corp., interfered with...
Sprint PCS believes it has a strong enough wireless footprint to begin aggressively targeting business users.Analysts didn't expect the company to heavily pursue this segment until next year, but Sprint PCS cites a national network that is well positioned to accommodate demanding users and...
NEW YORK-SBA Communications Corp., a Boca Raton, Fla., owner of wireless communications towers, plans to go public in June via an offering of 11.54 million shares in an expected price range of $12 to $14 each.Lehman Brothers Inc., New York, is lead underwriter of...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments announced eight of the world's top 10 producers of third-generation wireless base stations said they plan to use TI's latest and fastest digital signal processor in their designs.Texas Instruments would not identify the eight companies, instead supplying Dataquest rankings of the...
The dates were wrong in a May 17 story about an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network outage in New York. The outage occurred on May 9 and 10. Also, the lawsuit against AT&T Wireless was not due to the outage. The incidents are separate,...
The New York State Assembly is considering a bill that would amend county laws and state finance laws that relate to the state's cellular telephone surcharge.New York's 70-cents per month surcharge on wireless subscribers was established in 1991 to compensate the Division of State...
In the wake of the deadly tornadoes earlier this month that ripped through Oklahoma and Kansas, the idea of using wireless technology as a warning system for natural disasters is receiving renewed attention.Douglas "Bud" Weiser, who heads a volunteer organization dedicated to establishing emergency...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc., despite winning a California appeals court ruling last summer that capped liability at $5,000 for failing to connect a 911 cell phone call from carjack victim Marcia Spielholz, has decided to quietly settle the personal injury lawsuit with the California...
The buzz phrase of the wireless data industry this year is Internet portal, and AvantGo Inc. hopes to capitalize on this attention by introducing a free interactive Internet service called AvantGo.com.The service compiles a set of popular Internet sites where users may go for...
NEW YORK-A class action lawsuit was filed last week by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. subscribers frustrated by dropped calls, busy signals and other indications of possible network unreliability. The case against the company was prompted by a recent service outage serving three area codes...
NEW YORK-"We are our own unit, and we do not think our way of running the business will be affected by the merger," Massimo Arciulo, director of strategic and financial analysis for Telecom Italia Mobile, said last week of his company's merger plans.Germany's Deutsche...
After securing purchase-leaseback deals with BellSouth Cellular Corp. and Powertel Inc., Crown Castle International Corp. capped off its first quarter with significant increases in revenues and cash flow.Total revenues increased 366 percent to $55.1 million, compared with revenues of $11.8 million during last year's...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced record revenue growth in the first quarter, adding 378,000 customers and surpassing 10 million total customers.AT&T Corp. said it was raising its revenue growth target for the wireless division to more than 20 percent for 1999. While revenue increased...
Powertel Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Allen Smith hinted the company's national roaming rates could fall substantially in the coming months.The carrier today charges 50 cents per minute with a 25-cent toll fee for roaming outside of its Global System for Mobile communications...
Faced with an uncertain future and many difficult questions, members of the Paging Leadership Association met last month in Florida to determine how the industry should position itself in a game that is moving in an increasing number of new directions."The big question is...
The transition of control of cell sites from wireless carriers to independent tower companies is accelerating, and build-to-suit companies increasingly are getting the call from carriers to handle the buildout of their networks.Most industry watchers agree the transition is good for carriers and tower...
In the nascent broadband wireless access market, Bellevue, Wash.-based Wavtrace Inc., which develops systems for millimeter-wave frequencies, believes it has a head start on the competition after unveiling its first product earlier this year.Wavtrace's first installation was for Virginia Tech, a university that won...
The U.S. Commerce Department says it provided support to CDMA vendors wanting to sell their products in China, but did not discriminate against Time Division Multiple Access technology when it encouraged China to expand Code Division Multiple Access networks during visits there in March."We've...
EricssonBrazil. With Tele Norte Celular for upgrade and new TDMA.Value: US$50 millionChile. With Entel PCS for GSM 1900 equipment.Value: UndisclosedChina. With Liaoning Post & Telecommunications Administration for its GSM network.Value: US$150 millionCroatia. With VIP-Net to supply base station subsystems for its new GSM network.Value: UndisclosedUkraine. With Digital Cellular...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Chile, which became the first country in Latin America in 1998 to implement PCS, has just felt the tremor of three new events in its market that could impact growth and market positioning.Calling party pays (CPP) was introduced 23 February, BellSouth bought...
DENVER-Columbine High School students last week used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their Littleton, Colo., school while two gunmen terrorized students and faculty in a rampage that left 15 dead and 23 injured.Stories of students managing...
BAL HARBOUR, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. says it is on track to fix network capacity problems associated with high demand for the digital one-rate service by June."We have a well-defined plan to get ahead on capacity," said Rod Nelson, vice president and chief technology...
The recent battles at the Federal Communications Commission between AirCell Inc. and the cellular carriers that oppose its air-to-ground communications system may be starting to affect AirCell's business.In a letter sent to Steve Weingarten of the Commercial Wireless Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau,...
