A story in the March 8 issue indicated there were no personal communications service provid-ers in Las Vegas. Las Vegas was included in the Metropolitan Trading Area for Los Angeles-San Diego for the A- and B-side PCS licenses. Those licenses were awarded to Pacific...
The cry "paging is dead" began once digital cellular and personal communications services providers obtained the ability to offer paging services on their networks and handsets.However, while paging carriers are struggling with certain problems, messaging competition from voice operators isn't one of them.Analysts have...
Sun Microsystems Inc. last week signed two separate memorandums of understanding designed to further its presence in the wireless industry.The first MoU calls for Japan's NTT DoCoMo to deploy the company's Java, Jini and JavaCard technologies in its i-mode digital cellular phone and wireless...
The Federal Communications Commission could rule today on whether Leap Wireless International Inc. is qualified to own C-and F-block personal communications services licenses and bid in tomorrow's reauction of C-block spectrum.Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications, launched service last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., under a...
Frontier Corp., one of the parents of Frontier Cellular, announced plans to merge with Global Crossing Ltd., an independent global fiber-optic network operator.The transaction is valued at about $11.2 billion.Frontier Cellular is a equally owned joint venture between Frontier Corp. and Bell Atlantic Mobile....
A new pricing study released by Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. indicates U.S. mobile phone carriers battled it out for high-end wireless customers in 1998.Prices did not fall as quickly in 1998 as they did the previous year, indicated David Freedman, wireless analyst with...
OTTAWA, Ontario-Nortel Networks said it has developed and demonstrated an order of magnitude increase in the coverage radius of 800 MHz cdmaOne base stations to improve the economics of rural cellular service.In a series of tests conducted at its Wireless Solutions lab in Ottawa,...
NEW YORK-Television programming often can be as good a barometer as hard numbers about trends that are hot, and so it is with the wireless tower industry.In a recent "The Simpsons," cartoon character Homer Simpson rented cell site space on his rooftop to the...
NEW YORK-The promises of wireless voice communications as a landline replacement and of mobile data as a significant wireless revenue generator are moving closer to fulfillment but remain a few years away, chief technology officers of three carriers said at a recent seminar.On the...
Aether Technologies announced it is joining BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and Research in Motion Ltd. to bring financial market data via wirelessly connected handheld and laptop computers to the Atlanta, Los Angeles and New Orleans markets.Datalink.net announced it can allow companies to extend Web-based...
Intelligent roaming is guaranteed to change the face of the wireless industry, and smaller carriers that have built their businesses on making money from roaming better pay attention, say experts."Intelligent roaming opens up competition, and will require carriers to work hard for roaming minutes,"...
WASHINGTON-Personal communications services subscribers use their phones more than cellular subscribers, said the Telecommunications Industry Association last week.PCS subscribers use their phones for 300 minutes per month while cellular subscribers use their phones for 140 minutes per month, TIA said in a report, "1999...
Sprint PCS is attempting to change the way the industry does business with affiliate companies, but the task has not been without its difficulties as some affiliate companies struggle to obtain financing.To date, Sprint PCS has signed on 16 affiliate companies that will work...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court last week allowed a case involving AT&T Corp.'s practice of rounding up minutes for wireless calls to proceed in state court.Borrowed from the long-distance industry, rounding up refers to the practice of billing in full-minute increments. For example, a call...
The fourth quarter of 1998 marked both highs and lows for the various carriers that make up the paging industry, with companies meeting both significant milestones and facing continued challenges.Perhaps deserving of the most attention are SkyTel Communications Inc. and Paging Network Inc., although...
While the domestic wireless industry struggles to determine the demand for wireless local loop services in the United States, Frontier Cellular in May will mark the one-year anniversary of the commercial launch of its WLL system in its New York markets.WLL services are expected...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in particular allow SBC Communications...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nettech Systems Inc. announced an expansion plan that included establishing a Professional Services consulting division to help software developers deploy wireless data solutions and opening three regional sales offices across the country."Over the past year, we have seen tremendous growth in the wireless...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced Frontier Cellular, a wireless services provider in upstate New York, will use Lightbridge's Churn Prophet and Channel Wizard solutions to reduce customer churn and improve channel performance.Churn Prophet is an analytical tool that uses data mining and predictive modeling technology...
Roaming charges and long-distance fees increasingly are becoming a thing of the past as one-rate plans like the one AT&T Wireless Services Inc. offers take over the domestic wireless market.Several carriers last week announced new pricing plans that nix roaming and long-distance fees or...
When BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced its Interactive Paging service at PCS '98 last year, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing Janet Boudris said she expected financial applications to be a big driver of the two-way messaging paradigm.If recent announcements are any indication, that...
WASHINGTON-A seemingly well-scripted House hearing to launch a watered-down E911 bill and a beefed-up privacy bill disintegrated into a fracas last week over the National Park Service's handling of antenna-siting applications and the prospect of extending the October 2001 requirement for carriers to provide...
NEW YORK-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, Tuesday plans to debut its first commercial market, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, La., at Wireless '99.Later in the quarter, TeleCorp, an F-block personal communications services carrier, expects to roll out commercially its...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. plans to introduce a new series of Code Division Multiple Access phones this week at Wireless '99 in New Orleans, including the company's first CDMA tri-mode handset.According to Peter Skarzynski, vice president of wireless sales and marketing at STA, the...
