TAMPA, Fla.-BellSouth International Wireless Services announced it selected Cibernet Global Settlement as its international financial settlement provider for its Pan American Roaming Consortium.PARC membership provides cellular carriers services that allow them to provide their customers the ability to roam throughout the Western Hemisphere.Cibernet is...
WASHINGTON-Wireless policies initiated by William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, during his first year finally will be put in place by the end of the century, predicts the acting chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau."1999 will be an extremely exciting and...
NEW YORK-Taking the pulse of the domestic cellular and personal communications services sectors as 1998 drew to a close, securities analysts from three major investment banks offered a positive prognosis for 1999 and beyond.When the full-year count is completed, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Corp....
New Enterprise AssociatesNew Enterprise Associates, a Palo Alto, Calif. venture capital firm, appointed Nobel Laureate Arno A. Penzias as a partner. Penzias is the senior technology adviser for Lucent Technologies Inc. He has written two books, Ideas and Information and Digital Harmony. Penzias won...
NEW YORK-When it comes to getting airtime to the end customer, no distribution issue is captivating carriers like cost reduction. As international competition increases and markets mature, carriers will be even more pressed to trim costs to ensure healthy profit margins, according to most...
At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 1998.1. March 16IPR issues spark...
DALLAS-Formus Communications reported it selected Nortel Networks to supply solutions to deliver high-speed, broadband wireless services to Poland."There is tremendous growth potential for voice, data, video and Internet services, especially in markets where wireline infrastructure is inadequate or virtually nonexistent," said Osmo Hautanen, chief...
SEATTLE-Go to any trade show where mobile phone operators congregate, and you will hear grumbling about how AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital One Rate pricing plan has wreaked havoc on business plans. The play for the high-end business user seems to be falling in...
Sierra Wireless said it has brought together 17 other companies in an alliance formed to work together to offer more complete solutions so the general public will adopt wireless data devices more quickly.The WirelessReady Alliance is an invitation-only collaborative venture of hardware vendors, software...
NEW YORK-The boundaries between internal and external computer networks are disappearing due to the warp-speed incursion of the Internet, raising security concerns within enterprises that want to exploit this promising opportunity safely."Security is one of the inhibitors. It has been and always will be...
Studies indicate the mobile phone industry may be in for more alarming churn figures as increased competition threatens to erode carriers' customer bases.Richard Siber, associate partner with Andersen Consulting in Boston, expects the industry's churn rate to average between 33 percent and 36 percent...
PREFERRED NETWORKSPreferred Networks Inc. announced its founder, president and director, Michael Saner, will retire Dec. 31. Saner previously held upper-management positions at several paging companies, such as Paging Services Inc., a paging repair, maintenance, installation and sales company he founded, which was acquired by...
DENVER-Formus Communications Inc. said it was granted a field trial license by the Hungarian Telecommunications Authority to provide data services to a test group of businesses in Budapest.Formus will supply the service using a fixed-wireless technology that transmits voice, data, Internet and video traffic...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Friday named Thomas J. Sugrue chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau effective Jan. 19.Sugrue replaces Daniel Phythyon, who was slated to leave the post on Dec. 1 for special project assignments within the FCC. As of the latter...
Supra Products Inc. won a contract from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to provide its TRACcess electronic access control system at AT&T Wireless cell sites in its central region, said the companies.The contract follows a previous contract with AT&T Wireless covering the carrier's Western region...
The rapid growth of prepaid wireless services in Western Europe will not continue unchecked, according to a report published by Strategy Analytics.The availability and adoption of prepaid wireless services in Western Europe has increased dramatically during 1998, with an expected 15 million customers opting...
NEW YORK-The rapidly growing prepaid wireless sector offers carriers a means to reduce customer acquisition costs and capture market segments otherwise out of reach.Nevertheless, prepaid has its problems and its critics. Proponents of prepaid, however, argue solutions are readily available to smooth the bumps."The...
ADC Telecommunications Inc. completed its acquisition of Teledata Communications Ltd. for $15.75 per share, or about $200 million in cash.Omnipoint Communications Inc. launched commercial roaming with NPI Wireless of Traverse City, Mich. NPI operates Global System for Mobile communications services in the northern Michigan...
NEW YORK-TeleCorp PCS Inc., Arlington, Va., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, selected the GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. prepaid wireless solution as part of its commercial service launch expected early next year.TeleCorp plans to offer Time Division Multiple Access service to an area covering...
NEW YORK-The wireless telecommunications business may account for a minority of Bell Atlantic Corp.'s revenues, but its entrepreneurial example has influenced profoundly the incumbent carrier's entire strategy, according to Ivan G. Seidenberg, the company's president, chairman and chief executive officer.Seidenberg told attendees of Warburg...
Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C.'s third-quarter survey of U.S. mobile phone pricing indicates pricing overall has increased as carriers move from offering local calling plans to introducing one-rate plans that eliminate roaming and long-distance fees.One-rate plans "give the effect of increasing local pricing," said Perry Walter,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is testing a new pricing plan in Texas aimed at the consumer considering a second phone line in the home.The trial offer in Plano allows customers to choose from two digital pricing plans-one for $40 and the other for $60...
ORLANDO, Fla.-"I feel like I'm on a bucking bronco and about to get thrown into the mud," George Shaginaw Jr. said at the Wireless Location Applications Conference earlier this month."We are looking at nine wireless licensees in each market by October 2001, and we...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. formed a license and maintenance agreement with TeleCorp PCS Inc. to provide its client/server-based Business Support and Control System for customer care and billing.The implementation is being provided jointly by Cap Gemini America L.L.C. and LHS. TeleCorp PCS is an AT&T...
