The Land Mobile Communications Council this week is expected to ask the Federal Communications Commission to allocate 15 megahertz now and more spectrum later for private wireless communications. The request will include opportunities for sharing with the federal government, a feature supported by the...
Adler Engineering Inc. has won a contract with the state of New Jersey to evaluate all state-owned property for wireless antenna siting and assist in marketing viable sites to carriers.Adler Engineering, headquartered in Barrington, N.J., provides site design, surveying, environmental investigation and structural engineering...
MALVERN, Pa.-Triton Cellular Partners reached a definitive agreement to acquire 12 wireless operating territories in Kansas, Alabama and Mississippi from U.S. Unwired for about $158 million.Triton's strategy is to acquire rural wireless properties to develop regional rural service area clusters. It currently operates cellular...
NEW YORK-In its five-year history, Sales Staffers International Inc., Andover, Mass., has carved an unusual niche in the broader market of outsourced services for large corporations.Companies like AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., GTE Corp. and Bell Atlantic Corp. deploy its staff of veteran sales people...
CALABASAS, Calif.-Silverlake Communications Inc. announced it has completed software enhancements for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with MessageFlash Text Messaging Software version 2.0 in AT&T Wireless' digital mobile phone and paging services.MessageFlash 2.0 is a custom application combining the look and feel of the popular...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.The premise-based system, designed to capitalize on advantages of the Time Division Multiple Access standard, offers companies a single-phone, single-number system that...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Postal Service and UniSite Inc. are planning a major rollout of huge flagpole antennas in the East and Midwest, a development representing a technological breakthrough in antenna co-location technology and aesthetics that will test the willingness of communities to embrace 150-foot structures...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected blow to government efforts to foster diversity in the fast-growing telecommunications industry, a federal appeals court here last week repealed some Federal Communications Commission equal employment opportunity rules and put another nail in the coffin of affirmative action.The ruling of the...
NEW YORK-SCC Communications Corp., a Boulder, Colo., provider of emergency call services to wireline and wireless carriers, has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission its intention to go public.According to its document, filed April 9, SCC plans to offer 3.3 million shares of...
NEW YORK-Anyone who has tried to find a wireline pay phone or use a wireless handset at crowded public entertainment events can understand why International CellComm Corp. has found a lucrative niche providing portable cellular pay phone services.The Titusville, Fla., company was founded in...
BOSTON-In terms of dollars and labor, wireless number portability will cost wireless carriers more than any other single issue, according to the Yankee Group in its recently released report, Wireless Number Portability: A Bowl of Cherries for Competition ... but Just the Pits for Everyone...
Two wireless enhanced 911 services vendors last week announced their systems were live in time for the Federal Communications Commission's Phase I deadline, which calls for carriers to be able to transmit a call-back number and the location of the cell site receiving the...
The annual growth rate of worldwide subscribers using Time Division Multiple Access technology is expected to increase more than 100 percent this year, according to figures released last week by the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium.UWCC estimates there were 9.2 million TDMA subscribers worldwide last...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc plans to sell its 22.3-percent stake in OCCEL, which provides wireless services in the western region of Colombia, to a subsidiary of Bell Canada International Inc. for $98 million in cash."This disposal is in line with our strategy of focus...
A new niche segment of the wireless industry-build-to-suit-is attracting a lot of attention, both from carriers and Wall Street.The idea behind the build-to-suit concept is to shift all aspects of tower siting-including zoning, construction and maintenance-to a third party. Carriers, increasingly burdened with competitive...
CHICAGO-The status of Motorola Inc. has been the hot topic of the week.Again.First, reports surfaced that the vendor was preparing a corporate restructuring that would separate its various businesses into two divisions-an industrial products group and a consumer products group-ending the internal competition fostered...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Data Broadcasting Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a new wireless service that the companies said will provide real-time financial information and access to online trading.Customers can purchase Sierra Wireless Inc.'s AirCard modem to connect their laptop computers to AT&T's wireless...
BOSTON-The future of wireless reselling is based on the resellers' ability to realize economies of scale, provide a wide scope of services and achieve brand awareness, according to a recently published report by the Yankee Group.Titled "Wireless Resale: Is There a Future?," the report estimated...
This year's El Nino phenomenon has brought unseasonably mild weather to some parts of the nation while slamming others with sudden bizarre weather, including flooding in California, ice storms in the Northeast and tornadoes in the South.The strange weather has effected some wireless systems....
What does wireless have in common with toothpaste? Maybe not much now, but perhaps the toothpaste industry has learned a marketing secret that wireless carriers could benefit from.Toothpaste companies have learned to pick a customer segment they want and market their brand to that...
NEW YORK-It has been said that where you stand depends on where you sit. And so it was earlier this month when representatives of four wireless carriers and four equipment vendors offered their views at a BT Alex. Brown forum on the interplay between...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Hong Kong venture, SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., signed conditional agreements with Star Telecom International Holdings Ltd. and Telecom Service Ltd. to acquire P Plus Communications Ltd. for about $95 million.SmarTone will gain additional spectrum through the acquisition, which will...
NEW YORK-France Telecom S.A., the second-largest telecommunications company in Europe, announced March 18 it had returned to profitability by the Dec. 31 close of its fiscal year after incurring losses during the second half of 1996.The carrier attributed its 1997 results to "increased phone...
NEW YORK-"The challenge for the paging industry is to reinvent itself so it can become a free cash-flow business, to put the brakes on capital expenditures and drive up revenues while unit growth is declining," said Brian G. Coleman, a director of Toronto Dominion...
