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-The share price of Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc., Greensboro, N.C., closed up $1 at $17.13 per share March 11, the day it announced it plans to sell its Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Wilmington-Jacksonville, N.C., properties.The big bump in the stock price wasn't coincidental,...
What?There is not a shortage of available phone numbers? The rise in fax machines, pagers and cellular phones is not to blame for what is being perceived as a number shortage.Instead, the telephone number shortage is because phone numbers are assigned in an old-fashioned...
Not so long ago, I broached the subject of "goodwill capital" with a wireless industry leader at lunch. A number of things prompted me to do this.First, I've come to realize how much a pillar of the community one local TV broadcaster has become...
NEW YORK-Although his company recently completed field trials with Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group plc Chief Executive Officer Chris Gent believes next-generation wireless technology, rather than Code Division Multiple Access technology, is the solution to network capacity expansion in areas where high customer use warrants...
WASHINGTON-Four Senate telecom lawmakers plan to introduce universal service legislation this week aimed at preventing mandated Internet links for schools, libraries and rural health-care facilities from draining telephone service subsidies for poor and high-cost rural subscribers.The bipartisan draft, authored by Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska),...
NEW YORK-Wireless online financial information services are a hot item, judging from the flurry of recent announcements about new offerings in this category.w-Trade Technologies, New York, said AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s PocketNet Service will offer its new w-Trade Internet securities trading platform.In its announcement,...
To the Editor: I read with more than passing interest the interview by Debra Wayne with CTIA President Tom Wheeler in the Feb. 23 edition of RCR, and in particular his response to the question regarding the lack of PCS and SMR resale agreements. The...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service, New York, announced Feb. 27 it lowered its ratings on $489 million of Cincinnati Bell Inc. debt after conducting a two-month review.Moody's said it lowered by three notches, to Baa2 from A2, its investment grade rating of Cincinnati Bell's long-term...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Small Business Services announced it now has specialists who consult individually with business customers about their telecommunications needs.The enhancement to its "one-stop shopping" concept enables the company to work one-on-one with small business customers to assess the proper role for cellular service in...
ATLANTA-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group made up of Time Division Multiple Access technology supporters including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced a migratable solution to IMT-2000 technology called UWC-136. UWCC said the solution meets the high-speed data application requirements the International Telecommunications Union,...
Competition from personal communications services providers has impacted the bottom line of many cellular carriers, although the overall health of the cellular industry remains strong, say some analysts.One sign that the cellular carriers are financially healthy is that several carriers have had enough cash...
ATLANTA-Cellcom of Wisconsin selected Northern Telecom Inc. to supply Code Division Multiple Access cellular and personal communications services network infrastructure equipment and services under a five-year, $42 million supply agreement, announced Nortel.The deal includes CDMA digital networks for seven F-band PCS markets in Wisconsin...
Price Communications Corp. announced Feb. 25 its board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to 500,000 shares of the company's common stock in the open market or in private transactions. Price Communications, headquartered in New York, provides cellular services covering a population of...
Consumers are aware of increased competition within the wireless industry, according to a report conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc., released at Wireless '98 last week in Atlanta.Seventy-one percent of the survey's respondents said they perceived more competition among wireless companies today...
WASHINGTON-Senate communications subcommittee Chairman Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) have asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard to reconsider rules they believe hurt emergency road service communications, such as those relied on by the American Automobile Association and others."We are concerned...
The Telecommunications Resellers Association has filed comments urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject a petition filed by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association requesting a five-year delay in the wireless number portability implementation deadline.CTIA's petition, filed in December following its previous request for a...
In a jointly published report, the Telecommunications Industry Association and the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association estimate the mobile and wireless communications market reached $41.6 billion in 1997, and predicted the market will continue to grow to $70.1 billion by 2001.The "1998 MultiMedia Market Review and...
The transformation of Russia's paging industry took a major step in late January when modest operator Multi-Page merged into industry giant Segol RadioPage Inc.According to the terms of the agreement, RadioPage will create a holding company called EnergoNet, which will be responsible for all...
DENVER, United States-Market strategy has taken on a new meaning for wireless carriers in the Asia-Pacific, which are picking themselves up, dusting themselves off and looking around to see if the region's economic storm has left them shipwrecked or simply thrown off course a...
Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under the brand names Praxiphone, Heliophone and Armoricom, announced TIW. With this acquisition, TIW's French...
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) now accounts for 31 percent of the world's wireless market, and the GSM industry is well on course for the `"early achievement" of 100 million customers during 1998, said Adriana Nugter, chairman of the GSM MoU Association, in...
