KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has signed another deal with a wireless company in its quest to fill in the missing links of its nationwide digital wireless network.The company has entered into a joint venture with TeleCorp Inc., an Arlington, Va.-based F-block personal communications...
SINGAPORE-At the initial launch of dual-band services in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore and Taiwan reached the starting line simultaneously.Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte. Ltd. on Jan. 20 launched dual-band service between its Global System for Mobile communications 900 and GSM 1800 networks. The same day, Far...
While the personal communications services industry is characterized as up and running, a host of PCS carriers have yet to launch service, raising questions about whether they will survive in the marketplace.Twenty-six out of RCR's 40 top PCS operators (ranked by pops) have yet...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced that its joint venture in Taiwan, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd., launched its dual-band wireless communications service in Taiwan.The Global System for Mobile communications network is designed for integrated operation at both the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz...
AT&T Corp. is expected to announce to analysts today its operating strategy for the year that will include as many as 19,000 layoffs, management restructuring and the integration of its wireless business with its long-distance, local and Internet service divisions, reported the Wall Street...
WASHINGTON-To say there is rancor in the ranks of C-block personal communications services licensees regarding the structure and timing of possible financial restructuring plans is akin to saying Maine residents are upset at several weeks with no power following a devastating ice storm. All...
NEW YORK - Price Communications Corp. announced its new subsidiary, Price Communications Wireless - formerly Palmer Wireless - poster 19,296 net subscriber additions during the fourth quarter, bringing its total customer base to 310,000 at the end of last year.The net customer adds during...
NEW YORK-Some interesting twists are ahead on the road to roaming for personal communications services carriers as they seek to emulate their cellular counterparts, which reap between 15 percent and 20 percent of their gross revenues from long-distance wireless calls.Last year, subscribers of all...
Overall wireless pricing has decreased between 6.1 percent and 10 percent in the United States since September, said Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C.'s latest pricing survey."This relatively low price decrease is quite encouraging, considering that this survey was done during the most competitive time of the...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. is poised to begin a technical trial in Las Vegas of what it describes as the first F-block personal communications services network built to date. The company also has built test networks in San Diego, San Antonio and Washington, D.C., but...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp., New York, announced it will acquire Teleport Communications Group in a stock swap transaction valued at about $12 billion, based on AT&T's current stock price.The acquisition is AT&T's first big move into the local phone business since the breakup of Ma...
Many companies that provide anti-cloning products to analog cellular network operators are gearing up for the takeover of digital-based service in the coming years and are waiting to capitalize on problems digital operators will face.Authentication systems are expected to be installed in all digital...
NEW YORK-Cue Corp. entered into a strategic alliance to provide its regional and nationwide FM subcarrier messaging service to the new Clarion Corp. of America AutoPC, a platform using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE software.The new wireless service uses Cue's AutoFM control module, a low-cost...
The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access technology to its two-week course, "Basic Wireless Telephony.""We cut our teeth on Time Division...
CARLSBAD, Calif.-Patrick Stephenson, a principal of Houston-based Cellular 99, bought the cellular reseller, C99 Prepaid Cellular Telephone, from Global Venture Funding Inc., both parties announced.C99, a reseller offering prepaid services to customers with poor credit, has reseller agreements with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and...
Giving the wireless data industry some important momentum to start the new year, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it plans to acquire Motorola Inc.'s Ardis data messaging business, which combined potentially could create the most ubiquitous coverage of any wireless data company.Under terms of...
1. Jan. 6NextWave awarded its PCS permitsIn a decision almost surely headed for the appeals court, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday conditionally awarded NextWave Personal Communications Inc. its C-block licenses after NextWave submitted a plan to bring its foreign-ownership percentages into federal compliance.2....
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association is awaiting Justice Department approval for a national database that will include information on potential wireless site locations targeting new and collocation opportunities. Justice is expected to take two to three months to vet the plan.According to the association,...
In an initial victory for paging carriers nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission's Common Carrier Bureau announced its current rules do not allow local exchange carriers to charge paging carriers for delivering traffic over the LEC network.Specifically, the bureau said its rules "do not allow...
Toll Free Cellular has laid off most of its employees and put the company up for sale after AT&T Wireless Services Inc. opted not to proceed with plans to offer nationwide #800 cellular service.Seattle-based Toll Free, which partners with mobile phone carriers to sell...
Canadian mobile phone operators are hoping the holiday season will help them rebound from lagging subscriber additions and falling stock prices."The third quarter was a weak quarter in terms of subscriber additions" for the Canadian mobile phone market, said Colette Fleming, vice president of...
A Nov. 24 article in RCR that profiled Cactus Integration Group incorrectly stated the company's relationship with Lucent Technologies Inc. and erroneously characterized Lucent's wireless services strategy. Lucent's agreement with Cactus is limited to the nonexclusive performance of installation services as a subcontractor for...
WASHINGTON-While wireless local loop technology is taking off in such countries as South Africa, Great Britain, India and China, the United States continues to lag behind in deploying what could be the most cost-effective, time-sensitive means of providing everyone in this country with dial...
Teledesic Corp. announced Craig McCaw will return to his former post as chief executive officer of the company, where he will share the position with Steve Hooper, a longtime associate of McCaw and chairman of Nextlink Communications.Steve Twyver, who succeeded McCaw as Teledesic's CEO...
