PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc.Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent and Philips Electronics N.V. that...
WASHINGTON-As the end of the first session of the 105th Congress nears, the wireless telecom industry is left hanging with key policy issues unresolved.In limbo are antenna siting moratoria, wireless privacy, digital wiretap funding and implementation, wireless cloning, encryption, regulatory reform, high-tech securities litigation...
SEATTLE-Some 1,900 wireless data professionals gathered in Seattle last week to determine what future their long-struggling industry might have at Wireless APPS '97.In this muggy Emerald City, they found the yellow brick road to the future of wireless data is indeed changing. Attendees left...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service assigned a low-tier speculative grade rating of Caa1 to Telesystem International Wireless Inc.'s planned issue of $167 million in 10-year senior discount notes paying 10.5 percent interest.Proceeds will be used to fund current operations and project development and for potential...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Worldwide Data Solutions Division announced an agreement that will allow its VersiTAC Integrated Wireless Data Solution to incorporate AT&T Wireless Services Inc.' nationwide cellular digital packet data offering.The agreement allows Motorola to extend its VersiTAC wireless data coverage area to more...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc.Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent and Philips Electronics N.V. that...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has signed an agreement with Motorola Inc. through the its Cellular Subscriber Sector's Latin America Division, under which Motorola will market and distribute Boston Communications' prepaid calling systems and services in Central and South America and Puerto...
NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.NEO Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate Lucent's Inferno, a distributed inter-networking operating system, into its StreamProcessor, a network forwarding product line....
AT&T Corp.'s board of directors unanimously elected C. Michael Armstrong chairman and chief executive officer of the company, effective Nov. 1.AT&T was widely viewed to be under pressure to partner with someone after its nearest rival in the long-distance arena, MCI Communications Corp., became...
WASHINGTON-With all its internal struggles regarding the proposed new Federal Communications Commissioners reportedly solved, Congress was poised at press time to vote on the leaders of a new regime at that agency. The Old Guard, however, has remained true to its combative, no-holds-barred self...
NEW YORK-In what its chief executive, Gordon Kaiser, is calling a first, Cue Network Corp., Irvine, Calif., announced it will offer voice paging over FM subcarrier channels by mid-1998.Another first, according to Kaiser, is that the voice paging services will use Data Radio Channel,...
CERRITOS, Calif.-Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. introduced the PayFirst prepayment plan to its wireless subscribers.Before each call, PayFirst sends a voice message that updates users on the number of prepaid minutes available. Users also can find out the number of minutes used after the...
Overall wireless pricing has decreased between 4.4 percent and 20.3 percent in the United States since the end of the second quarter, according to a survey conducted by Robinson-Humphrey Co. L.L.C."I think the reason for that is some of the cellular carriers are now...
Although it has been months since AT&T Wireless Services Inc. dropped all plans for services using the personal Air Communications Technology advanced paging protocol, some talk remained about pACT Vendor Forum members seeking other customers for the technology they invested so much in.But it...
Imagine driving around in an area unfamiliar to you and being able to locate the nearest hotel or fast-food restaurant or determine surrounding traffic and weather conditions using a wireless phone.The same technology that is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission for providing E911...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz in the metropolitan areas surrounding Philadelphia, Washington, D.C./Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C.The carrier is offering Ericsson Inc.'s dual-band dual-mode handsets LX 100 and LX 77. Dual-mode handset users can travel between digital wireless...
MCI Communications Corp., which last week found itself with a third suitor in GTE Corp., may finally have an opportunity to enter the wireless arena in more than a reseller role.GTE, which owns cellular licenses in several metropolitan statistical areas, last week made a...
WASHINGTON-Following the House's lead, three Senate lawmakers have introduced legislation to curb frivolous class-action securities lawsuits against high-tech firms. Such cases have migrated to state courts since a 1995 law made it more difficult to bring such litigation to federal court.The Securities Litigation Reform...
With cellular, personal communications services and enhanced specialized mobile radio providers vying for an estimated 14 million new customers in 1997, the wireless industry is expected to end this year with more than 58 million subscribers-a 32 percent annual gain, indicates a recent study...
NEW YORK-Expanding an offering available to corporate customers for the last year, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced its PocketNet service, which allows Internet access from analog cellular phones, to retail customers.The service, with an air link secured by encryption and authentication, costs...
DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Network Services Inc. and Western Wireless Corp. announced a joint venture formed to expand personal communications services throughout Iowa.Called Iowa Wireless Services L.P., the venture is planned to bring PCS to 2.3 million Iowa residents and will market under the VoiceStream...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, fearful of anticompetitive activity against wireless phone firms, will require the Baby Bells, GTE Corp. and other local landline telcos to set up separate subsidiaries to provide commercial wireless services within their regions.The ruling stems from a 1995 federal appeals...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Triton PCS formed a joint venture agreement that will expand AT&T's digital coverage in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, the Washington-Baltimore corridor and Georgia.The agreement calls for Triton to obtain financing and build out a Time Division Multiple Access...
SAN FRANCISCO-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. selected San Francisco-based information service provider Inquisit Inc. to provide information services to its PocketNet subscribers. Inquisit commercially launched its service this month.According to the agreement, Inquisit will provide AT&T PocketNet users with real-time headlines and information on the...
