AURORA, Colo.-Lucent Technologies Inc. has opened a state-of-the-art operations center in Aurora, Colo., to provide a wide range of network management services to telecommunications companies in the local, long-distance and wireless services markets.Called the Lucent Technologies Network Reliability Center, the facility allows service providers...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. announced it signed a contract valued at $2.1 million with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Taiwanese partner, Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd.The order for LCC's field measurement equipment represents the largest in the company's history for the Asia market, LCC said....
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Southwestco Wireless L.P. have agreed to settle their highly emotional dispute over in-market roaming in Phoenix.The companies have resumed reciprocal cellular roaming under a new agreement and entered into a tentative settlement to resolve differences over roaming in Phoenix,...
ORLANDO, Fla.-For the first time in seven years, Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, was able to say, "We've turned the corner on fraud."Addressing some 700 attendees of the Wireless Fraud '97 conference here last Tuesday, Wheeler compared the industry's victory...
Roberto Catalan, president of Argentina's communications commission, known as CNC (Comision Nacional de Comunicaciones), recently completed a United States road show designed to attract investor interest for a personal communications services tender.The CNC is looking for foreign companies to operate two 50-megahertz bands in...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. won a one-year renewable contract from AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division to supply its Cellular Digital Packet Data smart phones.The phone combines analog and CDPD technologies, giving subscribers access to public and private networks as well as...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee last week rejected spectrum fees and toll-free telephone number auctions, but embraced lease fees for private wireless licensees in budget legislation lawmakers concede will fail to generate $26.3 billion from wireless license sales during the next five years.But spectrum fees...
NEW YORK-Notable by its absence amid the current merger mania in telecommunications is convergence across industry lines between transmission and content providers, according to a new study by Price Waterhouse L.L.P."Competition didn't happen in the way people expected after the , and expectations may...
NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications carriers have placed high hopes on high-yield debt to help finance their early and intensive capital needs, and the junk bond market has shown some willingness to answer the call.To date this year, more than 70 individual issuers have sold or...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated with the Denver Summit...
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.-Wireless reseller DCN Wireless signed a definitive agreement with NextWave Telecom Inc. to resell 600 million minutes of personal communications services airtime to California customers.DCN Wireless is a public utility licensed by the California Public Utilities Commission to provide wireless services in...
Editor's Note: The cities listed here represent U.S. cellular markets 21 through 40, ranked by total number of subscribers in each metropolitan statistical area.Most carriers are unwilling to reveal subscriber numbers because of the highly competitive nature of the business.Tallies for total market subscribers and...
SALEM, Ore.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. awarded a contract to Supra Products Inc. to install the TRACcess key control and electronic access management system at AT&T's cell sites nationwide.Supra values the agreement at $2 million.The product combines mechanical key control, electronic access control and access...
L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to supply a Digital Cellular System 1800 network in Denmark for Telia Mobile AB. Ericsson values the first phase of the project at $49 million, with options for deliveries totaling $152 million, said the company. Bo Stokholm, vice president...
Now that many personal communications services providers are operating in several cities, most are advertising better call clarity than users received with cellular analog service. But will call clarity remain an issue once cellular carriers begin to aggressively market the same digital features?If customers...
The privatization of Brazil's cellular telephone industry appears to have moved forward in recent weeks with the announcement of the sale of the country's first B-band concession.But while one Brazilian analyst's reaction to the announcement was: "Everything's on track," a number of other Brazil watchers...
BOULDER, Colo.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it has entered final negotiations with SCC Communications Corp., which would make SCC the primary vendor to deploy enhanced 911 services in AT&T's wireless systems nationwide.Cellular carriers must provide E911 technology by April 1, according to a mandate...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced two new ways to send messages to AT&T Digital PCS, AT&T PocketNet and AT&T Paging customers.The new services, which include Internet e-mail messaging and the use of AT&T's Web Message Center, make it possible to use the Internet...
When AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced its Digital PCS brand name in 40 digital cellular markets last October, many carriers expressed anger at the attempt to steal the thunder of personal communications services providers.Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems was one adamant protester, says AT&T Wireless....
NEW YORK-Like late night talk show host David Letterman, Jerome Lucas, president of Telestrategies Inc., McLean, Va., has a top 10 list-this one for wireless telecommunications industry trends.In the near term, the biggest winners won't be the behemoths. Instead, they will be the small...
TORONTO-Qualcomm Inc. said it signed an 18-month contract to supply Code Division Multiple Access digital handsets to Bell Mobility, a Canadian wireless services provider. Qualcomm values the agreement at $70 million.The agreement includes Qualcomm's QCP-2700, a digital dual-band, dual-mode phone. Bell Mobility will use...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s plan for a digital personal communications services nationwide network has finally kicked off.After receiving its long-awaited shipment of dual-band, dual-mode handsets from Ericsson Inc. last month, AT&T began offering its Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz last week in Phoenix...
Aerial Communications Inc. launched personal communications services June 2 in Kansas City and Pittsburgh-the latest of five markets the PCS provider has rolled out in the last 11 weeks.Aerial's initial coverage of the Kansas City area encompasses nearly 70 percent of the major trading...
Western PCS BTA 1 Corp. lost the first round of its battle with the city of Tucson, Ariz., over the city's new zoning ordinance. Western claims the law prohibits it from providing service in Tucson.U.S. District Court Judge William Browning denied Western's request for...
