HOUSTON-Corsair Communications Inc. began deploying its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in the Houston metropolitan area for Houston Cellular Telephone Co.The PhonePrint system uses radio-frequency fingerprinting to detect and disconnect calls made from cloned phones. Mike Hanafin, vice president of engineering and operations for...
Six months ago, personal communications services came to New York with the promise of revolutionizing the cellular market. But the new digital wireless service has had a rough struggle here.The first entrant, Omnipoint Communications Inc., signed up a mere 16,000 users after four months...
NEW YORK-Barely finished with its acquisition of Pacific Telesis Group, SBC Communications Corp. is widely rumored to be exploring merger possibilities with AT&T Corp.Ruthlyn Newell, a spokesman for AT&T, headquartered in New York, declined to comment, citing company policy on "rumors or speculation about...
Coherent Communications Systems Corp. announced its chief financial officer, Michael Gendron, has left the company to pursue other interests. Gendron's responsibilities will be assumed by Joan Cominski, corporate controller, while the company searches for a new CFO.Cellexis International Inc. promoted Gary Paisley to president...
A class action lawsuit charging Los Angeles cellular carriers with price fixing is set to go to trial July 7 in Orange County Superior Court, nearly four years after it was filed.Arthur Garabedian, who sells cellular phones and service for cellular resellers and agents...
TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it signed an integrated wireless services roaming agreement with Nextel Communications Inc.The agreement will allow customers of Clearnet's Mike network to roam throughout Nextel's digital network in the United States for the same airtime rate they pay at home. Mike...
WASHINGTON-Two House lawmakers introduced legislation last week to stem the tide of high-tech class action securities lawsuits that have migrated from federal courts to state courts in the aftermath of congressional efforts two years ago to curb such litigation at the federal level.The Private...
NEW YORK-Frontier Corp. of Rochester, N.Y., sold May 21 a $300 million debt issue of notes due 2004 priced at 99.996 percent of par, or face, value to yield 7.257 percent.Salomon Brothers Inc., New York, was lead underwriter for the debt offering, for which...
WASHINGTON-Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) last week unveiled legislation to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from auctioning 12 megahertz of new private wireless spectrum, while allowing regulators to impose lease fees on licensees."The Private Wireless Spectrum Availability Act" is one of several bills that have...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. only now is receiving the dual-band handsets necessary to make its vision of a Digital PCS nationwide network a reality."Things will start happening pretty quickly," said AT&T Wireless spokesman Ken Woo. AT&T has not launched any of its 1900 MHz...
WASHINGTON-The American Mobile Telecommunications Association said it has asked the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider certain aspects of its recently released rules for the 220 MHz specialized mobile radio industry to assure that regulatory parity exists between Phase I and Phase II licensees.AMTA wants...
Cushcraft Corp. introduced a personal communications services dual polarized single patch antenna. The S2407HVP provides for reception and transmission of both vertically and horizontally polarized signals in the 2400-2500 MHz frequency band. The antenna consists of a single broadband microstrip patch, which provides a...
This week Southwestern Bell telephone company will be the first company to launch a Time Division Multiple Access network at 1900 MHz when it turns on service in Tulsa, Okla.The nation's other TDMA proponent, AT&T Wireless Services Inc., has not launched its 1900 MHz...
Editor's Note: The cities listed here represent the 20 largest cellular markets in the United States. Ranking is based on the 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...
DENVER-Wireless carriers in Denver now are required to take proactive steps with the community if they want their towers and antennas placed in certain areas of the city.The Denver City Council approved last week a new zoning ordinance that requires wireless operators to notify...
PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc., an enhanced directory assistance provider to the wireless telecommunications industry, signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., allowing the carrier to offer Metro One services in certain regions."We are very pleased to expand our relationship with AT&T Wireless...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. next month will begin construction on a cellular equipment manufacturing plant and global provisioning center in Brazil. The company said more than 300 people will be employed there.Lucent said it will use the center to develop software and systems...
AirTouch Cellular launched Caller ID service in the Puget Sound area of western Washington. The service is available using Motorola Inc., Audiovox Corp. and Nokia Corp. narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service `MegaPhones,' said the company. The service is available for $4 per month.Northern Telecom...
Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission opened the market for local phone service last week, which has wireless players ecstatic.The CRTC has "issued a strong endorsement of the role wireless carriers will play" in the local market, said Microcell Telecommunications Inc. of Montreal."What you will...
Since the narrowband personal communications services licenses were awarded nearly two-and-a-half years ago, many companies have pushed ahead with plans to offer commercial service. Yet others seem to be creeping slowly, biding their time by determining market position or waiting for commercial grade equipment.The...
DENVER-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. donated five Digital PCS cellular phones with free airtime and long distance to the Colorado Oklahoma Resource Council to be used by survivors and families of victims during the Oklahoma City bombing trial in Denver."The support of family and friends...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. President Steve Hooper and Vice Chairman Wayne Perry resigned last week, but the duo will remain kissing cousins with the old regime through a new venture into the local exchange business.Hooper and Perry will lead OneComm L.L.C., a start up...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Blue Ridge Investors L.P. completed a management-led buyout of Cherokee Wireless Services Inc., which provides program and contract management services for tower and antenna needs.Based in Cornelia, Ga., Cherokee Wireless has six branch offices throughout the Southeast. The company's customers include BellSouth Mobility...
More than a year after the Internet burst into the wireless space, the big story in mobile data continues to be how the industry is responding to this communications phenomenon.While circuit-switched cellular still is the standard for wireless data connectivity-offering near-universal access for dial-up...
