Wireless Services

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator, will expand its “friendly user” network trial by several hundred people in the New York City metropolitan area. The users …

The broadband personal communications services auctions held during the past two years have spawned a plethora of novel policy and fiscal issues for policymakers. The reason: $20 billion. Money changes …

CINCINNATI, Ohio-Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. will provide billing services to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Cellular One joint venture through the year 2001. Under the contract, Cincinnati Bell …

NEW YORK-Pacific Bell Mobile Services has signed a three-year contract to purchase WinStar Communications Inc.’s Wireless Fiber service capabilities. Pacific Bell said it expects increasing demands for T-1 and DS-3 …

Motorola Inc.’s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network in the Philippines. Motorola said the …

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum’s services. PCS license winners must relocate microwave systems that currently …

NEW YORK-PriCellular Wireless Corp. plans to issue $140 million in senior unsecured debt, mostly to finance its acquisition of four clustered rural cellular properties in Kentucky from Horizon Cellular Group. …

J.D. Power and Associates appointed Joanne Codella its new manager of wireless services. Her responsibilities will include managing syndicated and proprietary customer satisfaction studies in the wireless industry. Codella worked …

NEW YORK-Cellular subscribers said they are most satisfied with customer service from AT&T Wireless Services Inc., according to J.D. Power and Associates’ second annual survey of customer satisfaction in the …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is pushing its PBX-connected, digital microcellular in-building wireless system, saying it sees a 40 percent compounded annual growth rate for the business market. “There are about …

Andres Link and Richard Swerdlow met three years ago playing basketball in Miami, and began discussing business opportunities. Last month, the University of Florida named the pair’s partnership, Cellular Works, …

ORLANDO, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. has teamed up with T-Netix to evaluate T-Netix’s speaker verification technology, an authorization system for subscribers roaming outside their home calling area. The technology allows …

Air-to-ground communications may give people an added incentive to fly this holiday season. GTE Airfone Inc. of Oak Brook, Ill., has introduced its $25 holiday card that will allow users …

The wireless industry is primed to woo holiday shoppers this season to their stable of products, offering service that is inexpensive and easy to use, with no strings attached. In …

LAS VEGAS-Telemetry applications made a strong showing at last week’s Wireless Apps ’96 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Skywire Corp. announced a trial to monitor several hundred …

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc.’s proposed $159 million buyout of Pittencrieff Communications Inc.-a deal that could give one firm half of the 2.2 million dispatch customers and access to most of the …

LAS VEGAS-After making a splash last July in the wireless Internet/intranet-access market with a micro-browser software solution optimized for so-called “thin-client” wireless devices, Unwired Planet Inc. is moving on up …

Editor’s Note: The RCR editorial staff has compiled this list of terrestrial-based, two-way mobile data operators based on interviews with industry contacts. The chart is arranged alphabetically since many of …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched Interim Standard 136 cellular digital service in 40 major markets last week using the label PCS, deliberately trying to confuse the technology distinctions between cellular …

Regional Bell operating company U S West Communications Group said it hopes to bundle wireless services along with its local exchange service by 1997. The company is bidding for several …

NEW YORK-With plans to deliberately blur the distinction between cellular and personal communications services, AT&T Corp. launched an advanced digital cellular communications network covering a population of 70 million in …

Luis M. Larralde is the new international area manager for Hutton Communications Inc. His responsibilities will include establishing new accounts and generating business in the South Florida market as well …

NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. has a not-so-modest proposal and concrete plans to execute it: a prepaid wireless roaming network for the Western Hemisphere. Already the company is in various …

NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, went public Sept. 25 with a 5.25 million share offering of Class A common stock …

WASHINGTON-While carriers, manufacturers and the FBI continue to argue about digital wiretap implementation, the wireless telecom industry is quietly lobbying Congress to keep personal communications services and digital cellular licensees …