WASHINGTON-A major Australian study has found significant cancer in rodents exposed to digital wireless phone radiation, dramatic findings that offer compelling new evidence of potential health risks from phones and further undercut long-standing cellular industry claims about phone safety.The research results, which have been...
DENVER-Personal communications services operator Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream service last Thursday in Denver, promising rates at least 20 percent lower than AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s digital cellular rates.The company said it's Global System for Mobile communications network, supplied by Northern Telecom Inc.,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Bloomberg Financial Markets announced they will begin offering financial news and market updates to users of AT&T's PocketNet phone this summer.Information available from Bloomberg will include daily financial, general and company news and market index performance including percentage change,...
WASHINGTON-The government's recent disappointing wireless auction and the prospect of failing to meet the administration's five-year, $36 billion auction revenue goal prompted more fallout on Capitol Hill last week, including introduction of legislation by Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) to mandate minimum bids in future...
Cellular carriers in the city of Grand Forks, N.D., said their systems are faring well despite massive flooding that has forced most of the city's 50,000 residents to leave their homes for higher and dryer ground.Western Wireless Corp., operating a network under the Cellular...
DENVER-Western Wireless Corp. said it plans to launch personal communications services based on Global System for Mobile communications technology May 1 in Denver. The company plans to open several VoiceStream Wireless retail outlets along the Front Range.Western Wireless will compete with digital cellular carriers...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Company rankings are based on the total number of subscribers for their majority-held or controlled markets. All subscriber numbers reflect year-end 1996 figures reported by each company.AirTouch Communications Inc....
Wireless pricing in competitive markets with at least one personal communications services operator on average is 18 percent lower than in markets with no PCS competitors, reported the Yankee Group.More than 40 markets in North America have three broadband wireless voice providers and 10...
When the federal government offered spectrum auction license incentives to women, minorities, small businesses and rural telephone companies a few years ago, Steve Neely didn't bite.Though a die-hard entrepreneur like his father, a role model who used to own and operate 26 Shell gas...
A C-block enterprise created by two Alabama telephone companies is methodically slipping into position to rival big-name wireless players in the Gulf Coast area.The telephone companies believe if they are going to lose landline customers to wireless offerings, they want to lose business to...
SAN ANTONIO-ATX Technologies Inc. selected AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division to provide the wireless communications for its OnGuard product.OnGuard uses wireless communications and Global Positioning System technology to provide vehicle tracking and directional assistance, the company said. New OnGuard products will use...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks will expand its cooperation with Nokia to provide packaged content and services for Smart Messaging, the Nokia-developed Global System for Mobile communications wireless service architecture announced last month at the CeBIT '97 technology fair.Geoworks will provide wireless services using Nokia's newly proposed...
SAN ANTONIO-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched its FlexCall prepaid wireless service in eight counties in the greater San Antonio area.Counties included in the launch are Atacosa, Bexar, Comal, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Median and Wilson.Customers may initiate FlexCall for about $75 on an account opened...
The Federal Communications Commission announced three appointments in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. David Horowitz was named chief of the Private Wireless Division of the Bureau, which he joined in 1995 as deputy chief. He joined the commission in 1998 as a staff attorney with...
Tough competition from other operators has led to increased costs for cellular carrier Palmer Wireless Inc., fueling speculation that the carrier is up for sale.Fort Myers, Fla.-based Palmer won't comment on what it calls "a market rumor" that it is looking for a buyer....
NEW YORK-Century Telephone Enterprises Inc., a Monroe, La., telecommunications firm, signed a letter of intent to purchase several cellular and personal communications services markets, primarily in the Midwest. The seller is Pacific Telecom Inc., a subsidiary of PacifiCorp, an electric utility headquartered in Portland,...
Comsat Corp. said its offer to repurchase 8.13 percent debentures due April 1, 2004, was concluded April 9. The company repurchased $89.5 million of the $160 million in principal amount of debentures outstanding.Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd.'s board of directors declared a two-for-one split on the...
DENVER-In concert with the company's previous digital cellular launches, AirTouch Cellular announced it is offering its high-end business users in Denver and Detroit Powerband service."In the past, we have launched new services to business and retail customers simultaneously," said Julie Dexter Berg, executive vice...
ALASKA-Cellulink Wireless Services has teamed up with the State of Alaska and Phoenix Public Communications to provide cellular pay phones for use by passengers on Alaska's Marine Highway System ferries.The first phone already has been installed on the Motor Vessel Aurora. Eight ferries are...
Editor's Note: As C-block winner Pocket Communications Inc. goes through its bankruptcy restructuring, RCR takes an in-depth look at how Congress, the FCC and Wall Street are addressing PCS auction issues. Additional stories appear from page 9 through 15.WASHINGTON-The shakeout emerging in the personal communications...
Antenna placement at the new Denver International Airport is on hold until carriers can convince airport authorities that additional sites won't cause interference."We didn't spend $8 million building a radio system for this airport to have anyone come in and interfere with the operational...
Ireland's second mobile phone operator has launched service with two compact packages and a goal of acquiring 50,000 customers by the end of the year.Dublin-based Esat Digifone had hoped to be online by the end of 1996 with its Global System for Mobile communications...
A Western Wireless Corp. subsidiary has filed a lawsuit in Arizona U.S. district court against the city of Tucson, claiming the city's new zoning ordinance discriminates against the company and favors existing wireless providers.Western PCS BTA 1 Corp., which received its E- and F-block...
The extension phone business may be returning from a lull.Recent advertising by California Grapevine Communications states, "Don't let the carriers violate your rights. The cellular monopolies and their lobbyists are controlling the entire communications industry for their profit at your expense."If you ship two...
