MONTREAL-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. announced a new pricing program for its Digital PCS cellular customers in the greater Montreal area."Montreal and More" costs about $44 a month and includes 400 minutes of calls. Additional calls are billed at 20 cents per minute.Digital PCS...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. appointed Tele Greenland International of Copenhagen, Denmark, as an authorized representative of AirNet for Greenland and certain Far Eastern countries.AirNet and Tele Greenland will distribute AirNet's wireless broadband software-based infrastructure, base stations and systems for wireless local loop, Digital Communication...
NEW YORK-"There's gold in them thar hills," according to Justin Dudley, vice president of engineering for Telecel International Ltd., which has staked its claim to cellular service provision in Sub-Saharan Africa.The mining industry is the mother lode in these countries, which are better known...
NEW YORK-As 1996 drew to a close, the impact of the Internet on wireless communications manifested itself in a flurry of announcements from an array of providers."It's all about making the Internet easier to use. The customers coming on line today are not information...
Ericsson Private Radio Systems ordered 150 PCMobile units from XL Computing Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cycomm International Inc. XL Computing values the order at more than $1 million. Delivery is scheduled for the first half of the year. The PCMobile units will...
Wireless industry, watch out! Geniuses are at work in Washington. This is the baby-the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency that operates at no net cost to U.S. taxpayers. (Brace yourselves for the bath water below.)Throughout its operating history, OPIC has supported investments...
Metrocall Inc. signed an agreement to provide U.S. Paging Services Inc. access to one of its nationwide paging frequencies. In addition, U.S. Communications Inc. will provide cellular rate plans and activation processing to Metrocall. U.S. Paging and U.S. Communications are subsidiaries of USCI Inc....
AirTouch Communications Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding with PT Intidaya Sistelindomitra to offer wireless services in Indonesia using the Globalstar satellite-based communications system. The companies will pursue a license and establish operations to sell Globalstar service in Indonesia. AirTouch said it plans to...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Spectrum L.P., which began offering personal communications service in Washington a year ago through partner American Personal Communications, has converted its marketing from a big-bang effort to one resembling a continuous rumble.During the last 13 months, the carrier has attracted more than 100,000...
Pocket Communications Inc. has completed $646 million in financing agreements with three equipment vendors to build network clusters that will make Pocket the nation's sixth largest personal communications services operator in terms of population.Washington, D.C.-based Pocket received its 43 C-block licenses last month after...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. signed a contract to install its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems' Texas markets.Corsair will install the system in the Dallas, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Laredo and Rio Grande valley markets during the first quarter.PhonePrint...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use the Cibernet On-line Roaming Database to administer and exchange carrier market data used in roaming. The database allows carriers to update their roaming data online for immediate use by roaming partners.CORD transfers data such as home carrier's name...
As part of a holiday promotion, Powertel Inc. is offering unlimited local calling within its entire coverage area for $50 per month for all of next year. Customers who sign up before Jan. 18 will become "Prestige Partners" and will receive priority offerings for...
As European countries progressively open and grow their wireless markets, the contest for licenses is hot. But in Germany, only one group entered a bid for a second personal communications network license by deadline, which leaves questions as to the viability of launching a...
Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company's wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director at AT&T Wireless Services...
WASHINGTON-If the wireless telecom industry has learned one thing in recent years, it is that rules for paging, cellular, specialized mobile radio, personal communications services, mobile satellite, microwave, wireless local loop and private wireless services are not made in a vacuum.Wireless regulations and legislation-even...
WASHINGTON-If allowed to merge, British Telecommunications plc and MCI Communications Corp. promised to jump start local competition, keep interconnection prices low and promote the use of wireless technology for both fixed and mobile global service, according to its application for a merger.The joint company,...
Omnipoint Communications Inc. has been granted access to the New York Power Authority's structures and rights-of-way. Under the agreement, approved by the board of trustees of the New York Power Authority, Omnipoint will have access to the structures and rights-of-way to install equipment and...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's 15-month-old executive memorandum mandating tower siting on federal lands not only is not being implemented quickly, it is being filibustered by land-management agencies, according to a Dec. 2 letter to President Clinton from Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler.On the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-More than 3.5 million people sign up for digital wireless services each month, according to a study conducted by L.M. Ericsson. The company estimated 126 million people were wireless subscribers at the end of the third quarter 1996.Around 16 million people signed up...
The transition from analog to digital handsets in the United States is finally taking off, says a new study published by Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd."After four years of false starts, the U.S. digital transition is finally underway," said Jane Zweig, senior vice president of...
SEATTLE-Toll Free Cellular has announced plans for national expansion of its #800 free cellular calling services.The national expansion is propelled by an infusion of capital, provided primarily by limited partnerships affiliated with Goldman, Sachs & Co., and supported by agreements with a number of...
NEW YORK-Horizon Cellular Group, a Malvern, Pa., wireless carrier, is getting out of the cellular business, but its top management is seeking a new play in personal communications services.Backed by many of the same investors who cashed out of Horizon through staged liquidation this...
I've noted before that vendors of the personal Air Communications Technology protocol-one of the newest contenders for two-way paging and messaging systems, and being implemented by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. over its nationwide two-way channels-have their work cut out for them since Motorola Inc.'s...
