Editor's Note: The companies listed below are the current holders of A-, B- and C-block licenses for broadband personal communications services in the United States. Some of the companies have not yet received their licenses from the Federal Communications Commission because of challenges.Companies are ranked...
L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will be responsible for network solutions,...
PARAMUS, N.J.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it reduced wireless telephone fraud in metropolitan New York City by 90 percent so far this year, using its authentication system and Corsair Communications Inc.'s PhonePrint radio frequency fingerprinting system.The company also announced it has reduced the lifespan...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest paging companies in the United States from survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. Rankings are based on carriers' reported total number of paging subscribers.Because of industry consolidation and...
Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp.'s AT&T Canada Inc. subsidiary announced a long-term alliance that licenses Cantel to use the AT&T brand name and includes a marketing and technology agreement between Cantel and AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The partnership involves no equity, said...
"The debate on CDMA is over, folks," declared Jerry Butters, an executive with Lucent Technologies Inc., last week when PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched 1900 MHz service in 11 major trading areas.It was the most comprehensive launch of both personal communications services and Code...
WASHINGTON-Almost by default, GTE Corp.'s Government Systems division was awarded the General Services Administration's eight-year post-FTS2000 federal wireless telecommunications services contract Nov. 12.Current FTS2000 service providers Sprint Corp. and AT&T Corp. bowed out of the process earlier this year, citing hardcore problems with contract...
NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. formed a wholly owned subsidiary, PC Telecommunications Inc., to resell cellular and paging services in markets adjacent to the company's cellular systems.The company said it plans to begin reselling wireless services in the northern portions of the New York metropolitan statistical...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. announced it will provide AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with digital wireless phones. The agreement, which is the largest Ericsson has ever signed with any single U.S. customer for wireless phones, is valued at more than $300 million.Ericsson said it...
Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service."Everyone has a different edge or weakness" when it comes to price, coverage, technology and features, said Bukasa...
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 will test such things as proper network coverage and voice quality, service features including two-way...
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 everything, even in ways not altogether obvious. Federal regulators will insist licensing is still bound by...
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 will transfer wireless services data it processes to AT&T's bundled billing system, which can integrate...
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 lines, which have greater capacity for voice, data and video applications. WinStar will use its...
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 network will supply service in the southern and western Mindanao regions, located in the southern...
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 occupy spectrum allocated to PCS by the Federal Communications Commission.According to the agreement, Columbia...
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.PriCellular, based in New York, agreed to pay $116.5 million in cash and stock to...
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 for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Panasonic Cellular before joining the company.360
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 cellular telecommunications sector.AT&T's move to market services as AT&T Wireless contributed to its higher...
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 86 million business telephones in use in the United States," said Jerry Kaufman, an analyst...
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, the fastest growing company in the state.Based in Hollywood, Fla., Cellular Works sells cellular...
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 a digitized sample of a person's voice to be stored for authentication."Not only is...
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 to make an unlimited number of domestic and international calls during December. Card holders also...
