A cellular company in San Francisco is working to provide equal access to all people by providing special discounted prices on wireless phones and service to people with visual or mobility impairments.Since 1992, Cellular One, in conjunction with handset provider Motorola Inc. and the...
States rights vs. federal rights.It's an argument that is becoming more and more common in today's wireless industry.It's certainly not a new argument, and it's certainly not an argument that anyone expects to go away soon. In fact, it is probably one of the...
REDMOND, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium has been formed to champion Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access and IS-41 wireless intelligent network technologies."The UWCC was designed as a cooperative decision-making business entity with the express goal of promoting TDMA/WIN solutions," said Leo Nikkari,...
Sprint Corp., Sprint Spectrum L.P. and RadioShack announced they are teaming up to provide one-stop shopping for all Sprint-branded products.The companies have developed a "store-within-a-store" concept, whereby 15 percent of all RadioShack store floor spaces will be dedicated to Sprint products. Customers will have...
NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, said it plans to go public by early autumn.The road show for the 5-million-share initial public offering of Class A common stock was under way last week, and the...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
AURORA, Colo.-ComTec International announced it has signed letters of intent to acquire six operating specialized mobile radio companies.The systems, which represent 178 constructed and operating SMR channels, are generating approximately $3.8 million in annual revenues and have total assets of approximately $6.3 million, the...
Ameritech Cellular Services has joined several other carriers in deploying authentication technology to combat cloning fraud.Concurrently, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has extended authentication fraud protection into its eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island markets.Authentication is seamless to customers and Ameritech Cellular and other...
CellPort Labs Inc. is redesigning and enhancing its universal car kit for both cellular and personal communications services applications.Car kits provide power and hands-free talking capability for portable handsets, but most are designed for use with only one type of phone.Boulder, Colo.-based CellPort introduced...
LAS VEGAS-Russ Burd was named the new vice president and general manager for Pocket Communications Inc.'s Las Vegas market. By the end of March, Pocket expects to begin offering wireless services to the area.Prior to the joining the company, Burd worked for Bell Atlantic...
Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has named G. Ron Olexa chief operations officer with overall responsibility for the company's Reach receiver front end products. Olexa also will manage the company's relationship with Raychem Corp., SCT's new sales and distribution partner for the Reach product line....
WASHINGTON-The D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auction not only is the largest competitive bidding venture upon which the Federal Communications Commission has embarked to date, it also has spawned new players, regenerated old hands and created a few strange bedfellows.In this...
LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc. said Robert G. Mechaley Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer of the company.Mechaley, 45, most recently was a senior vice president with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. While at McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., Mechaley spearheaded development of a...
NEW YORK-Venture capitalists invested more than $160 million in 30 wireless industry companies during the second quarter, according to a survey by Price Waterhouse Technology Industry Group, Dallas.Overall, venture-backed investments jumped by nearly a third compared with the same period last year, totaling $2.43...
Cellular phones seem to have pervaded the lives of Americans just like baseball, hot dogs and apple pie.The Cellular One Group said it set out several months ago to find intriguing and funny stories involving cellular phones by sponsoring a contest called "Cellular One's...
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco, a partnership of AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced it is adding its own cellular long-distance service.Cellular One said customers now can receive all of their cellular charges, local air time and long distance on...
The wireless division of WorldCom Inc. aspires to be present in all major U.S. markets, indicating that the nation's fourth largest long-distance company seeks to be the country's fourth most powerful telecommunications company as well.Wireless service has been added in recent years to the...
After several broken engagements, MCI Communications Corp. thinks it has finally found a partner it can commit to long-term for wireless service, NextWave Telecom Inc.Although MCI has been down this road before, this time I think the company may have done it right.MCI-which sold...
Licensees of narrowband personal communications services report their development, testing and introduction plans for two-way messaging services are right on schedule. But Ian Gillott, manager of wireless research for IDC/Link Resources, suggests carriers have shifted to more conservative time schedules.Many service providers say they...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Information Services Inc. has named Jeffrey Fox president and William Cravens chairman.Fox most recently served as senior vice president of business development and Cravens previously served as vice chairman and chief operating officer. Prior to joining Alltel, Fox worked in investment...
Metro One Telecommunications Inc. opened trading on the Nasdaq National Market at $8.50 per share in its initial public offering of 2.4 million shares of common stock, of which the company is selling about 1.68 million shares and existing shareholders are selling 725,000 shares.The...
To the Editor: I am writing to clarify the law applicable to state and local regulation of personal wireless service providers, as discussed by Susan H.R. Jones in her article titled, "Who is in charge here?" in the Aug. 5 issue of RCR. Specifically, Ms....
ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. began offering cellular service in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston on Wednesday, bringing its coverage footprint up to one-third of the U.S. population.The company is expected to announce a new, billion-dollar alliance today, possibly with a U.S. personal communications service operator."By the...
WASHINGTON-Democrats will meet this week in Chicago to launch President Clinton's re-election campaign and try to take away the bounce that the Republican national conventional gave to the Dole-Kemp ticket earlier this month. Both major political parties are playing to middle-class voters with proposals...
