Wireless Services

Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc., sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Labour, announced it completed a $3 million equity investment as part of a $15 million financing package with co-investors …

WASHINGTON-While congressional Republican leaders late last week signaled problems with landmark telecommunications reform legislation, the wireless telecommunications industry declared victory after securing antenna siting, long-distance access and other provisions that …

DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services has launched its commercial rollout of Interim Standard-136 service with a Dallas in-office system, using L.M. Ericsson microcells and Nokia Corp. handsets. The office system installed at …

WASHINGTON-A government plan for personal communications services licensees to share microwave relocation costs has received qualified support from both carriers and fixed users, while providing the two warring factions a …

It’s the morning after. The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview …

A private Dutch company has combined traditional paging with high-tech messaging to produce “Maxing,” an advanced wireless service that Eindhoven-based CallMax bv hopes to offer commercially early next year. Using …

Michael Snitz of Phoenix-based Cell Phone Extensions says his business is a part of the new “emulation industry,” but cellular carriers call his work illegal cloning and fraud. “This is …

The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal communications services market. Gretel Holcomb Hoffman …

In an initial study of customer satisfaction among cellular telephone service consumers, J.D. Power and Associates found that local Bell telephone companies achieved higher satisfaction rankings than their nonwireline rivals …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services announced the commercial availability of the AT&T CellCard, a smart card the size of a credit card that is designed to extend the reach of a …

WASHINGTON-Expanded spectrum auction authority and other telecommunications legislation are about to get caught up in a high-stakes budget battle between the Clinton administration and the GOP-led Congress that might not …

SEATTLE-AT&T Wireless Services introduced a prepackaged phone that is available in stores and activated by calling a 1-800 number and receiving credit-card verification. The telephone costs about $40 with an …

DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. announced it has made the world’s first wireless phone call on a carrier-based personal communications services system using Code Division Multiple Access digital technology at 1900 MHz. …

AT&T Wireless Services has unveiled personal Air Communications Technology, a new open standards-based architecture for two-way messaging that the company expects will become an industry standard for narrowband personal communications …

As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule …

Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new …

The prime movers behind the recent rollout of Personal Handyphone System services in Japan are not losing any time promoting the digital technology in other Asia-Pacific markets. Cable & Wireless …

WASHINGTON-The regulatory environment for personal communications services is still evolving as policymakers try to determine how next-generation pocket telephone systems fit into a telecommunications industry undergoing historic change and evaluate …

LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc., which introduced the Wildfire Electronic Assistant product one year ago, signed on AT&T Wireless Services and Pacific Bell Mobile Services to develop Wildfire as a network-based …

Wireless technologies are critical to introducing true competition into the country’s last bastion of telecommunications monopoly, according to market research by Action Information Services. Unlike today’s analog cellular services that …

Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. announced its purchase of Orlando Tower Service Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based builder of transmitting and receiving facilities for wireless telecommunications providers. Consideration for the transaction totaled $135,000 …

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati last week stayed the entrepreneur block auction for broadband personal communications services licenses after Radiofone Inc., a cellular operator …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services is introducing AT&T wireless circuit data service in New York and New Jersey. Circuit data service allows cellular customers with portable computing devices to access corporate …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Lin Broadcasting Corp. shareholders voted to approve a merger agreement with AT&T Wireless Services at the annual shareholder meeting. Lin shareholders will receive approximately $129.90 in cash for each …

AT&T Corp.’s strategy to become three different companies has evoked positive and adverse reactions, but analysts agree the forecast looks good for the wireless business. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer …