I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did I use?"Sprint," I told him. Then I thought to myself, "Is it Sprint? No wait, maybe it's MCI."Hold on a...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said the new telecommunications law does not erase federal jurisdiction of wireless telecommunications, a strong statement aimed at dissuading federal regulators from abandoning a proposed bill-and-keep interconnection plan in favor of broad guidelines that could stifle local competition and the...
BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation's first multistate personal communications services network, and the country's fourth PCS system activation.Service was launched in a cluster that involves three states-metropolitan Charlotte, N.C., which borders South Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., southeast of Charlotte; and the Tennessee...
Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned when it comes to providing wireless services to the estimated 35,000 participants of the 1996 Republican National Convention in San...
Software developer Unwired Planet Inc. introduced an Internet access solution that promises to be a "Killer App" for wireless data services, beginning with Cellular Digital Packet Data.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company said its UP.Link open software platform will enable cellular phone and two-way pager...
In efforts to capture a broad range of consumer users, cellular carriers and equipment providers are stepping up marketing and advertising efforts to include glossy paper and primetime TV.The advertising boon arises from a climate of intensifying competition among cellular and personal communications service...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and lobbying shift that sources attribute to pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency.The hybrid RF standard the Federal Communications Commission plans...
WASHINGTON-In what the U.S. Secret Service said is the largest seizure of stolen cellular telephone numbers ever in the United States, the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force arrested Abraham Romy and Irina Bashkavich in Brooklyn, N.Y., for breaking a federal law which prohibits...
If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless operators are obligated to pass the call, according to new government rules.Cellular operators who are not happy about that say...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced it has officially opened its European headquarters in the Netherlands. The company said it opened the office because its cellular operations in Europe are becoming an increasingly important part of AirTouch's overall business strategy.L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is offering a 60 percent price reduction for its Packet Data Service, which uses Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, which is optimized for short "bursty" data transmissions.AT&T is offering five service plans: $22 for an allowance of 200 kilobytes per month,...
WASHINGTON-Despite Congressional passage of a six-year balanced budget plan last week that assumes $19.2 billion from auctions, telecom policymakers are growing concerned that fiscal and political forces are increasingly driving spectrum auction policy on Capitol Hill and that the Federal Communications Commission has become...
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc's. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service to Cellular One customers.Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Wireless and Cellular One will design and deploy a Cellular...
WASHINGTON-Wide-area specialized mobile radio operators and broadband personal communications services licensees now will be subject to the same resale rules under which cellular carriers have been operating since 1983.The Federal Communications Commission June 12 adopted interim rules that would prevent PCS and enhanced SMR...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets.CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T's cellular coverage area, according to Clayton Foster, the product manager for AT&T Wireless' wireless data division. "The growth of CDS...
NEW YORK-The rapid growth in volume and kinds of wireless telecommunications services has created a strong ripple effect on the tower site administration sector of the industry.Independent companies that develop tower sites need to be extremely patient waiting for their capital investment to pay...
L.M. Ericsson announced it will deliver a Global System for Mobile communications network, valued at $77 million, to the Indian cellular operator Birla Communications Ltd. Birla Communications is a joint venture between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Indian company A.V. Birla Group. Its...
MEDINA, WASH.-A zoning commission hearing originally scheduled for May 28 in Seattle, concerning a lawsuit filed by Sprint Spectrum L.P. against the city of Medina, Wash., which charges the city's six-month moratorium on tower building violates the Telecommunications Act and Federal Communications Commission rules,...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. ordered more than one million of Lucent's Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phones to be supplied during the next two years. The companies said the contract is valued at more than $300 million....
It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...
CHICAGO-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems said it started authentication service in its Chicago market, which operates as Cellular One. The technology is expected to wipe out cloning fraud as it is known today.Called CloneBlock, Chicago's Cellular One analog and digital subscribers will not pay any...
The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition.According to the most recent "Report Card" issued by the CDPD Forum, carriers are deploying Cellular Digital Packet...
