WASHINGTON-American Mobile Satellite Corp. may be in enough financial trouble that bankruptcy has been added to the list of possible solutions.The five-year-old, Reston, Va.-based mobile satellite concern filed its annual Form 10-K at the Securities and Exchange Commission April 1, but it was not...
DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and local law enforcement launched...
DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and local law enforcement launched...
Toll Free Cellular is rapidly building a profitable business by marketing its #800 number service to the businesses cellular users want most to but are least likely to call because of airtime charges.The Seattle-based company introduced its #800 number service in the greater Seattle...
Last month's passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 heralds the industry's most fundamental structural change since AT&T Corp. was split up in 1984. Traditional barriers separating industry sectors are crumbling. Wireless will play a key role in the industry's transformation. While few provisions...
NEW YORK-While wireless enterprises pose risks for and depress the credit ratings of their parent telecommunications companies, they also expand the overall market to the benefit of both entities, according to Frank Plumley, a director of Standard & Poor's Corp.Prompted by accelerating competition and...
Ron Boillat is now vice president of sales and Lee Sarbo has been named director of sales for the Eastern region at Frontier Cellular, the wireless subsidiary of Frontier Corp. Boillat joined Frontier in April 1995 with 14 years experience in the telecommunications industry....
Like parallel rails that run straight into the distance but seem to touch at the horizon, wireless telecommunications and mobile computing have each made great strides into the future. Now leading companies from both sectors are working together to make sure their convergence is...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
U S West Inc.'s board of directors has declared a regular, quarterly dividend of 54 cents per share on the common stock of U S West Communications Group. U S West said the dividend is payable May 1 to shareholders of record of U...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum's bankruptcy is pending in the...
WASHINGTON-In a move that could chill other potential bidders, Sprint Corp. has taken itself out of the running for a multiyear federal government wireless provision contract that could be worth "a few hundred million" because it claims the General Services Administration already has decided...
Dear Editor: The Telecommunications Act is now law. The President's pen unlocked doors to fair and free telecommunications competition that had been closed in some key areas for decades. Business and residential users, and our economy, will be the big winners if we, the communications...
Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks, spawning several potentially lucrative businesses.A system of 24 satellites launched by the U.S. Department of Defense beginning in the late...
Florida cellular customers may soon see a 50-cent increase in their monthly bill, in the form of a fee to fund 911 technology and distance learning. Some cellular carriers indicated they are vehemently opposed to the fee, which is included in Gov. Lawton Chiles'...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. of New York will step up deployment of the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system in its New York metropolitan market. AT&T had installed a limited scale Corsair PhonePrint system last year and will expand the...
WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced it has concluded a private financing within its existing investor group, raising an additional $315 million and boosting its total capital base from $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.The additional funds will be applied by Iridium Inc. to the ongoing...
Some big-city markets saw a decrease in cloning fraud last year after implementing personal identification numbers, but the effort hasn't beat the bandits. Cloning criminals have hit the road, scanning for numbers in one market, reprogramming and selling handsets in another-what industry has termed...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services and Ameritech Cellular Services have signed an intercarrier agreement that allows each carrier's Cellular Digital Packet Data customers to use CDPD within the other's cellular network.The carriers' customers will be able to use CDPD...
PITTSBURGH-AT&T Wireless Services announced its customers in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio now have access to the AT&T CellCard, a smart card that extends the reach of a customer's cellular phone outside North America.To use the smart card, traveling customers rent...
While Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. showed dramatic fourth quarter and year-end income loss for 1995, the company said it was the strongest quarter ever for adding cellular customers.The majority of net loss is attributed to acquisition costs associated with subscriber additions. For the...
WASHINGTON-The panels and format for the Federal Communications Commission's March 5 en banc hearing on spectrum policy have been set, with the agenda and most of the questioning determined by the four commissioners and Chairman Reed Hundt.Concurrent with the hearing, demonstrations of new technologies...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. announced its net income for the fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, more than tripled to $11 million, increasing 261 percent when compared with the $3 million reported Dec. 31, 1994. The company's net income for the year ended Dec. 31,...
