In a Feb. 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen volunteered his group's help as Congress begins to formulate its broadcast analog spectrum-auctioning policy next month, exhorting that "the days of spectrum being given free...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced it will market turnkey systems based on the new personal air communications technology standard for the narrowband personal communications services market.The company said it signed a multimillion dollar contract to implement the technology for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AT&T won...
Editor's note: Following are five charts ranking major players in the wireless telecommunications industry according to revenues, net incomes, percent change in revenue from 1994 to 1995, percent change in net income from 1994 to 1995 and two-year total return on investment to shareholders.Nordby International...
Despite strong initial efforts on the part of Chilean, Argentine and Mexican regulators, implementing personal communications services in Latin America will fall a little short of earlier bullish expectations. At the same time, PCS already has taken off in a sense, with cellular increasingly...
Sprint Telecommunications Venture has awarded contracts to build its personal communications services network to AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom Inc. with roughly a 60/40 split of STV's markets. The contracts are valued at more than $3 billion."Today's announcement is a key step...
The Cellular One Group intends to expand the scope of the Cellular One brand name to paging, local and long-distance service, and will offer licensing to B-side cellular carriers, personal communications services operators and resellers as well."Customers want to turn to Cellular One for...
A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world.Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to providing consumer pocket telephony as well as plain old telephone service. Right now, many of...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Three American companies are working through the U.S. Embassy in Ireland to determine how an Irish long-distance company won the country's second cellular wireless telephone license last fall.Motorola Inc., AT&T Wireless Services and Southwestern Bell Corp. want the Irish government to explain why...
NEW YORK-Provided technological breakthroughs occur to improve transmission quality and quantity, wireless communications could become a substitute for fixed wireline communications within a decade.That assessment was offered Jan. 25 by Michael Minter, managing director of Smith Barney Inc. of New York, at the fourth...
ORANGEBURG, N.Y.-Former Nynex Mobile Communications cellular executive Alfred Boschulte has been named managing director of Excelcomindo, Nynex's joint venture in Indonesia that was formed to provide digital cellular phone service to that region.Boschulte is the former president of Tomcom L.P., a joint venture comprised...
NEW YORK - With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on an upward trajectory in competitive urban markets in the East, representative for major carriers report."It is in this next tier...
Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is expected to be first to offer commercial personal communications services in Canada, launching in at least two cities by September, predicts the Yankee Group, a Boston-based research and consulting group.Four companies recently won PCS licenses in Canada. Recipients of 30-megahertz...
The cellular industry has taken numerous steps to package cellular for the mass consumer retail market, but a small gap remains between the industry's effort and the complicated process to activate a phone."Mass merchants are a substantial opportunity for everyone to make this business...
AT&T Wireless Services announced three executive positions for its North Texas/Louisiana district. Todd Felker is now director of marketing and is responsible for advertising, distribution strategy, market research and analysis, product introductions, public relations, revenue forecasting and sales planning and management. He joined the...
WASHINGTON-With the idea of wireless communications as a complement to traditional wireline residential and business service still fresh in the public's mind, the move toward wireless as a purveyor of local-loop service is closer than most people think.With some areas of Illinois, New York...
OKLAHOMA CITY-A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in the civil lawsuit filed by AT&T Wireless Services against an Oklahoma City medical supply company that provides cellular phone emulation service.AT&T received an emergency restraining order against Safari Communications on Jan. 8, and is seeking an injunction...
Just months after AT&T Corp. stated it would split into three separate companies, Chairman Robert Allen announced 40,000 people will be displaced or laid off during the next three years. Meanwhile, AT&T Wireless Services is actively recruiting.Experts say downsizing is necessary for AT&T to...
A cellular phone containing a scanner, into which new numbers can be programmed using the phone keypad, was just one of the sophisticated cloning devices acquired by the U.S. Secret Service in a recent New York City arrest."This looks like a cellular phone, but...
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 Helix Inc. of Quebec and AT&T Wireless Services in LanSer Wireless Inc. of Montreal...
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 keep the deregulatory gains of 1993 intact.Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), speaker of the House,...
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 Perot Systems uses a distributed antenna strategy, and allows handoffs to the public cellular network....
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 public forum to continue fighting.The Federal Communications Commission's proposal would enable initially licensed PCS...
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 the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...
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 the service, subscribers will be able to store or forward faxes, access e-mail and the...
