Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service."Everyone has a different edge or weakness" when it comes to price, coverage, technology and features, said Bukasa...
US Order is rolling out SmartTime Internet Services, which the company claims is the first Internet-based service designed exclusively for non-PC information appliances including wireless devices."Consumers, for the first time, will be able to retrieve selected information from the Internet without a personal computer...
While FLEX has paraded across the globe, gaining recognition as the new global paging standard throughout the Americas, Asia and Middle East, the Motorola Inc. technology has met resistance in Europe, where members of the European Union and other nations-by virtue of certain political...
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...
From day one, the demand for Personal Handyphone System service in Japan has astounded the world of telecommunications. After only a year in the marketplace, PHS now claims more than 3.2 million subscribers.Most surprising is that PHS was an immediate success despite the doubt...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Primark Corp. has acquired Yankee Group Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm in the communications and computing field.The transaction includes cash payments of $34 million and contingent payments during three years, which could reach a maximum of $31 million if revenues...
For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: The transition to digital technology will continue to grow, adding new voice and data services,...
CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time.The Schaumburg, Ill., telecommunications equipment giant was expected to announce today that it has smoothed over the rough spots of its...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
There is enough room in today's marketplace of specialized products for both traditional paging and the handset messaging offered by new 1800 MHz wireless operators and digital cellular operators, analysts say."Consider the microwave oven," said David Abraham of David Abraham & Co., Westport, Conn.,...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
NEW YORK-The numbers vary depending on the source, but there is unanimity about the trends unfolding in the nation's paging sector during the past year: subscriber growth, consolidation in the number of paging providers and overall increases in revenues despite price squeezes due to competition...
NextWave Telecom Inc., parent company of top C-block personal communications services license-winner NextWave Personal Communications, completed May 6 at $290 million private placement. The underwriter was ING Barings.Details of the private placement were revealed in the company's Form 600, which was submitted to the...
Opportunity looms for the Canadian kin of PageMart Inc. and Paging Network Inc. Both companies recently activated service in Canada where market penetration is only 3 percent, or about 1 million people."Paging has been a `me too' product," said Rob Graham, vice president sales...
The Telecommunications Industry Association wrote the standard for authentication technology five years ago and in March 1995, Tom Berson, a noted cryptologist and president of Anagram Laboratories, completed a study for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Fraud Task Force that determined "in an authentication...
Prepaid cellular represents a huge opportunity for carriers, as demonstrated by the flood of prepaid services inundating the marketplace. More significantly, however, prepaid cellular may prove in itself a new paradigm for conducting consumer business in wireless.Industry estimates show between 20 percent and 30...
L.M. Ericsson announced it received an order from Tokyo Digital Phone to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system.Ericsson said the order, valued at $85 million, includes switching and radio base station equipment as well as new software functions to be delivered during...
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...
A cellular network using Code Division Multiple Access technology is live in South Korea, but so far enduring only a lukewarm reception. Current analog operator Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp. introduced CDMA service Jan. 1 in Inchon, a port city west of Seoul, and plans...
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...
Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today.Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which some are approaching the opportunity....
Lured by a chance to swim in the next wave of wireless telephony and reeled in by entrepreneurs casting about for financial support, some big fish from Korea are jumping into the auction of C-block personal communications services licenses by backing major bidders.NextWave Personal...
Short forms are due today for designated entities, marking a giant and-finally-tangible step toward the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction of nearly 500 personal communications services licenses set for Dec. 11.About 25 DEs will actually make it to auction, and only a handful will...
