GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One of Washington, D.C./Baltimore introduced its RSVP Piper Traveler, a product that combines a pager and an analog cellular phone. RSVP Piper Traveler features a nationwide numeric display …
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. and InfoCellular Inc. introduced a customer acquisition and inventory fulfillment product. The interface provides one application for customer qualification, fulfillment and activations, the companies said. Users enter …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-BT Mobile awarded a contract to Ericsson Ltd. to upgrade BT’s wide area paging network. The project, scheduled for completion this year, will add features and increase network capacity. …
BOTHELL, Wash.-GTE Corp.’s Network Management Organization opened an office in Surrey, U.K., to focus on the European market. Jean-Pierre Goetz, the group’s director of European sales for WorldWin, will head …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. launched its ninth mobile communications network in Tampa, Fla. The network allows dispatchers, fleet managers and mobile employees to communicate with each other. Tampa is Geotek’s …
SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Inc. will supply its Blackbird Platform and PreTect wireless fraud prevention systems to GTE Wireless. The Blackbird and PreTect products work together using radio frequency fingerprinting to …
WASHINGTON-A major Australian study has found significant cancer in rodents exposed to digital wireless phone radiation, dramatic findings that offer compelling new evidence of potential health risks from phones and …
InterCel completes Maine sub. sale InterCel Inc. completed the sale of its Maine cellular subsidiary last week for the purchase price of about $77 million. InterCel said it will use …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Telecom Personal S.A., a cellular provider in northern Argentina, reached 100,000 subscribers. The company said it is the first Argentinian firm with less than a year in the …
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said its net loss for the first quarter increased due to higher levels of debt to finance growth and depreciation and amortization expenses associated with …
PHOENIX, Ariz.-AG Communication Systems said Ameritech Cellular Services selected its INgage Authorization and Call Routing Equipment technology for use in Ameritech’s Dual Link service. The Dual Link service allows customers …
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunication industry and the Federal Bureau of Investigations are back on a collision course over how the 1994 digital wiretap bill should be implemented. The issue is an …
DENVER-Personal communications services operator Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream service last Thursday in Denver, promising rates at least 20 percent lower than AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s digital cellular rates. …
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. executed definitive agreements to acquire the cellular properties and certain assets of Triad Cellular Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif. Western Wireless will acquire 12 rural service …
DENVER-U S West Communications Group awarded a contract it values at $500 million to Lucent Technologies Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access equipment and products for its personal communications services …
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. launched a network services unit to offer multivendor telecommunications management services to carriers. The company’s network management services include billing, customer care, work force management, fault handling, …
The Federal Communications Commission filed a reply brief last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which is causing a review of the commission’s wireless resale …
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has begun at least two civil investigations into possible “bid rigging and market allocation” that allegedly occurred during the personal communications services auctions. One prong …
CHICAGO-Aerial Communications Inc. signed handset distribution agreements with Montgomery Wards Electric Avenue, Ritz Camera and Sears Brand Central. Other retailers carrying Aerial products and services include Best Buy, Circuit City, …
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.-Quantum Communications Group Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm, joined with Compass International Research & Information Services to offer marketing research and retention services to wireless carriers. Headquartered in …
