WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) has drafted spectrum auction legislation designed to rein in what has become a high-stakes wireless licensing process driven increasingly by budget forces, possibly …
Marketing may be everything. The technical properties of cellular and personal communications services-some similar, some different-balance out when vying for customers. How carriers decide to exploit technical advantages to win …
NEW YORK-“Why pay for cellular phone service if you only want it for emergency use?” That’s the advertising slogan and the business concept for SOS Wireless Communications Inc., an Irvine, …
Competition began in earnest last week in Singapore when the nation’s second operator launched service. To try to ensure even more competition, the government announced it expects to call for …
NEW YORK-In a most serious transaction notwithstanding its April 1 announcement date, SBC Communications Inc. became the proud parent of Pacific Telesis Group in a $16.5 billion merger said to …
“This is a fight for the total telecommunication system, and we’re not going to play defense,” said John E. Rooney from his new office as president of Ameritech Consumer Services. …
DENVER-RCR Publications Inc. last week launched a World Wide Web site at www.rcrnews.com. Visitors to the Web site will have access to the latest industry news through daily updates as …
NEW YORK-Provision of flat rate, local call access to a plethora of wireless and wireline services is the driving force behind the acquisition of Voice-Tel Enterprises Inc., which Premiere Technologies …
WASHINGTON-Despite the optimism expressed fewer than two weeks ago by Daniel Riker, chairman and chief executive officer of Pocket Communications Inc., regarding the financial future of his C-block personal communications …
PHILADELPHIA-Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched service in Philadelphia on April 3, now the 20th market in which the carrier offers service. The Philadelphia major trading area license actually is held by …
NEW YORK-Start-up players in personal communications services are at an awkward and critical juncture where riding the accelerator is necessary to roll out service and riding the brake is required …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission would be phased out over five years and spectrum management given over to a board with limited powers, under a new balanced budget proposal by a …
A Dallas-based company has focused its efforts on assisting smaller wireless providers by offering a combination of products and services to help them survive in the increasingly competitive wireless arena. …
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. formed a dedicated Speech Recognition team as part of its roll out of speech recognition products for its Modular Voice Processing system. The team will work …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. said it plans to launch its Frequency Hopping Multiple Access network in the Tampa, Fla., market on April 30. Tampa will be Geotek’s ninth major metropolitan …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association is holding a conference April 28 and 29 in Washington to address the strategic, financial and operational effects of the Federal Communications Commission’s Partitioning …
ENGLAND-Orange plc said it had 894,000 subscribers on its wireless network at the end of March, representing an increase of 109,000 during the first quarter. The company’s churn rate for …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. will begin providing travel information to its customers, according to a contract with Official Airline Guide, a division of Reed Travel Group. Users that subscribe …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. began offering roaming in Washington, D.C./Baltimore to its New York customers. The roaming agreement is with Sprint Spectrum L.P. Omnipoint already offers roaming in California, …
NEW YORK-Nynex Corp. said it has accepted conditions that the New York State Public Service Commission placed on its approval of the company’s pending merger with Bell Atlantic Corp. “Accepting …
