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On the surface, neither the odds-on re-election of President Clinton nor a dramatic upset victory by GOP rival Bob Dole in the presidential race should impact telecommunications policy.The blueprint for a deregulated, competitive marketplace was etched in sacred stone with Clinton's signing of the...

WASHINGTON-Bundled and branded telephony, video and Internet services will dominate the U.S. telecommunications marketplace as the industry experiences increased competition and realignment, predicts Dr. Sam Book, president of Consumer Research at Economic and Management Consultants International Inc.EMCI recently conducted an in-depth study of more...

Several state tax offices and wireless carriers responded to the tax predicament faced by Western Wireless Corp. in Oregon.The Oregon Department of Revenue sent Western a proposed assessment that included in the valuation the $34 million Western paid for the Portland personal communications service...

LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc. said Robert G. Mechaley Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer of the company.Mechaley, 45, most recently was a senior vice president with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. While at McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., Mechaley spearheaded development of a...

WASHINGTON-The D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auction not only is the largest competitive bidding venture upon which the Federal Communications Commission has embarked to date, it also has spawned new players, regenerated old hands and created a few strange bedfellows.In this...

CellPort Labs Inc. is redesigning and enhancing its universal car kit for both cellular and personal communications services applications.Car kits provide power and hands-free talking capability for portable handsets, but most are designed for use with only one type of phone.Boulder, Colo.-based CellPort introduced...

In three years, SilverLake Communications Inc. has pushed itself into the forefront of the paging software market.Last year, the privately held Calabasas, Calif., company won a contract to provide its software to Paging Network Inc., defeating 25 other companies, that bid on the project,...

Ameritech Cellular Services has joined several other carriers in deploying authentication technology to combat cloning fraud.Concurrently, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has extended authentication fraud protection into its eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island markets.Authentication is seamless to customers and Ameritech Cellular and other...

This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes.Industrial countries require quality and service features from their mobile networks, while developing...

WASHINGTON-Only weeks after luring Alex Mandl away from AT&T Corp. for a reported $20 million in a much celebrated coup, Associated Communications L.L.C. now finds itself mired in controversy over the suddenly popular 18 GHz spectrum for local broadband wireless multimedia services that Mandl...

The Federal Communications Commission was hit Friday with major challenges to its new hybrid radio frequency exposure guideline.Among those filing petitions for reconsideration/clarification are the Personal Communications Industry Association, the Electromagnetic Energy Association, Hammett & Edison Inc. (a consulting firm) and the Department of...

Cellular phones seem to have pervaded the lives of Americans just like baseball, hot dogs and apple pie.The Cellular One Group said it set out several months ago to find intriguing and funny stories involving cellular phones by sponsoring a contest called "Cellular One's...

WASHINGTON-The first week of the D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auctions moved along without much fanfare, either at the beginning of Round 1 or with the end of Round 4.Spectrum auctions have turned out to be much like the recent political...

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services, a subsidiary of USCS International, has reached technology agreement with AT&T Corp. under which IBS will provide software technology that will aid AT&T in controlling the production of billing statements sent to its consumer and small business customers...

Metro One Telecommunications Inc. opened trading on the Nasdaq National Market at $8.50 per share in its initial public offering of 2.4 million shares of common stock, of which the company is selling about 1.68 million shares and existing shareholders are selling 725,000 shares.The...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Information Services Inc. has named Jeffrey Fox president and William Cravens chairman.Fox most recently served as senior vice president of business development and Cravens previously served as vice chairman and chief operating officer. Prior to joining Alltel, Fox worked in investment...

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...

The wireless division of WorldCom Inc. aspires to be present in all major U.S. markets, indicating that the nation's fourth largest long-distance company seeks to be the country's fourth most powerful telecommunications company as well.Wireless service has been added in recent years to the...

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Treasury will be receiving another auction-related windfall payment sometime in the near future when the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T Corp. and the General Accounting Office decide how much money was made from the 900 number that personal communications services applicants used to...

SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco, a partnership of AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced it is adding its own cellular long-distance service.Cellular One said customers now can receive all of their cellular charges, local air time and long distance on...

Of late, the move from corporate executive to born again entrepreneur is not uncommon in wireless.But still it comes as a surprise Alex Mandl would leave his post as president and chief operating officer of AT&T Corp. Word has it he was Chairman Bob...

CHICAGO-CenterPoint Properties Corp., a publicly traded real estate investment trust, announced it has reached an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to grant the cellular company a master lease covering more than 70 of CenterPoint's industrial properties.The sites are located in all Chicago area...

WASHINGTON-Uncertainty about compliance with the new, hybrid radio frequency radiation exposure standard and growing concern with the struggling industry-funded bioeffects research program could invite unforeseen legal and operational problems for the wireless telecommunications industry."There's no guidance on compliance. They need definitions," said Ronald Petersen,...

ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. began offering cellular service in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston on Wednesday, bringing its coverage footprint up to one-third of the U.S. population.The company is expected to announce a new, billion-dollar alliance today, possibly with a U.S. personal communications service operator."By the...