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N.Y. CELLULAR FRAUD RING BUSTED BY TASK FORCE, SECRET SERVICE

WASHINGTON-In what the U.S. Secret Service said is the largest seizure of stolen cellular telephone numbers ever in the United States, the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force arrested Abraham Romy and Irina Bashkavich in Brooklyn, N.Y., for breaking a federal law which prohibits...

WIRELESS FOCUSES ON STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE ON RF

WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and lobbying shift that sources attribute to pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency.The hybrid RF standard the Federal Communications Commission plans...

AT&T CUTS CDPD COSTS, FOLLOWING BANM’S LEAD

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is offering a 60 percent price reduction for its Packet Data Service, which uses Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, which is optimized for short "bursty" data transmissions.AT&T is offering five service plans: $22 for an allowance of 200 kilobytes per month,...

CELLSTAR READY TO UNLOAD ITS SAM’S KIOSK BUSINESS

CellStar Corp. said it has a tentative Fortune 500 buyer for its kiosk business located in 347 Sam's Club stores nationwide, the expenses of which led to the company's disappointing first-quarter results.The investment community had estimated CellStar's net income would be at least $5...

AT&T WIRELESS LAUNCHES CDS IN 35 NEW MARKETS

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets.CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T's cellular coverage area, according to Clayton Foster, the product manager for AT&T Wireless' wireless data division. "The growth of CDS...

FTC WANTS TO FACTOR CONSUMER COST-SAVINGS INTO ANTITRUST TESTS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission said cost savings should be considered regularly in antitrust analysis of high-tech mergers, such as the multimillion dollar deals sweeping the telecommunications industry. But it is not clear whether the policy changes being contemplated will help or hurt consumers and...

SAN FRAN WILL GET CDPD DEPLOYMENT

SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc's. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service to Cellular One customers.Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Wireless and Cellular One will design and deploy a Cellular...

RECONFIGURED IDEN SYSTEM HITS THE STREET

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...

VANGUARD BARTERS NY MARKET FOR OHIO PROPERTIES

Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. is trading its Orange County, N.Y., market to PriCellular Wireless Corp. in return for Ohio properties that Vanguard feels will fit nicely into its West Virginia metro cluster."The people in that area have more in common with the other...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson announced it will deliver a Global System for Mobile communications network, valued at $77 million, to the Indian cellular operator Birla Communications Ltd. Birla Communications is a joint venture between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Indian company A.V. Birla Group. Its...

SOME EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS STEP UP EFFORTS TO OFFER GSM

Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of Global System for Mobile...

VIEWPOINT

So now the Federal Communications Commission is mandated to study market entry barriers faced by small businesses and entrepreneurs, which could lead to reviving bidding credits and other incentives for women, minorities and others that are under-represented in the telecommunications industry, including wireless.Isn't this...

LUCENT ORDER TOPS 1 MILLION PHONES

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. ordered more than one million of Lucent's Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phones to be supplied during the next two years. The companies said the contract is valued at more than $300 million....

SPRINT SPECTRUM SITING HEARING POSTPONED IN MUNICIPAL MIX-UP

MEDINA, WASH.-A zoning commission hearing originally scheduled for May 28 in Seattle, concerning a lawsuit filed by Sprint Spectrum L.P. against the city of Medina, Wash., which charges the city's six-month moratorium on tower building violates the Telecommunications Act and Federal Communications Commission rules,...

CHALLENGE OF TWO-WAY NETWORKS IS TO EMULATE ONE-WAY’S STABILITY

Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...

ONE-WAY PAGING REMAINS SOLID AS SEXY TWO-WAY ENTERS MARKET

It is said that when you provide a valuable service at a fair price, you'll always have customers. Such is the personality of paging.In the last year more than ever, the industry has recognized that two-way paging and other wireless services, feature-rich as they...

THREE NEW TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES OPEN UP WORLD OF MESSAGING

It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...

CHALLENGE OF TWO-WAY NETWORKS IS TO EMULATE ONE-WAY'S STABILITY

Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...

WIRELESS COMPETITORS MANAGE BUSINESS BASED ON MARKET GOALS

Although sizable telecom rivals in cellular, personal communications services and paging markets nationwide, AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. hold hands in the San Francisco Bay Area, where business as usual is a balancing act.Erin Eggleton, spokeswoman for Cellular One of San...

D.C. NOTES

How 'bout the attendees at President Clinton's White House Corporate Citizenship Conference last Thursday here: Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T Corp.; Charles Lee, chairman of GTE Corp.; Richard Notebaert, chairman of Ameritech Corp.; Bert Roberts, chairman of MCI Communications Corp., Bernard Schwartz, chairman of Loral...

MOBILE DATA SECTOR STRIVES TO GET PAST ITS FRAGMENTED HISTORY

The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition.According to the most recent "Report Card" issued by the CDPD Forum, carriers are deploying Cellular Digital Packet...

SOUTHWESTERN BELL STARTS AUTHENTICATION

CHICAGO-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems said it started authentication service in its Chicago market, which operates as Cellular One. The technology is expected to wipe out cloning fraud as it is known today.Called CloneBlock, Chicago's Cellular One analog and digital subscribers will not pay any...

AT&T WIRELESS NAMES EQUIP MENT VENDORS FOR ITS PCS NETWORKS

No big surprise, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s cellular equipment vendors Lucent Technologies Inc. and L.M. Ericsson were named suppliers for the company's Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services networks, marking Lucent's seventh end-to-end U.S. PCS contract and one of Ericsson's largest U.S. contracts.Orders...

TWO CARRIERS ACTIVATE AUTHENTICA TION

Cloners beware, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are active with authentication technology-each carrier in two markets."We've taken the next step from protection to prevention. It's like a little Fort Knox for your phone," said Steve Fleischer, general manager of corporate...