NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $150 million contract from VoCall Communications Corp. to provide the company a virtual private network that employs Internet telephony as its telecommunications infrastructure, said WinStar.VoCall specializes in prepaid telecommunications services such as prepaid calling cards,...
PHOENIX-U S West Inc. said it will debut a bundled package called The Total Package in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., including home telephone service, mobile phone service with 300 minutes of calling time, domestic long-distance service and unlimited Internet access for $80 per month.U...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson Inc. said it launched its Wireless Applications Validation Environment Laboratory technology initiative at the company's U.S. headquarters in Richardson, Texas.The initial project will show Ericsson's Time Division Multiple Access-based enhanced data rate for global evolution solution, which will illustrate high-bandwidth mobile wireless...
The industry has seen AT&T Wireless Services Inc. pick up smaller cellular carriers in order to fill in gaps and avoid paying high roaming fees, and Vodafone AirTouch plc's acquisition of rural cellular carrier CommNet Cellular Inc. indicates other carriers are feeling the roaming-fee...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Telcordia Technologies Inc. signed what it said is its biggest international agreement to date with South Africa's incumbent telecommunications carrier Telkom.Telcordia will provide its end-to-end integrated service activation and assurance solution to replace Telkom's existing operations support system infrastructure, said the company....
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week applauded a new Federal Communications Commission's ruling that Ameritech Corp.'s imposition of local number portability end-user charges on commercial wireless carriers is illegal."We consider this a big victory for all carriers that use Type 1 interconnection," said...
WASHINGTON-Legislation to extend the digital wiretap act grandfather date to June seems to be on a fast track to nowhere because proponents don't have a strategy to get it passed by the Senate and signed by President Clinton.The House of Representatives July 13 passed...
The supply contract between Research In Motion Ltd. and BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. ends next month and the two companies are already in negotiations to renew the deal.The outcome of these talks is something anxiously awaited by wireless data industry watchers, who see it...
WASHINGTON-AT&T Corp. said Chairman C. Michael Armstrong was elected head of the U.S.-Japan Business Council, a 75-member group that promotes improved business and economic ties between the two countries.Armstrong also chairs the President's Export Council, which advises the administration on trade matters. Several months...
LUTHERVILLE, Md.-Americom Wireless Services opened its fourth wireless handset repair and refurbishment center located in Hartford County, Md.The 33,000-square-foot facility in the Lakeside Business Park just north of Baltimore will provide testing, dispositioning, refurbishment and repair of wireless handsets for multiple technologies, said Americom....
SEATTLE-XyPoint Corp. and Wireless Services Corp. said they have formed a technology alliance to develop a secure technology platform called WebWireless, which will enable consumers to conduct transactions through Internet-based businesses.WebWireless will enable the consumer to monitor, control and respond to Web content, events...
WASHINGTON-The American Association of Retired Persons released the results of a $30,000 study conducted by Economics and Technology Inc. that reports SBC Communications Inc. and Bell Atlantic Corp. did not keep promises made when they merged with Pacific Telesis Corp. and Nynex Corp. respectively...
WASHINGTON-In the last procedural move before proceeding with auctions in the 39 GHz band (38.6-40.0 MHz), the Federal Communications Commission affirmed the licensing and service rules adopted in January 1997 but changed the service areas to economic areas.Additionally, the FCC dismissed all pending mutually...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it has completed the nationwide rollout of its OnTheGoInfo customizable information services suite, based on Motorola Inc.'s iKno! information architecture platform.Metrocall originally launched the service at the end of March in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., market. The service is now available...
NEW YORK-Happy days are here again for Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., which announced second-quarter earnings late July 13 of $273 million, or 44 cents per share.The gains are three cents per share ahead of analysts' consensus estimates of 41 cents and a quantum leap...
ATLANTA-Southern LINC, a digital wireless communication service of Southern Co., announced it has licensed Phone.com's UP.Link Server.The company intends to use the server to offer wireless data and Internet services on Motorola Inc. integrated Digital Enhanced Network handsets.
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. named Susan Swenson president of Leap and chief executive officer of Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications Inc.Swenson, who also will join Leap's board of directors, previously served as president and CEO for Cellular One, a joint venture between Vodafone...
In just more than a month, users of global positioning system applications will face a challenge in many ways similar to the highly publicized millennium bug."It's serious enough to be called a `dress rehearsal' for the Y2K bug-yet few people know about it," said...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it expects operating results for the second quarter to be below analysts expectations, mainly due to lower than anticipated orders and sales for paging products.Revenues are expected to be $62 million, while operating losses will be between $10 million...
Incepta L.L.C., a new investment firm led by wireless industry veteran John DeFeo, wants to provide the telecom enterprises it invests in with more than just money.The company has a more hands-on approach to investing, including providing development and management work for the companies...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. Chairman George Carlo urged a federal bankruptcy court to reject efforts to block the liquidation of his consulting firm, but he declined to address allegations that WTR audit committee Chairman Ronald Cavill approved fraudulent WTR invoices.Patricia Carlo, wife and business...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Research In Motion Ltd. said the Federal Communications Commission approved the new RIM Inter@ctive Pager 850 for use in the United States. The device, expected to be available later this summer, is utilized by the eLink wireless e-mail service sold jointly by American...
NEW YORK-Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, recently registered to sell a 4 million share secondary equity offering, which could increase its available capital by at least $550 million, based on its recent stock price.Following Qualcomm's registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Standard & Poor's...
NEW YORK-GTE Corp., Intel Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sprint Corp. are among companies participating in a study, launched in mid-July, to probe successful practices involved in post-merger and acquisition integration.Best Practices L.L.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., is conducting the evaluation, entitled "Post-Merger and Acquisition...
