Since opening its initial public offering at $16 on July 9, Phone.com Inc.'s stock price recently has been closing in the $70 range, with sales during the day breaking $80.Whether this success will stand the test of time remains to be seen, but for...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Code Division Multiple Access handsets were the No. 1 selling handset in the United States during the first quarter with sales of 3.2 million units, said Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group Inc.First-quarter sales of CDMA handsets surpassed the more established...
WASHINGTON-A group of small- and medium-sized wireless firms last week challenged Federal Communications Commission paging auction rules in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.The companies include Advanced Paging Inc., Progressive Paging, Capitol Paging, Express Message Corp., Lauttamus Communications and...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-A new study compiled by research and consulting firm Ovum reports that although voice traffic will continue to dominate the communications market, the growing demand for information services and Internet content is forcing vendors and operators to rethink their mobile strategies.The report, "Wireless...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week signed an executive order to create a new advisory group to help the government protect against threats to telecommunications systems and other vital infrastructureThe National Infrastructure Assurance Council, which will be comprised of no more than 30 members from the...
Alltel Corp. said it signed an integration agreement with Intecom Systems under which Alltel Information Systems will fully integrate Intecom's applications into its customer-care and billing system to provide converged billing, complete billing analysis and full multimedia reporting functionality to the customers of communications...
WASHINGTON-FCC Commissioner Michael Powell warned members of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council last week the millennium bug was a special problem that requires everyone to work together. For that reason, Powell said, information cannot be kept from the Federal Communications Commission.If companies have...
NEW YORK-All bidders for the United Kingdom's One-2-One have reportedly dropped out, so Cable & Wireless plc and MediaOne Group, which own the personal communications services carrier, will have to go back to the drawing board."We remain interested in the UK market, which is...
WASHINGTON-New allegations surfaced last week that the Federal Communications Commission is giving Nextel Communications Inc. preferential treatment, claims that come on the coattails of a proposed antitrust settlement between Nextel and the Justice Department that many dispatch operators strongly oppose, and as the agency...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Ericsson Inc. selected Natural MicroSystems' products and services for the first integrated wireless network that enables carriers to combine dispatch and group communications within their standard Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure, said Natural MicroSystems.Ericsson said it selected the open telecommunications approach to...
NEW YORK-BellSouth Corp. said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has ranked it the top telecommunications company for the second straight year.The NAACP's Telecommunications Report Card and Consumer Choice Guide rates telecom firms on minority participation in employment, advertising and marketing...
WASHINGTON-The United States Telephone Association still is not satisfied with legislation to restrict the Federal Communications Commission's merger review and is worried a bill pending in the Senate could lead to a more onerous review for its small- and medium-sized companies.USTA President Roy Neel...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-USA.NET Inc. has joined the Phone.com Inc. Alliances Program with plans to offer a new Web-based e-mail service for UP.Browser-enabled phones.With more than 11 million customers, USA.NET is a provider of e-mail and advanced messaging services to businesses of all sizes, as...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject petitions on how to structure spectrum sharing between satellite earth stations and terrestrial fixed users in the future."The existing frequency coordination and licensing processes foster efficient use of spectrum through flexibility...
Third-generation technology standards groups say they accept the tri-mode Code Division Multiple Access standard recommended by mobile-phone operators worldwide.The 3G Partnership Project 2, a standards group established in North America, last week said it agreed to accept the recommendations of the Operators Harmonization Group...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed moving wireless heart monitors to two different sets of spectrum blocks where the devices would be primary users.The blocks of spectrum include 608-614 MHz, 1395-1400 MHz and 1429-1432 MHz; and 608-614 MHz and 1391-1400 MHz. The multiple bands...
HOUSTON-Easterly Investor Relations announced Crown Castle International Corp. and Quanta Services Inc. have been added to the Russell 3000 Index, which measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies based on total market capitalization.Crown Castle is on the Russell 1000 Index, a subset...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire 192 towers located in the South from Triton PCS, an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate.The towers are located in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. American Tower developed and constructed many of the towers,...
During its second-quarter earnings conference call, Motorola executives said Iridium L.L.C. could face liquidation if it fails to bring in the revenues and subscribers originally planned.At the same time, Motorola asserted it will not contribute further funding to Iridium unless other investors do."Motorola will...
NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P. announced it launched four more low-earth-orbit satellites on July 10, bringing the total number of satellites in orbit to 28.The four satellites were launched on a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The company needs 32 satellites in orbit...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association is expanding the membership of its Wireless Broadband Alliance to any person or entity, including partnerships and corporations, holding a license from the Federal Communications Commission to provide terrestrial-based, fixed broadband wireless services.Additionally, it is allowing two associate...
PARIS-France Telecom Group said it will sell all of its shares in Deutsche Telekom next year, valued at about $2 billion.Jean-Louis Vinciguerra, France Telecom's executive vice president of finance, said France Telecom would sell its shares and that cooperation between the two companies to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week rejected a telecommunications industry proposal to use a product-line approach to make telecom products accessible to the estimated 54 million Americans with disabilities.The FCC "certainly rejected the product-line approach by name, but what they seem to be saying...
BOSTON-The wave of flat-rate pricing plans carriers have been introducing during the last year has helped force the wireless industry to go after higher average-revenue-per-user customers, according to Kelly Quinn, a senior industry analyst at Strategy Analytics Inc."This runs totally contrary to the direction...
