BROWSING: Network Services

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and Transaction Network Services Inc. announced a pilot agreement that will allow TNS customers in remote locations to access its network through the company's AirBridge Cellular Digital Packet Data services.In order to offer customers end-to-end service, TNS will purchase...

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...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.-Boston Technology Inc. announced it will provide its Access NP Network Services Platform to Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems.Southwestern Bell plans to use Boston Technology's systems and software to provide voice messaging service and short messaging service to its personal communications services customers in...

IRVINE, Calif.-Cox California PCS Inc. and Boston Technology Inc. signed a three-year contract to provide services for personal communications services customers in the Los Angeles/San Diego major trading area.Under the terms of the contract, Boston Technology will provide Cox California with its Access NP...

AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications between terminals.TNPP is the protocol that allows paging terminals to talk to one another....

MINNEAPOLIS-A partnership of Independent Telephone Companies and Minnesota Equal Access Network Services has acquired five personal communications services markets throughout northern Minnesota and North Dakota.The markets are Fargo and Grand Forks, N.D., and Fergus Falls, Brainerd and Wilmar/Marshall, Minn., along with surrounding counties.WirelessNorth, a...

Cable & Wireless Inc. has signed a cellular resale agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, one of the first steps in introducing its own branded wireless service package into the United States.CWI said it initially will offer its Business First Cellular service this fall...

MERIDEN, Conn. - SNET Network Services announced it has enhanced its Network Fraud Control System software to reduce the amount of 0+/0- theft for its validation customers.The new software feature monitors call duration in a real-time environment, providing added tools for companies to control...

A U.S.-owned company is up against competition in its bid for digital dispatch radio spectrum in the United Kingdom, while also facing implementation of the never-deployed TETRA standard.National Band Three Ltd. is wholly owned by Geotek Communications Inc. of Montvale, N.J. The four-year-old company...

WAKEFIELD, Mass.-Boston Technology Inc. will supply its Access NP Network Services Platform, its value-added services software and the AccessMAX Application Software Environment to Sprint Spectrum L.P.In addition, Boston Technology will provide hardware and software maintenance through its ServiceMax program. The companies said Boston Technology's...

WASHINGTON-The United States Telephone Association continues to fight against any federally mandated rollback or eradication of interconnection fees that wireless companies must pay to local exchange carriers to terminate wireless calls on LEC networks."We are concerned about the possible direction of the process ......

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced the completion of a fully redundant wireless messaging transmission network that will be able to recover quickly from network snags that may occur, including circuit, uplink or even total satellite failure.PageMart said it has invested $3 million in new equipment and...

Steinbrecher Corp., which was recently acquired by Tellabs Wireless, announced the MiniCell Wireless Access System, a complete cellular system utilizing software-programmable radios with remote and local transceivers. Based on industry standard protocols, the MiniCell system is interoperable with other networks. The company said the...

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. will supply Omnipoint Corp. equipment for its New York-based personal communications services network, the companies said. The equipment is configured with Omnipoint's Interim Standard-661 and Ericsson's PCS 1900 technologies.Over the next five years Ericsson could supply Omnipoint with up to $350...

Four parties received licenses to provide personal communications services in Sweden. Nordiska Tele8 and current cellular operators Telia Mobitel, Europolitan and Comviq will build nationwide Global System for Mobile communications networks at 1.8 GHz, announced the National Post and Telecom Agency in Sweden.Cellular penetration...

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc. delayed an initial public offering of common stock scheduled to go to market Feb. 22. The new issue was larger than anticipated, but the share price also was lower.According to the preliminary offering statement, the company expected to sell 3.3...

At least one quarter of U.K. wireless telecom operator Orange plc will be floated next month through a global offering of common shares, announced Dewe Rogerson, which manages Orange's account.Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. currently owns about 68.5 percent of Orange, while British Aerospace...

The MultiMedia Telecommunications Association released its annual market review and forecast, examining technology developments, growth and trends in telecommunications and computing.MMTA of Washington, D.C., is the second-generation of the long-standing telecom trade group called North American Telecommunications Association, formed 25 years ago to represent...

Taiwan's new telecommunications law will give wireless companies the chance to break into that country's communications market, but a 20 percent ownership limit may disappoint some businesses.Taiwan is making liberalization strides in hopes of becoming an Asia-Pacific regional operations center, as well as fulfilling...

Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc., sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Labour, announced it completed a $3 million equity investment as part of a $15 million financing package with co-investors Helix Inc. of Quebec and AT&T Wireless Services in LanSer Wireless Inc. of Montreal...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed an order for a Time Division Multiple Access/Advanced Mobile Phone System cellular network with Compania de Telecommunicaciones Moviles Chile S.A., one of two operators in Chile.Ericsson said the system will enable CTCC to offer a full range...

While neophytes view the commercial vehicle industry as a homogeneous market, Norcom Networks Corp. sees a way to provide a high-speed, packet-data communications network to transportation companies in a way that treats each segment as unique."We are pioneering a new generation of wireless mobile...

LAS VEGAS-Specialized mobile radio operator Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it will acquire 100 percent of the outstanding stock of AirNet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal Network Services Inc.The transaction, valued at approximately $2 million, will exchange 437,143 shares of Chadmoore's restricted...

BOGOTA, Colombia-NSN Network Services Ltd. said it installed Colombia's nationwide satellite paging system for Vipertronic of Bogota.Vipertronic will provide local and national paging services in Colombia using NSN's Gilat Oneway satellite uplink in Bogota. Vipertronic plans to operate the system as a shared hub...