BROWSING: roaming
GTE AND BANM TO PROVIDE CDPD IN EACH OTHER’S AREA
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced they will offer Cellular Digital Packet Data services to customers in each other's markets.GTE said the services will be important to people and companies that conduct business on a national scale. For example, employees of a...
OMNITEL REACHES ROAMING PACT ANNOUNCES NEW PRICING PLANS
Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy's first private Global System for Mobile communications cellular provider, said it has reached a roaming agreement with government-owned Telecom Italia Mobile SpA and announced three additional pricing plans to help it compete with TIM.Omnitel, a consortium comprised of Italy's computer...
COMPANY FIGHTS ROAMING FRAUD BY VERIFYING I.D. OF SUBSCRIBER
Authentix Inc., a new Calif.-based company, said it developed a fraud detection method aimed at stopping bandits who clone phones and then roam.Current fraud fighting tools detect invalid mobile identification number-electronic serial number combinations or identify unusual calling patterns.Authentix detects cloners who roam by...
COMSAT TO LAUNCH WORLDWIDE PLANET 1 SERVICE
NEW YORK-Get ready for "PSC"-not to be confused with PCS, and for the "information sky way"-not to be mistaken for the information superhighway. Comsat Mobile Communications announced last week that it will launch the first two-way "personal satellite communications" system by mid-year.Known by the...
WORLD BRIEFS
L.M. Ericsson announced its subsidiary, Ericsson Australia Pty. Ltd., has signed a contract to install a switching system for 4,000 mobile telephones in Rangoon, Burma's capital. Ericsson said it will also build four radio transmitting stations to expand the city's phone network. This is...
GLENAYRE WILL PROVIDE MOROCCO EQUIPMENT
Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it has received a contract from L'Office National des Postes et Telecommunications, the government-led telecommunications company in Morocco, to provide paging infrastructure equipment and installation services.The equipment will be used for a paging system capable of supporting all existing high-speed...
VALENTINE ASKS FCC TO PROBE IS-661 PERMIT
WASHINGTON-In a potential blow to Omnipoint Corp.'s planned initial public offering this week, wireless investor James Valentine has asked federal regulators to investigate whether the small Colorado firm is violating its pioneer's preference for a personal communications services license in New York. Valentine claims...
LUXEMBOURG GOVERNMENT QUIET ABOUT SECOND WIRELESS LICENSE
Eight parties responded to Luxembourg's call for interest in operating a second cellular network. The Ministry of Communications, which plans to license an operator later this year, did not comment on interested companies.Separately, AirTouch Communications Inc. and the partners in Belgian cellular operator Mobistar,...
PAC BELL TO OFFER PCS HANDSET THAT ROAMS ON CELLULAR SYSTEM
Wanting to leave no market unserved in the new age of pocket telephony, Pacific Bell Mobile Services said it will introduce a personal communications services telephone that offers a dual mode for roaming on analog cellular networks."We're committed to doing it," said Garrison Macri,...
RURAL CELLULAR PLANS IPO, HOPING TO NET $30 MILLION
Rural Cellular Corp. hopes to raise about $30 million in an initial public offering of common stock that could occur as early as this month. The IPO would make the company one of the few rural wireless telecommunications companies to have gone public.Based in...
DENMARK READIES GSM, PLEDGES TO MAKE IT CHEAP
The Danish government is expected to issue a tender for DCS 1800 licenses this spring, and low service prices are expected to be one of the major criteria in determining which company will win the mobile telephone permits.Minister of Research and Information Technology Frank...
WAYNE SCHELLE
It's the morning after.The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...
C-BLOCK FIRMS (FINALLY) GET CHANCE TO BID
Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today.Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which some are approaching the opportunity....
EXECUTIVE OPINIONS VARY ON PCS MARKET APPROACH AND APPLICATIONS OFFERED
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-A recent survey of senior executives in the wireless communications industry suggests great uncertainty surrounds the personal communications service marketplace.The study, conducted by the international consulting firm Arthur D. Little and WirelessNOW, an on-line service for wireless industry professionals, revealed a wide range...
PEOPLE, SPECTRUM, TECHNOLOGY AID PAGEMART’S INTERNAL GROWTH
While leading companies in all segments of the wireless industry are growing through consolidation, Dallas-based PageMart Inc. is flourishing by concentrating on the internal growth of its paging operations.Although PageMart started out as a private carrier paging company, it ranked sixth on RCR's list...
PCS SERVICE BEGINS IN NATION’S CAPITAL
WASHINGTON-The future is here.Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 on the Sprint Spectrum system operated by American Personal Communications."I'm proud to speak to you...
THE WORLD
Unitech Industries Inc. said it has agreed to manufacture private label cellular phone accessories for Caudwell Communication & Technology, a European distributor of cellular products. Unitech will manufacture batteries, power supplies, vehicle adapters, desk-top chargers and hands-free kits under the Dextra name, Caudwell's private...
SEVEN SMALL BUSINESSES JOINING NAWI’S NETWORK
VIENNA, Va.-North American Wireless Inc. announced that seven small businesses have agreed to participate in its nationwide network. The firms are planning to bid in the Federal Communications Commission's personal communications services C-block auction scheduled to start Dec. 11.NAWI said it is focusing on...
NOVEMBER
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IN-BUILDING COVERAGE IS BREAKING NEW GROUND IN CELLULAR INDUSTRY
Two kinds of private, in-building wireless systems are seeking the attention of today's large business customers-stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions of employee desk phones, and stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions but also can hand off calls to the external, macro wireless network.Both...
PREPAID CELLULAR PHONE TARGETS PEOPLE WITH POOR CREDIT HISTORY
These days cellular phones are sold just about everywhere you turn, even the drug store. However, it may not be so easy to buy one. One company said it has designed a solution for people whose credit history has inhibited them from buying a...
APT PICKS PCS-1900 STANDARD DUE TO SMART CARD INTELLIGENCE
American Portable Telecom Inc. has selected PCS-1900-the 1900 MHz version of the Global System for Mobile communications digital technology standard-for its personal communications services network.The company's choice of GSM boosts that technology standard to potential coverage of half of the nation's population, APT said,...
CABLE OPERATORS CHOOSE CDMA AS THE FINANCIALLY SMART OPTION
While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far have pitched their tents in the Code Division Multiple Access camp.CDMA got a large...
GLOBALSTAR SETS SITES ON AFRICA WITH 3 SEPARATE JOINT VENTURES
Globalstar L.P. has landed three separate agreements to deliver mobile satellite service in 18 African nations. The company expects its global roaming services will benefit intercontinental travelers and rural fixed-site and mobile users in areas lacking landline or mobile coverage.Warwickshire, U.K.-based Globaltouch Communications Holdings...