Wireless Services

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. signed a contract to install its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems’ Texas markets. Corsair will install the system in the Dallas, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Laredo and Rio Grande valley …

WASHINGTON-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will use the Cibernet On-line Roaming Database to administer and exchange carrier market data used in roaming. The database allows carriers to update their roaming data online for immediate use by roaming partners. CORD transfers data …

As part of a holiday promotion, Powertel Inc. is offering unlimited local calling within its entire coverage area for $50 per month for all of next year. Customers who sign up before Jan. 18 will become “Prestige Partners” and will …

As European countries progressively open and grow their wireless markets, the contest for licenses is hot. But in Germany, only one group entered a bid for a second personal communications network license by deadline, which leaves questions as to the …

Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company’s wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director …

WASHINGTON-If the wireless telecom industry has learned one thing in recent years, it is that rules for paging, cellular, specialized mobile radio, personal communications services, mobile satellite, microwave, wireless local loop and private wireless services are not made in a …

WASHINGTON-If allowed to merge, British Telecommunications plc and MCI Communications Corp. promised to jump start local competition, keep interconnection prices low and promote the use of wireless technology for both fixed and mobile global service, according to its application for …

Omnipoint Communications Inc. has been granted access to the New York Power Authority’s structures and rights-of-way. Under the agreement, approved by the board of trustees of the New York Power Authority, Omnipoint will have access to the structures and rights-of-way …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s 15-month-old executive memorandum mandating tower siting on federal lands not only is not being implemented quickly, it is being filibustered by land-management agencies, according to a Dec. 2 letter to President Clinton from Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-More than 3.5 million people sign up for digital wireless services each month, according to a study conducted by L.M. Ericsson. The company estimated 126 million people were wireless subscribers at the end of the third quarter 1996. Around …

The transition from analog to digital handsets in the United States is finally taking off, says a new study published by Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. “After four years of false starts, the U.S. digital transition is finally underway,” said Jane …

SEATTLE-Toll Free Cellular has announced plans for national expansion of its #800 free cellular calling services. The national expansion is propelled by an infusion of capital, provided primarily by limited partnerships affiliated with Goldman, Sachs & Co., and supported by …

NEW YORK-Horizon Cellular Group, a Malvern, Pa., wireless carrier, is getting out of the cellular business, but its top management is seeking a new play in personal communications services. Backed by many of the same investors who cashed out of …

I’ve noted before that vendors of the personal Air Communications Technology protocol-one of the newest contenders for two-way paging and messaging systems, and being implemented by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. over its nationwide two-way channels-have their work cut out for …

Editor’s Note: The companies listed below are the current holders of A-, B- and C-block licenses for broadband personal communications services in the United States. Some of the companies have not yet received their licenses from the Federal Communications Commission …

L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will …

PARAMUS, N.J.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it reduced wireless telephone fraud in metropolitan New York City by 90 percent so far this year, using its authentication system and Corsair Communications Inc.’s PhonePrint radio frequency fingerprinting system. The company also announced …

Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest paging companies in the United States from survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. Rankings are based on carriers’ reported total number of paging …

Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp.’s AT&T Canada Inc. subsidiary announced a long-term alliance that licenses Cantel to use the AT&T brand name and includes a marketing and technology agreement between Cantel and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The …

“The debate on CDMA is over, folks,” declared Jerry Butters, an executive with Lucent Technologies Inc., last week when PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched 1900 MHz service in 11 major trading areas. It was the most comprehensive launch of both …

WASHINGTON-Almost by default, GTE Corp.’s Government Systems division was awarded the General Services Administration’s eight-year post-FTS2000 federal wireless telecommunications services contract Nov. 12. Current FTS2000 service providers Sprint Corp. and AT&T Corp. bowed out of the process earlier this year, …

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. formed a wholly owned subsidiary, PC Telecommunications Inc., to resell cellular and paging services in markets adjacent to the company’s cellular systems. The company said it plans to begin reselling wireless services in the northern portions of …

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. announced it will provide AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with digital wireless phones. The agreement, which is the largest Ericsson has ever signed with any single U.S. customer for wireless phones, is valued at more than …

Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service. “Everyone has a different edge or weakness” when it comes to price, coverage, …

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