Wireless Services

NEW YORK-As the 1996 campaign season gets into high gear, wireless providers might do well to consider this profile when looking for loyal customers most likely to vote early and often for communications services: they are young, religious, affluent, well-read …

SEATTLE-Bob Ratliff has left AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to return to active politics, but said he will continue to work beside cellular baron Craig McCaw. For the next month, Ratliff will coordinate communication strategy for a political campaign, the Seattle …

The Telecommunications Industry Association wrote the standard for authentication technology five years ago and in March 1995, Tom Berson, a noted cryptologist and president of Anagram Laboratories, completed a study for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Fraud Task Force that …

NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing “Go” means collecting a lot more than $200. Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new federal telecommunications law which, “sets explicit national (tower) siting standards …

Telemac Cellular Corp.’s cellular debit phone is a product of carriers’ wish lists for the ideal prepaid service, said company President Scott McGregor. The SCOTT (Simple Credit Options with Telemac Technology) phone allows roaming and long-distance calling, provides customers various …

Repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling cellular phones is the business of ReCellular Inc. The company brings phones sent in by carriers, dealers and other clients back to new condition. And while some phones are serviced for return to the owners, …

ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Florida announced it will market wireless telephones using an automated kiosk that dispenses ready-to-use cellular phones directly to the customer. The Interactive Retail Information System, developed by Lightbridge Inc., is fully automated and provides …

Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless services to jump start the lagging interactive video and data services market. Having completed its research …

WASHINGTON-American Mobile Satellite Corp. may be in enough financial trouble that bankruptcy has been added to the list of possible solutions. The five-year-old, Reston, Va.-based mobile satellite concern filed its annual Form 10-K at the Securities and Exchange Commission April …

DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and …

DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating a surge in fraud activity, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and …

Toll Free Cellular is rapidly building a profitable business by marketing its #800 number service to the businesses cellular users want most to but are least likely to call because of airtime charges. The Seattle-based company introduced its #800 number …

Last month’s passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 heralds the industry’s most fundamental structural change since AT&T Corp. was split up in 1984. Traditional barriers separating industry sectors are crumbling. Wireless will play a key role in the industry’s …

NEW YORK-While wireless enterprises pose risks for and depress the credit ratings of their parent telecommunications companies, they also expand the overall market to the benefit of both entities, according to Frank Plumley, a director of Standard & Poor’s Corp. …

Ron Boillat is now vice president of sales and Lee Sarbo has been named director of sales for the Eastern region at Frontier Cellular, the wireless subsidiary of Frontier Corp. Boillat joined Frontier in April 1995 with 14 years experience …

Like parallel rails that run straight into the distance but seem to touch at the horizon, wireless telecommunications and mobile computing have each made great strides into the future. Now leading companies from both sectors are working together to make …

In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation’s 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers. And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in …

U S West Inc.’s board of directors has declared a regular, quarterly dividend of 54 cents per share on the common stock of U S West Communications Group. U S West said the dividend is payable May 1 to shareholders …

In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation’s 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers. And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in …

Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum’s bankruptcy …

WASHINGTON-In a move that could chill other potential bidders, Sprint Corp. has taken itself out of the running for a multiyear federal government wireless provision contract that could be worth “a few hundred million” because it claims the General Services …

Dear Editor: The Telecommunications Act is now law. The President’s pen unlocked doors to fair and free telecommunications competition that had been closed in some key areas for decades. Business and residential users, and our economy, will be the big …

Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks, spawning several potentially lucrative businesses. A system of 24 satellites launched by the U.S. Department of …

Florida cellular customers may soon see a 50-cent increase in their monthly bill, in the form of a fee to fund 911 technology and distance learning. Some cellular carriers indicated they are vehemently opposed to the fee, which is included …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. of New York will step up deployment of the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system in its New York metropolitan market. AT&T had installed a limited scale Corsair PhonePrint system last year …