I.B.M. and 9 cellular powers team up for data transfers

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Nine telephone companies and IBM are developing methods to transfer facsimiles and electronic-mail (e-mail) over existing cellular telephone networks. The companies are hoping to help boost the emerging consumer electronics market, which includes portable computer and fax machine users. Many current users have to find wall outlets at hotels or on airplanes. There are 100,000 customers who will benefit from their network expansion plans, but analysts estimate that more than 13 million users could use the service by the year 2000. The companies have developed the blueprints and are working on a prototype device. The negative perceptions of cellular communications will have to be addressed by marketing teams if the service is to lure a substantial market share.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Electronic computers, Prepackaged software, Telecommunications services industry, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Telephone companies, Wireless LANs, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Fax modems, Communications protocols, Strategic Planning, Telephone Company, Marketing Strategy, Data Transfer Rate, Wireless Network, Fax Modem, Cellular radio

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A challenge to cellular's foothold

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Fleet Call Inc plans to compete head-on with the cellular phone industry by building a similar network that use mobile radio and digital technology. Fleet Call subscribers will be able to call anywhere in the world by using pocket-size phones; satellite transmissions will allow clear, static-free digital service. With the company's Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio, approved recently by the Federal Communications Commission, Fleet Call will be able to provide services to as many as 600,000 subscribers. Its first target area for its enhanced service is Los Angeles, CA, the biggest market for cellular phones, which it will enter in Aug 1993. In 1994, Fleet Call plans to expand to New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas and Houston.

Radiotelephone communications, Miscellaneous retail stores, not elsewhere classified, Services, Communications industry, Nextel Communications Inc., Company Profile, Digital communications, Competition, Cellular Radio, Mobile Phones, Telecommunications Service, Digital Communication, Market Entry

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