PacTel Corp, soon to be the former wireless subsidiary of Pacific Telesis Group Inc, told the conference that it is looking to expand its market share in the US and abroad but with a watchful eye on regulators and the need to enhance shareholder value. When this is completed, we plan to grow our business, expand our customer base and reduce our cost structure, Gloria Everett, executive director of technical development at Pacific Telesis, said.She will be moving with PacTel when it is spun off, as will Mohan Gyani, Pacific Telesis’s treasurer. Gyani told the conference that market penetration levels for wireless cellular operations at this point are unlimited, adding that the company’s paging operations were growing fast and that PacTel often uses this medium first to get into a new market. In some cases we use paging as a ‘toe in the water’ because it requires a low capital investment and it gives us a chance to better understand a government’s requirements for cellular, he explained.
