Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its worldwide operations showed record subscriber growth during the third quarter, adding more than 62,000 new cellular subscribers. The company said this is its sixth record-breaking quarter. Millicom’s subscriber base has grown from 208,807 in third quarter 1995 to 418,966 subscribers this year, an annual growth rate of 101 percent.
Orange plc, a DCS-1800 personal communications network provider in the United Kingdom, said it added 86,000 customers between July and the end of September, bringing its share of the U.K. wireless phone market to 10 percent. The company serves 659,000 users. Orange offers Global System for Mobile communications at 1800 MHz. The company launched service in April 1994 and provides coverage to more than 90 percent of the population in Great Britain.
Boston Technology Inc. has opened a new regional sales and service office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The new office will offer an increased level of sales and service support to area customers including Telekom Malaysia, MRCB Telecommunications in Malaysia and TelecomAsia in Thailand. The new office also will serve customers in the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Turkey and the Middle East. In addition, the company announced it has been awarded purchase agreements by three Chinese regional telecommunications authorities. The contracts, valued at $1 million to $2 million, call for Boston Technology to provide Hebei Provincial Telecom Authority, Hangzhou Telecom Bureau and Dalian Telecom Bureau with its Access NP Network Service Platform and associated service applications.
Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group will supply FLEX protocol-based infrastructure to Puerto Rico Telephone Co. The operator is expanding and upgrading its existing paging system to be completely FLEX-capable, the company said. The agreement is valued at $4 million.
Portacom Wireless Inc. said it established a steering committee to monitor the operations and strategy of Asian American Telecommunications Corp. Portacom holds a 17.4 percent stake in the company. Douglas C. MacLellan is the president and chief executive officer of the committee, while Keith Hay and R. Keith Alexander are directors.
California Microwave Inc. said its Microwave Network Systems division will supply digital microwave radios to Telecomunicacoes de Rio de Janeiro S.A., a regional operator within Brazil’s national telephone system. The 15 GHz and 23 GHz radios will be used to expand Telerj’s cellular infrastructure as part of a plan to add 300,000 cellular lines in the Rio de Janeiro area in 1996 and 1997. This is the second contract between Telerj and California Microwave’s Brazilian partner, Infranav, in 1996.
