JOHANNESBURG-The international telecommunications exhibition and forum-Africa Telecom 98-promises to be an important milestone for the African continent.The event is scheduled for 4 May to...
BEIJING-"Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice."No, we have not discovered Beijing's red-light district, and the...
Telexpo '9831 March - 3 AprilSao Paulo, BrazilH&T Congressos e FeirasTel: (+55) 21-541-2393Fax: +(55) 21-542-5095GSM Latin America31 March - 1 AprilBuenos Aires, ArgentinaIBC UK Conferences Ltd.Tel: (+44)...
BALTIMORE, United States-The World Health Organization (WHO) is assessing the feasibility of conducting a multi-nation study to determine the connection, if any, between mobile-phone...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) location system in February at the GSM World Congress in...
DENVER, United States-Competition in the world's cdmaOne handset markets is expected to heat up this year as more countries deploy commercial systems and manufacturers...
TOKYO-The Japanese government has begun development work for a 40-billion-yen (US$317 million) futuristic mobile communications system using a geostationary satellite.If the technology is adopted...
In the early 1990s, many industry observers enthusiastically predicted that wireless local loop (WLL) deployments would spread fast and furiously throughout the international telecommunications...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Digifone has built a substantial market share since it launched Ireland's second Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) phone service last March....
OXFORD, England-The European Commission has threatened five European countries with legal action over their failure to award DCS 1800 licenses. Belgium, Ireland, Italy, The...
WASHINGTON-Spain's Telefonica has announced it will partner with United States-based WorldCom and MCI in a partnership for future business ventures in Europe and the...
Worldwide mobile telephony subscriber numbers will climb at triple the compound annual growth rate expected from the wireline side between 1996 and 2002, according...
The transformation of Russia's paging industry took a major step in late January when modest operator Multi-Page merged into industry giant Segol RadioPage Inc.According...
DENVER, United States-Determined to penetrate Europe with the Interim Standard-95 (IS-95) protocol, U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. announced in February its United Kingdom trial of a...
BANGKOK-Although Thailand is the first country outside Japan to embrace PHS as a low-cost alternative to conventional mobile-phone service, commercial rollout of the system...
The simultaneous explosions of wireless telecommunications and the Internet have presented a unique opportunity to global consumers: truly personalized communications. The key to realizing the...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to move forward with a rulemaking on...
BANGALORE, India-The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has moved court on a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) order, striking down Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.'s...
DENVER, United States-Market strategy has taken on a new meaning for wireless carriers in the Asia-Pacific, which are picking themselves up, dusting themselves off...
MURRAY HILL, New Jersey, United States-Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced the initial elements of a new global wireless network architecture called Flexent.Designed by Lucent's Bell...
Further developments in the B-band auction for cellular licenses in Brazil continue to be stymied, while the June privatization auction date set for government-owned...
DENVER, United States-Consumers are aware of increased competition within the wireless industry in the United States, according to a recent report conducted by Peter...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The challenges faced by radio-access network providers have been underlined by the experiences of Ionica, a company established in June 1996 to provide...
