The Inmarsat Council reached an agreement to privatize Inmarsat with a target date of 1 January 1999. According to Inmarsat, its signatories, parties and...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. and United Kingdom-based ERA Technology Ltd. signed a joint-venture agreement to design and develop next-generation wireless network infrastructure based on the UMTS...
BEIJING-The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry 22 April announced the first domestically designed and manufactured digital mobile telecommunications equipment has been connected to the...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Tele-communications and Computer Sciences Corp. formed an alliance to offer value-added services to Nokia's infrastructure clients, including mobile and fixed wireless carriers,...
PRINCETON, New Jersey, United States-United States-based Intek Global Corp. announced its Linear Modulation Technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement...
China Telecom (Hong Kong) in late April announced the purchase of Jiangsu Mobile Communication for US$2.9 billion. China Telecom said the purchase gives it...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States-Action Cellular Rent A Phone announced it expanded its business with six new rental facilities in Paris and Milan, Torino, Rome...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp., an international debt rating agency based in New York, estimates there will be US$1 trillion in wireline and wireless...
OXFORD, England-Japan's largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo, has allied itself closely with the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) operator camp.The company signed a...
HANNOVER, Germany-Test equipment companies Wandel & Goltermann Management Holding GmbH and Wavetek Corp. announced they agreed to merge. The transaction, subject to execution of...
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Motorola Inc. launched a US$100 million global advertising campaign, called Wings, to create unified brand awareness for consumer products produced by...
DENMARKMobilix, a France Telecom subsidiary, has begun offering services on its DCS 1800 network.GERMANYLucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has called an urgent review to end speculation about the future of analog mobile phone coverage in regional and remote...
BANGKOK, Thailand-Cellular and PCS operators in the Asia-Pacific region have doubled from 56 in 1993 to the current 113, according to the Yankee Group's...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced the latest upgrade to the FLEX protocol, called the FLEX G1.9. According to the company, the upgrade...
This piece was excerpted from a speech presented at CeBIT `98.Last year the cellular-terminal market reached around 100 million units. The figure is expected...
MACH India Pvt Ltd. entered into a contract with Bharti Cellular of India to offer cellular clearinghouse services for the country. The agreement includes...
Aggressive growth rates for cellular in Central and Eastern Europe are predicted in a new report from United Kingdom-based consulting firm Analysys.During the next...
OTTAWA-Canadian satellite operator Telesat and Northern Telecom Inc. announced an agreement to jointly develop a geostationary satellite system to deliver telephony services to underserved...
CHICAGO, United States-Ameritech Corp. said it expects proceeds of US$2.1 billion from the sale of its 24.95-percent stake in Telecom Corp. of New Zealand....
