July 1998

DUBLIN, Ireland-Contrary to most industry predictions, Meteor Mobile Communications has secured the third mobile license in the Republic of Ireland. Orange plc of the United Kingdom strongly was fancied to …

WASHINGTON-Mexico will receive US$1.06 billion, plus value-added tax, for Personal Communications Services (PCS) and Wireless Local Loop (WLL) spectrum auctioned in a six-month process completed 8 May. The Sistemas Profesionales …

L.M. Ericsson Belgium. With KPN-Orange Belgium N.V. for a DCS 1800 network. Value: US$269 million Brazil. With ATL-Algar Telecom Leste S.A. for a TDMA network. Value: up to US$350 million …

In an article on China, “The Promise Land,” page 33, in the May-June issue of Global Wireless, Great Dragon Telecommunications (GDT) of China was listed as having developed a GSM …

WASHINGTON-The American novelist Edith Wharton once noted the only thing that distinguishes vice from virtue is point of view. Some might say her comment is an apt description of the …

WASHINGTON-After a three-day delay due to legal challenges, the government of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, sold a controlling 50.1-percent voting stake in the Companhia Riograndense de …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Investment in the telecommunications sector is an urgent priority for Central and Eastern European countries. Financial management consultant Price Waterhouse examined in a recent report the challenges of …

WASHINGTON-Wireline provider Grupo CentroAmericano de Telecomunicaciones (GCA Telecom) has become the first private-sector company to provide basic telephony services in El Salvador. To help deploy services faster and easier in …

WASHINGTON-The European Commission in early July gave conditional approval to the proposed merger between MCI Communications Corp. and WorldCom Inc. The approval is subject to the divestiture of MCI’s Internet …

NEW YORK-The United States, where high-yield bond issuance originated, for many years has been the hotbed of this important kind of financing, even for telecommunications and other corporate issuers outside …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Following a long series of regulatory battles, Telecom Italia (TI) finally closed down after just a few months of operation its FIDO cordless terminal mobility service. Designed to …

SINGAPORE-If there’s one good thing that has come out of the current economic crisis in Southeast Asia, it’s the added push it has given to the long-talked-about and much-needed shakeout …

Northern Telecom Ltd. introduced the Nortel CDMA Minicell at June’s CDMA World Congress in Singapore. Nortel said the base station allows wireless service operators to tailor their networks to meet …

TOKYO-DDI Cellular Group is set to kick off its cdmaOne IS-95 service in mid-July in western Japan. The service gradually will spread across the nation. Once IDO Corp. kicks off …

Nettech Systems introduced a communications solution called Smart IP that enables Internet and intranet applications to run over wireless networks without the challenges associated with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) …

BEIJING-Motorola Inc. Chairman Gary Tooker called China “our second home” as he inaugurated a new 18-story office building in Beijing 19 June. P.Y. Lai, president of Motorola (China) Electronics, added …

A number of new licenses will be up for grabs early next year in the United States as the majority of C-block Personal Communications Services licensees opted to return their …

SINGAPORE-A cloak of silence seems to have descended over Indonesia’s telecommunications industry following the May riots that killed more than 1,000 people. The once-booming industry seems to have come to …

DENVER, United States-Personal Communications Services (PCS) carriers have made significant inroads into the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry, weakening the entrenched cellular carriers’ net additions and driving down airtime prices. The …

WASHINGTON-Osiptel, Peru’s regulatory agency, has released service quality levels to be achieved by the country’s mobile operators. The agency defined three quality indicators: grade of service (ratio of non-completed calls …

The highly competitive wireless market in the Republic of the Philippines-with five carriers serving some 70 million people-is perhaps the most ripe for consolidation compared with all Southeast Asian countries. …

TOKYO-NTT has decided to liquidate its PHS (Personal Handyphone System) business, run by NTT Personal Group, with cellular subsidiary NTT DoCoMo Group taking over by year-end. DoCoMo said it has …

LISLE, Illinois, United States-Telecommunications equipment providers Tellabs Inc. and Ciena Corp. announced they have agreed to merge in an all-stock purchase making Ciena a subsidiary of Tellabs. The transaction is …

The 4th Annual Brazil Telecom Summit 21-22 July Miami, United States World Research Group Tel: (+1) 212-869-7231 Fax: (+1) 212-869-7311 www.worldrg.com Mobile Internet Access 27-29 July San Jose, California, United …