July 1998

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 …

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 …

LONDON-The Western European cellular service market will grow from US$31 billion in 1997 at an annual growth rate of 7.6 percent to become a US$52 billion industry by 2002, according …