Monthly Archives: September, 1998

FORMING IRIDIUM DISTRIBUTION DEALS POSES CHALLENGES

If all goes as planned, Iridium L.L.C.'s vision of a global wireless phone network-based on a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites interconnected to several...

PRODUCTS

WANDEL & GOLTERMANNRadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction....

MEXICO READIES FOR MORE AUCTIONS

WASHINGTON-The Mexican government will auction new frequencies for paging, narrowband PCS (two-way paging), trunking and point-to-point microwave. The auctions are scheduled for late 1998...

TARGET REVENUE: FIXED NETWORKS

What does the acronym MoU mean? MoU stands for Memorandum of Understanding, of course-as in the GSM MoU Association. Any European cellular operator could...

ISRAEL’S BEZEQ COMBATS SUBSTITUTION

JERUSALEM, Israel-In the southern town of Ashkelon stands a larger-than-life black marble grave stone that is as much a monument to the teenager buried...

ISRAELI REPORTER LAUNCHES NATIONAL DEBATE ON CELL PHONE SAFETY

JERUSALEM, Israel-Afraid of scaring Israeli consumers, wireless carriers operating in this nation of 2 million cellular phone users are awaiting the arrival of a...

FULL PRIVATIZATION OF TELSTRA DENIED

MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has been forced to abandon plans to fully privatize Telstra Corp. in the face of a threatened revolt by members...

LICENSES/TENDERS

The Australian Communications Authority has invited applications for an auction of previously unsold 800 MHz and 1.8 GHz PCS spectrum.Bids closed on 31 August...

WIRELESS OUTLOOK FAIR TO CHANGEABLE

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The United Kingdom likes to portray itself as a pioneer in cellular. Certainly it was early on the scene, with two analog...

VODAFONE TO BUY BELLSOUTH NEW ZEALAND

LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced plans to buy the national GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network in New Zealand for about US$369.1 million.Vodafone Europe...

VOICE PAGING TRIAL TO BEGIN IN SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE-Given that Singapore's paging market is close to saturation with a 43-percent penetration rate, it comes as no surprise that paging operators in the...

ZAMBIA TO ROLL OUT FIRST GSM NETWORK

The first GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network in Zambia is scheduled to be commercial at the end of October. At its launch,...

NORTH AMERICA BRIEFS

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in July released a consensus white paper on wireless number portability stressing the wireless industry should be treated differently...

TELEFONICA, PORTUGAL TELECOM NOW MAJOR POWERS IN BRAZIL

WASHINGTON-Almost 500 years after Columbus visited, Portugal and Spain are back on Latin American shores; this time, it isn't sugar cane or gold they...

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

GSM in Central and Eastern Europe8-9 SeptemberPrague, Czech RepublicIBC UK Conferences Ltd.Tel: (+44) 171-453-5493Fax: (+44) 171-636-1976www.ibc-uk.com/prague2nd European MobileRadio Congress14-16 SeptemberPrague, Czech RepublicInternational MobileTelecommunications AssociationTel: (+1) 202-331-7773Fax: (+1) 202-331-9062www.imta.orgIntelcom...

PREPAID INFLUENCE CONTINUES TO GROW

Across most of the world's regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered...
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