1998

Motorola Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with Latin American paging provider Alfa-Bip of Mexico to provide infrastructure for a nationwide expansion of its paging services. Under the terms …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it reached an agreement with US/Intelicom and SecurFone America Inc. to provide prepaid cellular solutions for the U.S. market. The prepaid solution, called Buy-the-Minute, is scheduled for …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Small Business Services announced it now has specialists who consult individually with business customers about their telecommunications needs. The enhancement to its “one-stop shopping” concept enables the company to …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellemetry announced an agreement with Global Research Systems, adding Cellemetry applications to GRS’s BusCall service. BusCall notifies families when a school bus is approaching to pick up their children. …

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WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno, amid indications of coming legislation, told Congress last week she will order the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in mid-March if the deadlock between the FBI …

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 battle it out for market share. …

SINGAPORE-Lost accounts, lost jobs, lost profits, lost confidence: These words have been used to describe Indonesia’s wireless industry, but they may not necessarily be true. Although it is undeniable that …

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 by cellular carriers, handheld satellite …

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 D. Hart Research Associates Inc. and …

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 Telebr

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 Laboratories, the Flexent architecture preserves …

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 and looking around to see if …

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 (MTNL’s) planned entry into India’s cellular …

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to move forward with a rulemaking on calling party pays service. While CPP …

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 full potential of this market …

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 has been delayed until April at …

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 cdmaOne/GSM hybrid network was a success. …

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 to the terms of the …

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced at the Wireless ’98 show in the United States in February it is developing a Secure Algorithm for Remote Activation (SARA) solution that will give …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-When you look at a postcard of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with its magnificent beaches flanked by a line of mountains, the landscape seems timeless and still. But looks …

Worldwide mobile telephony subscriber numbers will climb at triple the compound annual growth rate expected from the wireline side between 1996 and 2002, according to the Yankee Group’s “Global Trends …

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 Americas. This follows the collapse of …

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 Netherlands and Spain all missed the …

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. Global Wireless spoke to Marketing Director …