Yearly Archives: 1998

CDMAONE HANDSET SALES COULD REACH 8.9 MILLION IN ’98

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...

INDONESIA NOT `THAT’ BAD

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...

JAPAN TO DEVELOP SATELLITE SYSTEM FOR FILLING CELLULAR-COVERAGE GAPS

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...

CONSUMERS RECOGNIZE U.S. MARKET IS COMPETITIVE

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...

INTEREST SWITCHES TO BRAZIL’S A-BAND LICENSES

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...

LUCENT UNVEILS FLEXENT ELEMENTS FOR NETWORK SOLUTION

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...

ASIA-PACIFIC CARRIERS WORKING TO RETAIN CUSTOMER BASE

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...

DOT, TRAI BAR MTNL FROM CELLULAR MARKET

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...

NORTH AMERICA BRIEFS

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to move forward with a rulemaking on...

WIN MUST EVOLVE TO BE GLOBAL COMPONENT

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...

PCT DELAYED AGAIN IN THAILAND

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...

QUALCOMM: CDMAONE/GSM TRIAL A SUCCESS IN THE U.K.

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...

CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES IN RUSSIAN PAGING ARENA

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...

SAMSUNG DEVELOPS SARA SOLUTION

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced at the Wireless '98 show in the United States in February it is developing a Secure Algorithm for Remote...

SATELLITE IMAGING HAS BECOME A STANDARD CURE FOR OUTDATED MAPS

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...

THE NUMBERS ARE IN FOR ’97: MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS NUMBER 200M

Worldwide mobile telephony subscriber numbers will climb at triple the compound annual growth rate expected from the wireline side between 1996 and 2002, according...

TELEFONICA JOINS WORLDCOM, MCI

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...

EUROPE SEES MULTIPLE AGENDAS FOR DUAL-BAND

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...

ESAT TOUTS BETTER SERVICE INSTEAD OF CHEAP PRICES

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....

REGULATORY, TECHNOLOGY ISSUES HAVE STALLED WLL PROLIFERATION

In the early 1990s, many industry observers enthusiastically predicted that wireless local loop (WLL) deployments would spread fast and furiously throughout the international telecommunications...

NEXTEL QUESTIONS LAW FIRM’S BEHAVIOR

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. and the Washington, D.C., law firm of Brown & Schwaninger once again have taken their running battle to the Federal Communications...

TEGIC LICENSES FUJITSU FOR HANDSETS

SEATTLE-Tegic Communications said it signed a licensing agreement with Fujitsu Network Communications, in which Fujitsu will incorporate Tegic's T9 intelligent text input technology into...

GEOTEK SUPPLIES CONCRETE INDUSTRY

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. said it deployed a mobile communications solution to the ready-mix concrete industry, designed specifically to meet the industry's needs.Geotek said...

BELLSOUTH MOBILITY EXPANDS PREPAID

ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS said it is offering its Prepaid To Go phone and service package to customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal...

ROAM, IF YOU WANT TO

In the summer of 1989, one of my favorite bands, the B-52s, released an album with the big hit-tune "Roam," in which singer Kate...
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