Yearly Archives: 1998

D.C. NOTES: HO HUM, WASHINGTON…

Here's something to ponder: Is the FBI to blame for the current CALEA fiasco, as the wireless industry has long claimed? Or does this rather...

SINGAPORE PHONE LICENSE UP IN AIR AFTER GTE SAYS IT’S NOT A PLAYER

SINGAPORE-What was to have been one of the most glorious moments in Singapore's telecommunications history turned out to be a major fiasco when one...

VERMONT GOVERNOR SIGNS SITING LAW

WASHINGTON-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, in what could become a model for other states, has signed into law a bill to give local communities without...

MTEL MISSES MARK ON SUBSCRIBER ADDS

JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. reported operational results for the quarter that again exceeded analysts' financial expectations but did not meet their subscriber forecasts.Mtel...

FOUR 220 MHZ SMR OPERATORS TO MERGE

The 220 MHz specialized mobile radio industry, sometimes known as the final frontier of wireless spectrum opportunity, gained a major player when four of...

TEST EQUIPMENT MAKER TTC GETS $370M CREDIT FACILITY

NEW YORK-Telecommunications Techniques Corp., which produces testing equipment for wireless and wireline networks, has obtained a $370 million bank credit facility and hopes to...

CONTRACTS

MACH India Pvt Ltd. entered into a contract with Bharti Cellular of India to offer cellular clearinghouse services for the country. The agreement includes...

CORRECTION

The product photograph titled, "GSM Network in a Box," published on page 41 of the March/April 1998 issue of Global Wireless actually shows the...

CPPPLUS CHALLENGES CALLING PARTY PAYS IN CHILE

WASHINGTON-While Calling Party Pays (CPP) has become a huge success in most of Latin America, the CPP concept recently took a new twist in...

BUSINESS DRIVES GROWTH IN CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE

Aggressive growth rates for cellular in Central and Eastern Europe are predicted in a new report from United Kingdom-based consulting firm Analysys.During the next...

TELESAT, NORTEL FORM SATELLITE VENTURE

OTTAWA-Canadian satellite operator Telesat and Northern Telecom Inc. announced an agreement to jointly develop a geostationary satellite system to deliver telephony services to underserved...

NORTH AMERICA BRIEFS

Four of the larger SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) operators in the United States have merged to create what should be the nation's largest 220...

NTT DOCOMO’S OPENS R&D CENTER FOR W-CDMA

NTT of Japan's new research and development center opened in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, at the end of March. The new facility, with a...

AMERITECH COMPLETES NEW ZEALAND SALE

CHICAGO, United States-Ameritech Corp. said it expects proceeds of US$2.1 billion from the sale of its 24.95-percent stake in Telecom Corp. of New Zealand....

3G PAVES WAY FOR WIRELESS INFORMATION SOCIETY

This piece was excerpted from a speech presented at CeBIT `98.Last year the cellular-terminal market reached around 100 million units. The figure is expected...

PAGING BRIEFS

Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced the latest upgrade to the FLEX protocol, called the FLEX G1.9. According to the company, the upgrade...

RENTAL PHONE FIRM EXPANDS TO ITALY

SAN FRANCISCO, United States-Action Cellular Rent A Phone announced it expanded its business with six new rental facilities in Paris and Milan, Torino, Rome...

US$1 TRILLION IN PROJECTS, BUT IS THERE MONEY?

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp., an international debt rating agency based in New York, estimates there will be US$1 trillion in wireline and wireless...

NTT DOCOMO JOINS GSM SUPPORTERS

OXFORD, England-Japan's largest wireless operator, NTT DoCoMo, has allied itself closely with the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) operator camp.The company signed a...

TEST COMPANIES WAVETEK AND W&G AGREE TO MERGE

HANNOVER, Germany-Test equipment companies Wandel & Goltermann Management Holding GmbH and Wavetek Corp. announced they agreed to merge. The transaction, subject to execution of...

MOTOROLA’S WINGS TO UNIFY PRODUCTS

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Motorola Inc. launched a US$100 million global advertising campaign, called Wings, to create unified brand awareness for consumer products produced by...

WESTERN EUROPE BRIEFS

DENMARKMobilix, a France Telecom subsidiary, has begun offering services on its DCS 1800 network.GERMANYLucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held...

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT REVIEWS AMPS RURAL COVERAGE

MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has called an urgent review to end speculation about the future of analog mobile phone coverage in regional and remote...

CHINA AND JAPAN TO FUEL REGION’S GROWTH

BANGKOK, Thailand-Cellular and PCS operators in the Asia-Pacific region have doubled from 56 in 1993 to the current 113, according to the Yankee Group's...

ASIA-PACIFIC BRIEFS

HONG KONGHong Kong's SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. announced agreements with Star Telecom International Holdings Ltd. and Telecom Service Ltd. to acquireP Plus Communications Ltd.,...
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