DENVER, United States-Canada's telecom market saw major changes recently as its four smallest telecom companies agreed to merge into one company and Bell Canada...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed the re-auction of 356 PCS licenses in the United States.Licenses had to be re-auctioned after several of...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra has conducted preliminary trials of its new Nortel Networks-designed CDMA mobile network amid nagging disquiet and confusion in some rural quarters about...
DUBLIN, Ireland-In the wake of the phenomenal success of "ready-to-go" prepaid packages, many European mobile phone subscribers are concerned they are paying more than...
Recently I have read a few opinions casting doubt on the value of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in today's converging wireless and Internet...
Dear Editor: There was an article by Paul Rasmussen in the March-April edition of Global Wireless that discusses the situation concerning ERMES two-way. In that...
JOHANNESBURG-Michael Stocks, legal and regulatory general manager for MTN in South Africa, assumed the chairmanship of the GSM Association as from 1 May, taking...
Lucent Technologies announced three technical initiatives designed to increase capacity in TDMA equipment. The company announced a series of software enhancements developed by Bell...
SANDTON, South Africa-Telecel International, one of the most active cellular investors in Africa, split into two separate companies as from the end of April....
MONTREAL, Canada-Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless, through its London-based wholly owned subsidiary Dolpin Telecom, and Motorola have established a strategic relationship for deploying TETRA in...
MoldovaThe Republic of Moldova, formerly a part of Romania, has reported an emerging commercial trunked radio market, with one company licensed to date, according...
VANCOUVER, Canada-eDispatch.com Wireless Data announced recently it signed an evaluation and installation agreement with Southern Linc, under which Southern Linc will demonstrate the eDispatch.com...
BrazilTelemig Celular said it plans to invest R$200 million-R$220 million (US$118 million-US$130 million) during 1999 to expand its services in the state of Minas...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a CDMA handset...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The potential bidders for the third cellular license in South Africa are determined to break the existing Vodacom-MTN duopoly. "We will be...
BANGALORE, India-Although the growth of South Asia's relatively new markets has temporarily slowed due to political and financial problems, increased competition and investment have...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-If an Olympic games in cellular communications were ever staged, there is little doubt who would head the medals table. Finland would...
GENEVA-The ferocious competition that has characterized the DM70 billion (US$40 billion) German telecommunications market since the introduction of full telecom competition a year-and-a-half ago...
The government of India in March revealed a new telecommunications policy that aims, among other things, to rectify issues surrounding licensees of basic and...
