Monthly Archives: October, 1999

AT&T launches family calling plan

REDMOND, Washington, United States-AT&T Wireless introduced new pricing plans that could build on the success of the carrier's Digital One Rate plan by adding...

France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom anticipate change

France Telecom said it will sell its 2-percent stake in Deutsche Telekom next year, according to a Reuters report. France Telecom also said it...

Appetite for bandwidth driving fixed wireless market

When the clocks roll over at midnight on 31 December, the world will usher in not only a new century, but a new paradigm...

Hans Snook Chief executive officer Orange, United Kingdom

Contrary to what many equipment developers proclaim, Hans Snook, chief executive officer of U.K.-based cell phone operator Orange, says that things were not simpler...

Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman and chief executive officer Qualcomm Inc.

When Qualcomm's Dr. Irwin Jacobs looks forward to the next World Telecom show, in 2003, he predicts the continuing convergence of the computer and...

Wireless devices put RIM on map

TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in...

Japan gears up for 3G launch in 2001

TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing...

Japanese players enter wireless access market

TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services.According to the announcement,...

Keith Radousky Director of engineering BellSouth Cellular Corp.

The biggest challenge for wireless operators during the next four years most likely will be obtaining additional spectrum, according to Keith Radousky, director of...

Six companies prequalify for Kenya cellular license

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Six cellular phone companies, including a consortium led by South Africa's MTN, have been prequalified by Kenya's Communications Commission to bid for...

Koichi Sakata Chairman Japan Telecom

Japan Telecom (JT) plans to launch its 3G services based on wideband-CDMA in the third quarter of 2001. Koichi Sakata said JT will put...

GSM data in the local loop: A reality?

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Most cellular operators now recognize that to ensure their businesses continue to experience breakneck growth, they must compete more directly with fixed...

NORTH AMERICA BRIEFS

CDMA handsets were the No. 1 selling handset in the United States during the first quarter of this year, with sales of 3.2 million...

Peter MacLaren Vice president strategic market relations Nortel Networks

The fundamental shift in the wireless industry from technology to applications in the four years since Telecom '95 is evident in Nortel Networks' changed...

Infrastructure deals

AlcatelArgentina. With Telecom Argentina for a fixed wireless access network.Value: US$99.6 millionEricssonArgentina. With Unif

INDIA BRIEFS

TrunkingThe radio trunking handset base registered growth of 200 percent from 1 April 1998 to 31 March 1999, reaching 12,000 in the 25 cities...

Jean-Michel Gabriagues Manager Alcatel product strategy

Alcatel's recollection of 1995, the year of the last Telecom show, was of GSM coverage being patchy in most European countries, with network designers...

Analysts say consolidation likely for satellite industry

DUBLIN, Ireland-There has been much debate over the future of satellite-based communications. Indeed, regular readers of the financial press might wonder if it has...

Scott Erickson Vice president, Wireless Access Group, Asia-Pacific Lucent Technologies

Despite the economic problems that struck Asia since Telecom '95, Scott Erickson, vice president of Lucent's Wireless Access Group, Asia-Pacific, sees the region as...

Internet, convergence to drive future terminals

NEW YORK-Cellular terminals have come a long way in the quarter century since Motorola introduced its handheld DynaTAC mobile phone, a clunky device that...

Shosteck: wireless e-commerce must be uniquely wireless

WHEATON, Maryland, United States-To succeed in wireless e-commerce, companies will have to invest in applications that have no pre-existing equivalent, according to "Wireless E-Commerce: Building...

SkyTel offers Message Center

JACKSON, Mississippi, United States-SkyTel launched a new service, SkyTel Message Center, which notifies customers when they receive a voice mail, e-mail or fax at...

VIEWPOINT: Operators with attitude

Talk about mega-mergers! Vodafone AirTouch secluded in talks with Bell Atlantic. BT and AT&T pushing back the boundaries of their courtship. All quoting figures...

Takeshi Kawada President Matsushita Communication Inªdustrial

Looking back at Telecom '95, Takeshi Kawada said the show has changed from an exhibition for hardware makers to one for software and services....

TDMA operators face data decisions

U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA...
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