ATLANTA-A BellSouth Corp.-led consortium won a $26 million license to provide nationwide wireless communications service in Guatemala. BellSouth and its Panama-based partner, Multi Holding...
Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Subscriber Systems Group introduced the DSP56690 baseband processor, capable of handling all existing wireless transmission standards, as part of its DigitalDNA+...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Motorola Worldwide Information Network Services, an Iridium service provider to government customers, said it expanded its contact options for customers using the Iridium...
BRAMPTON, Ontario-Nortel Networks reported its revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 increased 30 percent to $5.39 billion from $4.14 billion reported for...
CameroonCameroon's Camtel and Camtel Mobiles are scheduled to be privatized in 2000. Camtel is the incumbent state-owned cellular carrier and operates a GSM 900...
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) had the biggest coming-out party of its 20-month lifespan during Telecom '99 in Geneva, with more than 100 carriers,...
Low-earth-orbit satellite voice provider Globalstar L.P. has reduced the number of handsets expected to be available at the end of the year from 70,000,...
VeloCom Inc., which recently won "mirror" licenses to operate competitive telecommunications networks in Brazil, said it has acquired the Latin American assets of Argentina-based...
During the last five weeks, merger and acquisition announcements have flooded the telecommunications arena. Carriers in Asia, Europe and North America continue to jockey...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Following guidelines laid out during the PCS auctions in Argentina, mobile phone operator Miniphone ended operations on 1 October. Its 800,000 customers...
CanadaBell Canada offered to purchase for cash up to 15.8 million of the outstanding common shares of Aliant, the largest telecommunications company in Atlantic...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. recently announced a corporate restructuring to speed up growth and to refocus its business on value-added solutions for the Internet. This follows...
LONDON-Orange, the United Kingdom's third-largest mobile operator, announced just prior to Global Wireless press time that it is offering a new prepaid package, called...
GENEVA-Just five years from now, cellular will overtake fixed-line access to become not only the dominant form of telephony, but the world's primary access...
DUBLIN, Ireland-In any international cellular tender, carriers must determine whether the price paid represents true value for the money or a sizable gamble. On...
GreecePanafon and France Telecom announced recently they are holding discussions regarding a possible offering or an issue of an exchangeable bond by France Telecom...
GENEVA-Globalstar officially announced at Telecom '99 a phased launch of its mobile satellite service. The phased launch begins with user trials, followed by a...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Capacity constraints are an issue for almost every cellular operator, and some have turned to frequency-hopping techniques as an answer. But while these...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Just as the cellular fight in Israel intensified with the latest marketing campaigns, the Ministry of Communications announced it may license a...
GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Nortel Networks and the Acacia Initiative of the International Development Research Center of Canada signed a final agreement to...
