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...
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...
During the last five weeks, merger and acquisition announcements have flooded the telecommunications arena. Carriers in Asia, Europe and North America continue to jockey...
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...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Most foreign investment in the wireless market in South America has been directed at Brazil, Argentina and Chile in recent years based...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Cable & Wireless and the government of Jamaica announced a historic agreement that will lead to the introduction of telecom liberalization far sooner...
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...
BUCHAREST, Romania-A subsidiary of Canada's Telesystem International Wireless (TIW) won the third Czech Republic mobile telephone license in September. The price tag for the...
BUCHAREST, Romania-The recent licensing of a third mobile operator in the Czech Republic has established more competition in the country's wireless market than in...
AlcatelPoland. With Formus Polska to supply and implement its broadband wireless access network in Poland.Value: US$126 millionEricssonCanada. With Rogers Cantel to build a third-generation network...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The four-week license hearings for the third cellular operator in South Africa held in September and October offered some of the best...
The GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) announced they signed a memorandum of understanding to work toward worldwide interoperability between GSM...
HONG KONG-Even though the Chinese paging market is teeming with around 1,700 operators, the market remains heavily regulated. Even paging operators in the well-heeled...
Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software...
