Monthly Archives: January, 2000

license

Hong Kong mobile telephone operator SmarTone Communications said it is looking to secure a wireless fixed network license in Hong Kong. SmarTone is among...

LATIN AMERICA BRIEFS

During the first half of 1999, Latin America handset sales exceeded 9.8 million, according to Dataquest, a U.S.-based market research firm. Handset sales were...

Korean firms scramble to grab IMT-2000 licenses

SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's major telecommunications operators are scrambling to reshape their businesses to secure a position ahead of the competition this year for...

Jamaica enters liberalized era

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Jamaica is banking on two additional cellular licenses playing a lead role in spurring competition for current monopoly provider Cable & Wireless and...

Japan to introduce LRIC in 2000

TOKYO-NTT Corp. and new common carriers (NCCs), carriers competing with NTT in the liberalized market, are in a debate about implementing the Long Run...

Infrastructure deals

AlcatelCameroon. With Societe Camerounaise de Mobiles (SCM) for a GSM network for the area between the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Bafoussam.Value: US$21.15 millionChina. With...

iMode paves the way for wireless data

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo's iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet.Since the carrier launched the service...

Developers exchange insults over high-speed data options

The two major developers of high-speed cellular data technology, Nokia and Ericsson, have opened a public argument over which has achieved the most success...

Service-provider acquisitions fuel competition debate

DUBLIN, Ireland-Service providers and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are viewed by many network operators as parasites feeding off their infrastructure investment. At the...

Unified European market offers future for paging

The European paging industry is in the midst of another makeover as it struggles to compete with mobile telephony as a mass-market communications medium....

Dolphin operates outside the SMR box

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The guys at the European Commission must be delighted. They battled for more than a decade to liberalize the telecommunications sector and...

NMT operator struggles in light of GSM competition

BUCHAREST, Romania-Telemobil, Romania's NMT 450 operator, is facing stiff competition from three GSM operators, each of which have both strong financial backing and national...
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