January 2001

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-Motorola and Russia’s RadioTel launched a TETRA trial network in the second-biggest Russian city of St. Petersburg last year, planning to turn the technology into a federal standard …

MOSCOW-Major Russian Moscow-based carriers recently have been expanding their short message service (SMS) capacities to meet the demand of an anticipated boom. However, experts fear the expected SMS incomes will …

DENVER, United States-With AT&T Wireless Services’ announcement it will overlay its existing TDMA-based network with a GSM network supporting General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the pressure is on other TDMA …

PDA technology Blue Impact Blue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Despite the positive noises coming from the industry body for paging and messaging service providers in Europe, falling subscriber numbers and service provider rationalization indicate paging might be about …

LONDON-The wireless sector in the Middle East continues to grow, with several developments that took place during the last half of 2000. The region saw a number of new mobile …

LISBON, Portugal-Portugal Telecom (PT) announced its Brazilian cellular subsidiary, Telesp Celular Participacoes (TCP), acquired 49 percent of the common shares and 100 percent of the preferred shares of mobile operator …

SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea awarded much-coveted third-generation (3G) mobile service licenses to SK Telecom, the country’s largest mobile carrier, and state-run Korea Telecom on 15 December. The race, however, is …

TOKYO-KDDI, the sole cdmaOne operator in Japan, has been expanding its international roaming services, fully using its universally standardized cdmaOne technology. In January, KDDI launched international roaming services in Canada …

TORONTO-Rumors continue to swirl in the wireless sector here that Microcell Telecommunications of Montreal is for sale. Microcell operates the Fido brand GSM personal communications services (PCS) network and started …