Monthly Archives: March, 2002

SpectraSite announces property agreements

CARY, N.C.—SpectraSite Communications Inc. announced agreements with The Rouse Company and Westfield America Inc., both real estate development and management companies, whereby SpectraSite has...

Donahue buys block of Nextel shares

RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. chief executive officer Tim Donahue picked up 20,000 shares of company stock on Feb. 26 at $4.84 per share, according...

Mericom president to leave, regional offices will close

IRVINE, Calif.—Mericom Corp. said it is closing three regional offices and Bill D'Agostino, the company's president and chief executive officer, has elected to leave...

MMA plans meeting at CTIA show

NEW YORK—The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) plans to hold its next quarterly general meeting in Orlando on March 19 in conjunction with the Cellular...

Motorola confirms GSM contract win in Thailand

HONG KONG—Motorola said it signed a US$253 million agreement to supply GSM 1800 MHz network equipment to TA Orange in Thailand.The deal includes radio...

Egypt Telecom invites bids for third cellular network

BOSTON, United States—The state fixed-line operator Telecom Egypt has invited bids to build Egypt's third cellular GSM network on the 1800 MHz frequency band....

Nordic companies show interest in UMC privatization

HELSINKI, Finland—Nordic telecom companies Sonera, Telia and TDC have confirmed their interest in bidding for a 25-percent equity holding in Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC),...

DoCoMo partners with Oracle for enterprise solutions

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo and Oracle said they plan to collaborate on the technology and development of advanced mobile enterprise solutions, as well as sales and...

Sprint, Nortel trial CDMA smart antenna technology

OTTAWA—Sprint PCS and Nortel Networks completed trials using Nortel's CDMA smart antenna technology, which Nortel said is designed to provide double the voice capacity...

Honduras to award 2 new wireless licenses

WASHINGTON—The government of Honduras plans to assign two new mobile telephony licenses. The licenses are planned for two of five frequency bands—in 800 MHz...

Puerto Rico to see first Cingular TDMA-GSM overlay

ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless signed a $500 million supply agreement with Nortel Networks for GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) infrastructure upgrades in the United...

Mexican mobile revenues to overtake switched access revenues in 2006

BOSTON, United States—Market research firm Yankee Group said although Mexican mobile subscriber numbers surpassed fixed-line subscribers in 2000, revenues from mobile services will not...

Cell-Loc selects Brazilian company for beacon manufacturer

CALGARY—Cell-Loc, a developer of network-based wireless location technology, contracted Brazilian manufacturer PST Industria Eletronica de Amazonia to manufacture Cellocate beacon devices.Under the agreement, PST...

European operators at odds over 3G

OXFORD, United Kingdom—French and British cell-phone operators would appear to be adopting opposite third-generation (3G) investment strategies. Bouygues, the French telecom company, said it...

Sony Ericsson releases smart phone based on Symbian OS

OXFORD, United Kingdom, and TOKYO—Hidden within the first cell-phone announcements from Sony Ericsson was the fact that the joint venture's P800 smart phone device...

Japanese mobile Internet users exceed 50 million

TOKYO—The number of mobile Internet users in Japan exceeded 50 million riding on the country's i-mode boom. The Telecommunications Carriers Association, an industry association,...

Telefónica Movistar of Perú launches 2.5G service

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Telef

Mobile users surpass fixed-line numbers in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia—For the first time, there are more mobile phones in Australia than there are fixed telephone lines, the Australian Communications Authority announced in...

Smart Communications profits from data in 2001

MANILA, The Philippines—Short message service (SMS) technology, more popularly known as text messaging among Filipino mobile users, proved to be a substantial source of...

Accenture says Indonesian operators must increase ARPUs

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Heru Prasetyo, Indonesia's Accenture country manager, suggested cellular operators should increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) from its current less than US$20...

Pakistan’s Ufone to upgrade to GPRS

NEW DELHI, India—Pak Telecom Mobile Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation offering GSM 900 MHz services under the Ufone brand in...

NTT DoCoMo lists on New York, London exchanges

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange simultaneously on 1...

Hong Kong MVNO selects billing software

HONG KONG—Indian company Lifetree Convergence said it supplied its billing and operations system for Shell, which launched a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service...

Hong Kong operators to gain new spectrum

HONG KONG—Hong Kong telecom regulator Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) said it plans to give unused spectrum to mobile operators. The unused spectrum,...
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