Omnipoint Communications Inc. signed its 50th international roaming agreement with Mobilkom Austria AG. The personal communications services provider subsequently entered into a roaming deal in the Slovak Republic with Global System for Mobile communications operator Globtel GSM. Omnipoint also said it rounded out its European roaming map by signing its 52nd deal with TeleDanmark of Denmark.
Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded a contract by the Liaoning Posts and Telecommunications Administration to underlay two Global System for Mobile communications networks in China with its microcellular technology. The networks in Jinzhou and Dalian, which were installed by another infrastructure supplier, will be enhanced with Motorola’s M-Cell arena base station to fill service voids created by high-density “hot spots,” said Motorola. The underlay of the systems in the Liaoning province, scheduled to be finished in the third quarter, will create a combined network capacity of 63,000 subscribers.
SLP InfoWare Inc. announced that Mobistar, Belgium’s second-largest Global System for Mobile communications provider, selected its Churn/Customer Profiling System, an automated application based on data mining that enables companies to model customer data to predict customer behavior. “Based on results from the eight-week trial, we decided to deploy Churn/CPS to target standard subscribers,” said Dominique Foucart, customer-care manager at Mobistar. “We are running another trial on prepaid churn and also intend to use the application for managing other critical issues, such as bad debt and credit scoring.”
CommQuest Technologies signed a strategic agreement with Hong Kong-based Telecom Technology Center under which TTC will support CommQuest customers in handset design, printed circuit-board modifications and user-interface software customization, as well as provide testing and other support. CommQuest, an IBM Corp. company, will maintain engineers at TTC’s Hong Kong facility to meet specific customer needs and share technical information, said CommQuest. TTC is a telecommunications product developer with 45 employees, mostly engineers.
